The Mystery of the Hidden Lodger in London
Sherlock Holmes investigates a London lodging house where a silent lodger pays for ten days, leaves coded notes, and is pursued through newspaper agony columns. Holmes and Watson track signals from a shadowed room while a sinister plot links a landlady, a lawyer, and a gang, culminating in a police-led pursuit.
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London
Daily Gazette
Prince’s Skating Club
Jimmy
Brixton
Watson
Mr. Warren
Warren
Morton & Way- Veght’s
Tottenham Court Road
Warron
Holmes
Mrs. Warren
Abe
Kgzin
Report Bill 10 Safeguard Life
Washington May 2 The house merchant marine committee formally reported the Alexander bill to require equipment of all American vessels with lifeboats and lifesaving gear for every person aboard at least two wireless operators and night searchlights for aid at night, described as the most humanitarian measure of the session.
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Washington
Congress
House Merchant Marine Committee
Oil and Gas Sold Only in Quantities
At a meeting of the retail grocers of the city last evening protest was made against wholesale dealers supplying private customers kerosene in quantities less than one barrel and gasoline in quantities under ten gallons. The wholesalers notified private customers that future sales would meet these minimums. A separate item reports the Italian battleship Re Umberto sunk near Quars after striking rocks in a storm.
City in Brief: Local North Iowa updates and notices
The Waterloo police report April arrests total 171 with 216 dollars in fines and bonds. Harold Rugg, a Black Hawk bank teller, is confined at home to recover. A half interest in the White House Lunch at 117 Fifth street east sold for 200 dollars. Several new residences are awarded contracts around Third Avenue Mott Street Home Park Highland Prospect—costs range from 4 250 to 7 500 dollars.
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Behanan
J. M. Graham
Rock Island
Butte, Mont
Harold Rugg
Black Hawk National Bank
Lafayette Street
Ines
Ft. W
Loren Smith
Waterloo Police Department
Wiliam Peddicord
C. C. Butler
Third Avenue
Mott Street
Ei. EB. Shane
T. E. Rust
Highland
Prospect Avenue
Pleasant Good Cheer Guild meets in La Porte social
May 2 La Porte Iowa special report notes Mrs David Allison hosts a Good Cheer Guild gathering with about 70 ladies. Plans were made for a church family reunion and a May 15 picnic at 12 o'clock in the church parlors. Lady members also stay for the Ladies Aid and Woman's Missionary Society meetings. Refreshments were served. Other items mention birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Walter Lyle and visits by Mrs Anna Simmons to Vinton and Mrs Cawelti in Stanton Nebraska.
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la Porte
Good Cheer Guild
David Allison
Ladies Aid Society
Woman's Missionary Society
Walter Lyle
Anna Simmons
Kennon
Stanton
Neb
Severa
Cawelti
Mirs
R. Firestone
Myrt
Waterloo
Foresters Enjoy Music and Cards in Social Evening
The St. Josephs Catholic Order Foresters No 68 hosted a gathering for twenty five couples at Cc hall last evening. Veronica Gorman and Catherine Cunningham played piano, Hirrings sang, Thomas Webber served as toastmaster, and M Kelly J J Gorman and M J Butterfield spoke on fraternalism. Five hundred was played and a course lunch followed.
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St. Joseph's Catholic Order Foresters
Cc. Hall
Veronica Gorman
Catherine Cunningham
Hirringes
Thomas Webber
M. Kelly
J. J. Gorman
M. J. Butterfield
Cost Oil Octopus Big Sum to Live
St Louis reports show Waters-Pierce Oil company controlled by Standard Oil New Jersey incurred 3 197 673 in fines and legal costs over six years. Missouri Texas Arkansas and Oklahoma fines totaled 1 775 000 with 50 000 at Missouri and 50 000 at each of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Attorney fees reached 200 000.
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St. Louis
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Louis
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
St. Louis Corporation
Missouri
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Cartoonist Homer Davenport Dies in New York
New York on May 2 reports cartoonist Homer Davenport died today of pneumonia at age 44. Davenport had been working on the Hearst newspaper in the city and was a noted figure in American cartooning.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
Ee Reading
Rocks Island
Chicago Great Western
Atchison
American Smelter
Union Pacific
Baltimore and Ohio
Southern Pacific
United States Steel
Amalgamated Copper
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Erie
Ianols Central
St. Paul
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Patrick Caldwell
Homer Daveport
Davenport
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Thia
Mr. Holmes
Mir
Lodgera
Sarely
Horn
Bha
Gene Ton
Hampstead Heath
Lam °Don
Joan
Scotland Yard
Howe Street
Gregson
Gregaan
Bherlock Holmes
Leverton
Pinkerton
Long Island Cave
Gorgiano
Safeguard Life
Constantinople
Tunis
Re Umerto
Quars
Arthur Quaintance
Stanley Moore
Margaret
Marshalltown
Homer Davenport Dea
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