A Woman Knits Danger and Deception Around Dyke
Clarice Dyke, wife of detective Donald Dyke, disguises as a youth and tails suspects to a Boston mansion. She uncovers a missing finger with her husband’s ring, suspects a staged death, and is knocked unconscious while pursuing leads, with the plot set to continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Dyke
Clarice Rose
Lowell
Donald
Boston & Lowell
Clarice
Frank Carleton
Udings
C— Street
Carleton
Doniald
Dudley
Hampton Streets
Joe Clossen
Duke
Clossen
Clarice Dyke
Boston
Dymple
eNo
Hense
Miss Ashton
Clarce
Jessie Lee
Harrison Avenue
Ancient fallacies and medieval superstition across science
A historical survey traces how ancient and medieval scholars, from Plato to Browne, propagated or debunked popular beliefs about crystals, lodestones, poisons, and animals. It notes how Ross defended vulgar errors while Browne advanced critique, and laments persistent superstition into the nineteenth century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Thomas Browne
Ralph Battell
Alexander Ross
Dean Wren
Favargue
Church
Plato
Seneca
Claudian
Basil
Augustine
Gregory
Jerome
Thucydides
Scaliger
Albertus Magnus
Brassavolus
Pliny
Agricola
Diodorus
Siculus
Cassius Bernardus
Hesiod
Lian
Hierocles
Simon
Browne
Ambrose Parry
Thomas Browne
Ross
England
Germany
Switzerland
Spain
Italy
Russia
Dymple Fraud Message Sparks Sealed Meeting
In a tense scene Clarice confrontsMiss Ashton with a coded demand. A servant learns the cryptic instruction to relay that Dymple is a fraud, highlighting secrecy and looming confrontation in the dialogue.
A Nemesis Unearths a Plan In A Hidden Room
Miss Ashton confronts Dymple as Clarice appears with a silver revolver, commanding him to leave the room. Dymple trembles, asking why and whether he should run, while the young heroine asserts authority and reveals her true identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarice
Miss Ashton
Wiis Poe
Dymple
Drei
Joe Clossen
Epee
Mrnute
Jon
Dyimple
Odd Occupation in Florida Guides Sportsmen for Bounty
A Florida paper profiles Jim Russell son of Major Russell as a river guide who dives into the muddy St John to haul alligators for a two dollar bonus. He goes into alligator holes, grips the tail, and hauls them to the surface where waiting gunsmen in a boat kill the reptile. The practice has become common on the upper St John river.
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Hereford
Eng
Jerusalem
Palestine
Lazarus
Dives
Pilay
Plutarch
Ptolemy
Mat- Aniolus
Alexander Ross
Browne
Philospher
Euseblius Nierembergius
Laetius Bisclola
Apollonius
Beda
Remora
Pliny
Solluus
Albertus
Isidore
Augustine
Mdm Yee
Christ
Florida
Jim Russell
Major Russell
Jim
St. John
St. Joho
Schoolroom Humor and Digest of Local Problems
A Lawrence American item recalls a grammar school exam with a joke about Laura Bridgham losing her senses and lists three top world employments as agriculture mining and school keeping. An广告 for Brown's Kron Bitters ends the piece with a dyspepsia gag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence American
Laura Bridgham
Narcolepsy case in Kansas City child shocks doctors
A four year old girl in Kansas City suffers nightly sleep attacks from narcolepsy after an illness. Doctors report abrupt, unarousable falls, occasional spasms, and a dramatic recovery with no recent attacks. The case is noted for its unusual early onset and potential link to epilepsy in classification.
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Kansas City
Robert H. Porter
Portland Avenue
Doctor’s mustard remedy saves two cholera infants
In Hartford Times account Dr. Fox of Wethersfield treated two dying children with hot mustard water and folded blankets. One seemed dead but both recovered after the improvised therapy, with one child later becoming a rising physician in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Fox
Wethersfield
New York City
Banqueting on Rats in Philadelphia diet experiment
A Philadelphia Press report recounts a few residents testing rat meat as food after cold weather. Rats were raised on gam and greens, cooked with an appetizing sauce, and judged light in color with a delicate flavor. The trial deemed rat flesh practicable and economical under proper care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Ingenious Comstocker Uses Star Belt as Clock
A Virginia City mine watchman improvised a time-keeper by using a four inch paper strip marked with star risings and star times. He now uses a crank and two rollers to read time as stars pass, winding the tape back to reset. The story ends with a line about cure for urinary complaints by Palba.
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Ernest A. Young
Ivy
Dappier
Joe
Classen
Washington Street
Washington Eet
Ashton
Heodor
Horace Clark
John Smith
Aristotle
Dioscorides
Hollerius
Oribassus
Sir Thomas
Ctesias
Christophorus A Costa
Fury
Lilian
Ovid
Iian
Mela
Herodotus
Cyril
Epiphanius
Ambrose
Tertullian
Aulian
Nicasides
Ping
Nicasider
Allan
Greece
Cbaos Vargo
Solinus
Aldrovandus
Pilate
Camerarius
London
Fernelius
Nozetius
Meecwnas
Joe Silva
Don Quixote
Land of the Living
Joe” Silva
Sancho Panza
America
Quincy
Irvin
Minnie Wills
Minnie
Minale
Per
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