A Summer Gloaming in Bellows Falls Heiress and Deceit
Alice Hill, heiress to John Hill’s Bellows Falls estate, faces a dangerous proposal from her distant cousin Godfrey Hill. In a stormy grove she uncovers his murder plot and true treachery, refuses him, and later learns the will bars his claim. She marries a trustworthy suitor and escapes a fatal conspiracy.
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Godfrey Hill
Alice Hill
Bellows Falls
Alice
Mrs. Mason
Lizzie
Bellows
Will
Snake Charm and a Tragic Schoolroom Mystery
A girl near Mt. Vernon Ohio falls ill and is drawn to a quarry by a snake then recovers. The tale links a mesmeric snake and inherited temptation to Eve. A haunted village schoolhouse and the tragic tale of Mrs. Ray later known as Mrs. Mandeville reveals a murder and suicide linked to love and betrayal. The narrator recalls a pale teacher and a grim end in the old room.
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Lizzie
Mrs. Mason
Alice
Godfrey Hill
Liz
Alice Hill
Godfrey
Bertha Miller
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Kim
Eve
Ray
John
Colonel Mandeville
England
Mrs. Mandeville
Pyramids Misunderstood Beyond Construction Facts
The article explores rival theories on pyramids purpose from Mr. Smyth who saw a sacred cubit standard to a cairn that will crumble. It cites figures: Great Pyramid lifting 15.733 billion cubic feet of stone one foot high, 100000 men for twenty years, contrasted with early railway earthwork by 20000 men in under five years.
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Smyth
Gadshill Place
Higham
Charles Dickens
Austin Budden
Twelfth
Kent Artillery
Greist
Berlin
Hayesh
Everett
Paris
Massasoit
Mitchell
Betty’s Neck
Assawampsett Pond
Massachusetts
Europe
Chicago
New South Wales
Boston Fish Bureau
New England
Boston
Gloucester
Herr Krupp
Essen
Havre
Castle Garden
New York
Fly Annihilator inventor preaches before crowds in Detroit
Detroit early morning scene features Professor James K. P. Burlingame hawking a fly annihilator in Congress Street homes. He demonstrates a 25 cent bottle device that claims to crush thousands of flies per door, promising easy use and no poison. The report shifts to a Sunday church tale in Barnsbury and a sexton’s anecdote about Banks family babies disrupting services.
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Detroit
James K. P. Burlingame
Congress Street
Europe
Barnsbury
Banks
Mrs. Banks
Elijah Hunsiker Banks
Dr. Binns
Tecumseh
Aristotle Banks
Bankses
Clarion County
Deacon Smith
Deacon Hubbard
Baptists
Sexton
The Boy Barn-Burner
A boy on a fence watches flames licking his father’s barn and a dog dies in the blaze. Cracker bundles ignite on the boy and his hat as sparks erupt, leaving a trail of debris and wreckage from the fatal accident. The scene ends with a chilling note about the boy’s fate and the surrounding wreckage.
Tree-Alligator Describes The Iguana Of Rio Fuerte
The riverside hosts bignonia trees and the iguana known as tree-alligator. The seven foot, sixty five pound reptile leaps through trees with tiger-cat speed. Despite its fearsome look it is a strict vegetarian and harmless to other creatures.
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Rio Fuerte
Contrasting Wills of Napoleons Show English Hostility and Gratitude
The passage contrasts two wills. The First Napoleon claims assassination by the English oligarchy and its nation, while the Fourth Napoleon expresses deep gratitude toward Queen Victoria, the Royal family, and England for eight years of cordial hospitality.
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Chiselhurst
Longwood
Napoleon
England
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Woodbine
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Earth
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Lizzie Mason
Jermyn & Jermyn
Hank
France
Ranaway
Daniel Lawrence
Medford
Mass
Tyngsboro
French War Office
Minnesota
United States
Union
Susquehanna
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Depot
Pittsburg
Damaris Boutelle
Fitchburg
Boutelle
David Boutelle
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