The Ghost Will and a Wealthy Aunt’s Heir
A lawyer helps a man forge a short will granting his wealth to Ada Busch turning on a ghostly motive. The tale follows the night of Mr Busch’s death, the barber witness, Potter’s scheming, and a later reveal that Allan Busch forged a new will to favor orphans. The narrator’s honesty and a grim prank by a hairdresser frame the ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busch
Allan Busch
Ada
Potter
Thorugh
Mr. Busch
van Buskirk
Samuel
Mr. van Buskirk
Allan Buseh
Allan
van Baskirk
Mr. Farren
Enterprising Undertaker’s Prize Package Scam
A Cincinnati traveling man recalls an undertaker who sold a first class funeral with a type-written sermon report. He then offered druggists labels for morphine bottles to stamp his ad. Other undertakers retaliated and forced him to leave the city within a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Detroit News
Waiting List at Union Club Remains Long
The Union Club maintains the longest waiting list in New York with 350 names. Its membership cap is 1200, and only thirty to forty members leave yearly, ensuring many prospects endure years before reaching Union Club status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Union Club
Nearer to Other Worlds Lens Being perfected at Cambridgeport
A historic ten foot wide telescope lens in preparation at Cambridgeport and stored in Alvan Clark's cellar is undergoing twelve to twenty four months of final work. The lens, worth an estimated sixty to seventy thousand dollars, is expected to surpass the Lick Observatory sighting and could bring the moon within about one hundred thousand miles, addressing the habitability question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridgeport
Alvan Clark
Lick Observatory
California
English society warned against stable life in drawing rooms
A Chicago News correspondent condemns a particular English social class for duplicating regency era excess. He contrasts moneyed leisure with vulgar, jockey influenced manners, noting both sexes imitate stable culture in salons and parlors across England and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles II
England
America
Chicago News
Realism in Amateur Tramp Life
Edward Tracy and a companion named Gillen from Troy were arrested as tramps after a vacation in hop fields and held in Mechanicsville lockup. Tracy pleaded guilty and received three months in the penitentiary. Gillen, not guilty, got six months. Tracy’s father appealed to the superintendent but to no avail until a lawyer secured his discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Tracy
Gillen
Troy
Mechanicsville
Tracy
Porter
McIntyre
Albany Journal
Simple carbonic acid gas extinction proposed for steamship fires
Investigation shows a simple method to extinguish shipboard fires by injecting carbonic acid gas into holds. The system uses marble dust and hydrochloric acid to generate the gas, confined in hogsheads with hoses for injection, and could save lives and property at sea.
Remarkable Dallas Farmer’s Large Family Highlighted
Frank Dean a 60 year old white farmer of Steep Creek in Loundes county has thirty seven children from four marriages. Three wives were sisters and he has fathered twins three times and triplets twice. Dallas News notes his long family record.
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Frank Dean
Steep Creek
Loundes County
Dallas News
Poetic Praise of a Language's Flow and Rhythm
A lyrical exclamation extols the delight in a language's smooth cadence and expressive movement. The speaker revels in its fluent flow and the pleasure of uttering phrases aloud.
The Exclusive Club Initiation at Pall Mall
Edward Sternforth joins the Exclusive club after a lavish welcome at the card room. A duel with Mr Rivers tests his nerve but ends in a social initiation reveal as Rivers confesses the ruse and welcomes him with an apology and a smoke.
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Chetwynde
Ellersley
Edward
Holmes
Erskine
Moreland
Au Revoir
Pall Mall
George Erskine
Sternworth
Eard
Sternforth
Holmes and Rivers
Mr. Rivers
Rivers
Summer's Reign Fades as Time Counts the Days
A poetic sketch from Harper's Weekly by Annie Bronson King describes summer's bright scene on dune grasses, blue skies, and emerald clad musicians. The speaker notes July brightness fades, bells and insects quiet, and September's hours begin as summer departs.
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Bareti
Ebon Drest
Annie Bronson King
Harper's Weekly
Jack Ford the Boy Telegrapher of Mount Ouray
A Colorado boy Jack Ford builds a mountain telegraph line to Saluda selling his cow Queenie to fund the project. He insulates poles, drills holes, fashions a copper battery, and finally proves the line works sending Ned’s messages. The avalanche rescue afterward crowns him hero and he rises to a great telegraph career.
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Ford
Colorado
Denver and Rio Grande
Jack
Mount Ouray
Ned Ford
Mr. Ford
Queenie
Saluda
Dan
Ned
Denver
Hercules
O. K
Great Western Union Telegraph Company
Paris committee studies Dutch beggar systems in Amsterdam
The Paris municipal committee on wandering beggars chose Holland as their first field study. In Amsterdam they met Steenwyk and the Veenhuizen state colony for mendicants, an agricultural reform project housing up to 4000. it houses offenders serving three to five year reclusion terms. French delegates returned to Paris impressed by the system.
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Paris
Holland
Pisa
Europe
Amsterdam
Steenwyk
Veenhuizen
London
Misread Kiss Request In Orchard Ends Brief Exchange
In a brief, humorous scene from Life, a man asks to kiss a woman in an orchard. She hands him a leaf and her intended answer seems unclear. He misreads the leaf as a rejection, and he leaves while she remains astonished by the misinterpretation.
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San Francisco
Philadelphia Press
Mr. Dean
SONG
Talker
W. Foss
Dward
Henry Ellersley
Eline
Edward Sternforth
Mr. Erskine
Inerior
Luniart
Ned Sternforth
New York World
John C. Walshe
United States Army
Minnesota
Lake Talcott
Tom Kirkpatrick
Tom
Jackson
Arkansaw
WM. C. Bald
N. Carey St
Balto, Md
Chicago
Dr. Bull
Hespacun
Allen
J. P. Allen
St. Paul
Minn
Marie Jensen
Hood
C.J. Hoob &Co
Lowell
Masa
Sickhe Carters
Carter
Small
Tutt’s
Fees Wodernta Informaton Freed
KR. Littell Washinton
D.C
Semple
Edine Co
Lola Cancer Infirmary
Lwa
Waepaca
Wis
D.ellowe
Joe End
Addrens DE. Snyder
Eicle
MAY
Stanner
Tate Cormissioner of Pensions
Washington, DD. C
Braas
Dores
G. Llinghaham
N.Y
BR. Dyche & Co
Chicaxo
Chichester
Rafe and Stray
Reitanic
F.adics
Airies
Hem ’S Co
Nadleoo Sq
Phila
Importart Rey Discovery, “Wwaseline
MA M
Grain Commission
Minneapolis
Sceeann Balin
Brothers
Warren St
Cts
Omfort
Sapolio
van Dusen
Commission
Duluth
Milwaukee
E . Lacan Warren, Pa
Northwestern Newspaper Union
Rcen
Westesh Mass Ert CO
17Th St
Denver, Colo
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