Ghostly Tryst at Hangman's Gully Ends In Mystery
In Hangman’s Gully near Castlebrook a group of station men gamble on ghosts. Mivert dreads tricks, meets a pale unseen rider, and guides a mysterious girl to her home before she vanishes again. After his death, bones of a woman are found in scrub, identified by Margaret as Captain Baird’s daughter who vanished years ago.
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Hangmane's Gully
Mivert
Roland
Oliver
Castlebrook
Brookfield
Captain Baird
Baird
Mivett
Miivert
Myert
Hangman's Gully
Kith
Miyert
Mlvert
Raeyes
Erie
M. Flournoy
Miss Smith
WM. Flournoy
Maries
India
Marlies
Geneva
Mars
Coleridge
Kubla Khan
France
Ike
Amherst
From India to Mars and Other Tales of Trance
A fragmentary tale describes Helene Smith, a Geneva native in trance who writes of Mars and past lives. A narrator recalls a spectral夜 encounter with Miyert, a chilling vigil, and a doomed romance ending in death and burial.
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Helene Smith
Geneva
Whiteley
Mars
Marie Antoinette
A Pretty Horse Story From Germiston
A vivid correspondent recounts a tense last letter from Germiston describing troopers shot, a horse guarding a fallen rider, and a curious figure named Leopold resembling Cagliostro. The tale widens into psychical experiments by M Flournoy, Miss Smith’s hallucinations, and a fatal fever gripping Mivert at Brookfield as dawn nears.
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Prevost Battersby
Morning Post
Germiston
An Irishman and the Telegraph Fee Oddity
A London post office scene shows a man named Pat balking at telegraph costs to reach his mother in rural Ireland. The clerk explains the split between carriage and delivery fees, prompting Pat to suggest sending the message to the nearest office and writing home later.
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London
Ireland
Pat
Red tape tales of petty expenses and yachts
A compendium of bureaucratic absurdities. A London official’s threepence porterage item on a travel bill triggers red tape delays. Pegs for a door, a colonial post, and a yacht subsidy expose the costliness of routine formalities. An American secretary’s ticket rule ends with a burly colonel uncovering common sense.
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London
Board of Works
Woolwich
Western Pacific
Downing Street
Gally
Itate
Woman County Clerk Faces Term Renewal in Vernon Missouri
Mrs Glessner Moore Brady nominated for a second term as Vernon County circuit clerk Missouri. The Boston Traveller notes she is the only woman in the state to hold the office, succeeding her late husband. Governor Stephens appointed a temporary clerk and sought an eligible successor but found none as capable as the energetic widow.
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Glessner Moore Brady
Vernon County
Missouri
Stephens
Andex and the lone impression in readers heads
A fragment mentions Andex feeling lonesome in some minds and a man stealing a set of harness with detectives unable to trace him. The dialogue includes Irish and Jersey farmer attitudes and a joke about Birkenhead as a vegetarian who can eat meals in many health foods.
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Birkenhead
Gas engines to drive ships using on board gas
It is suggested that using gas engines for ship propulsion, with gas generated aboard. Coal would be roasted in shipboard retorts to produce gas, while the resulting coke would fuel the roasting. The experiment seeks to measure weight and space savings versus steam boiler systems and determine if adoption is warranted.
Eight Years' Suffering Ended By Clements Tonic Miracle
Mrs. W Fulton of Teralba says eight years of agony from sciatica and chest pains ended after using Clements Tonic. She details months in bed, failed medicines, and Doctors giving up, then rapid relief after the first bottle, with ongoing improvement through multiple bottles.
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Newcastle Herald
W. Fulton
Teralba
Newcastle
Clements
Mrs. Fulton
Teralbe
Clements Tonic
Statutory Declaration for Fulton of New South Wales Notice
Eliza Jane Fulton of Teralba NSW declares her document spans four folios and is faithful in recording her Wines and cure is Tonic as publicized. Declared at Newcastle on March 13 1899 before J P Rudolph Langer with Clements Tonic advertised as not a universal cure and relying on user testimony rather than sensational claims.
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Eliza Jane Fulton
Teralba
New South Wales
Newcastle
Rudolfh Langer
J.P
Clements Tonic
Wii
Clements Tonle
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Ernest Favenc
Andrew Lang
Alfred Coffey
Leopold
Joseph Balsamo
Cagliostro
Sivrouka
Mon-sieur Flournoy
University of Geneva
Flournoy
Victor Hugo
St. Colette
A. J. Daplyn
ART Society
Dumas
Andex
Hibernian
Jersey
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