The Lost Man's Lane Mystery Ends in Rescue
Detective narration recounts a perilous night in Lost Man's Lane. Lucetta Knollys warns of Mr. Trohm's evil practices and a grave, leading to a perilous confrontation at Trohm's garden. Lucetta vanishes through a hidden well, and Obadiah Trohm is exposed as a killer while rescue arrives for Lucetta Knollys.
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Tam
Mr. Simmons
Tee
Miss Knollys
Lucetta
Miss Grant
Soyas
Mr. Trohm
Simmons
Mer. Trohm
Sally
Althea Knollys
Lost Man's Lane
Lucetta Knollys
Mip
Tomorow
Trevor
Rufus
Trohm
Mr. Trabm
Weil
Knollys
Mr. Tohm
Mr. Simons
Misa Knollys
Obadiah Trohm
Andrew Knollys
Althea Burroughs
The Heir to the French Crown Reappears as Indian Clergyman
An 18th to 19th century tale claims Charles Louis, the supposed Louis XVII, lived as a mixed-blood Oneida descendant in New York and Wisconsin. The narrative follows his life from child to ordained clergyman, ending with a disputed royal regrant of throne rights proposed by Louis Philippe.
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Chicago Herald
France
Louis XVI
Marie Andonette
Charlps
Louis
Simon
Louis XVII
Republic
N. Y
Omas Williams
Regis Indians
Eleazer
John
Long Meadow
Mangs
Ely
Episcopal Church
Green Bay
Wis
St. Regis
New York
Prince de Joinville
Louis Phillippe
Thomas Williams
Dauphin Louls XVII
Dauphin
Europe
America
Paris
Williams
Charles Louis
Williame
Polly Lights A Cigar From Puck
Polly examines a cigar with coy curiosity and lights it with a stubborn match. She noses it, sniffs, and finally puffs with a halting sigh, then passes it with a blush and a wary grin. The narrator praises the smoke while hoping she lit the correct end.
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Puck
Polly
Saya Polly
Notable Quotations Mix of Classical Voices
A miscellany of aphorisms and misquoted lines from various authors. It blends reflections on fate, uncertainty, sight of mind, love of learning, thrift, mortality, and virtue, featuring figures such as Selden Congreve Sophocles Burton Martial Martial.
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Martial
Wilkins
Epicterus
Talmuid
Idjenesa
Franklin
Recalled Whist Rivalry and Congo Echoes in Memoir
General Wade Hampton recalls Henry Clay and a long whist session filled with sharp banter and insults turned into a lesson when they staked $20 on who would be called the harsher names. The narrative shifts to Cameron's Central Africa voyage noting Lusuna's burial rites and brutal past, then descriptions of pygmy villages near Mona Chellies and Congo wildlife including hippos and bird life observed by the explorer.
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Chicago Herald
Wade Hampton
Henry Clay
South Carolina
Clay
Ming
Flesd
Tauppore
Central Africa
Lusuna's
Cameron
Lusuna
Mona Chellies
Congo
Parisian Mystery Mlle Vinalorette Enlists Suzanne in Play
In a chatty theatrical vignette, Suzanne a French maid with a past dazzles in a debut of Mlle Vinalorette. A bald-headed man in the box keeps watching as Suzanne outwits villains while the plot thickens and a kidnapping shocks the town.
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Suzanne
Mlle
Vinalorette
Sibley Prize Story Echoes Free Silverite Jibe
A Buffalo Times anecdote recounts Congressman Sibley of Pennsylvania comparing a bill’s leader to a Pennsylvanian man who came from a lumber district with a worn hair spring in a watch. The tale frames the watchmaker as the jeweler needed to fix it.
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Pennsylvania
Buffalo Times
Sibley
Forgetful parson bungles sermon and marriage bans
A minister intending to announce a marriage bans instead reads a sermon line about the last state being worse than the first. The errors occur just before he enters the pulpit, leaving the audience puzzled by the misread text and the groom Elizabeth NI Espin ater as a listed couple.
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Cmlssson
Elizabeth NI . Espinater
Laconic Barrister Reminds Prisoner of Payment
A northern English lawyer known for brevity sent a terse note to a refractory cellmate demanding payment of a bill. The note warned that if the prisoner paid, he would be liberated. if not, the lawyer would oblige him.
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England
Proverbs About Women from a Chicago Record Extract
A collection of wry comments on women and money. It notes that women may feel earning power equals independence, while men may discover this sooner. It quips on protecting husbands, the influence of money, and social roles in matrimony with sharp wit.
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Huenesa
Painis
Chicago Record
France
Awimadyt
Irea
Soval Medicine CO
River St
Chicago, Ill
Voraslo
Matthews Bros
Dewgzist Sorantos - Ta
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London
Westminster Gazette
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Royal Geographical Society
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