The Fatal Three Chapter Twenty Three
Mildred learns Pamela Ransome is engaged to Malcolm Stuart and travels to Enderby with her husband after discovering a stack of letters revealing her aunt Miss Fausset’s past and a £30,000 gift plan to Vivien Faux. Miss Fausset dies, Mildred inherits wealth, and a reconciled couple reflect on hardship and charity.
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Mildred
Pamela Ransome
Brighton
Lady Lochinvar
Malcolm Stuart
Pamela
Paris
Trousseau
London
Mountfords
Grosvenor Gardens
Mrs. Dawson
Mr. Fausset
Milan
Conservatoire
la Scala
Signor Castellani
John
Mildred Greswold
Evian
India
Fanny Fausset
Vivien Faux
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Vivien
Drove Wolves from New York A Pennsylvanian Grudge Tale
Dr Gates recounts a Tioga County 1828 wolf drive in New York where two men per town formed a committee to push wolves beyond the Susquehanna. Volunteers with guns cow bells and fuel for fires marched in a half moon line from Hartford Mills toward Hunt's Corners and Slaterville, recalling a longstanding Pennsylvania grudge against New York.
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Susquehanna River
Anthony M. Tyler
Horice Gates
Union
Maine
Hartford Mills
Richford
Hunt’s Corners
Slaterville
North Richford
Pennsylvania
New York
The Greswold Hospital Sainted by a Benefactor
A farewell passage recalls a pledge to honor a will and serve the living shadows below the Thames. George Greswold and his race are described as ended, with the hospital standing as a monument of benevolence in a wretched neighborhood.
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Greswold Hospital
The
Thames
George Greenold
The Neck Ruff That Reached Its Full Glory
A compact history of the ruff style in England from its modest beginnings as a cheeky tuck on the chemisette to a full bloom in the sixteenth century. Henry VII to Elizabeth I, sumptuary laws, and its spread across Europe are noted before its decline after the Roundheads.
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England
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Elizabeth
France
Germany
Italy
Game Warden Tricks Hunter in Colorado Tale
A Colorado game warden in Wellington meets a hunter boasting of a 200 pound buck. The warden reveals his identity, prompting the hunter to claim he is the biggest star in Colorado, while the tale ends with a humorous twist from the Kansas City Star.
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Colorado
Wellington
H. L. Woo
Kansas City Star
Betwixt and Between in Society
Miss Uppson and Miss DeSwell debate the status of the New Rox girls. Miss Uppson describes their position as betwixt and between, not quite nobody yet not fully somebody in society.
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Miss Uppson
Rox Girls
Miss DeSwell
North Pole Postcards Spur Polar Quest
A playful exchange from Pick-Me-Up imagines why explorers seek the north pole. Stella questions the aim while One Reason hints at collecting picture postcards as the motive. The lighthearted dialogue frames curiosity and travel dreams in a whimsical Antarctic-adjacent pursuit.
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Bella
North Pole
Stella
The Rock of Gibraltar Honeycombed with Tunnels
A historical report notes that the Rock of Gibraltar is honeycombed with about seventy miles of tunnels and caverns, revealing extensive protective works and underground facilities.
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Rock of
Gibraltar
Apples on the Old Woodshed Tree
A nostalgic verse describes round red apples by the old woodshed and a grandmother preparing mince pies. It recalls ingredients like raisins currants nutmeg mace and cider, with pastry ready and marked for baking. The scene ends with Thanksgiving at Grandmamma’s table and a feast with Saeney and chicken.
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Grandmamma’s
Saeney
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Ad Good for Families
The well informed demand a simple pleasant laxative and the California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known value remedy. It is endorsed for its gentle prompt action and wholesomeness and is sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Barnyard Revenge and Odd Facts From the Era
A fragmentary page mixes a theatrical rooster and turkey confrontation about revenge with assorted curiosities. It cites animal quips, medical notes on the eye, Osage wealth, Siam railways, train stopping power, cork buoyancy, vegetarian diet yields, camel loads, and other miscellany from the Detroit Free Press and Reforma tory Record.
