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...Wales has joined the Society of Bright Young People, an organization which hunts enigmatic treasures. The rumor was that the Prince had been seen in the London slums crawling on all fours along a dirty sidewalk, followed by people "prominent in social or theatrical cir- cles," searching for a clew in the "treasure hunt." The clew, discovered either by Gladys Cooper (English actress) or Talullah Bankhead (U. S. actress) led to the home (Norfolk House) of Mrs. Brown, Pittsburgh millionairess, who served them a sumptuous repast and dashing music. (None of the above facts could be verified.) . . . At a dinner...
...life and property, and surrounded by what appeared to be an impenetrable mystery, had aroused the structural iron corporations to action and Mr. Burns was engaged to make investigations. An attempt to wreak destruction on a mill in Peoria, Illinois resulted in the discovery of the most important clew in the whole investigation. A peculiarly constructed bomb had failed to explode, and this was found by Mr. Burns...
...Furlong found no clew to the position of the boat in documents, but from a chance acquaintance, whose father had seen the event. There remained of the hull only the ribs and keel two fathoms deep in sand and covered with fossilized matter
...officers of the Society did not at once announce the fact except to police authorities. The thieves gained access to the building by breaking a basement window on the north side. Miscellaneous goods valued at about $1100 were taken, including a large number of fountain pens. No definite clew of the thieves has been obtained...
...been given to the museum, among the most valuable of which are implements and masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...