The Rector Sees Lilith Ride to a Family Crisis
Lilith arrives in a dramatic rescue at Heathside Hall after a string of anonymous letters threaten to expose Captain Drew as alive. Dr Fyres and a gathered group confront fear, fearsome rumors, and a tangle of lovers as Michael Cruce and Willie Macdonald secure truth and peace.
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Tagroh
Lilith
Mac
Prince’s Square
Mr.ooolumid
Pawson
Mr. Tinse
Jose
Lan Lilith
Talith
Michael
Cruce
Imieh
Mr. Rewson
Wonkin
Drew
Gen
Mayne
Iew
Ilfracombe
Willie Macdonald
Willie
Lily
Bradshaw
Job
Ezun
Michael Druce
Macdonald
Devonshire
Lillian Ware
Lillian
Doctor Fyres
Madam Ware
Mary
Rawson
Captain Drew
Vipers
Dr. Fyres
Burt
Madame Ware
William Macdonald
Michael Cruce
Heathside
London
Heathside Hall
Talk Much and Live Long Says a Doctor
An eminent English doctor argues that talking is the best exercise for lungs and whole body. He notes that those who talk much in work or daily life expend energy and respiratory effort, which can aid longevity and even heart health.
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Song-Bird
Charles Egbert Craddock born near Murfreesboro Tennessee
Miss Mary Noailles Murfree born near Murfreesboro Tennessee around 1850 grew up in East Tennessee, wrote for Atlantic Monthly before 1880, and published works including In the Tennessee Mountains 1884 The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 188? Despot of Broomsedge Cave In the Stranger People’s Country 1891 and His Vanished Star 1894.
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Charles Egbert Craddock
Mary Noailles Murfree
Murfreesboro
Tenn
East Tennessee
Atlantic Monthly
Tennessee Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains
Despot
Broomsedge Cave
Bibles Placed Under Corner Stones In Early Churches
The piece explains medieval practice of burying Bibles beneath church cornerstones to sanctify the building and symbolize the church’s foundation on scripture. It notes superstitions linking Scripture copies to miraculous power akin to saintly relics.
Losses in War Through Earlier Centuries
The article notes that precise wartime losses before this century are unavailable. Mulhall estimates 4,417,000 battle casualties in the ninety years ending 1880, a span that includes major conflicts such as the French Revolution, Crimean War, American Civil War, Franco-Prussian War, and Turko Russian wars.
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Mulhall
America
Gallagher's chain-letter plan tests romance
A column notes a man named Gallagher seeking a wife through a chain-letter proposal. The piece hints at social norms and the symbolic value of a woman's face versus her father’s reputation in marriage prospects, reflecting era attitudes.
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Gallagher
Gettysburg Heroine Carrie Sheads and Civil War exploits
The piece recalls Carrie Sheads, a Gettysburg area schoolteacher who became matron at a field hospital during the 1863 battle. It notes her brave intervention to spare a Confederate captain from shooting Colonel Wheelock, the rebel reward and later return of the sword, and the lasting impact on Sheads’s health. It also reports Major Weston earning the Medal of Honor for capturing a Confederate transport on the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers in 1864 and other reminiscences of Civil War relics and General Wheeler’s Santiago actions.
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Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Lee
Carrie Sheads
Oakridge Seminary
Seminary Ridge
Chambersburg Pike
Howard
Reynolds
Wheelock
Miss Sheads
John S. Weston
Congress
Resaca
Weston
Wilson
Alabama
Montgomery
Tallapoosa
Coosa Rivers
Swan
Aecross
Coosa
Major Weston
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Cuba
Fort Donelson
Fort Defiance
Ohio
Ocean
Wheeler
New York Press
Santiago
Gen. Wheeler
N. P. Willis
A Woman's Charity and a Soldier's Story at Santiago
In a Washington Star vignette a Mount Pleasant wife welcomes a ragged traveler claiming to be a cavalryman with Dewey at Santiago. She feeds him and offers more, while her husband questions the tale, sensing something amiss about the brave soldier who visited the home.
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Mount Pleasant
Dewey
Santiago
Dearie
George
Washington Star
The Diamond Highroad and Deceptive Senses
A discussion of the Diamond Highroad in Kimberley where mine debris yielded diamonds worth up to £40,000 annually and a patch producing £20,000 worth per square yard. It also covers how water enabled recovery and the shift in mining fortunes alongside a note on sensory deception and phantom pains after limb loss.
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Kimberley
London
Gladstone's Double in South Africa Noted at Stel lenbosch
A man in Stel lenbosch, Cape Colony, who bore a striking resemblance to the late Mr Gladstone was described as his doppelganger. He attended public meetings and was greeted with enthusiasm. He died recently aged 181.
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Gladstone
South Africa
Stellentbosch
Cape Colony
Myburgh
Old Rhymes and Tunes Span Many Centuries
Most rhymes are ancient. “Sing a Song for Sixpence” dates back at least two centuries. “Three Blind Mice” appears in a 1609 music book. “Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket” predates Yankee Doodle by several hundred years.
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Lucy Locket
Burglars Reported Earned Just 96700 Last Year
Police reports indicate the burglary fraternity in London earned 96 700 dollars in the past year marking a decline in profitable crime.
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London
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