The Dark House A Knot Unravelled
In an extended inquest tale, Charles Pillar is charged with murder after the Dark House case at Albemarle Square returns to public attention. The cobra like vaults and a vanished treasure drive suspicion, while Katrine D Enghien and Lydia Lawrence choose to stay as Capel confronts a missing fortune and possible foul play.
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Charles Pillar
Heston
No. 9A
Albemarle Square
Capel
Litle
Mr. Girtle
Katrine
Lydia
Paul Capel
Gerard Artis
Artis
D’enghien
Preenham
Miss Lawrence
Lydia Lawrence
Doctor Heston
Names to Grow Up With in Polkville
A Polkville Ark neighborhood man explains a family habit of naming children after famous men. He lists several humorous forms such as William J Bryan Logback and Brilliam J Wennings, noting they keep changing as new “great men” appear in politics.
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Logback
William
Brilliam
Polkville, Ark
Cordingly
William J. Bryan Logback
Bryan J. Williams
Brennings J. Ryan
William W. Billings
Brilliam J. Wennings
Thomas Jefferson
John c. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Democratic Party
Wiliam Jennin
Bryan
Puck
Eccentric Guest Tries Spelling Reform Prank
A Chicago hotel proprietor recounts an odd guest who signed the register as E. K. Phtholognyrrh and claimed it spelled Turner. The guest explains phth for t, olo for ur, gn for n, and yrrh for er, claiming the name reads Turner.
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Chicago
Purner
Turner
Harper’s Weekly
Plain Terms on Anglo-Saxon Speech Cited by Princeton Faculty
Harper's Weekly quotes a Philadelphia lawyer who condemns a legal matter in plain Anglo-Saxon English. The remarks reveal a clash between refined rhetoric and blunt, direct language in court and journalism.
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Princeton
Philadelphia
Harper’s Weekly
Funeral Procession on Skates Among the Wends
A Popular Magazine piece describes slender waterways as streets in the Spreewald region, where frozen rivers host funeral processions on skates. A sledge with a cork is drawn by six mourners, while relatives skate behind the coffin. women in traditional dress carry Bibles.
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Spreewald
Spree River
Perlin
Popular Magazine
The Amount of It First Spanish Admiral
In the United States opinion the American navy showed shameful inefficiency in war with us. If their navy were competent they would have no work left but to annex Mary Baltimore American.
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United States
Mary
Baltimore
A Scandal in Bohemia Part II at Baker Street
Sherlock Holmes enacts a ruse as a groom to observe Irene Adler and her suitor Godfrey Norton. He learns of Norton’s plan to marry Adler at St Monica Church and helps secure the license. Holmes plans a staged fire to force entry and will assume a new low profile role.
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Baker Street
Holmes
Irene Adler
Briony Lodge
Godfrey Norton
Inner Temple
Serpentine Mews
Temple
Church of St. Monica, John
Irene
Tam
Serpentine Avenue
Berryhill Creek Family Rich in Oil Royalties
The Berryhill family, a large mixed Creeks clan, holds extensive Creek allotments in the Glenn oil pool area. They earn from 15 000 to 20 000 dollars monthly in royalties with some members receiving 3 000 and 2 000 dollars. others await drilling or sit outside current development. Tobe Berryhill, an Indian preacher, once pushed relocation to Old Mexico for land grants, but broader royalty gains have reduced that movement.
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Berryhill
Creek Nation
Oklahoma
Glenn
Tobe Berryhill
Old Mexico
Mexico
Berryhills
Muskogee Cor
St. Louis Republic
The World Blackens Some Men Yet Whitewashes Others
A reflective line contrasts how public judgment erases harmful acts by some individuals while shielding others. The phrase suggests selective moral scrutiny influenced by power, reputation, and context rather than universal justice.
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George Manville Fenn
Girtle
Tily
British Museum
Ramo
the Young Doctor
Incog
Bohemia
Sherlock. Holmes
Conan Doyle
Tie
Gross & Hankey’s
Regent Street
Church of St. Monica
Edgware Road
Sberryhills
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