Missing Mother Vanishes From Mysterious City Home
Anita and Alice race through a Paris mansion as Mrs Ashton’s vanished room puzzles them. Victor Labouisse and two strangers, Felix Chaudron and Woodford Vance, arrive amid fear and confusion. The girls fear a dangerous secret behind the disappearance and seek answers from their uneasy hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wonsieur
Zis
Alice
Anita
Monsieur Victor
Arthemise
Charlotte Corday
Monsieur Victor Labouisse
Noel Duke
Victor
Hippolyte
Zey Walt
Felix Chaudron
Woodford Vance
Mother
Poor Man’s Peril Mentioned Amid Pie Spreads
A fragmented reminiscence hints at a distressing experience of a man described as a “Poor man” by a narrator handing out pies and doughs. The garbled text suggests confusion and a search for the cause of misery, with incomplete dialogue and stray phrases.
Spirit gave him ambu mation. Colored pastor blames murderers ghost
Rev. J B Amis pastor of St Matthew's Colored Baptist claims the spirit of Isaac Winder, hanged at Towson, haunts him causing rheumatism. He visited Marshal Farnan and, upon seeing Winder's portrait, exclaimed the ghost torments him with cold touch and spiderweb-like sensations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Winder
Towson
J. B. Amis
St. Matthew's Colored Baptist Church
Marshal Farnan
Amis
Winder
Ian
Ike Winder
Baltimore
Philadelphia Record
Apple Day Proclaimed Amid Praise of Fruit Varieties
An essay extols apples praising diverse varieties like Porter and Baldwin as pomological stars. It lauds the Bakwin discovery for delighting palates and notes apples serve raw, sauce, pies, and more. The piece laments historians poets and economists underappreciate the fruit while declaring Apple Day is here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Connecticut
Kentucky
Humanity & Boon
Woodcock Enters Brooklyn Henhouse Mystery
Woodcocke Rover and Mrs Marks of 1331 East Thirty seventh Street Flatbush discover a small bird in their hen house it resembles a woodcock with a long beak and mottled wings. They nurse it in a cage but it dies the next morning leaving experts unsure how it arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodcocke
Rover
Francis Marks
East Thirty
Seventh Street
Flatbush
New York World
Use of Peat for Fuel Promises New Canadian Alternative
The Technical World reports Aubrey Fullee describes a peat fuel method. Canadian experiments aim to create a commercially viable peat fuel to reduce reliance on coal and meet winter demand, with a target to remove about 60 percent water to price peat competitively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubrey Fulle
Technical World Magazine
United States
Canada
He Ee Brane
Tee
The Dome Signal Station at Raleigh After Battle
Lieutenant George C Round recalls riding with a signal detachment to Raleigh North Carolina on April 13 1865. He describes establishing a signal post atop the capitol dome with a lightning rod escape and a dramatic rocket message to the Army of the West amid Civil War surrender and peace visions.
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Fort Sumter
Union
Mississippi
Raleigh
North Carolina
George C. Round
Chicago
Kilpatrick
Raleigh Academy
Lovejoy
Vermont
Academy
Mia
Army of the Ohio
Capitol
Ché Rotunda
Hese
Senespee
Pero
Fair Daughters of Raleigh
Forth State
Senith
Army of the
Tennessee
Bethlehem
Prince of Peace
Tricks of Memory on Transmigration and Subliminal Consciousness
An excerpt discusses belief in reincarnation and memory transfer across lives. It explains that subliminal consciousness stores impressions in brain cells and may surface as past-life recollections. The piece cites rational explanations for déjà vu and false memories due to parallel brain processing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Wilson
Evils of Modern Life and the Toll of Worry
A travel note from a Rhine village praises long life among the elderly living simply with field work and modest fare. The essay argues modern civilization shortens life, and among its ills argues hurry and worry exhaust the body and ruin peace of mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhine
Harry
John V. Shoe ‘Maker
After Forty Two Years Civil War Veterans Reunite Checkers Game
A Washington Civil War veteran recalls two comrades who started a checkers game 42 years ago in Atlanta and finished it at the Minneapolis G A R encampment. They played on a homemade board with trousers buttons as pieces as orders from Gen Sherman interrupted them during his march.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Minneapolis
Old Boys In Blue
Atlanta
Bherman
Fragmentary Quote Sparks Curiosity in Chronicle Page
A clipped OCR line hints at a sentimental youth and a telephone kiss scene, suggesting a literary fragment or dialogue amid the page. The garbled text leaves the full story unclear but reflects a personal moment captured in the era’s prose.
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D.appleton & CO
Mrs. Ashton
Lafitte
Into
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Vieter
Meel
Dées
Ris -Anar
Maeaty
Avery Gay
Papa
the Chronic
Peat Roe
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