Return to Nickerby Folly Ends In Uncanny Reunion
Gilbert Rickerby enters the abandoned Nickerby Folly and confronts Jemima, an aging woman who claims to have always believed in what she sees. She refuses to confirm his return, insisting dead or alive matters little, while he contends he is truly dead and seeks secrecy as he revisits his boyhood haunt.
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Cornelius
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Nugent Lethwood
Gilbert Rickerby and the Ghost in the Newmarket Coat
Gilbert Rickerby encounters a lanky youth with a dingy Newmarket coat near a toilet spot and learns of the house ghost rumors. The youth hints at secrets and a plan linked to the deserted side of the house, while Gilbert contemplates his own spectral fate and a mission tied to his past.
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Gibert
The Rickerby Folly Mystery Deepens
Nugent Leathwood plots to pass off a corpse as Gilbert Rickerby while a frightened girl plans to meet her supposed lover at the deserted house. Cornelius, his wary ally, is tasked with a risky rendezvous as the sinister scheme spirals toward a perilous confrontation.
Shadowed Room Mystery in Garden Window
A terrified man notices a glow from a hidden room in a high wall garden and watches a shadowed window fade as Jemima the old woman approaches. He pleads for answers, fearing ghosts and demanding who is inside the room before the scene cuts to a continuation.
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Magician's Narrow Escape From Bullet Trick
London Mail recounts a magician who once pulled a dangerous feat by catching a bullet with his teeth and narrowly escaping a mob. He hid the bullets and teeth, then fled the town to avoid a threatening payoff and completed the tour with his life intact.
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London Mail
Apple Wrapping Tricks From a Morning Chronicle
A Morning Overgoning item describes apple packers using varied wrappers handling tricks. A new worker wets his thumb on his tongue, then lemon juice to moisten, while an experienced man uses rubber thumbs. The lemon and rubber devices aim to prevent missed wrappers in box packing.
Forgotten Directions on a Steamer Voyage
In a vivid excerpt from Epworth Herald a traveler aboard a pitching steamer overhears a distressed passenger in the adjoining state room. A sleepy voice answers with a plea about remembered instructions on breathing, culminating in a tense wish that it were dead as the geasel moves.
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Marie
Epworth Herald
Polar explorers urged to seek noble aims
In a November issue of Frank Les le's Popular Monthly a piece on a breath explorer ends with a plea against greed. It urges nations to pursue higher goals and to wish explorers safe passage on their quests, invoking Browning's words.
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Browning
Memory of Old College Ground Echoes in Tale
A middle aged man revisits his alma mater sport ground and recalls a Jagz game he played long ago. He mentions leaving a finger joint and part of an ear on the grounds, reflecting a peculiar and pathetic interest in the old foul ball field.
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Chicago Tribune
Paris Street HAWKERS Camelots of Paris and Royal Visit Fables
The London Graphic describes camelots in Paris led by Hayard who vend patriotic verses and badges for francs, selling tales of royal visits to spark crowds. It notes Mme Hayard teaching tunes and outlines lavish but waning hopes tied to the czar and czarina's planned or imagined Paris visit amid vast Chateau de Compiegne expenditures.
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New York
Concealed Weapons Move Grows in the South
A southern crackdown on concealed guns targets homicide rates and enforces a law banning concealed weapons and sale of weapons not easily hidden. Memphis judges sentence those found with concealed arms to sixty days in the workhouse plus a $50 fine, applying the rule to all races alike. The Indianapolis News urges northern adoption of similar restraint.
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Indianapolis News
The Old Horse’s Last Trip
An aged horse once used by an Ipswich expressman wandered from a farm into the highway, paused at the railway station, and acted as if pulling a wagon before returning toward its farm. The beast was later found grazing beside a goat, marking its final notable public appearance.
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Boston Herald
Bishop Creighton on work and life purpose
The quote argues that individual workers should not see their job merely as a source of wages. It states that true life begins when leaving the office or workshop and urges recognizing that life is defined by what we do, not by earnings.
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Obscure Egyptian Obelists and Two-Wheeled Vehicles
A fragment notes that some Egyptian obelistes reportedly used figures mounted on two wheel vehicles resembling old velocipedes. The item appears as a brief cultural remark from the Indianapolis News dated the 7th.
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