House of Death and a Meeting with Sir Wilfrid Amory
A tense narrative follows a young woman guiding a man through a haunted Abbot’s Walk to a graveside. He agrees to arrange a meeting with her uncle Sir Wilfrid Amory, amid discussions of motive, justice, and a hidden past. The scene shifts to memories of a murder case and a working prison sentence, ending with reflections on mercy and fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scallery
Wilfrid Amoryee
Wilfrid
Pian
Gordon
Woking
Haynes
Wilfrid Amory
Trvis
Fairy Tales and a New Writing Device Spur Debate
A novelist laments publishers rejecting fairy tale plots for children citing fear of monsters. The piece contrasts classics by Andersen Wilde and others with today’s alarm at scary themes. An invention for easier writing or drawing using a finger ring and small steel ball is described as simplifying the hand movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erises
Axgether
Hans Andersen
Oscar Wilde
Jack
Little Red Riding Hood
Bluebeard
Philadelphia Record
yertoVved
Misuse of Patent Remedies and Joking Exchange in Old Notices
A garbled collage shows patent remedy ads and misc fragments including Hall's Catarrh Cure and Piso's Cure for Consumption. Quips about age in a jail case appear, followed by a quip about eternity and a Philadelphia Record cartoon exchange. Handel’s mother note closes the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
J. Cheney
Wear & Triax
Walding, Kixnan & Marvin
Hail
Surgical Operations How Mrs Bruce Escaped an Operation
The account describes a noted opera singer Mrs Bruce avoiding surgery after medical advice to rest. It emphasizes that many ovarian procedures may be unnecessary and critiques overuse of operative treatment for chronic abdominal issues.
President Lincoln’s Eyewitness Car and its Aftermath
The article recounts the historic Union Pacific presidential car built in 1861 for Lincoln. It details its armor plated interior, use during Lincoln’s funeral journey to Springfield, postwar sale and restoration efforts, and its decline toward the scrap pile as shops required space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Lincoln
Virginia
Springfield
Union Pacific
Transmississipp
Elty
Omaha World-Herald
The Persecuted Poet and the Hospital Site
The text portrays Demetrious the poet who earns up to $25 per poem, with an annual income of about $5,000, prompting aspiring verse writers to seek fame. It notes a hospital should have a good site even if not for the blind alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consumpton
Jonal and
Mog
Paris
Berlin
London
Europe
Br. Demetricus
Duiount-Yarles
Vries
Demetrious
Washington
Belief Sparks Truth-Telling in a Husband Wife Talk
A Detroit Free Press note reflects on a husband declaring he always tells his wife the truth about himself. He contends his wife is not easily shocked by his admissions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parke
Lane
Detroit Free Press
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Dodd
Philadel
Pia I
Woyence Haynes
Wilder
Parlament
Laman M. P. Wilder
New York Times
Japan
Korea
Atlantic Constitution
Piso
Oscar ‘Tripp
Big Stock
Ill
Mysore
India
Winslow
Muggins
Buggins
Handel
Duan
G.brucl
Lydia E. Pinkham
G. Bauer
Lansing
Allen
Allen's
Olvasted
le Boys
Kinac
Amie Thompson
Titie Oe
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