Ghosts, Parchment, and a Deadwood Heir in a Haunted House
In a tale set in an old mansion, Queenie discovers a hidden parchment under a tile parlor hearth. Gilbert St. Edgar’s confession claims Deadwood inheritance was fraudulently obtained by a relative, threatening Queenie and Guy Blondel. Mr. Quill later exposes the document as a family relic, not proof of theft, and advises the couple to marry. The tile parlor is rebuilt into a cheerful living space, and the haunting ends with their union.
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Guy
Queenie
Patty
Man
Thad
Gilbert St. Edgar
Deadwood
Guy Blondel
Mr. Quill
Gilbert Bt
Edgar
Relica
Miss St. Edgar
Gilbert Bt. Edgar
George
Misa St. Edgar
March
Hare
Miss §T. Edgar
Bsen
Szain
American Monthly
The Tile Room at Deadwood
The long abandoned Deadwood mansion on a hillside above the sea is revived by Miss Elinor St Hagar and her fiancé. She turns it into a bright home with sunlit rooms, lace curtains, and rose paper, hoping to secure a life with Guy Brondel and a future on the land. Queenie vows to live there despite poverty while springing plans for a wedding and a modest future. Guy arrives to find her pale and changed, humbled by success and wary of their new life.
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Deadwood
Wales
Misa Queenie
Patty
Queenie
Guy
Quills
Elinor St. Hagar
Mr. Quill
Guy Blondel
Adulterated Food Exposed by The New York Herald
A list details widespread food tampering including bread mixed with alum and lead, flour with peat and worms, coffee with shells and chicory, tea colored with lead compounds, oysters and seafood adulterated, cheese colored with dangerous pigments, essences tainted by acids and solvents, sugar with putrid blood and marble dust, and spices tainted with buckwheat and red lead.
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New York Herald
Romance of Custer Massacre Hope Lingers For Missing Doctor
Chicago Tribune notes Colonel Benteen suggested Dr Lord and Lt Sturgis with Custer bodies not found may still be alive. A Maine widow hopeful that Benteen’s hint proves true writes Bis marck. Major Walsh searches with troops but finds only hostile tribes and doubts survive. The widow remains convinced, though experts deem the chance unlikely.
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Custer
Benteen
Seventh Cavalry
Bismarck
Dakota
Dr. Lord
Sitting Bull
Canadian Mounted Police
Major Walsh
White-Horne Company
Lord
Jules Verne
Maina
Chicago Tribune
Pike's Peak Signal Station Stands At World’s Peak
A Colorado correspondent details Pike's Peak signal station, opened September 1873, as the highest inhabited place and the world’s leading astronomical and meteorological observatory. It describes the summit, duties, winter hardships, reports to Washington, and the annual summer visitor influx including sunrise observations and the hardy marooned staff living three miles above timber line.
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Colorado
Boston Journal
United States
Pike’s Peak
Pike's Peak
Nature
Washington
Loach
Colorado College
Choate
Blake
Sweeney
Army
Rufus Choate
Man
New England
Arctic
Funes
Timely Topics on Holloway Pills and World Notes
A varied 19th century round up covers Holloway advertising profits and legal action, left-handedness in infants, a Rangoon lighthouse tragedy with a dying signal, and Carrara marble quarries. It cites Burgomaster tone with statistics on lunatics and state support, lighthouse deaths, and US marble orders from Carrara.
Oysters Whistle Tale Through London Shops in 1840s
A Thornbury era oyster story recalls Mr. Pearkes’s shop in 1825 where in 1840 a whale of a tale emerged as an oyster in a tub allegedly whistled. The tale drew crowds, with Victorian writers Douglas Jerrold and Thackeray cited. The piece also notes royal dukes and nobles and university enrollment figures for the year.
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Thornbure’s
Old London
Pearkes
Saye
Daily Telegraph
Douglas Jerrold
Thackeray
Massachusetts
ITEMS OF INTEREST AND MISCELLANY NOTES
A collage of tidbits ranges from hospital funding in honor of Gladstone to varied curiosities. It mentions a $110,000 hospital project, reviews of education and agriculture methods, a long-lived octogenarian growing a third set of teeth, a Samaria church with 160 in attendance, and Siam's beautiful female bodyguards.
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Gladstone
The
Boston Journal
Gennison
Tr Ie
Louise
Fred
Richard Grant White
Journal of Chemistry
Indiana
Samaria
Palestine
Siam
Josh Billings
Josh
Goelet brothers own major Broadway real estate in New York
A New York correspondent recalls the Geelet Estate near Union Square, noting Peter Goelet and his brother Robert as real estate millionaires. They own Broadway houses and city land, preferring leases with a five percent rent rate and mortgage-backed advances to lessees. The brothers retain ownership as hard times reduce new construction.
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Broadway
Union Square
Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York
Nineteenth Street
Peter Goelet
Astor
Robert
Oratty
Peter
Lingual Difficulties in Gotham Coroner Tale
An attache to the late Mr Bennett recalls a coroner case involving an Italian murder victim. The doctor questions the Italian witness in five languages, receiving no reply, while praising the witness’s silence to the jury as remarkable linguistic wit.
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Bennett
Job Press
New York Herald
Gotham
Tewaa
Ben
Harper's Bazar
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Dee
Burro
France
London
Bogota
Colombia
Holloway
Burmeh
Rangoon
Alguada Reef
Carara
Augnatos
Monte Crestola
Carrara
Spain
Geelet Estate
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