The Glatz Prison Escape of Captain Lux
Captain Lux, a French officer sentenced for espionage, recounts his meticulous Christmas Eve breakout from Glatz fortress. He used hidden tools, waxed cord, invisible ink, and a rope ladder to scale the wall, evade a sentry, and reach safety toward Mittelwalde and Paris with funds telegraphed from Budapest.
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Latude
Monte Cristo
Glatz
Lux
Paris
Frederic Masson
Napoleon
Josephine Imperatrice Et Reine
Josephine Repubice
Captain Lux
Mittelwalde
Austria
Budapest
Telph
Karl Noel
Looking Glass Graves Tale From Raleigh Superstition
A Raleigh report describes a negro graveyard superstition where graves are covered with broken looking glasses and bottles. An elderly witness recalls a fear of spirits and chants, noting lookin glasses frightening spirits and shaping graveyard beliefs.
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Raleigh
N. C
New York
Make Each Day Count Says Monroe E Phillips
The quote urges persistency to avoid wasted days and missed opportunities. It warns that lost days accumulate, pushing one from potential success to failure if not managed daily.
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Monroe E. Phillips
Dairy Association CO
MFRS
Lyndonville
When Mamma Fell to Beam on a Tram
A little girl amid a tramcar crowd charms passengers with stories of Santa bringing two dolls. She says one doll’s hair falls off like her mother’s. The murmured amusement shifts to a somber note as the mother’s expression changes from smile to unease.
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Mamma
Car buys runabout and calls it a runup after bills
The Car. Knicker-Thought Jones bought a runabout. Bocker- Yes, but after the bills came in he called it a runup.
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Jones
Bocker
Farmlands for Rent or Sale and Odd Cure Claims
Fragmentary items show farm listings offering land for rent or sale on crop payments and an ad promising a one day cold cure with laxative bromide tablets. A line notes J Mulhall of Sioux City Iowa. A quip about brave men facing a parson with a short haired woman appears.
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J. Mulhall
Sioux City
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Fifth Avenue, New York
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Brown
Jows Ll
Boston
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