Detective Minard Hendricks Probes Palace Hotel Murder
Minard Hendricks returns from Boston to receive an unsigned typed note directing him to Palace hotel apartments where Mr Weldon Carath era is believed dead. With Dr Lampkin he finds cremated remains and a jeweled hand in a vase. Dorothy Huntington recalls a feud with Arthur Glelow over hand of Dorothy and heiress fortune. Glelow fled. Henri reports a confession to Count Pantinni. Hendricks hides to overhear.
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Minard Hendricks
Boston
Palace Hotel
Weldon Carathera
Dr. Lampkin
Caruthers
Lampkin
Arthur Glelow
Dorothy Huntington
Hendricks
Miss Huntington
Dorothy
Count Pantinni
Girlow
Gielow
Henri
Bantinnt
Henr
Hendricks Shot Wounds Detec tive Hostler In Secret Life Threat
Dr. Lampkin arrives to find Hendricks wounded after a second life threat. Hendricks explains a secret enemy attacked. Lampkin removes a bullet lodged near the breastbone and orders rest. Mrs Hendricks fears for Hendricks as she pleads for him to abandon perilous work.
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Hittie
Hendricks
Lampkin
Mendricks
Mrs. Hendricks
White Head
Bloodhound Resolve in Detective Tale
Hendricks insists on pressing his investigation despite danger, declaring a fight to the death with his unseen attacker. Doctor warns for safety as Lampkin oversees a tense moment. Tie pleads for privacy with his mother present as plans unfold.
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Thia
Lampkin
Hendricks
Tie
Narrow Escape and Night Attack at Palace Hotel
Trendricks recounts a perilous nighttime ambush in which he awoke amid chloroform and gunfire. He fights from a bedroom to the conservatory, pursuing the attacker across the house, finally fainting as his mother arrives. The case links to the Palace Hotel mystery and suspect Bantinni is posited by Dr. Lampkin and Hendricks.
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Trendricks
Coc
Hin Eboy
Ceast
Tryg
Dr. Lampkin
Gielow
Hendricks
Miss Huntington
Red headed visitor probes cremation plot in suspenseful chapter
Dr Lampkin, Hendricks, and Nitty set the scene as a red headed man from a New York crematory meets the patient. The visitor pitches cremation, touts urns, urges witnessing the process to convert the doctor, who stifles laughter at Hendricks’s antics. [TO BE CONTINUED.]
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Hendricks
Sergt. Denham
Lampkin
Nitty
New York
Mr. Simpkins
Europe
Shelling Talk At Highland Park Stables
In a rough exchange two jockeys discuss shells and danger, claiming Spaniards may strike soon. They boast a big boat could shell Boston in five minutes, warning that resistance would be futile and the town faced a looming bombardment.
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Highland Park
The Tomb of Juliet and the Verona Legend Revisited
Cable dispatches report Verona plans to restore Juliet s tomb and build a grand tombing around it. The piece traces Juliet's legend from Masuccio to Bandello Brooke and Shakespeare, noting earlier English versions and the 1623 folio final form.
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Juliet
Verona
England
Shakespeare
Lord Byron
Thomas Moore
Dante
Capulets
Italy
Romeo
Massuccio
Sienna
Douce
Xenophon Ephesius
Romeo and Juliet
Luigi da Porta
Bandello
Pierre Boisteau
Painter
Arthur Brooke
Romeus and
Dandell
H. White
Lichfield
Crean
L. of Hundon
Handy household tips from Chicago Record column
The article offers practical at home fixes for table marks, linen stains, enameled pans, milk boiling, fish cake prep, oil stains, iron rust on marble, grinding scissors, whitening tables with chloride of lime, and preserving eggs. It ends with a tip from Marion Depew on reactivating postage stamp gum.
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Marion Depew
Chicago
Purehaxing Table Linens for Everyday Use
The article advises young housekeepers to buy ample table linen and trays cloths, emphasizing economy. It notes unembroidered or demstitched finishes are fine, easy to launder, and refreshable, with worn fine cloths cut into new cloths or finished with linen torchon edge for those without hemstitching skill.
Velvet bands boost elegance for princess style
The article notes that a stiff collar is passé for fashionable women and recommends the velvet band worn by the princess of Wales. At court, receptions, garden parties, or yachting, she favours a jeweled or enamel covered velvet throat band tailored to the occasion, proving a flattering finishing touch.
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Princess of Wales
England
Glove Prices Rise As Fashion Demands Brocaded Satin Gauntlets
Fashion notes that glove costs climb as dealers cite pricey delicately colored kid gloves. Evening wear uses two tone gloves with satin upper portions to harmonize with gowns while embroidered leather remains costly, limiting widespread use to the wealthy.
Pleasant Luncheon Drink From Orange Juice Elixir
A luncheon beverage uses undiluted orange juice with four banana slices a seeded Tokay grape a tart apple slice and a pinch of sugar added to each tall glass. A preserved cherry and canned peach slice may accompany the drink served during courses.
Perfume Burners Spark Fad In Homes
Perfume burners are the latest fad as small glass lamps with carbon tips heat a violet scented wick. The lamp fills rooms with the fragrance after the wick burns to heat the carbon and then the flame is extinguished.
Glove Fashion Shifts for Day and Evening Wear
Tan gloves join white as stylish for calling and street wear. For evening dress choose white pale yellow or pink unless paired with black, which calls for black gloves. The four button length suits long sleeves.
Violet fashion trend features collar ruffs and battlement shapes
A violet fashion fad showcases collars with high standing ruffs and battlement shaped pieces wired to project from the neck. The style remains settled but the use of violets in trims draws attention as a novelty.
The Magic Pillow Poem by John Kendrick Bangs
A bedtime poem where a child stays awake at night. The pillow becomes a doorway to stars and wondrous scenes including parades animals and kings. The speaker asserts sleep is not preferable while dreams unfold in the pillow.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Boas and Alligators From a Cincinnati Enquirer Article
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece explains boa constrictors nest in sandy ground, lay about 24 eggs, and stay over the nest 19 days before hatchlings emerge. It notes hatchlings measure 12 to 14 inches, and boas grow to 30 to 40 feet. Alligators lay about 100 eggs in sand, hatch in 21 days, and young are five to six inches.
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Boa
Cincinnati Enquirer
Can You Count These The Mind's Eye Cube Illusion
The passage discusses a cube counting illusion from Prof. Jastrow in Popular Science Monthly. It notes a lower figure appearing as six or seven cubes depending on viewing angle and mentions guiding smaller figures above the main ones. It adds a playful line about a wag from the insane asylum.
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Prof. Jastrow
Popular Science Monthly
Lessons in Tumbling
A practical guide by Horace Butterworth from Chicago University Instructor in Gymnastics covers fun and health through tumbling. It describes forward rolls, jumping between hands, the snail walk, and a sequence combining these moves with emphasis on proper form and landing.
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Horace Butterworth
Chicago University
Chicago
Eskimo Counting by Fingers Toes and Man
The Eskimo count with one through five on one hand and use the other hand for six to ten. Thirteen is three toes on the first foot, eighteen is three toes on the second foot, and twenty is a whole man. They can extend beyond twenty with phrases like I'wpon the second man and two toes on the second man's second foot.
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Hecesfoey
Bought His Own Mascot
A Chinese merchant buys a turtle from a Malay fisherman for five dollars to set his name on the shell. He discovers his name already carved there, recalling a prior consignment to the sea, and then pursues the fisherman for a refund. The tale centers on a superstition about freeing a turtle bringing good fortune.
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By &.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co
Harbew
Bantinni
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