The Dark House Ends in a Locked Tomb Mystery
In Albemarle Square a grim murder and a staged treasure disappearance unfold around the Colonel’s tomb. Paul Capel and ally Katrine confront a vanished hoard and a treacherous hunt for truth amid locked rooms and a stubborn executor.
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Charles Pillar
Heston
No. 9A
Albemarle Square
Capel
Albemarle
Mr. Girtle
Luneh
Katrine
Lydia
Paul Capel
Gerard Artis
Arts
Chamber of Horrors
Ariis
Itle
Thad
Ramo
Matrine
Polkville Folk Parade Names Explain Quirky Child Monikers
A Polkville Arkansas resident explains his family naming habit of using great men as the root for children's names. He cites William J Bryan Sog hack Bryan Williams Brennings Ryan and variants like William W Billings Prilliam Wennings. He notes past favorites Thomas Jefferson John Calhoun Andrew Jackson Henry Clay and Confederate generals, and says future names depend on what great men remain popular.
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Cordingly
William J. Bryan Soghack
Bryan J. Williams
Brennings J. Ryan
William W. Billings
Prilliam J. Wennings
Thomas Jefferson
John CC. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
William Jennin
Bryan
Ivan
Pears
Puck
Eccentric Chicago Guest Tests Spelling Reform
A hotel proprietor recalls a visitor who registered as h sir Phtholognyrrh during the spelling reform debate. When asked to pronounce it, the guest offered Turner as the reading, explaining the phonetic logic behind phth olo on yrrh to mock reform opponents.
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Chicago
Turner
Karper
Plain Terms On Anglo-Saxon Speech In Modern Press
Harper's Weekly quotes a Princeton faculty member and a Philadelphia lawyer criticizing inflated claims about Anglo-Saxon speech. They urge plain language free of pretentious gloss, calling certain racialized rhetoric a nefariouus and preposterous transaction.
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Princeton
Philadelphia
Harper’s Weekly
Funeral Processions Among the Wends on Ice Skates
A Popular Magazine piece describes Wends of the Spreewald near Berlin holding funeral processions on frozen waterways. Coffins ride on a sledge drawn by six mourners on skates while relatives in traditional dress skate behind, bearing a Bible.
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Spreewald
Spree River
Berlin
Ueland
Popular
The Amount of It First Spanish Admiral
A Baltimore American excerpt speculates on naval efficiency and potential actions if the Spanish navy were competent, joking that they'd have to annex Mars. The quip contrasts perceived American naval weakness with imagined Spanish prowess and suggests space conquest as farcical outcome.
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United States
Mars
Baltimore
A Scandal in Bohemia Part III unfolds at Baker Street
Holmes disguises himself as a green out of work and as a simple Nonconformist clergyman. He and Watson plot a dramatic public arrest at Briony lodge after Irene Adler and Godfrey Norton wed in a church, with a staged fire alarm to secure the witness and confrontation.
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Capel
Miss Lawrence
Powill
Lydia
Katrine
Artis
Lawver
Lydia Lawrence
Mr. Girtle
Baker Street
Holmes
Irene Adler
Briony Lodge
Godfrey Norton
Inner Temple
Serpentine Mews
Temple
Gross & Hankey’s
Regent Street
Church of St. Monica
Edgware Road
Church of St. Monica, John
Gedt
Trene Adler
Godfrex Noroon
Clerzsyimean
Wy Omeir
Irene
Madame
Ife
Clerernan
Serpentine Avenue
Berryhill Creek Family Rich in Oil Royalties
The Berryhill family, a large Creek clan in Oklahoma, holds major oil wealth from Glenn pool allotments. Members receive between 15 000 and 20 000 dollars monthly, with individuals earning 3 400 and 2 000 dollars in royalties. Some allotments remain undrilled or outside current development. Indian preacher Tobe Berryhill pressured selling allotments for Mexico.
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Berryhills
Oklahoma
Berryhill
Creek Nation
Glenn
Tobe Berryhill
Old Mexico
Mexico
Muskogee Cor
St. Louis Republic
The World Blackens Some Men and Whitewashes Others
A reflective line contrasts how public perception may darken some individuals' reputations while excusing or sanitizing others. The phrase suggests unequal judgment shaped by bias and power dynamics.
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Kirtle
British Museum
Girtle
Tewyer
Fanger
Mr. Girdle
Nte
the Young Doctor
Preeman
Poinge
Preenham
Doctor Heston
Cal
Incog
Bohemia
Sherlock Holmes
Conan Doyle
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