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Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Jun 28, 1895

Page

4

Kansas City Ghosts and the Big Muddy Spooks

A seedy chronicle of Kansas City hauntings from 12 years past to 1880s, detailing the levee shotgun murder ghost, the Santa Fe Stage Office ruin ghost, a ghost train at Walnut and Main, and the Conway murder shadows. It lists Belvidere Hollow and Hicks Hollow as local ghost districts with many sightings.

Heaven Gabriel Kansas City Belvidere Hollow Hick’s Hollow Ham Main Street Broadway Santa Fe Second Main Streets Walnut Conway East Eighteenth Street Oak and Locust

Four-fold Japanese Screen on Sale in Drapery Department

Ebony and gold screen priced at 82.00 announces in the drapery department. The advertisement urges shoppers not to miss the bargain and to add the item to their shopping list.

The Clark and Jones Ghosts Haunt Jails and City

In Belvidere Hollow Kansas City Times recounts how the ghosts of Clark and Jones, hanged for Mme Wright's murder in 1898, haunted Independence and Kansas City jails. Prisoners fled from implied spirits, a drunken inmate’s groans triggered panicked howling, and fear lingered for weeks before normalcy returned.

Clark Jones Mme. Wright Independence Kansas City Belvidere Hollow

Horse Dixie’s warning save levee and family proof of wit

A Louisiana correspondent recounts Dixie the horse belonging to K. L. Moore of Bedford parish. While injured in spring 1894 Dixie pulled the bell rope until Moore and workers returned, then led them to a breached levee where water was seeping. Dixie’s timely signal helped stop a flood, impressing master Moore and onlookers with the animal’s apparent intelligence amid farm life.

Enone K. L. Moore Dixie Moore Bedford Philadelphia Times

Demoniacal Possession Lesson Quoted by Boston Boy

A Sunday school teacher asks what lessons arise from demoniacal possession stories and a Boston boy responds that the word is accent ed on the antepenultimata. The Chicago Tribune cites the exchange as a teaching moment during a lesson on scripture.

Boston Chicago Tribune

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