Ghostly jest at Bingley Castle hijacked by headless haunt
Ernest Bingley rents a headless ghost costume for a midnight prank at Bingley Castle. A living ghost confronts him in the hall and the pair clash in a comic unseen duel, round one ending with both heads in play and chaos throughout the manor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Sherry Merchants’ Guild
Ernest
Rufus Bingley
Bingley Castle
Ernest Bingley
Mervin Wyncoop
Sir Rufus Bingley
Ghost
Rufus
Mervin
Sir Rufus
Master Mervin
Jon
Duke of Beddingdon
Countess of Bathberry
Bingiey
Kid Ghost
Bingley
Travel induced constipation prompts Kruschen remedy tale
A jumbled travel themed diary notes Kruschen Salts as the remedy for internal sluggishness from train and car travel. The text then shifts to a serialized fiction scene with ghosts, duels, and club banter featuring Ernest Bingley and Duff Hooper, ending with a cliffhanger about a confrontation and a whiskey decanter. The fragment includes a medieval hall duel, stage Irish humor, and a map reference to Lapland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest
Duff-Hooper
Vietor
Cavalry Club
Coventry
Duff- Hooper
Exest
Duff- Hopper
Rosa
Japan Losing Lily Trade Amid War Turmoil and Shifts
The Sino-Japanese conflict disrupts lily bulb exports to North America as ships repurpose for wartime needs. Lily cultivation grows in both Japan and China with bulbs, bulblets, or scales used for propagation. Seed keeps supply, but commercial yield faces longer development from scales and bulblets.
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United States
China
Japan
America
Lly Bulte
South African police dogs sent to Palestine
Four more South African police dogs sail to Palestine to join the force there. Quantities at Quagg port depot, Pretoria, include seven dogs in service, with Detectives Ketching and Pretorius seconded for a year. Palestine officers trained as dogmasters previously, and Arabs fear the trained animals.
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Palestine
Quaggport
Pretoria
M. M. S. Ketching
Z. M. Pretorius
Palestine Police
Palestine Police Force
Brandon Sun
The Last Minute Cramming Warned As Wasted Time
The Woodstock Sentinel-Review reports that last minute cramming wastes time and harms nerves. A Toronto doctor says memory fades rapidly after learning and advises steady study, note taking, older exam papers for practice, and avoiding pressure nights before tests for better success.
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Woodstock Sentinel
Toronto
Wages Rise Differently Across Nations and Whale Decline
British wages advance 25 percent beyond German wages and 33 percent beyond French levels, with 250 percent higher than Russian wages. Separately, whales have become extinct in waters near Newfoundland Greenland and Spitzbergen after formerly being abundant in those regions.
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Newfoundland
Greenland
Spitzbergen
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Thomas ‘Allen
Sir Henry
Ernest— “Duff-Hooper
Emile
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Insula
Beauty
Appleford Paper Products Ltd
Innipeg
Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
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