Ove and His Shadow Opens with Ghostly Notes at Flitters Lodge
In a rambling Massachusetts house called Flitter's Lodge Nina West and Tom Prescott, newly married and comfortable in modest living, contend with eerie noises and the arrival of Fleet Grenfell, a former lover who claims Nina and hints at danger. Nina reveals Grenfell haunted her past and hints at danger as a stormy night unfolds.
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Thomas Prescott
Tom Prescott
Mr. Minsing Bentley
Mrs. Minsing Bentley
Mrs. Tom
New York
Bentley
Lori Prescott
Tom
Cora
Massachusetts
Azalias
Bashkirseff
Tony
Paris
Nina
Nina Gayly
Miffin
Massa
Cole
Hobbin
Miflin
Plump
Prescott
Esmond
Nina West
Lodge
Fleet Grenfell
Hare
Grenfell
Artemis
Venus
England
Greece
Thad
Snow Shoe Experiments In German Army Training
The German army tests snow shoes in the eighty second regiment at Goslar to enable marches in severe winter conditions. Norwegian and Dutch troops already use snow shoes for postmen, hunting, and canal travel, while Finnish and Russian sharpshooters employ similar footwear. A model platoon led by an officer has practiced long mountain marches to simulate battle conditions.
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Europe
Norway
Lapland
Sweden
Germany
Goslar
Hanover
Brunswick
Perfect Imitation Pearls and Their Hidden Truths
A discussion on French imitation pearls reveals they are indistinguishable from real ones without handling as weight differences expose real versus imitation. An American couple once misidentified real and fake strings after expert and lay judgment. The finest imitations cost ten to fifteen dollars per string, improving with age through a yellowing wax patina.
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Lucy Hamilton Hooper
Ladies’ Home Journal
Tears as a Sign of Madness and Reason
A discussion on why the insane often lack tears, noting that crying accompanies sane distress while madness brings emotional numbness. Observations suggest tears relieve pent up feelings, and only returning reason may unlock hidden tears. The Million’s reflection links tears to rational relief amid misery.
Important Invention Reported by Italian Engineer
Italian papers announce a Milan engineer has developed a large scale cheap hydrogen production process. Producing 1400 cubic meters a day at a cost of heat per cubic meter, the fuel burns without smoke and yields intense heat, surpassing electric light in power. The invention could play a major future role.
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Milan
Italy
The Beer Barrel Disaster Stopper
A Philadelphia man John Logan declares anybody can brew beer. He builds a giant barrel brew, then a massive explosion shatters his home and nearby china shop. A dog dies and a cat vanishes as glass and crockery are hurled everywhere. Budding brewer ends in chaos and a $100 demand from the store owner.
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John Logan
Logan
Telegraph Office Dispatch From A New Father
A new father tears up drafts in a telegraph office before sending a note to Cohoes New York announcing the birth of a son and twins. The operator charges ten words for a quarter, calling out the exact count as the father trims the message.
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James Biggerstaff
Cohoes
N. Y
Nooper
Smith, Gray & Co
Witch Hunting in Africa sentenced in Natal case
London Times reports a celebrated case where seven natives were charged with smelling out and murdering a witch blamed for a chief's death. Three prisoners were convicted, one claiming they followed a witch doctor. All three faced death sentences amid Natal Mercury notes that witch craft and witch hunts are rife among the Vondos near the Pondoland border.
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Africa
Natal
Natal Mercury
Pondoland
London Times
Survived Scalping Pioneer of Selkirk Mountains
Pittsburgh Dispatch recounts Carroll Bronson of San Francisco a 1866 scalping survivor now in his mid seventies. Bronson, a former Indian fighter with facial scars from arrow wounds, describes another man scalped the same year who endured a year of severe pain before death.
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San Francisco
Carroll Bronson
Selkirk Mountains
British Columbia
Mr. Bronson
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Paper Barrels From Pulp And Print
A curious 19th century process creates paper barrels by pressing pulp into cylinder molds. The pulp travels on a draining blanket, coats a cylinder in four minutes to form a barrel, dries in a room for a day, is dampened again, then pressed into its final form before finishing touches. The excerpt ends with a playful line about a man naming his children.
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Ann Exchange
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Ove
His Shadow
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Mrs. Bentley
Masachusetts
Thackeray
Rome
Loetiler
Thessalia
Volapuk
Brin
Volapukists
French Association of Volipukists
Sovelty
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