Haunted Murderers Row Echoes Ghost Tales At Allegheny Jail
Pittsburg authorities recounts a long haunted reputation at Allegheny county jail where murderers row allegedly rang with ghostly visitations. Warden and guards describe nightly screams and alleged apparitions linked to past inmates including W. A. Culp and the Biddle brothers.
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Alelegheny County
W. A. Culp
Brother
Edward Lewis
Murderer's Row
Culp
N.Y
Big
Allegheny County
Mike Ruminiski
John McAleese
Biddle
Widale Brothers
Murderers’ Row
Biddle Brothers
The Flag Station Heroine and the Express Narrow Escape
Margaret Conley known for riding Daisy and signaling trains saves others when the express nears the flag station. She leaps from Daisy onto the tracks and signals the oncoming train, narrowly avoiding disaster as help arrives and she rests in her mother’s arms.
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Conleys
Margaret
Daisy
Papa
The Toy Artist Mechanical Figure Draws With Cams
A novel mechanical toy features a figure with an artist at an easel that traces lines via a cam driven drawing pen. A worm shaft operates a pinion and double cams to control vertical and horizontal pen movements, producing vertical, horizontal, or diagonal lines to sketch known objects.
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Chicago News
Flying Machine Tested by Wandsworth Inventor Roe
A Wandsworth man, A V Roe, unveiled a full size flying machine built with bamboo and wire and four wheels. The craft aims to fly a mile with control and steady ascent, using a fore plane steering rudder and two large rear planes. It weighs about 450 pounds with the pilot and could reach 50 mph with a four bladed propeller driven by a six horsepower engine.
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West Hill
Wandsworth
A. V. Roe
Mr. Roe
Alexandra Palace
St. Paul's
Dyspeptic Philosophy in a World of Close Friends
A fragmentary humorous meditation contrasts misfortune with social distances and hypocrisy. It jokes that close friends are often silent, and notes a satirical view of wealth, conscience, and the pace of time, ending with a quip about John D. Rockefeller's value of minutes.
Sentence Sermons and a Press Humorist Exchange
A Milwaukee Sentinel humorist conversation recalls a visiting question about his daily jokes. The humorist says he has an intellectual pair of shears, implying a witty knack rather than constant invention.
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Milwaukee Senginel
Not Equal During Our War With Spain Nurses and Gallantry
A wartime hospital kept a corps of nurses famed for beauty and flirtations with soldiers. Some wounded men welcomed such attention as recovery, while more serious injuries dampened gallantry. A nurse would sometimes visit a favored patient and leave a note reading to ill to be nursed today, signed John Smith.
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Spain
John Smith
Saying and Writing Principles for Thoughtful Labor
An odd fragment speaks on beliefs about bricks hats and headstones, contrasting dirt with industry and health. It reflects aphoristic, evaluative language about character and emphasis. The piece resembles a moral or reflective aside rather than a clear news item or event.
Proverss and Phrases Mixed in a Witty Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue interweaves proverbs and quotes from Dr Anson Plato McNamer and Modern Greek sources with a comic line about a $10 debt. The passage presents idle vices and prudence through short, pithy statements and a sharp exchange about personal regard.
New Shadow Show Presents Chinese Shadow Series
A brief note describes an easy method to create wall shadows and stage figures. The writer outlines a simple process for producing a sequence of Chinese shadow silhouettes as a visual presentation.
How It Is Worked in Shadow Projection Tricks
A brisk guide explains a simple illusion using candlelight, a screen, and a mirror. Place a candle on a table with a foolscap screen opposite, insert an opaque object between them, and position a mirror at table edge to cast reflections on the wall for dancing silhouettes.
Kaiser on Horseback and a Whipping Quip
A palace note explains the emperor's controlled riding due to his injured left arm and cautious mounts. In a playful aside, Willie asks who started the family whipping tradition, provoking a daughter’s remembered reply about her mother and grandmother.
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Kaiser
William
Willie
Beauty Doctor and Home Maker Ideals in Harpers
In this excerpt from Harper's Bazaar, a shifted scene shows a pretty girl soothing a bruised driver with balm. The exchange leads to playful banter about calling her a doctor and extends to a broader message: strengthening homes builds power for beauty, companionship, intellect, and rights, within every household reach.
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Harper's Bazar
Infant Vest Crochet Guide by Helen Gray
Instructions describe making a warm white Shetland wool infant vest with bone hook and double crochet stitches. Step by step guidance covers row structure, chaining, sleeve openings, shoulders, shaping, and finishing with single crochet joining and decorative edge work.
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Helen Gray
Elegant Empire and Semi Cutaway Coats on Display
The article describes refined coats with empire styling evolving toward semi cutaway fronts. Redfern showcases a tailored mauve gown with box pleats and moire trims, brown moire piping, metal buttons, and cuffed sleeve details suggesting winter's approach.
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Redfern
Fashions for Young Girls in Harper's Bazar Autumn Number
Describes separate half fitting coats short jackets and long garments with deep collars and velvet motifs. Details materials such as tweeds broadcloth velvets velveteens and corduroys and notes pockets and storm collars. Skirt lengths target shoe tops for ages 12 to 15 and two inches from ground for 18 and under.
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Harper's Bazar
Mantilla Inspired Fashion Wraps Gaining Attention
The article discusses mantilla shaped wraps rising in fashion as graceful drapes. A family heirloom black lace shawl can be transformed without cutting by gathering at the shoulders and back of the neck to create pointed back and front hangs.
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Lewis
Whims and Hair Mood Reflections in 19th Century Gossip
In a light column the author notes hair responds to temper and mood, thinning when unwell and mirroring emotions. A reader’s claim that hair sympathizes with her mind is mentioned. The piece shifts to fashion with soutache trims on gowns and elaborate vermicelli braiding on a gray silk dress.
Practical Household Advice From The Era
A series of home care tips including cleaning with cider vinegar and salt, using cheesecloth towels for silver and glass, salt in boiling water to speed cooking, linen towels with lace, tin linoleum fasteners, picture hanging guidance, and kitchen scissors. Also notes on a child’s fall wrap, hard water effects on skin, a bicarbonate tonic, and sleeve fashions for morning wear and blouses.
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Jevery
Reflector Stone Hat Pin Sets Extreme Sparkle
A new reflector hat pin features a large colored brilliant cut stone with a hidden reflector on spiral springs that dangles and sends scintillations through the stone. Reflectors are encased within metal, resistant to handling. Styles include tovaz, emerald, amethyst, rubies and other transparent stones. price three dollars each. Enormous plaid silks with tartan or muted blends seen in fashion forecasts.
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