Rexforth Circular Library Turns Out to Be Dress Renting
Baxter joins Rexforth Circular Library and learns the system delivers items by monthly dues. A parcel arrives and reveals the library serves as a women’s dress rental, with garments tied to book titles, leading Baxter to discover his membership is registered under Mrs. Baxter.
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Baxter
Rexforth's
Rexforth Circular
Izaak Walton
Shakespeare
Aurelius
Samuel Johnson
Thor
Retary’s
Rexforth Circulating Library
Baxter’s
Mark Twain
Wexforth Circulating Library
New Paint Days Dry Rooms And Ships With Liquid Defense
Inspector Simpson of the Burnham fire brigade cites a liquid discovery described as an ancient Roman secret. It dries damp rooms after treatment and allows immediate wallpapering. Ironwork resists rust, inner ship skins stop weeping, and ship bottoms repel marine growth, boosting speed potential.
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Inspector Simpson
Blackburn
England
Coyotes targeted in Manitoba with collie led hunts
In Manitoba hunts for young coyotes use a collie to flush pups from dens. Fathers and sons report taking 14 pups from two dens in one day, another man 35, and a third man 14 in total. Government agents offer a two dollar bounty per coyote across several districts.
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Manitoba
Alexander Aimo
Providence
Carman
Lone Chinaman Ah Chow Dies In Mountain Hermitage
A report from Hilo details Ah Chow a Chinese laborer who fled plantation life 30 years ago and lived alone on a cliffside shelf in Papaikoumank a. He raised crops in isolation planted pineapples peanuts mangoes and potatoes and built a bamboo blowgun. His body was found in a crude coffin after a stranger discovered the hermitage and authorities burned hut and remains.
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San Francisco
Hilo
Hawaii
Ah Chow
Islands
Papaikoumanka
Molokai
Kanaka
Ghost Answers a Phone in Church Haunt Claims
Philadelphia report of Old St. Paul’s church, headquarters of the Protestant Episcopal city mission, being haunted by a ghost. The shade reportedly answers the telephone when staff are away and knows staff movements, seen by Rev. H Cresson McHenry on July 4, then vanishes after gliding up a stairway. No physical trace found despite thorough search.
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Philadelphia
St. Paul's Church
Protestant Episcopal City Mission
Third Street
H. Cresson McHenry
Mr. McHenry
City Mission
Teddy Roosevelts East Africa Hunting Trip
Oyster Bay notes Roosevelts 20 000 to 25 000 dollar savings drop for next year’s East Africa hunting journey. The trip promises peril from disease hunger and captivity amid Zanzibar and English East Africa, with native tribes and rebels adding danger before a final big game hunt finale.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
East Africa
Won
Africa
Zanzibar
Panther in Northern Wisconsin Prompts Panic and Deaths
A escaped circus panther roams northern Wisconsin causing fear after a partly devoured woodsman body is found near Brantwood. The victim, possibly a lumber camp worker, shows panther hide torn from the struggle. A missing homesteader child near Tripoli is also feared taken by the beast.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Wisconsin
Brantwood
Tripoli
Lightning strikes Scribers fowl house in Connecticut
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scriber of West Colbrook, Winsted, Connecticut, traveled to Norfolk to buy meat but balked at price. On return their hennery was struck by lightning, killing nine fowls and broilers, six already dressed for plucking.
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Winsted
Conn
Joseph Scriber
West Colbrook
Norfolk
Frogs That Eat Chickens Reported Near York
Mrs. Caroline Ferguson of near Margaretta Furnace, York, Pa, reported a pond frog that leaped from the water to seize a chick, then returned to the pond. After draining the pond, about a dozen frogs were slain and no more chicks have been missed.
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York
Caroline Ferguson
Margaretta Furnace
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Credited By Reader
Lena V Henry of Norristo writes Mrs Pinkham claiming Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her female troubles after a feared operation. The letter touts the product as a standard remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and related symptoms with Mrs Pinkham inviting sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
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Lena V. Henry
Norristo
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Rexforth
By Donmark Lemon
Shortstory Pub. Co
Louis
Golden Louis
Roexforth’s
Huckleberry Finn
Bowk Ders
Slade
Rector
Teddy
English East Africa
Mr. Roosevelt
PEMBA
Man
Beast
Circus
Lydia.e. Pinkham
London
Charterhouse
Paris
Austral & Co
Sydney
India
B. K, Paul
Pacific Coast Borax Co
New York
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