Devil's Name Mystery Haunts Paris Garret Tenants
In a Paris servants’ garret near St. Madeleine's, landlords Jean and Madame Joyeuse endure weeks of eerie visits from two men claiming to summon devils. A coffinlike violin case and a stage setup reveal a ruse for an opera rehearsal, prompting a police intervention. The men explain their rented space hosts Batram in Robert the Devil practice.
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St. Madeleine's
Paris
Eboe
Motsieur
Jean Joyeuse
Monsieur Joyeuse
Jean
Monaleur Joyeuse
Legion of Honor
Monsieur Jean
Monsieur
Madame Joyeuse
Enomne
Bere
Joyeuse
Madame
Don Juan
Moncleur Joyeuse
Monsieur Jeyence
Elrepger
Weil
Dona Juan
Madama Joysuse
Satan
Osee Monatsur
Monsieur ‘Jean
Udon
Opan
Glapomo Mayer
Batram
Robert the
Devil
Meyerbear
Jes
Wissaire
Fashionable Washington Life Notes and Boarding Gossip
A fragmentary 19th century column discusses fashion trends and female education plans in St Petersburg and Moscow, noting sash fashion and new colleges for women. It reports on Mrs. Willie Vanderbilt’s lavish bed with canopy and rosewood, and recounts Washington boarding-house culture including a congressman's encounter with a host claiming George Washington ancestry and his preference for simple meals.
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Washington
Mary McCobb
Harper’s Young
Welben
Ee Chatter
Willie K. Vanderbilt
New York
Fifth-ave
Forty-second St
Thasleaper
Keapers
Michigan
Sah
George Washington
Conntereman
Editor Told to Quit Sunday Issue or Church
A Pittsfield editor faces orders to stop his Sunday edition or leave the Methodist church. He declines both, saying he will pursue the matter in court if needed. The piece also notes a Moscow police edict enforcing proper dress for newspaper sellers and a Boston Globe stance defending the word pants as correct and proper for men’s apparel.
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Ostman
Pittsfield
Mase
Sam Jones
Richmond
Caid
Gat
Bose
Bhiat
Police
Moscow
Boston
Boston Globe
Humorous Snippets and a Hood's Sarsaparilla Pitch
Quips from a Birmingham Post and Westboro Tribune tone with a grim glimpse into family life. A little boy’s crying scene shifts to a moral about severity, and a commercial traveler's daughter ends a prayer with a blunt blessing. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad extols cure after other remedies fail, claiming strong blood and digestion benefits.
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Simpkins
Binghamton
Birmingham Post
Jimmy ‘Binks
Johnny
Lawrence American
Commercial Traveler
Tod
Westboro Tribune
Blood health offer from Swift Specific Co in Atlanta
A mailed notice promises an interesting treatise on blood and related diseases. It directs readers to send their name and address to Swift Specific Co in Atlanta, Georgia, to receive the material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift, Specific Co
Atlanta, Ga
Simmons Liver
W. J. McElroy
Macon
Odds and Ends From a Scribbling World
A miscellany notes California sending a 60 foot circumference redwood to a world’s fair and a jury rule tying nonbelievers to ministerial approval. It records a buffalo horn found at 387 feet in Tulare County well digging, Golconda mine riches in Colorado, a 500 acre Napa vineyard proposing a world’s fair fountain of wine, Florida turtle bears harvesting eggs, and a taunting ages of a boy’s view of his father through the decades.
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California
Ubsse
Minister ‘of the Interior
Justice
Hyde
Vinneet
Tulare County
Cal
Colorado
Golconda
Brown
Charlestown
Chicago
Malboro
Florida
House of Refuge
Atchison Globe
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Hood
Hoffman
Brighton Beach
ABC
Pennsylvania
James Pyles
Hans New York
James Pvwle
Indianapolis
W. Washington St
Barnum & Batley
Imre Kiralfy
Rome
Olympia Hippodrome
T. Barnum
J. A. Bailey
Prince of Wales
Great Britain
England
Caine
Washington St
F.C. Fowler
Richard H. Beck
Lockport
Nerve Bean Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Browning & Son
TopEvans Chemicalgs
Ginginnati
Big Gia
Fast ‘ J
Bafa
Ad. Stoner
M.D
Druggiss
Traveler's Register
Unicz
Southllinois Street
Indianapolis Union Station
Obennsylvania Lines
Pittsburg
Balti-d
Philadel
Ohio
Columbus
Louisville
Vincennes
Cairo
Vantalin
ST. Louis
H.B. Dering
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago & ST. Louis
Cleveland Division
Depert
Orivago & Cincinnati
Peoria
Papit—O “St
Pullman’s
Dayton R
Seine
Ilinois Street
Kence
Indiana
States
Minois
Izzie Landwerlen
Preacott
Shelby County
Ind
Sada Fraly
Lebanon
Coan
Mie
Sconbad Schro&der
Shalbyville
MBS
J. L. Snavely
Bushville
C. EF
Solenberg
Franklin
WM. A
PAVEY
Covington
Joha R. Toll
Eliza A. Toll
Noblesville
H. H. Bamsey
Crawfordsville
Gun Wa
Chinese Herb Remedy Company
West Washington St
Indianapolis, Ind
Ertel
Virginia Avenue
Common Council
Neiunspolis
General Assembly
General Assembly of Indiana
E. B. Swlet
Board of Aldermen
City of
Traub Avenue
Washington Street
Leeds Street
SWIFT
City
Wall Aires
Indianapolis Water Company
Mracentees
M. Abbett
M. D
Virginig
Malydor Mfg. CO
Lancaster
Ward Bros
H Schad & Co
Washington, Noble
the Sun
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