The Elkhart Mystery Chapter XVI Aboard the Laughing Lass
The narrator contemplates the shipboard crisis as idleness undermines discipline. Handy Solomon tightens control while Percy Darrow’s voodoo talk fuels superstition among Thrackles Pulz and Perdosa. The crew debates the mysterious box and possible alchemical wonders as tension rises.
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Elkhart Daily Review
Selover
Percy Darrow
Darrow
Pulz
Thrackles
Eagen
Logician
Puls
Datchis
Ferdosa
Handy Solomon
Perdosa
Comic printer errors from early typesetting days recalled
A St Louis Republic feature lists humorous misreadings and misprints from hand-set type era. Examples include transforming "bride" to "blustering bride" and "The Galley Slave" to "The Galley I Love," with notes on proofreading, Irish district court, and other clumsy reads. The piece highlights the charm and chaos of pre machine his typing.
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St. Louis Republic
House of Correction
Bach
Enoch
Shin Town
Land of the Shamrock
Grst
Frank Geeks
Cape
Efe
Red Cross Society
Honest Artist Refuses to Lie for Napoleon in Alma Portrait
An English observer recalls an artist who refused to place Prince Napoleon riding the white charger in the Alma battle scene as ordered by the prince. The artist kept the riderless horse, prompting the prince to erase the rider from the painted history. The tale highlights integrity over vanity in wartime art.
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Louis Napoleon
Prince Napoleon
Crimea
Napoleon
The
Alma
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