Zigzag Gesture and Return to a Dreadful Mystery
In a Auvergne thermal hotel a tall pallid man and his pale daughter arrive drawing curious glances. The father describes a nervous zigzag gesture and recalls a burial of his wife and a dead servant. The daughter claims life after an apparent revival, revealing a murder tied to a vault robbery before they depart along a park promenade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Poe
Auvergne
Chatel- Guion
monsieur
Ant
Tat
Tie
Juliette
Lorraine
Prosper
Ife
Girl with golden curls turns dark from arsenic eating
Cleveland dispatch reports a Philadelphia family child known for beauty who became severely ill after years of arsenic consumption. She developed yellow facial blotches and skin darkening, while areas shielded from air remained yellow. Doctors were baffled and she was taken to Slot Springs, Arkansas, but health did not improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
medicing
aasile giame Hilly
W. aL. PHILLIPS
Cleveland
Ohio
Lorgan
Philadelphia
SLot Springs
Arkansas
Red Nose Debate and Cow Patented Tail Gaffe
A temperance speaker asks who fills graveyards and a red nosed man jokes undertakers. An Alabama inventor creates a patent cow tail that knocks flies and injures a milker, causing unintended harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
hic
undertakers
Alabama
Year Without a Summer 1816 Weather Chronicle
A detailed monthly account of the 1816 climate across the United States and Europe, noting cold, frost, and agricultural losses. It cites snow in June, ice in July, failed corn crops, high prices, and widespread distress, with NZ and New England impacts and long-term price effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
Ohio
Mississippi
Vermont
Maine
New York
Massachusetts
Tewsbury
New Orleans
New England
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Barnet
London
England
Middle States
France
Ingland
great Britain
staff of life
Morning resolve to brighten others lasts a lifetime
A clipped excerpt from Christian Standard urges starting each day with a resolve to make one person happy. Small acts a kind word or encouragement lift spirits, helping others and oneself. Over a lifetime these daily choices multiply, counting thousands made happier across years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Smith
Leaky pipe sparks odd gas odor dialogue
A Boston lady exclaims about a dreadful odor of carbureted hydrogen. A puzzled janitor asks if it is Armny 2. The woman clarifies it is the gas smell, and the janitor notes the pipe leaks, misnaming it as gin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Confidence men target Greenhorn at Michigan Central Depot
At Michigan Central Depot, a group of bystanders discuss con artists and identify a naive country youth. A phony foreman job offer, a $200 check, and a staged payoff lead to a swift mock assault by Greeny, who fends off the crooks with a quick punch and orders the victims cleaned up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Central
Michigan City
eVou
Greeny
bruna
Terness Dean
Greenhorn
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R.S. FOUNTAIN
A. W. Fountain & Son
PROPEDETOLR
TILL EASTON
MARBLE WORKS
EASTON, MD
ATIYS
Baltimore
Uva van nens
TABER GERGARS
INSTRUMENTS
TABER GRGAN CSO
WORCESTER
MASE
Eadrich
WEI
ETACHINES
FOLEY & WILLIAMB MPG. CO
Adams St
Chicago
Ills
rFronrn
LEIDUUUSEY GUGAUS fy
NOAN WALKER & CO
Baltimore St
Baltimore, Md
Gee
MARYLAND
LEYS
Sibler
Savey
careless
Sibtey
utd
hause
HIRAM SIBLEY & GO
Rochester
H. V
Calar St
Glover, Vt
Ayer
Savsaparilla
Avex
Avun
lesa
Winans PULLirs
Dr. J.C. Ayer &Co
Lowell
Mass
all Druggista
Tremont
GREENSBORO
ABLE, Maryland
WH. H. COHEE
Jas. Parnell
MERCHANT TAYLOR
DENTON, MD
THAWLEY & GHINGHER, BUTCHERE
THOMAS F. JONES
Joshua W. Bryant
Anne Townssend
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Lyken’s Valley
CHAS. F. WILLIS
Denton Bridge
FENBY IRWIN & BON
ACTIONEERS
GREENSBOROUGH CORNET BAND
J. ED. WILLIS
Greensborough
chateau
Kastrox
N. Y
Greely
mes
old Boreas
Santioga
Cleveland and Blaine
Denton
Saratoea
Ifere
mariner
Broadway
Grand Union
Iman
darkey
Josh Billings
Henry W. Shaw
Saratoga
White Mountains
Lalwarys
Artemus Ward
Ward
Petroleum V. Nasby
Burdette
Hawkeye man
Detroit Free Press
Norristown
Perald
Lamia
Josh
iMeautifal Living
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