The Cab With the Black Horse Shadowed by Death
In Glasgow a belated window cleaner falls four stories to his death as a mysterious cab with a black horse features in a tale of a haunted driver. Carringdon, an observer, meets Shadow, an enigmatic exiled author, who recounts a terror linked to the black horse and a fatal chain of deaths. The story ends withShadow dying in a grim end amid the horse’s menacing presence.
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Glasgow
Temovet
Sollitquist
Svith Asmadman
Poesib
Stone
Havarringdon
Zorn
Carringdon
Carrington
Shadow
Black Horse
Iike
London
Fortuna
Mammon
Strand
Heaven
Liverpool
Lime Street
Lavcr
Mr. Carringdon
Sauchiehall Street
Shedon
Great Western Road
Trained Seals in Pearson's Magazine Feature
The article praises trained seals performing with humanlike precision. A sea lion balances a pole with a fish on its tip, moves across stage, and maintains balance under watchful peers. Another act, “The Sealskin Band,” uses drums and horns for a noisy, vigorous performance.
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Pearson's Magazine
Into the May A lyrical walk to love and spring
The poem describes a journey through a fragrant May landscape led by an inner impulse. Sunshine, blossoms, and streamlets frame a dreamlike path where the speaker meets a beloved partner. Emotions rise as the May environment becomes a witness to love and companionship. The piece closes with the beloved guiding the speaker into the May.
Intended for his department should be advised to E R Chadbourn
A fragmentary note states that communications for the department should be addressed to E. R. Chadbourn in Lewiston Maine. The brief item preserves a single name and city, implying a correspondence instruction from a historical notice.
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E.R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
Myrtle and the Sweet William floral riddles and fables
A patchwork of verse and prose features trees, birds, judges, and lovers. It blends poems about a bird judge, a baby’s cry, a cotton plant coat, and a chorus of cultivated flowers with a whimsical wedding tale of Myrtle and Sweet William. A trading-day farce resolves with a half barrel puzzle among farmers, millers, and fruiterers.
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Myrtle
William
Conservatory
Dusty Miller
Lfe
Venus
Decapitation riddle by E. B. G.
A riddle describing a form with head and feet that reveals many heads when the head is removed. The speaker fears the day, and when headless, a multitude appears with soulful eyes that stare in surprise. The solution hints at a headless body fighting in fright.
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Earth
A Lovers Puzzle of Initial Romance Clues Dorothea
A vintage puzzle presents romantic couples hinted by initials and terse rituals. Seven pairs are sketched through initials and brief clues, pointing to names and eras, ending with the name Dorothea as the deduced answer.
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C. D
W. S
A. T
Abraham Lincoln
W. C
Tother
Dorothea
Dorothea Ends Her Strife With Hidden Foe
The survivor of a hundred one battles mourns as a man of powders pills and knife defeats her charmed life. Two have vanquished the bold life that spurned the open. Dorothea is laid to rest after a long ordeal.
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Dorothea
Miller sells flour barrels then potatoes to fruiterer
A miller sold five barrels of flour to a farmer who emptied and repurposed them with potatoes. The farmer then sold the filled barrels to a fruiterer who in turn sold them to the next party.
Out of the Ordinary Facts Across Nations and Times
A compressed survey of curious notes: pig drawn wagons in Chinese districts, bells in Nola, salmon prices from Oregon to Germany, a mile-long iceberg in Melville Bay, a giant 40-pound gray bazard, Yukon navigation, London post office girls, wasps as thieves, Belgian cows with ear rings, Argentine military reviews, French and German colonial sizes and populations, Armenian history bans in Turkey, Indian counterfeit silver, vast Siberia, the Concord musket relic to Massachusetts, and the sprawling whisky industry with aging costs and volumes.
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Nola
Campania
Oregon
Germany
Hayes
Melville Bay
Yukon River
Chicago
New Orleans
London Post
Express Messenger Service
Belgium
Europe
France
Turkey
India
Siberia
United States
Great Britain
Russia
John Buttrick
North Bridge
Concord
Massachusetts
Boston
Homonym and scattered wordplay amid varied notes
A collage of linguistic puzzles and notes on pronunciation contrasts. It mentions homonyms such as ewe,yew,you and compares feint,faint and weight,week. It also reports on a Washington map, Kruger statues found near Pretoria, Russia’s wooden houses, deforestation fears, and Berlin Zossen rail experiments with high speed.
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Walt
United States
George Washington
Great
Kanawha River
West Virginia
Braddock
Library of Congress
Washington
Pretoria
Kruger
P. Kruger
Russia
Europe
Berlin-Zossen
Near to Original Sin in The Battleground
The literary bulletin surveys Ellen Glasgow's work with playful critique of her Virginia novels on war and politics. It recalls a scene where a child asks Aunt Allsey about Noah's ark and a conjuring hair, noting the dialect dialogue and humorous tone as a glimpse of Glasgow's storytelling craft.
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Literary Bulletin
Ellen Glasgow
Virginia
Ainsey
Nash
Maree Noah
Maree
Noah
Marie Peyton
Betty
Rhodes as temperament over intellect in Everyone's Magazine portrait
T P O'Connor recounts Rhodes as a dreamer with practical knowledge, not reality-grounded. He recalls Rhodes’s voluble private talks, a mountain stream of ideas, mixing sharp insight with sheer unreason, marked by a fatuous expression and curious nod.
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T. P. O'Connor
Everybody's Magazine
Rhodes
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