The Tragic Return of Frank Armour
Frank Armour returns to Greyhope after years of wandering and faces the ruined trust he caused a wife and child. His brother Richard urges repentance, the couple's bond is tested, and a hopeful vow to win back love follows, though fate withholds them a final blessing.
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Franks Armour
Richard
Marion
Frank
Greyhope
Frank Armour
Richard Armour
Irank
Heaven
Mutiny at Trinity Cemetery Berlin Over Fatigue Victim
At Trinity Cemetery Berlin a burial for Otto Schoenlin, a young reserve private, drew several thousand mourners from the 48th Regiment. Wreaths were laid, the police moved the wreath, and a chaotic scene followed as the crowd sang Socialistic songs and was dispersed by police after midnight.
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Trinity
Berlin
Otto Schoenlin
48Th
Guestrin
Elephants Afraid of Mice A Novel Experiment
A travelling menagerie tests if elephants fear mice proving the vast beasts react with panic to tiny rodents. One brave elephant stands his ground while others retreat trumpeting. Tigers lions and pumas also react, with mice provoking varied distress and even music failing to soothe.
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Sunny
Italy
Tiger Cage
Paris
Academy of Medicine
Charcot
End of an English Bully Ends in Village Justice
A Paris correspondent reports a tyrant known as Prince Murat extorted tributes from a rural community. When a poacher son killed Murat in defense, the killer was acquitted as acting in self defense and celebrated by locals who funded him after the trial.
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Paris
Murat
Prince Murat
Hercules
Mysterious Death of a Soldier at Woolwich
Harry Thomasson a Royal Artillery driver at Woolwich dies after a night at a Clapham Common couple’s home. His sweetheart kept vigil with him until dawn, a constable and doctor found life extinct, and Thomasson was soon due to leave the army to marry in November.
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Harry Thomasson
Royal Artillery
Woolwich
Thomasson
Hughes
Clapham Common
London
The York Mayoress Chain History
The Lady Mayoress of York is the only Mayoress in England to wear an official chain. Since the early seventeenth century a chain was presented to the then Lady Mayoress and has been handed down ever since.
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York
England
Nail Biting A Dangerous Habit To Break
Health guidance warns nail biting risks swallowing sharp fragments that can lodge in the throat esophagus or stomach and may cause fatal irritation. Cure methods include painting nails and tincture of aloes applied thrice daily to deter unconscious biting, potentially for six months to a year.
Simple Ivy Poisoning Remedy Fires Up Relief
An old remedy states hot water applied to affected skin provides instant relief from ivy and sumac poisoning. The solution should be used as hot as bearable, repeated hourly or whenever itching returns, to ease eruption and discomfort during summer exposure.
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Sumac
Typhoid Fever From Ice Cream Warns of Contaminated Milk
A London typhoid outbreak traced to infected ice cream from Italian vendors highlights milk as the common infection route. The piece urges boiling milk and water in large cities like Chicago to prevent outbreaks, noting December shows high typhoid mortality and recounting a hotel outbreak from unmixed precautions.
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London
Middle Lane
New York
Chicago
Narrow escape at executioner’s office in Buda-Pesth
A wounded stranger entered the executioner’s private office in Buda-Pesth asking to be beheaded. The executioner called for an ambulance, but the man hanged himself with his cravat from the door knob and was rescued with difficulty, leaving the matter unresolved.
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Buda-Pesth
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