The Speaking Tube and a Web of Betrayal in New York
In Madison Square a middle aged merchant recalls a decade old scandal between his wife and Pierre Clerez. A hidden speaking-tube overhears love and threats, a staged assassination plot, and a quiet, costly reconciliation ending in renewed affection and a wary vow against gossip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simeon Ottiwell
George Barrett
Ottiwell
Madison Square
Europe
Sim
Barrett
Clara
New York
Mr. Clerez
Clovez
France
Pierre
Jim
Clerez
George
Clorez
Feltville foreclosed for mortgage in quiet New Jersey village
The article describes Feltville near Summit and Fanwood as The Deserted Village facing foreclosure after Townsend’s sarsaparilla business failed and Globe Mutual Life seized the 60 acre site. It notes the once thriving mills and cottages decayed, and the sale will occur at the Elizabeth Court House. The piece also touches Indiana’s Negro settlement at Virgo County and historical war anecdotes, ending with a plug for Hop Bitters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jealkees
Plaii
Clorez
Feltville
Sumit
N. J
Summit
Fanwood
David Felt
New York
Feit
Townsend
Globe Mutual Life
Court House
Elizabeth
Revenge at the Coffin Touches a Courtroom
A crowd fills the courthouse as a stranger pleads for the wronged and poor. A lifelong memory of cruelty resurfaces when a man who struck a mother’s boy twenty years ago is confronted by the now grown survivor in a forceful, fateful reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joye
Clorez
Clara
Solomon Proposed to Part the Heir in the Middle
Shilohs Cough and Consumption Cure is offered with our own guarantee for consumption. Sold by FE. R. Ash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Shiloh
FE. R. Ash
Swarnz
Ben
Phila
Rumored Coronation Crisis Grips Czarist Russia
A near panic in Saint Petersburg is described as the Czar and Romanoff rulers face threats and rumors of sudden coronation. Reports claim vast fleet movements at Peterhof and a possible move to Moscow, with Nihilist fears and palace intrigue shaping the imperial strategy. Health ads and unrelated notes appear in the same clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
St. Petersberg
Peterhof
Alexander
Kasan
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Vegetable Compound Advertisement for Ladies Cure
Write to Mrs. Lydia KE Pinkiam in Lynn Massachusetts for names of ladies cured of female weakness by taking her Vegetable Compound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia KE. Pinkiam
Lynn, Mass
Obie Depot Case In Cincinnati Names Pape and Sons
A terse notice names John D Pape and Sons of Cincinnati in connection with a Wells Health feteestyche importer matter. The fragmentary text references sexual debility and drugs without clear context or outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells Health
Obie Depot
John D Pape & Sons
Cincinnati
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Ates
Pierre Clerez
Paris
Broadway
Central Park
John
Kingdom Come
Ottswell
Virgo County
Ind
Fort Harrrison
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
Senator Voorhees
G. W. Kruzan
Exodus Committee
Indiana
Scobeloffs
Nelson
Lieut. Green
United States Army
Charles XII
Sweden
Lord Peterborough
Jefferson Barracks
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Carlyle
J. B. Marchis
Utica
N.Y
DR. Narchisi
Messrs
Seabury & Johnson
Platt St
Benson
MEAD
Allcock
Allocock
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