Death on the Bay A Mystery of the Barr Will
Judge Marcellus, detective Cronkite, and George Pitney unravel a murder plot tied to a forged will. Miss Emily Barr confronts revelation as Pitney is exposed, while Cronkite exposes a thumbprint and forged envelope linking a lover to the crime. The case ends with Pitney's arrest and Alice Barr facing her fate.
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Abe
David Barr
Josiah Marcellus
Cronkite
Barr
Enoch Barr
David
Paul
Emily
Pitney
Alice
Mr. Pitney
George
Marcellus
Mr. Barr
Wild Woman Hunter in Alpine Forests Captures Eva Maria Nicollet
A Geneva posted tale recounts three days of villagers and farmers chasing a naked woman living wild in Upper Savoy forests. Eva Maria Nicollet, identified as the former wife of Agonnax merchant, was captured, bathed, and placed under care at St Julien hospital after a long disappearance split from her jealous husband. The husband, who died recently, left a trust for her sustenance. The report also includes a streetcar anecdote about a candidate for sheriff facing a barrage of smear accusations.
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Geneva
Upper
Savoy
St. Julien-en-Genevois
St. Julien
Eva
Maria Nicollet
Agonnax
Statue to Hampton Uplifts South Carolina Crowd
The Columbia unveiling of a $30,000 bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Wade Hampton drew about 10,000 people. Gov Heyward introduced Senator M C Butler who delivered a two hour eulogy praising Hampton as a citizen and war leader, with remarks on his military career and unselfish devotion to the state. The procession included Confederate groups, cadets, and Hampton’s descendants, with the statue crafted by F W Ruckstuhl and the base quarried from Winnsboro granite.
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South Carolina
Heyward
M. C. Butler
Charlotte Observer
CoLtumbia
Wade Hampton
Main Street
National Guard
Main
Capitol
Capitol Building
Theodore G.rier
Hampton
Col. T . Lipscombe
Heyward Andtaff
Wilie Jones
National Guardrganization
Citadel
Clemson
Porter Military Academy
Arleston
Ajor
Thomas Carwile
State Confederate Division
Veterans and Sons of Veterans
Winthrop
Ellison Capers
Lowndes
J. Q. Marshall
Monument Commission
E. M. Seabrook
Mikell
Wade H. Manning
T. B. Gibbes
Columbia
R. Goodwyn Rhett
Charleston
Chamber of Commerce of Columbia
Senate
House
Bishop Capers
General Butler
South
Butler
General Hampton
War Department
J. E. Stuart
Theo. G. Baker
Sherman
Columbia Female College
College For Women
Daughters of the Confederacy
Democratic
Chevalier
Trinity Churchyard
F. W. Ruckstuhl
Fairfield
Montana
Mississippi
Republic
Europe
England
Gen
R. E. Lee
William Gilmore Simms Life and Literary Rise in South Carolina
A profile of William Gilmore Simms tracing his Charleston birth and death, family struggles, early studies, and rise as a leading American novelist and poet. It notes his opposition to nullification, frontier age influences, the Woodlands circle, and lasting impact on Southern letters with works like Atlantis and The Partisan.
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Hampton
General Hampton
Trevillian
Grant
Woodlands
Holland House
South Carolina
News and Courier
William Gilmore Simms
Charleston
Marah
Simms
William Gilmore
Miss Singleton
Virginia
South Carolina Military Academy
Young Gilmore
Kentucky
Tennessee
Charleston College
University of Kentucky
Gilmore
Judge Bay
Chambers
Yancey
William L. Yancey
Repson
Robert Y. Hayne
Senate
Richardson
Bimms
Gazette
Calhoun
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Atlantis
Harpers
America
Europe
India
West Indies
North America
Caribbean
John Locke
New World
London
Phi
Martin Faber
England
Poe
North
Edward Everett Hale
Columbus
Sea of Letters
William Cullen Bryant
Bryant
Ash Roach
Bristol
Orangeburg County
Edisto River
Bertha Travis
Willie Sinclair
Ediston
Paul H. Hayne
Henry Timrod
John Dickson
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Paul Barr
George Pitney
Alpine
Maine
California
Joe Kerr
New Orleans Picayune
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