The Mad Marksman and the Masked Target
Doctor Noirot narrates Guido Ventura the marksman who fires at a plaster Diana mask in his Paris pavilion without ever missing. Ventura’s tragedy centers on Arabella, a lover murdered by a rival, leaving the shooter obsessed with the mask he cannot pierce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Moniot
Diana
Doctor Noirot
Guido Ventura
France
Alcazar d’Automne
Paris
Miss Arabella
Arabella
Vanishing Effect On Garnwold Paths Revealed
Annie confronts Alfred Luray over his love for Celestia Ansley a gilded sham. Celestia lures him away triggering a dramatic fall near a mountain lake and Annie's discreet rescue ends with Alfred regretting his betrayal and Annie’s quiet resolve.
Death's Anchor Poem Fragment from Century by Jasons Lathrop
Fragmentary poem with broken lines and garbled text describing sorrow after parting lovers. Mentions memory, morning dawn, and enduring grief, quoting a lament about love and loss across shifting imagery.
Mysterious Stones Rain on Forsyth House Trapping Town
In Forsyth Georgia a three mile out house occupied by Mrs. Sandifer and Ms. McAfee endures constant stone falls. A two pound stove once fell through a window afterward as residents search for the source. Locals suspect a sky origin or end times amid rising concerns. Authorities and neighbors remain baffled as stones rain down nightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forsyth
Sandifer
McAfee
Wiley Brit
Brid
American Belief Abroad London Letter on Mrs Ronalds
London society circles note Mrs Pierze Lorillard Ronalds nee Fanny Cavier as a leading American in London milieu. The piece traces her marriage, separation, exile in Algeria, and return to prominence with a prestigious daughter wed to a royal connection. It mentions Miss Chamberlain Winslow Beach-Grant Griswold and Bret Harte's niece among guests at her reception.
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London
Chicago
Pierze Lorillard Ronalds
Fanny Cavier
New York
Miss Carver
Ronalds
M. B
Americ
Napoleon III
Ronald
Algeria
Lumor
Prince and Princess of Wales
Duchess of
Edinburg
Miss Chamberlain
Miss Winslow
Bret Harce
Covent Garden
Torched clue seals murder confession in Perpignan
In Perpignan the killer Guibal is convicted for the murder of Marie Cerbere after a friend identifies a gold ring with a human tooth. The ring, taken from Guibal’s possessions, proves the crime and leads to his confession. A note mentions rubber belting replacing leather.
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Toronto
Can
Mall
Guibal
Perpignan
Marie Cerbere
Marie
Father Quinn at the Case A Printer’s Half Century
A Erie pa printer known as Father Quinn has spent over fifty years at the job. Born in Waterford Ireland in 1860 he worked for the London Times and the New York Evening Post before settling in Erie. Now nearly seventy he sets type without glasses and his output totals extraordinary figures including 119 340 000 ems and 355 020 000 pieces of metal.
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New Tokyo
San Francisco Chronicle
Erie
Michael J. Quinn
Quinn
Father Quinn
Waterford
Ireland
London Times
America
New York Evening Post
William Cullen Bryant
Park Godwin
John Bigelow
Erie Dessates
Erie Daily Herald
Blindness And Sudden Recovery Baffle Doctors In Oswego
An Oswego New York dispatch reports Amos Baiden of Baror near Waverly fell ill with blindness lasting six weeks. He recovered sight but lost the ability to recognize family and friends. His condition fluctuated with a strange episode ending when his sight briefly returned, leaving him astonished at his garden surroundings. Doctors cannot explain the peculiar case.
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Annie
Alfred Luray
Garnwold Village
Oswego
N. Y
Amos Baiden
Baror
Waverly
Bia
Graveyard Walker Dr George Alfred Walker obituary
Dr George Alfred Walker known as Graveyard Walker died last week in North Wales after a brief illness. Born in Nottingham in 1807, he trained at Bartholomew and in Paris, crusaded against intramural interments, and exposed Enon Chapel exhumations before influencing cemetery reform. He authored works on sanitation and medical topics forming a new era in disease treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
London
George Alfred Walker
Ynsyfaig
Barmouth
North Wales
Nottingham
Society of Apothecaries
Royal College of Surgeons
Aldersgate Street
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Norwood
Deep well kept in airtight house for plant preservation
Mr Collins advises a large four foot diameter well four feet deep in an airtight house with thick non conducting walls to store water and radiate warmth. The system is praised as a treasure for preserving plants and other uses. A southern paper claims five fingers of a Negro woman's right hand are the best cotton pickers yet invented.
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Woodbine
the Academy
Chicago Sun
Guido
Ventura
Coulisses
Coulisse
Celestia Ansley
Garnwold
Celestia
Alfred
Rolly
Mamie
Etta Rovers
Drews
Ocecher
O. Anc
C.co
Jasons Lathrop
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