Riddle of the Waldheim Woman Mystery in Chicago
In Waldheim Cemetery lies a woman unidentified after a death in Chicago. A San Francisco to Philadelphia ticket bearing Mrs Lang's name and a trunk marked B Sampson deepens the puzzle as two distant men claim her body. Coroner awaits affidavits and further proof to resolve the case.
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Waldheim
Chicago
Santa Te Road
Atlantic Hotel
Sherman and
van Buren Streets
San Francisco
Philadelphia
McHale
Leon Lang
West
Lang
Hyes
Aspen Street
Chica
Tuscon
Arizona
Calcutta
India
Indy
Seacoast
Iis
Grand Army of the Republic
Sampson
Mc Uale
Morbid sensationalism and self persecution tales across papers
The piece surveys sensational cases of self persecution and deceit in women, citing the Chicago Record on wives missing or believed dead, a Canadian girl who wrote her own persecuting letters, a spinster milliner who burned her shop, and a Portsmouth tale of a fictitious American lover. It also mentions a Paris diet reform prophet Macdonald advocating uncooked foods and natural drinks.
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Portsmouth
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Macdonald
Paris
Macdonald Itagelt
Chimneys in England Through the Twelfth to Fifteenth Century
The article traces chimney and flue evolution in England from circa 1190, noting early semicircular back fireplaces at Shochester and Castle Medingham, then gradual rising of full-wall flues by the 13th century. It describes various shaft forms, from short spires to taller square, octagonal, or circular shafts, and the later emergence of clistered, ornamented brick chimneys in the fifteenth century.
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England
Shochester Castle
W.carbyle
Castle Medingham
Essex
Christchurch
Newcastles Sherborne Castle
Dorsetshire
Conta
Borough Castle
Yorkshire
Boothby Pagnen
Lincolnshire
Old Playmates in a French Hunt with Prince Joinville
In La Nouvelle Herue a veteran author recounts Prince de Joinville’s hunting in Chantilly forest. While pursuing a deer, he encounters an elderly peasant who recognizes him from childhood play at Auntie Adelaide’s. The meeting evokes sixty years apart yet rekindles forgotten bond and shared past.
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Francis Sportanun
la Nouvelle Herue
France
Prince de Joinville
Chantilly
Dt Aumale
Louis Philippe
Adelaide
English Clergymen and Pediatric Names in Old Parish Customs
A fragmentary passage discusses English clergy objections to christening names in parishes. It quotes a debate about naming a child Venus and related theological questions, illustrating clergyman resistance and parish attitudes through garbled dialogue and references to historical figures and places.
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Bank of
Ackley
Lusch, Martin & Eggert
Europe
Towa
J. A. Fisher
Iowa
Frodden Lumber Co
Wisconsin
Franklin, Butler, Hardin and Grundy Counties
Gallard
John D. Peters
C.F Peander
Pure Drugs Medicines
Dr. LL
Potter’s Old Stand Lowa
F. W. Loosa
Main Street
Pullman
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Kansas City
St. Loui
Minnesota
Montana
Manitoba
Dakotas
Wyoming
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Northwest
Kansas
Colorado
Old
New Mexico
California
St, Louis
Arkansas
Texas
Tennessee
Madama, Mississippi
Louisiana
Georgia
Florida
South
Minoo
Mediana
Ghia
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Hew York
Tigrets
Iowa Central
E. McNeill
Thos. P. Barry
Bing
Gatnil Bassi Agth
Marshalltown
Owa
Ackley Marble Works
W. HH. Saucer
Prop
Lowa
Wilson & Hatch
Proprietors of the
Meat & Market
Doepke
Barnum & Fisher
Barnum & Fisher Town
Martin & Faust
Trey
Obbo Berg
IL Have
HE. Sawyer
Tfurnish
Ki. EK. Sawyer
Evicts
Pelgue
Faw Moneer Zaralegue
Yrga
Dascrifie
HS Wow
Rochester
Beges
Pfander
Montury
Aegis
James Payne
The
Independent
Yeon Barron
Berkshire
Dita Polis
Venus
Glenugain
Elotor
Sylvanus
Varsari
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