Fatal Picture Sparks Duel for Cecila in Love Tale
In a tale of rival suitors, Henry Wallis and Fitzhugh Trefoil vie for Cecilia Vernon. A mistaken portrait leads to a dramatic blackout moment and an engagement to Trefoil, leaving the narrator as the lingering bachelor. An old newspaper item ties in with a dramatic county note about a bride’s bid and a disputed payment.
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Bessie Armitage
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Cecilia Vernon
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Cecelia
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Trefoil
Steele County
Freeborn
Katie King exposure drives renowned reformer to insanity
The Philadelphia science expose and Holmes medium fraud shattered Robert Dale Owen’s faith in spiritualism. He had supported Katie King seances in Philadelphia and Atlantic Monthly proofs, but the fraud was exposed the day before the magazine article appeared. The shock led to his mental decline and eventual insanity.
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Katie King
Philadelphia
Robert Dale Owen
Owen
Chicago Tribune
Holmes
Mr. Owen
Katie
Atlantic Monthly
Boston
Judgment or Irony in a Tennessee Farm Tale
A poor farmer begs a wealthy Nashville neighbor for five bushels of corn with a five dollar offer. The neighbor refuses despite a thousand bushels stored. Soon after, a thunderbolt supposedly strikes the rich man, leaving his well-filled barn of little use. The moral warns against affronts and suggests harm comes only to the raw.
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Nashville
The Rib Theft Theory From the Talmud Sanhedrim
A prince questions a rabbi about God’s actions. The rabbi’s daughter, posing as a distressed supplicant, accuses a thief who swaps a rib for a wife. The prince praises the clever explanation and endorses the idea as a karmic view of creation.
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Adam
Talmud Sanhedrim
Embalmed Six Year Mystery Unearths Twin Mother and Babies
A sexton moving a coffin to Green Lawn cemetery uncovered a remarkable embalming. A mother and her twin infants, who died six years ago, show no facial decay. The waxy fingers and purple nail tint remain, with the mother’s wreath and the twins’ rose looking fresh. A Portsmouth Times report notes the astonishing preservation. Additionally a child’s toy trumpet prompts a grandmother to be asked to blow while prayers. A Ironton lawyer boasts his head is a continuous volume of law, urging the court to consult him.
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Ironton
Squire Baker Webb
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