Itching Eczema Healed by Cuticura Regimen Says Patient
An 80 year old Hopkinton resident recounts severe piles and itching eczema cured after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with injections and suppositories. He notes costly prior treatments failed and credits the Cuticura routine for restoring health over several months. April 26, 1907.
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Cutieura
J. I. Henderson
Hopkinton, N. Y
One Day Cold Cure Promoted in Local Ad
An old advertisement touts Bromo Quinine as the laxative tonic claimed to cure a cold in one day. The signer is shown as E. W. Grove with the slogan World over to cure a cold in one day and a price of 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
B. W.grove
Turpentine Remedy for Rheumatism and Chilblains
The text promotes adding turpentine to bath water as a simple safe remedy for rheumatism and unbroken chilblains. It presents turpentine as a home treatment suggestion without medical endorsement.
Irrigation plan in Mexico aims for 25 million spend
Readable text cites a government scheme to invest 25 million dollars to promote irrigation projects. Also notes a horse covers 20 to 24 feet per stride and a claim about British veto history and body proportion guidelines.
Telegraphed boots suspect fires at operator in Tacoma
The caller reports a man’s son fired two shots at a telegraph operator after seeing a dispatch on the table and being told it had been sent. Other items note Ephriam Baylis’s miracle cure from fifty years of blindness, Swiss telephone service, and at home health remedies involving feet care, diet, and posture.
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Tacoma
Wash
Ephriam Baylis
Jamaica
N. Y
Ele
Switzerland
Liverpool
Cheshire
Gorgonzola
One Day Cold Cure Adverts Mixed With Facts
A compact collage of vintage notices notes a home remedy urging LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE as a one day cure with a money back guarantee signed by B W Grove. Other items report Canada’s population, a teething syrup, a fur trade company, fruit tree revenue in Belgium, and social trivia about Sierra Leone and Laplanders.
Long Island Hunting Tale Turns Up Brother in Law Incident
A New Yorker lures a Briton hunting on Long Island with a lion and tiger joke. The Briton says he wants danger in his hunt, and the New Yorker jokes that he is the man for it after recounting a prior mishap where the speaker shot his brother in law in the leg.
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Sealingwax
Long Island
The Wart Hog of Africa Described as Grotesque Creature
The wart hog, called Vlaktevark by Boers, stands about thirty inches high with a grotesque head and long upper tusks. It features facial warts and a nearly hairless body with a shaggy ridge of hair along the spine. Known to inhabit burrows and move hind first when pursued, the animal is noted for its odd proportions.
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Nature
Africa
Plains
London Telegraph
Long Distance Piano Record Broken in Melbourne
C. W. Healy began playing at Prince's Court Melbourne one evening at o clock and continued until 10 30 at night the following Saturday for fifty and a half hours setting a new record. Healy sustained himself on beef tea and chocolate during the feat.
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C. W. Healy
Prince’s Court
Melbourne
Healy
Dooley Fools the Boss London Accent Fragment
The dialogue shows Dooley fooling the boss about work while carrying a hod all day. The speaker jokes that character and reputation differ and notes a woman with nothing to worry about begins a don’t worry clock.
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Dooley
Casey
Minneapolis Journal
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Boulogne
Dijon
Kensington Gore
Barnes
Fanny
Fay
Lewes Crescent
Miss Fausset
Enderby
Miss Tausset
Donzetti
Vespers
Paolo Castellani
Paolo
Como
Bellagio
St. Gothard
Vevay
Rooster
Turkey
Detroit Free Press
Oklahoma
United States
Siam
Jors
French Congo
Gray
A. Olmsted
N Y
Mother Gray
Children's Home
New York City
Canada
York, Neb
Belgium
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Risus” Buyers Co-Operative Co
Sloan
Sloan‘s Liniment
Earl S.sloan
Boston
Mass
U.S.A
W. Il
Beecawee
Mister Gil
Dengias
Lee Rhee
Douglas
Spork
Brockton
Putnam
Adeless
Tom Reed
Jerry Simpson
Jerry
Reed
Simpson
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