The Dark House A Knot Unravelled
A long inquest and a twist unfold at Albemarle Square as Paul Capel and companions confront a vanished treasure in the Colonel Capel tomb. Doctor Heston raises murder questions and a missing hoard, while Katrine and Lydia decide their fate as Capel faces possible betrayal and a dangerous game of trust.
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Charles Pillar
Heston
No. 9A
Albemarle Square
Capel
Mr. Girtle
Katrine
Lydia
Paul Capel
Gerard Artis
Artis
D’enghien
British Museum
Ramo
Girtle
Miss Lawrence
Lydia Lawrence
Greenham
Doctor Heston
Names in Polkville: a family football of great men
A northern tourist teases Mr Logback about repeating names in his Polkville household. The father explains they name children after great men to inspire them, listing William J Bryan Logback and Bryan J Williams among others, joking Bryan remains a constant in their naming.
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Logback
William
Brilliam
Polkville, Ark
Cordingly
William J. Bryan Logback
Bryan J. Williams
Brennings J. Ryan
William W. Billings
Brilliam J. Wennings
Thomas Jefferson
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Democratic Party
William Jennin
Bryan
Puck
Turned on by Spelling Reform Turner Debunks It
A Chicago hotel proprietor recalls an eccentric guest who registered as E K Phtholognyrrh to mock simplified spelling reforms. When asked to pronounce the name the guest declares it Turner, explaining the phonetic logic behind phth o lo en yrrh and insists the spelling would still yield Turner.
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Chicago
Turner
Harper’s Weekly
Plain Terms and the Plain Anglo-Saxon Voice
A Princeton faculty member mocks vague gloss and notes a Philadelphia lawyer who denounces a legal matter in plain Anglo-Saxon English calling it a nefarious and preposterous transaction. The Harper’s Weekly quotation illustrates casual diction shaping public discussion.
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Princeton
Philadelphia
Harper’s Weekly
Funeral Processions On Ice Among The Wends
In the Spreewald region south of Berlin the Wends honor the dead with ice driven funeral processions. Coffin on a sledge is drawn by six skaters while relatives follow on skates, women bearing a Bible and wearing the old national dress.
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Spreewald
Spree River
Berlin
Ts'land
A cartoonish quip on American Navy prowess
In Baltimore an American speaker mocks the US Navy as inefficient in war with Spain and speculates a competent fleet would force annexation of Mars. The remarks blend sarcasm about American strength with a distant fantasy of conquest.
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United States
Mars
A Scandal at Briony Lodge Part I in Baker Street
At Baker Street Holmes narrates a case involving Irene Adler and Godfrey Norton. He disguises as a groom to learn their movements and attends a marriage by improvised witness. Plans to kidnap Irene unfold with a staged fire threat coordinated from Serpentine Avenue.
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Baker Street
Holmes
Irene Adler
Briony Lodge
Godfrey Norton
Inner Temple
Serpentine
Temple
Gross & Hankey’s
Regent Street
Church of St. Monica
Edgware Road
Church of St. Monica, John
Irene
Serpentine Avenue
Berryhill Creek Family Dominates Oil Royalties
The Berryhill family, a large mixed blood Creek clan, holds extensive allotments in the Glenn oil pool area and earns between 15 000 and 20 000 dollars monthly from oil royalties. Individual members receive 3000 and 2000 dollars monthly, with many allotments yet to be drilled or outside current development. Tobe Berryhill, an Indian preacher, once pushed selling allotments to move to Old Mexico, but interest faded as royalties grew.
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Berryhill
Creek Nation
Oklahoma
Glenn
Tobe Berryhill
Old Mexico
Mexico
Berryhills
Muskogee Cor
St. Louis Republic
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George Manville i
Fenn
Yer. Capel
the Young Doctor
Preenham
Incog
Bohemia
Sherlock Holmes
Conan Doyle
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