Our Parish Mystery in a Kent Village
A northern family's move to Sandville is marked by the arrival of the enigmatic novelist Mr. Mort and his wife Mrs. Mort at Sea View. The couple live in seclusion, provoking local curiosity and odd reprisals from villagers until a cousin visits and recounts a tense midnight meeting with Mort, who appears as a shadowy figure in red-lit rooms.
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Kent
Grange
Sea View
Squire
Dale
Sandville
England
Dover
Paris
Jobson
Mrs. Mort
Balzac
Mort
Shakspeare
Ife
William Shakspeare
Victor Hugo
Notre Dame
Hugo
Mudie
Sea View Villa
Vilage
Morts
Continent
Ian
Charlie
Mary
Jones, Wilson & Co
Teanon
John
Ler
Mr. Mort
White’s
New York
Dakota
Mouse River
Calebs
Joshuas
Nebraska
Parish Mystery Ends in Misleading Death Hoax
Mary and her husband confront a suspected murder at Mrs Mort’s house after a frantic night. The magistrate uncovers that Mort died in Paris six months earlier and Mrs Mort had passed off his writings as his own to maintain income and status.
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Charlie
Dale
Gravia
BILL NYE'S RAILWAY PAS ENDS A LONELY LOVE LETTER
A March 1887 farewell note from Bill Nye to Hopson, Wis based on an annual railway pass. Nye writes of heartbreak and distance on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line, recalls past journeys, injury, and longing for a road he enjoyed. He asks for the pass return and laments a widening gulf. He signs as Bu NYe and notes New York World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopson
Wis
W. F. White
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe R.R
Topeka
Kan
Simm
Wanderer
Kansas
North Carolina
South Carolina
la Junta
Congress
Siberia
Manitoba
Congressional
New York World
Log Cabin Remedies and Frontier Health Concepts
An essay extols rustic log cabin living and herbal cures as healthier than modern medicine. It lauds Warner's Log Cabin Remedies and details various products for blood, stomach, hair, cough, and liver issues. A closing humorous vignette shows a bachelor minister negotiating wedding fees with a rival minister.
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Dr. Pierce
Vieree
Main Street
Buffalo
N. WY
Dakota Wheat Boom and Oddities Across The Nation
A collage of 1887 notes describes Dakota Territory wheat gains and spring variety crops, a 9 foot 4 inch cypress log in Arkansas, Hall's Catarrh Cure touts, and humorous items about Eva Cartwright marrying a Detroit museum skeleton, all reflecting broad national interest.
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East
Dakota
Eva Cartwright
Michigan
J. W. Coffey
Detroit
Eva
Dakota Cattle Nursery cattle praised by stockmen at Grand Forks
Stockmen speak highly of the Dakota Cattle Nursery farm at Grand Forks North Dakota where Dr C J Alloway manages. The sale of Polled Angusr cattle from M H Cochrane Hillhurst Canada realized top prices in Chicago 1886 and cows from Dakota Cattle Nursery produced those animals. This signals a bright future for Northwest livestock as fine cattle spread to Minnesota and Dakota. Catarrh cure offered by Prof J A Lawrence free upon request.
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Dakota Cattle Nursery
Grand Forks
Dak
C.J. Alloway
M. H. Cochrane
Hillhurst
Canada
Chicago
Dakota Cattle Nursery Company
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakota
Pierce
Nsarw Medical Association
Moxie Craze and Rural Notes Across the States
The article surveys Moxie as a plant extract preferred by overworked women and eyed as a liquor substitute, while noting large drugstore sales. It covers Dakota climate myths, Bastrop fever, western colonization prospects, lignite coal, a Nebraska divorce joke, Dakota wheat quality, and various patent remedies and products with prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central
South America
Free to Merchants Three Foot French Showcase Case
Advertisement item offers a three foot French class oval-front Show Case for merchants. Address: R W Tansill & Co 55 State St Chicago. Readers urged to address at once for purchase details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Tansill & Co
State St
Chicago
Early Bird Cough Syrup Ad and Atlanta Church Vote
A humor piece lauds early walks and Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a cure after claiming rheumatism relief from Salvation Old for 25 cents. It notes four members of a colored Atlanta church voting against prohibition and being tried and expelled.
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Atlanta, Ga
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Llihair
Mr. Dale
Wilson
Brougham
Boston
Porter
New York Sun
Bill Nye
Railway Pas
Norrstown Lerala
Warner
Valley City Mills
Hibbard
A. W. Thompson
Grand Rapids
Mich
Dakota Territory
United States
State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. W. Gleason
Woodruff County
Ark
Susan B. Anthony
Johnny More
Maryland
Vermont
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
J. A. Lawrence
East Ltd St
Burdett-Coutts
Bastrop
Tex
J. A. Shaffer
Madison, Wis
Omer No
Isaac Thompson
Pacific
Ene & Om
North Sen
Erecta Chas.e
Tamborn ST
Slaacr
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michican Avenue
T. A. Slocum
M.C
Pearl St
Swayne
Weimar
Germany
Bayer
Hood's
Hood
C. L. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Expres
I. G. Root
M. C
Pevats Chemice Co
Cincinisti Crio
G. H. Ingravam
M. D
Amsterdam
N.Y
D. BR. Dyche & CO
Lil
Wiw
Philodeis
Lesane
Mark
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Peti't
Mrs. Littie
Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co
Holly, Mich
Blunson
Detroit, Mich
Moody
Moody & CO
Cincinnati, D
C. M.sites
Er ' Atty *S
Washington,d.c
Ridger
Stowell & Co
Chirlestown
Sht
Joseph Gillotts Steel Pens
Thrail-Ford
Rail Road Remedy Co
Lincoln
Neb
Richardson Drug Co
Omaha
Neh
Salzer
Njares
Jom A. Salzef
Latrosee
H. A. Arcuer
M.D
Oxford
Brooklyn
N. Y
Tar Cenrave Company
Fulton Street, N.Y
Sophia F. Boswein
Joan FE. SeGar
Millenbeck
George Heroer
Westfield
May Gleason
Nunica
Otiwa Co. Mica
E. F. Morgan
Lexington St
Common Sense
G. F.esprague
Crystal, Mich
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
A. Vast
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