English Castle Poker Trap Ends In Midnight Escape
A wandering raconteur recounts a London visit to Tentowers Castle where Lord Brower hosted a party. Captain Marchand and wife scheme to cheat a poker game, using a secret door and hidden passages, leading to a dramatic fall and kidnapping scare before the narrator escapes with injuries.
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England
ty @teries
Lord Brower
Tentowoers Castle
Surrey
Tord Brewer
Lord Brown
Tentowers Castle
Monte Cario
Wild
West
Captain Marchand
Chadwick
Myself
Privace
Marehand
Mrs. Muarehand
Marchand
Madaimn
America
Tentowers
London
Ino
Captain Marehand
Doctored Blood Oranges In St Petersburg
A young girl in St Petersburg fell ill after eating a blood orange, spitting blood from a broken needle fragment found in her mouth. The syringe piece contained red aniline dye, and the oranges were later found injected with saccharin and red ormaline coloring to simulate blood oranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Editon
New York Herald
Woman's kidney trouble relief with Dean's pills
Freeport Illinois woman Mrs Frank Voight of 384 Apple Street describes chronic back pain dizziness and urinary troubles that improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says she was soon cured and urges others to buy from Emmett's drug store. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is sole US agents pricing at 50 cents. Remember the name Dean's.
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Freeport
Bright
Dean
Frank Voight
Apple Street
Ill
Emmett
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Drifted Months at Sea From Caroline Islands
A group of Caroline Island natives, expert seamen, sailed to Japan in March last year, 1200 miles away. Their boat faced a typhoon that destroyed rudder mast sail and oars, leaving them adrift for two months before reaching north Formosa. Two died, others recovered, distance about 1700 miles. The voyage supports long Pacific drift stories from New York Sun.
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Caroline Islands
Pacific
Caroline
Vehr
North Pormosa
Myriad Islands
New York Sun
Dress Reform Provokes Laughs at Washington Luncheon
Mrs J Gardiner Merritt the sculptress urged dress reform at a Washington luncheon noting the discomfort of women in tight waists high heels and veils. She mocked a lazy young man who envies women's attire and imagined a day living in a woman's clothes to prove its burdens.
Wind Gauge for Trains at Ulverston Viaduct
A pair of wind gauges at the west end of the Levens Viaduct deters trains during high winds. When 32 pounds per square foot pressure triggers bell signals in both signal cabins, trains are halted until conditions ease. February 187? wind reached 65 mph, recalling the Tay disaster in Scotland.
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Ulverston
England
R. Dec. Ward
Levens
Thirety
Tay
Scotland
Our Future Population and the U S Growth
The article cites W S Rossiter of the Atlantic Monthly as arguing the U S population growth is slowing. From 1870 80 to 1880 81 percent, then 1880 to 1900 around 20 percent and 21 percent, leading Rossiter to estimate the 1950 population at 130 million and a tendency toward stationarity thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Atlantic Monthly
W.S. Rossiter
Rotted Money Restored By Treasury Expert Mrs Brown
Mrs Abk Brown a longtime United States treasury expert completed a delicate task recovering nearly all of a two year buried roll of bank notes that had rotted into pulp. She separated decayed paper and deciphered letters to redeem the nearly vanished money for the distressed owner.
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Abk. Brown
United States Treasury
Swiss Navy Mystery at Brest Sparks Surprise
Brest officials were stunned when no grand Swiss steamer entered the harbor revealing that a chartered vessel was a circus impresario’s craft. The misdirection sparked questions about a faux navy while a real delivery of Lion Medicine and flour products was advertised by local sellers.
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Brest
Atlantic
Switgerand
Boris Ciulols
The Lordly Turkey How to Prepare the Thankegiving Bird
Instructions to clean truss and dress a turkey with chestnut stuffing and butter. Methods include roasting or boiling chestnuts, boning a raw bird, filling with forcemeat and mushrooms, sewing in netting and braising. Also recipes for Turkey and Sausage Scallop and Hashed turkey with onion, parsley, mushrooms, and gravy.
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Chicago Tribune
How to Make Curative Salves in Old-Time Bounty
Instructions describe Bitter Sweet Salve from Serane bark and bitter sweet roots with lard rosin and beeswax plus mutton tallow to heal milk scalds eruptions. A lip salve uses beef marrow wax camphor glycerin and rose oil. A burns salve stews lard rosin and beeswax with juniper tar to thick consistency.
Frozen pudding recipe from old household guide
A vintage instruction outlines making a frozen pudding using milk sugar flour eggs gelatin cream candied fruit and wine. Boil milk, whisk flour sugar and eggs then Stir into boiling milk cook twenty minutes, add softened gelatine set to cool then fold in wine and cream and fruit before final freezing and serving with whipped cream.
How to Cook Chicken a la Creole
Recipe notes for frying chicken pieces in seasoned flour. Prepare a sauce by browning onion in butter, stirring in flour, then adding canned Spanish red peppers tomatoes bay leaf and thyme. Combine with fried chicken and simmer slowly until tender and flavorful.
How to Care For Ostrich Plumes
A woman shares a method to preserve ostrich plumes from moths when in use. She stores plumes in securely fastened glass jars and sprinkles white tips with monesia, then wraps the jars in bine payer to prevent yellowing and deterioration during hot conditions.
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Ptt
Midnight Oil and Gasg Riddle in Verse
A humorous exchange features a beautiful girl noting late night work and a poet claiming he hides his hat on the doorknob to prevent the landlady from spying through the keyhole while he burns gasg. The quip captures playful wordplay and literary wit in Judge's Library style.
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Judge’s Library
Be ese Laxative Cough Syrup advertisement note
An old advertisement describes Bees Laxative Cough Syrup as giving quick relief for coughs colds hoarseness whooping cough and bronchial throat troubles with mothers especially recommending it for children. It notes pleasant taste and mild laxative effect and lists sellers H J Moogks and C P Guenther.
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H. J. Moogks
C. P Guenther
The Mirror Wedding Dream of a Prisoner
Rena Yeotl, to be wed Johan Tephold, is arrested on her wedding day and jailed for a crime she insists she did not commit. Nine years in captivity pass with no mirror to see her fading beauty, then a confession clears her, and Johan returns to find her whitened hair and a renewed hope in her eyes.
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Flere
Lord Brower
Marehand
Marekind
London
American Press Association
Rena Yeotl
Johan Tephold
Rena
Johan
Ike
Walt
John
Grizzly Inder
Pineules for the Kidneys advertised remedy claims relief
An advertisement touts Pineules for the Kidneys offering relief for kidney and bladder trouble backache and rheumatism with a 30 days trial priced at 1.00. The copy claims blood purification and lists H J Moogh and C P Guenther as sellers with many testimonials supporting its healing and tonic properties.
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Wood
H. J. Moogh
C. P. Guenther
Cleaning instruction for BR Dye Works processing
To be cleaned, clothes must go to the BR Dye Works. We wish them returned if not made exactly right. Our pressing is guaranteed also.
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Douglas Z. Doty
F J. Burdett
Brown's & Dolmeyer
Plymouth
Plymouth Milling Co
Best
Turkey
Grace Ethel Weeks
Cora Proaxcis Refining Company
C. G. Schoeffel’s
California
Cereline
Malta
Vita
Aua
Malaga
C. G. Schoeffel
Galena St
Florida
Burrell Brothers
Stephenson St
Thanksgiv’g Sale
Taylor & Frick
Ilinois
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