House of a Thousand Candles Opens with Grand Mystery
The narrator enters Glenarm House, greeted by a candlelit hall and vast library walls. Bates reveals the grandiose mansion and its Wall of Glenarmland, hinting at the grandfather’s peculiarly dampening will and a haunting, spellbound welcome that ends with a gunshot echoing through the room.
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Glenarmland
Glenarm
Glenarm House
A Voice From the Lake in the Moonlit House Scene
The narrator, after a shot shatters a window, questions Bates about danger and inspects the refectory and grounds. Bates answers calmly as the narrator recalls his grandfather’s architectural passion and contemplates the lake beyond a long wooded path, heading toward the water.
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Why Doesn’t Her Wife Sing to the Baby
A Cleveland Leader quip notes a wife stopped singing to soothe the crying infant after neighbors preferred silence, implying domestic tensions and public interest in private life.
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Cleveland
The Artistic Wall and Its Lasting Beauty
A guide extols solid colored alabastined walls as optimal backgrounds for art and furniture. It warns against shoddy, glued finishes and advises proper prep, cleaning, sizing, and tinting with cold water to ensure a permanent artistic, sanitary wall that endures.
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Japan
Deacon and Oxen Bargain Ends in Threats and Deception
In Scituate Mass Deacon sells a yoke of oxen to a neighbor Farmer T after a five dollar dispute the deacon claims old age justifies the price the pair prove worthless and the buyer threatens the deacon with dire consequences. A separate note cites English scientists claiming eldest sons more likely to be criminals and tallest, strongest among firstborns.
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Scituate
Mass
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Oxé&H
Detroit
Free Presa
Postum Gains Benefit as Coffee Foe Says Doctor Tries It
A doctor quits coffee after finding it injurious and credits Postum with four years of relief. His cleric brother jokes at dinner about old fashioned coffee while the doctor notes Postum’s flavor and its lack of coffee’s harms. A ten day trial is urged by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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Postum Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT CLAIMS
Advert says Pazo Ointment cures itching burning and protruding piles in 14 days or money back. It promotes quotes from Cicero and Epictetus, notes Lewis' Single Binder cigarettes, and praises endurance and restraint.
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