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A CAR SPECTRE

... A CAR SPECTRE. American ghosts, observes the Globe, have almost reached their neplus ultra of eccentricity. The drivers and conductors on a tramway in Detroit have been frightened out of the few wits they possess by tbe spectre of a lady who mysteriously ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1873
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PIFESHIRE JOUANAL, THURSDNY, SEPTEMBER 18,1873. A PHANTOM PASSENGER

... THE PIFESHIRE JOUANAL, THURSDNY, SEPTEMBER 18,1873. A PHANTOM PASSENGER. American ghosts have almost reached their ettra of eccentricity. The drivers and conductors on a tramway in Detroit have been frightened out of the few wits they possess by the spectre ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1873
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... RXIIIBITION IN BLACK WHIM—The Zulu War. TEXT.— Consider the Truant and be wise. IMMIATCRIAL JOTS.—The pleasures of an American Ghosts' Ball. FOR ONLY.—There is a talk of establishing a Six Days' Talking Contest. POR • BAOMAN.—A Ci-gar-rulous fellow. ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1879
Newspaper: Leith Herald
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE COMIC PRESS

... Bagman.—Ci-gar-rulous fellow. School Board Text. —Consider the Tru-antand be wise. Immaterial Joys.—The pleasures of American Ghosts' Ball. As You Make Your Bed. —Cashlow remarks that it's only when a man has his bed sold from under him thit he fully ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1399 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION

... of information and discovery. In the year that has passed much has been done towards the general advancement, from the American ghosts of our photographic friends at Boston to the more tangible ghosts of Professor Pepper in London. Globe lenses have been ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1563 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE NORTH BRITON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1873. The Lord Chief Justice—l hope ilia will be wanted this side ..

... will be wanted this side Christmas. (Laughter.) The Court adjourned at live nveutes after four o'clock. A CAR SPECTRE. American ghosts, observe. the Moir. have almost retched their He plus ultra of e !centricity. The drivers and c,incuctors on a tramway ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1873
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1701 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AN AMERICAN GHOST,

... AN AMERICAN GHOST, former times every good fiuniiy had its ghost story, amt suppose it Isa proof of the res peer able antiquity which America has attained that she is now aide to pro iuce very tolerable tale of supernatural agency. At Wooster, in the ...

AN AMERICAN GHOST

... AN AMERICAN GHOST. If any furtherproof wero needed that dead husband* are capable of self-denying affection of the purest type, says the New York Timet, the conduct the lute Mr. Miller, of Merritteville, Mo., would be absolutely conclusive. Mr. Miller ...

Published: Tuesday 09 October 1877
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN AMERICAN GHOST

... AN AMERICAN GHOST. The town of Blissville. in Long Island, has been thrown into a state of high excitement by the appearance in its street*, after dark, of a ghost. Such appearances are common in the United States that the matter would not merit comment ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1884
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY

... AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY. The inhabitants of Seymour (U.S.) and vicinity are said *o be much exercised in mind over the existence in that town of veritable naunted house, and those who have occasion to pass the place after nightfall do so with quickened ...

Published: Tuesday 18 August 1885
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY

... AMERICAN GHOST STORY. The inhabitants of Seymour (U.S.) and vicinitj are said be much exeroised mind over the existence in that town ef veritable haunted house, and those who have occasion to pass the place nightfall do so with quickened pulse and a feal ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY

... AMERICAN GHOST STORY. The Troy Press is responsible for the following ghost story :—There is house standing on the old canal near Fort Ann, the family residing which have frequently heard strange noises about the house, such as raps, moving of chairs ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1873
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 2 | Tags: none