Seance notes spark diary led mystery at Twin Hollows
September diary entries describe a Victorian seance at Twin Hollows with Mrs Livingstone Edith Jane and Halliday. The notes recount table levitation whispers raps and a moving curtain amid a tense attempt to prove phenomena.
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Hayward
Mrs. Livingstone
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Smyth
Mbrary
Cheerful Sturdy Room for a Small Boy
A Kansas City Times household feature advises creating a cheerful sturdy boy’s room with warm two tone tan striped wallpaper, a top frieze in bright colors, monk’s cloth draperies in golden brown, and vermilion pillows. The aim is a homelike space to store treasures and host friends without fragile materials or colors.
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Monk
Easily Pleased Rastus Faces Legal Talk with Lawyer
Rastus speaks with his attorney as they discuss possible jury exoneration. The dialogue shows the lawyer optimistic about clearing Rastus, while Rastus expresses a simple desire to be treated fairly rather than exonerated.
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Earth’s Shape Debate Baffling Johnson Is Proved False
A sun secret and a dull student mock an eminent astronomer who argues the earth is round. Johnson finally asks how the sun returns to the east, and the scientist explains the night’s course, while the boy sees it must be the night stopping in its track.
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Johnson
Ipsit
The Kitchen Cabinet Memoir Poem Fragment
A fragment from 1928 attributed to Western Newspaper Union quotes Shelley about music and memory. The piece reflects on scent and color as lasting impressions of a lost beloved, ending with hope that thoughts of love endure after death.
Cabbage Dishes and Vintage Dainties (1890s style)
Cabbage is praised as a valuable raw food rich in vitamins and used in many dishes from sandwiches to salads. Recipes cover German Cabbage Salad with pork fat, onion and vinegar, plus Indian Pudding Gingerbread Cottage Fruit Cake and Yankee Plum Pudding with detailed steps and ingredients.
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Beko
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Porter
Evanston
Hits
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Bea “Smyth
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Detective Bureau
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Morrison
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Greenough
Oakville
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William Allen Porter
University
Twin Hollows
Horace Porter
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Kansas City Times
Western Newspaper Union
Shelley
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