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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1896
Page
3
A physician narrator encounters Martin Buford a deranged sculptor who narrates a bizarre tale of a Corsican love Casinca Pinelli, murder, and a statue turned wife. Buford claims his marble Venus seeks revival by occult means, prompting a suspenseful cliffhanger about truth and madness.
A vivid sketch of plantation life portrayed with skill and fidelity in the new story by Harry Stillwell Edwards for this paper. The tale captures the rhythms, customs, and landscape of plantation society through detailed scenes and character portraits.
A concise feature introduces De Valleyan Edwards as a master of the Negro dialect in a new Half Dozen American Stories collection. The piece highlights Edwards’ prominence and the anthology’s aim to present distinctive voices in contemporary literature.
A jumble of excerpts recounts a sea voyage diary of hardship and captivity, a Warsaw nurse case with spectral accidents, crowd suggestibility during riots, a noble family’s collapse, and a pauper prince tale. Names like Warsaw, London News, and Dr. Ochorowicz anchor the scattered pieces.
A garbled note discusses revolutionary pamphlets circulating in Constantinople. It questions the caliph’s supposed 200 guards and suggests limiting to four, while proposing a small retinue of twenty. it uses archaic phrasing and mentions Turkish affairs and sheriat law in a speculative tone.
A long, quirky reminiscence about a prank with cracked billiard balls in a New York City saloon, detailing how the “heart” of a ball was removed to shock spectators and amuse regulars. It notes other players, unnamed jokers, and a legend of “heartless billiard balls” kept as curiosities by Flynn, Daly, and others. It also includes a separate vignette on an elderly Chicago man whose son’s football success elevates his public profile.
A Bellefonte Central Railroad special train to a Bellefonte college faced delays after greased tracks were sabotaged with butter, hindering wheels on a steep grade. Students reportedly used dairy grease from the college dairy to sabotage the grade, causing an hour delay. In other notes, a lapidary warns turquoise rings should be removed when washing hands to avoid color loss. Topaz color changes are linked to sunlight and heat.
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