Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost headCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
Noank, Conn., is getting rid of some of its luxuries. The lockup and
contents have been sold at auction and brought $83.12.
The jail building, an unpretentious affair as compared with the Tombs in
New York, was knocked down to Squadrito Brothers, of Mystic, for $75,
and two other bids took the jail stove and utensils for $6.87. A quilt
and mattress fetched $1.25.
Schoolhouse Topples Over.
While the school at Sulphur Point, Fla., was being dismissed for recess,
the building, which was built on high blocks, suddenly toppled over and
went crashing to the ground, killing a cow that happened to be lying
alongside of it. Fortunately none of the inmates were injured. A crowd
gathered and succeeded in freeing the carcass of the cow by raising the
building back into its place. Studies were resumed after the excitement
died down, but some repairs have been made to the schoolhouse.
Old Gravestone is Replaced.
A century-old gravestone, made in 1814 to mark the graves of two victims
of an Indian massacre near Alton, Ill., was brought to an Alton
stonecutter to be repaired.
The stone, which commemorated the deaths of William and Joel Moore, July
10, 1814, had been split by the weather, and the parts will be cemented
together. It was a rough sandstone slab, not smoothed, and the early-day
pioneer had carved out an inscription in the sandstone with some crude
tool. The letters are still legible.
A granite tablet has been placed on the site where the sandstone slab
was found, and the slab has been taken as a relic by Irby Williams.
Prophesied His Long Sleep.
“I feel so tired that I believe I could sleep forever,” remarked C. A.
Kinkaid to a hotel clerk at Seattle, Wash., as he obtained his key and
repaired to his room.
On the following afternoon Kinkaid was found dead. Death was due to
asphyxiation, and evidently was accidental. One of the gas burners was
partly open, but the window was up about six inches.
Kinkaid, who was a bridge carpenter, was a well-known member of the
Eagles. He is survived by a wife, who left the city a few weeks ago to
visit relatives in Lafayette, Ohio.
State Map Made from Seeds.
One of the unique agricultural exhibits that will be displayed at the
Pan-American Exposition is a grain map of Kansas, made from twenty-eight
varieties of field and garden seeds by J. C. Hastings, of Grantville,
Kan. The grains and seeds are glued to a canvas, and the coloring
contained in the ordinary map of Kansas is carried out so far as
possible with the various grains, so that the reproduction shows a
splendid similarity. The size of the map is 48×88, and the grain on it
weighs nineteen pounds.
Boy Helps Build Church.
Verne Hall, fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, of
Portland, Ore., is helping to build a church by soliciting bricks and
hauling them to the site of the new St. John’s edifice. In answer to his
letter to Governor West, he received 500 bricks.
Hole Was Dug by Scientist.
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