The Sinking House Haunts a Dutch Mayor and Heir
In a Warren PA serial reprint a tale opens with a haunted canal house in a Dutch town. The mayor's daughter Griselda and his wealth clash with a ghostly thread as a doomed troupe seeks aid and the dead rise through the manor. The house’s curse drains the mayor of justice and wealth while Corinne-esque dread grips the town.
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Salt Meadow Land
Mechlin Fair
London
Society For Psychical Research
Basingstoke
Shimmney
Cadiz
Leeuenhart
Canal
Adam
Venice
South
Grand Canal
Lord the Mayor
Thor
Freya
Rialto
la Belle Italia
Pather
Griselda
The House on the Canal Concludes Next Week
A dramatic scene unfolds as unseen forces approach a lone host in a dim room. Muskets fire and the floor shakes, yet the silent presence advances. The host urges continuation while a warning about a future revelation lingers, promising more in the next installment.
Delighting in Drama and Puns Across a Sofa
Readable fragments show witty banter from London Tit-Bits and a humor bit from Texas Siftings. The dialogue features a couple on a sofa with family and animal interruptions, then a student quip about pants wear and class rank.
Radical Change and Labor Hours Debate
A fragmented discussion contrasts eight hour workdays with ten hour pay and promises of work without labor law talk. It hints at employers yielding to longer hours for better pay, while workers debate capital and law and the value of steady employment.
Ennicott Inquires About Trunk Pile at Mrs Slimpocket’s Home
Mrs Ennicott questions a stack of steamer trunks in front of Mrs Slimpocket’s house as the scene hints she plans a summer trip to her uncle’s farm. The playful exchange appears in the Chicago Record.
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Cawker
Fashion's Penalties
Dialogue from the Chicago Tribune satirically notes church attendance logistics for a family. Mrs Billus explains that sharing pew space with three other women means someone must stay home due to limited seating. The exchange hinges on social etiquette and norms around churchgoing.
A Keen One Interview Offers Medical Ad Insights
A fragment outlines an ad request for the Weekly Boomer. The exchange hints at a doctor agent discussing professional advertising, column interviews, and potential science or specialty references in parcel rate checks, with hints of a confidential inquiry.
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Boomer
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She Never Tried It Miss Kitty Egg Salt Joke
A brief quip from the Philadelphia Press features a playful exchange about kissing a mustached man and whether an egg needs salt to taste right. The banter centers on whether a kiss without a mustache compares to an egg without salt and ends with Miss Kitty's quip.
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Miss Kitty
Philadelphia Press
The Horse's Hope and a Banter of Work and Slavery
A collection of quips and caricatures about labor, aging, and social roles from periodical humor pages. It contrasts the grind of work with fate and dignity, and includes a dyspeptic pastor scene and a pie joke, reflecting light satirical banter of the era.
'Twas Ever Thus. In Matrimonial Angling
A ditty-like verse notes that pursuits of love resemble fishing with maidens amused by bait yet often the catches prove only bites in the end.
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Pierce
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Bicycle scenes and long distance riders across Europe
The article notes Francis Adams bicycling in Boston and Spofford riding daily in Washington. It mentions Braddon on Indian big game, Boulogne’s bicycle track cutting trees, Monte Carlo receipts drop and winter tourism around Cairo, plus Englishmen paddling Dover to Calais in a tandem boat. It reports Bordeaux to Paris race results with Gerger the Austrian winner in 24 hours 12% minutes and Meyer the Dane as top professional in 25? hours among sixty-five entrants.
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Cookies Francis Adams
Boston
Tho West
Spofford
Washington
Sir Edward Braddon
India
Boulogne
Monte Carlo
United States
Italy
Cairo
Channel
Dover
Calais
Bordeaux
Paris
Herr Gerger
C. Meyer
Russia’s Water-Fires and Global Oddities
A compilation notes Russia’s water-fires avoidance of freezing, ginger beer licensing shifts, English bed laws, Berlin housing, Sumatra’s wooden visiting card, Alaska and Siberia barter economies, Turkey’s March 1 metric mandate, czar mourning in Russia, Vesuvius eruptions this century, and the 79 A.D. destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii with 200000 lives lost.
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Russia
England
Berlin
Sumatra
Alaska
Siberia
Turkey
Vesuvius
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Notable Royal Notes and Public Events
King Humbert demonstrates culinary skill rivaling royal chefs while the Wittelsbach family plans a Starnberg chapel costing 125000 dollars in memory of Louis II. Prince Edward of York makes a first London appearance driven by nurses in St James Park amid cheers. Wolseley nears retirement with five years of active service left, born June 4, 1838.
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Italy
Prince Regent
Bavaria
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Starnberg Lake
Louis II
Prince Epward
York
London
St. James’ Park
Jules Smon
Napoleon
Lord Wolseley
Ireland
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