Not Proven and the Governess of Mystery
A London barrister recalls a ten year old trip to New York where he encounters Miss Forsyth, the beautiful English governess of the Bellairs family. After a tense search for truth, he recognizes Mrs. Ross, acquitted in a murder trial by the verdict not proven, sending him to guard a dangerous secret about the governess and a child’s fate.
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America
New York
Mr. Bellairs
Charlie
Austin Bellairs
Fifth Avenue
Mrs. Bellairs
Miss Forsyth
The Dilemma of Miss Forsyth and a Secret
In a garden scene Miss Forsyth pleads innocence as a dangerous secret tests trust in Mr Lyndsay and the Bellairs. A letter reveals a fatal secret and threatens the governess with ruin unless she confesses or is judged by action. Lyndsay agrees to delay rash steps while authorities seek truth. To be continued.
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Mrs. Bellairs
Mahomet
Miss Forsyth
Archie
Mr. Lyndsay
Mr. Bellairs
Charlie
Scotland
Mrs. Rellairs
Austin
Joseph C. Sibley
Archbold
Tarrytown
N. Y
Lakewood
N. J
Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
John D
Rockefeller
Washington Irving
Mr. Archbold
Syracuse University
Day
United States
Syracuse
Standard
Curious Islands of the British Realm Revealed in Atlantic Dispatch
The New York Tribune notes Coeuvy Island in the Indian Ocean as vast as ten Pudding Islands in the Tonga group, while Pudding Island itself is shrinking due to coral subsidence. Beehive Island in the South Pacific rises 400 feet above a circular platform, housing about 200 natives on a coral ledge. Conway ishind rests barely six feet above water and spans roughly 180 by 80 yards.
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Coeuvy Island
Indian Ocean
Edward
New York Tribune
Pudding Island
Tonga
Barrier Reef
South Pacific
Conway Ishind
Smaliness
The Big and the Little John D Rockefeller and Archbold
A portrait of John D Rockefeller and John D Archbold of Standard Oil, comparing their careers, publicity battles, and philanthropy. The piece traces Archbold’s push for publicizing the firm, Rockefeller’s wide charity, and how both shaped public perception and policy while noting their origins, homes, and roles within the trust.
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John D's
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Archbold
New York
Ohio
Big Oil Trust
John D
Mr. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Broadway
Standard
Gas by the Pound Invention Brightens Dark Places
German chemist Hermann Blau develops blaugas a liquefied gas turning dark houses into bright spaces. A 22 pound cylinder provides months of light, safe aboard ships and trains, with cheap installation and possible political significance in a campaign year.
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New York Tribune
Coney Island
Germany
Llaugas
Hermann Blau
Gas Trust
Oil Trust
Public Service Commission
Plumbers’ Union
Blaugas
Mr. Blau
Blau
Too Well Imitated Stradivarius Violin Incident
The late George Gemunder, a New York violin maker, created an imitation Stradivarius that fooled experts at a Paris exposition. A committee declared it genuine and Gemunder claimed it was a new instrument. they refused to believe him, calling him an imposter.
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George Gemunder
New York
Old Bull
Remenyi
Wilhelmj
Gemunder
Eskimo Life and Gender Roles in Traditional Living
A Leslie's excerpt portrays Eskimo life as unchanging due to environment, noting women’s cooking traditions, limited meals, and the male-dominated view of birth and importance of sons. It observes women’s labor, marriage pressures, and the expedience of remarriage after widowhood.
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Leslie
The Adz and the Ax in Medieval Executions
In London Notes and Queries the author argues that before 1483 the sword served as the sole method of decapitation and that a block was not used, with victims kneeling. He cites Hastings as the turning point after which the ax and block became common, noting the adz as the likely instrument and a 1450 Paston letter as a rare reference to pre Hastings practices.
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Lord Hastings
Tower Green
Gloucester
St. Peter
Jack Cade
London
One Acre Demonstration Crops Planned at Brus Farm
The Brus Brothers in La Bruyere Blue Ridge farm propose a one acre demonstration starting in September to test capacity. They may plant spinach turnips and radishes with continual yield from Sept 1 to next year’s Sept 1. Daily records will track expenses revenues labor time and profits.
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Kansas
la Bruyere
Blue Ridge
Brus Brothers
Kansas City Star
Eugene Brus
Exports of lac exceed eleven million yearly in India
India ships lac, a resinous product from a scale insect, earning over 11 million dollars annually. Professor Skeat, a famed philologist, joins Esperanto converts after a single lesson at 4 pm, translating a story into English that evening. He remains an expert linguist, while average learners would struggle to attain such mastery.
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India
Professor Skeat
Skeat
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