The Mad Artist Aurora Vaile Mystery Declares
Tudor the artist claims a wondrous discovery linking his art to a living muse Aurora Vaile. The narrator Dr. Crown chronicles Tudor’s nocturnal visions, vanished acts, and a portrait that bears the living likeness of Aurora, tested by a dramatic opera scene and a dramatic elopement.
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Beachem
Tudor
Hamlet
Fuseli
Elsinore
Aurora Vaile
Philadelphia
Aurora
Judge Latimer
Emerson
Philip
Beacham
John
Bere
Pormit
Aurora Vuile
Llad
Philadelphia Academy of Music
Thad
Vudor
Academy
Aurore Vaile
Anon
Violetta
Vaile
Ludor
Miss Vaile
Jack
Heither
Pair Tupor
Dr. Crown
Christendom
Baltimore
Latimer
Caps’ Charles
Joan Drown
Himelf
Philip Tudor
Crown
Philip Tundor
Combining Business with Pleasure Undertaker Anecdote
An Philadelphia Times reminiscence recalls a funeral humor tale involving a prominent iron manufacturer. He bought cemetery land, fenced it with his own ornamental work, and erected a tombstone praising his company and its fence designs. The anecdote lampoons self promotion at a graveside.
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Philadelphia
Annie B
Robert B
Iron Works
Health craze prompts new oyster festival name
The scene notes a revival of hot water drinking for health. Mrs Binks jokes that winter oyster festivals could be labeled health exhibitions, reflecting a playful local reaction to the fad.
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Philadelphia
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Locke
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Thor
Tob
Albert Terrell
Maria Bickford
Boston
Rufus Choate
Amina
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