Warder reveals tale of wrongful doom and midnight clock
In the Warder’s Story a condemned keeper recalls twenty years in a Tower cell and a desperate plea that a clock’s thirteenth stroke at midnight betrayed him. He describes his post, watch, and the escape plan that failed, the political pressures, and his weary vigil until dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Willston
London
William Worthington
Tower of
Lindon
Renee
Leon
Lendon
Jaton
Wilitax Wokrumaros
Aland
Molock
Ates Eleyen
Escape From the Innermost Cell of the Tower
An inmate feverishly describes carving an escape through a prison wall using improvised tools from a broken sword hilt and broken lantern glass. He recalls the claustrophobic dread, the painstaking digging, and at last emerges to the night air near Herne Hill, believing freedom is within reach before collapsing back at the inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Heaven
Tower
Herne Hill Road
Harne Hill Road
James Clarence
Prusburg Bulletin
Paris Exposition exhibit funding and leadership noted
Ade Bear Wheet announces government grant of 250000 to defray American exhibit expenses and appoints M. Baller of Buffalo as chief commissioner. Bailey, editor of The International Fair Journal, is chosen to head the Buffalo exhibit team, with Seneca chiefs adopting him into the Bear clan. Advent services in New York led by Canon Little at Trinity Church feature noonday lectures during Lent and Advent weeks, with Morgan Dix and Rev Garrigan among speakers. Garrigan named vice rector of the Catholic University at Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Baller
Buffalo
Paris
America
Americas
Ho-wab-no
the Stubborn
Solomon Obail
Tow-so-naw-toh
Andrew Brow
Ho-wal-no
Cornplantar
Red Jacket
Benecas
Bailey
Long House
Roquoix
Worcester
Trinity Church of New
Washington
Cavan
Ireland
United States
Lowell
Mass
St Joseph's Theological Seminary
Troy
St Bernard's Church
Fitchburg
Main
St. Barnard’s
Tle
Catholic Total Alwtinence Union
Silk Threads to Bank Note Distinctive Paper Details
A U S news item describes bank note paper uniquely woven with silk threads, manufactured in Glan Palle and Che sser county. The process uses wire elott with no screens, registering each sheet as made. The article notes black ink for school writing paper lines and mentions a legal case about life protection for a Dudley related beneficiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glan Palle
Chesser County
Pampageot
St. Paul Pioneer Pres
Country
Europa
Seriol Consamtasiovers Im Sales Fave
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Daily Eagle
Canon Little
Bhiquette
Paria
Dudley
Cikirwa
Tiss de
iNeters
Whittier
West Ninth &T
Kansas City
Jebny
DR. Whittier Te Porto
Tiy Lever
West Ninth Street
Kansas
Cily
Wada
Fairbane
The
Wichita Eagle
Sisuk Book
District Court
Township Trustees
Justice Peace Blanks
Constable Guides
Building & Loan Association
Coal and Mining Co
Stock Co's
Votaries Records
Sealand Blanks
Pocket Real Estate Books
Scale Books
Cemetery Association Books and Blanks
Magazine Binding Law Binding
Houck, Thomas & CO
Wores
Sarcoxie, MO
Wichita
Shogwick
Job and
Keystone Wall Paper Company
Third St
P. G. Stevens
Book Publishing
P. Murdock
Wichita, Kansas
DR. Thornton
Drs. Thornton
Ofice
West Tenth St
Kansas City, Mo
Corrett
Bobnye
Wichita Wholesale Grocer Company
Corner First and
Water St
Wichita, Kan
Chicago Lumber CO
Cor
Lawrence Avi
Chicago Yards
35Th and
Iron Sts
Chicago
W. A. Smith
Geo. L. Pratt
Geo. D. Cross
L.C. Jackson
Hacker & Jackson
Ava Branca
Raulbonde
MM. Murdock É Bro
Prines
Culoane
New York
R. P. Murdock
Globe Iron Works
A. Plagg
Santtacturar
Ponda
Oliver Bros
Taps
St Louis
Pueblo
Denver
Colorado
Pullman Buffet
HC Townsend
Gen
Pam
Ticket Ag
Itleen
W. GC Woodman & Son
Arkansas ‘Valley
Sebasaan
al Lessa
Haganaas
Atianel
J.P. Allen
Drugstore
Wichita, Kaa
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