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university missourian (columbia, mo.) 1908-1916 — haunted house

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1914-01-18
Location: columbia, missouri, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: university missourian (columbia, mo.) 1908-1916 · 1914-01-18 · page 4
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1914-01-18 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “haunted house”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... neighbors transformed Barnes's worthless old haunted house into a home. And as the weeks went by, the old house certainly did begin to seem a little more human. Very human, indeed, was the Inquisitive soul of young .Master David, twelve years old. the inventive genius of Janic. two years his junior, and the merry laugh of Baby Ruth. But business was not very flourish ing, for the simple reason that there wasn't much business to be done. Flatsprings bought the same old sup plies of sugar and bacon, thread and calico, but the cash in John Uobb's drawer grew but slowly, and in spite of his low rent bill, he made but a meager living. ...

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