Thrilling tale of a haunted Christmas night misadventure
A Virginia woman recounts a nineteen year old aunt Bess’s terrifying cabin encounter with a chained maniac in a Harper's Ferry area manor. Locked door, a midnight prowler, bloodhounds on the trail, and a desperate escape unfold as her hair allegedly turns white from the shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Cneva
Heron
Susey
Bessie Knowling
Harper's Ferry
Sabe
Anghe
Bess
Abe Cen Noiel Aely
Sbe
Searer
Prang
The Puff Dilemma in Newspaper Columns
The Lanceter Examiner argues that free puff requests are not favors but costly for publishers. Columns are stock in trade valued by inch, and giving away space for puffing is akin to selling short. Advertisers gain, publishers lose revenue, and readers see it as an unwanted subsidy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladiesburg
Lapressure
Wm. H Martz
John Fogle
Amos Eyler
Charles Smith
T'Is Place
Mies Mary Lippy
New Midway
Jesse R. Fox
Claysville
Wr.s. B. Ecker
Solomon Smith
Java
Smero
Batavia
Merabi
Kratatoa
Lanceter Examiner
Jefferson
Tas News
Jorrenson
Isaac Watchter
Mollie Culler
Isaac Wachter
Mt. Pleasant
F. W Burton
John
Henry
Henry Lewis
Jolie
Mit
Snowflake
Knoxville
Brother Anger
Greenfield Mills
Jefferson Ducks
W.settlemeyer
H. G. Bowers
Hamilton Crampton
Louise Backey
Mt. Plessent
Haney Lewis
Jefferson Jottings and Local Notices Update
Multiple brief items from Jefferson and surrounding areas report Miss Phillis Bonner’s death in Strasburg Virginia, funeral activities in Martinsburg West Virginia, and routine community notes. Local details include canal navigation, late autumn weather, fishing catches near 6 pounds, church events with conversions, a colt escaping a wagon, and engineers praising the fast Southern Express. Also covered are school reports, teacher meetings, a misreported romance, and humorous navigation and land puzzle snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ton Bowe
Keoxvills
Mov
Phillis Bonner
Strasburg
I. N. Morchat
Martinoburg
W. Va
Joan Derr
John Leopoldsside
J. M. Hood
W.M.A. R
Derr
Lef
Baltimore
T. M. Brandenburg
Bolivar
Ellerton
Martin
Timberville
M. E
Apt H. T. Deaver
J. D. Main
David Roelke
Eeq
J. H. Lampe
Lutheran Church
Wm. Burne
E. 0
Uncus
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South Market Street
Frederick
Maryland
New York
Marseilles
Zephyr
Germantown
Saxony
James F. Brown
Bee-Hive
Frederick, MD
J. Castelberg
Baltimore Street
EB. Cor
Lkcar
Boynton
Boynton Furnace Co
E.A. C. Fox
A. G. Foz
Patrick St
Taffies
Archive
ROYAL
Liverpool
England
Edward Hewes
Frederich
Miller & Co
East Patrick
Capital
Serp
Philadelphia
D. W. Stauffer
U. T
Eader
Orrick
Eve Arrott
Frederick, Ma
Locke
Mee
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