A Shattered Romance and the Counterfeiter Brownie
Col. H. C. Whitley recalls how Thomas Brownie, a clever counterfeit kingpin, evaded U S Secret Service for years. Detective Louis Merito falls under his spell during a Boston Montreal run before the ruse collapses. Brownie is captured, tried, and imprisoned.
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Merita
Montreal
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Albany
Pacific Coast
Texas Asked to Care for Moses Austin Tomb in Missouri
Washington county officials appeal to Texas authorities to oversee the grave and the historic cabin home of Moses Austin in Potosi Missouri. The piece outlines Austin’s pivotal role in Texas founding and notes the recent relocation of Stephen F. Austin’s body and related memorials may spur action to preserve the site. It contrasts Durham Hall and the rustic tomb with Austin’s legacy.
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Missouri
Potosi
Washington County
Texas
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Stephen F. Austin
Repub
Austin
Durham Hall
Mississippi Valley
Aaron Burr
Andrew Jackson
Thomas H. Benton
St. Louis
San Antonio
Southwest
Switzerland Solves Youth Welfare with Guardian Schools
The Basel guardian schools, state supported and run by guardians, operate daily from November to March evenings to entertain and educate street children. About thirty five children per class, with inspectors, meals, and outdoor activities, cared for 2000 Basel children last year. Additional groups like the Play association and a 25 year old Sunday program served tens of thousands, suggesting American cities could learn from Switzerland.
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Switzerland
Basel
Pasel
Play Association
Advance ‘Magazine
Handsome Footwear in Russia
Readers learn that Russia leads the world in showy boots with a strong taste for handsome footwear among both women and men, reflecting a national preference that dominates czarist fashion and social life.
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Russia
Earth
Had Cost England Many Millions in Abyssinia War
Had Cost England Many Millions. Harmazd Rassam, Syrian scholar and explorer, linked to a $45 million Abyssinia conflict that ended with King Theodore's suicide, died recently in Hove England. Born in northern Mesopotamia, he joined the British Museum and led the English mission to Abyssinia in 1864, facing imprisonment and hardship at Magdala before Britain’s punitive expedition.
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London
Harmazd Rassam
Theodore
Abyssinia
Hove
Mesopotamia
Nineveh
British Museum
Aden
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
Theodore of
Magdala
Great Britain
Mapier
New By-Products From German Beet Sugar
Berlin reports new processes in sugar production yield valuable by-products from molasses residuum. A 97.7 percent alcohol suitable for medical and chemical use is distilled, a second denatured alcohol serves as fuel and light, and a dark molasses residue yields potassium cyanide along with other commercial by-products despite hazardous processing.
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Berlin
Germany
Costly Talent in Air War Debate
A military expert says airships will make war costly and impractical. A counterpart agrees flying machines are cheap to build but unaffordable for aviator salaries and recruitment.
Munyon's Cold Cure Sold in Pocket-Sized Pellets
Munyon's Cold Cure claims to break up colds and prevent pneumonia with sugar pellets that relieve head throat and lungs almost instantly. Sold for 25 cents at druggists with free mail medical advice from Munyon's Doctors in Philadelphia.
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Jefferson Streets
Philadelphia
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