Train peril and a Roumanian hero end on the Pekin line
The Grand Transasiatic journey nears its end as a fire fueled by traitors threatens a deadly derailment. Kinko dies sacrificing himself to save others while Faruskiar’s treachery is revealed. The party backtracks to arrange relief at Fuen-Chao and resumes toward Pekin, mourning the fallen and awaiting rescue.
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Popof
Taraskiar
Stoker
Kinko
Faruskiar
Jon
Caterna
Tjon
Kinkxo
Maruskiar
Ki-Tsang
Ephrinell
Pan Chao
Nankin
Major Noltitz
Transasiatic
Ghangir
Varuskiar
Faraskiar
Pekin Line
Kuen-Choo
Tai-Youan
Nobitz
Fuen-Choo
Fuen-Chao Station
Nankim
Celestial Empir
Pekin Arrives at Hotel of Ten Thousand Dreams
The narrator reaches Pekin and checks into the Hotel of Ten Thousand Dreams near the railway. He plans to visit Mademoiselle Klerk but delays until tomorrow after delivering news of Kinko's death. He reflects on the duty to oversee a mysterious box and its hopeful if unlikely contents.
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Pekin
Popof
Ten Thousand Dreams
Mademoiselle Klerk
Kinko
Hotel of Ten Thousand Dreams
Avenue Cha-Coua
Mademoiselle Zince Klerk
Avenue Cha- Coua
Mademoiselle Zinca Klerk
Firing Confusion at Local Daily Ends With Promotion
Liskum, a diminutive reporter loved by staff, is dismissed over a third word story but immediately rehired as assistant city editor after editor Rockman smooths over a city ward delegation. Tompkins insists he wrote the piece. The staff reflects on the manager’s handling of the controversy.
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Liskum
Brooklyn Eagle
Tompkins
Star
Rockman
Funny Man Seeks Higher Themes Beyond Skyscraper Jokes
A witty exchange unfolds as a well meaning friend urges deeper topics. The humorist admits interest but notes current market for skyscraper jokes is weak.
Music Critic At Fight Describes Unusual Prize Event
The Detroit Free Press reports a prize fight entertainment at the armory drawing a large male crowd. Two well known artists performed in a ten movement duet wearing novel costumes and engaging in dramatic onstage tension. The piece culminated as one artist collapsed and the other received fervent audience acclaim.
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Detroit Freeress
Armory
Sforzando
Marquis of Queensberry
The Great Money Lender Russell Sage As He Appears Today
Lindsay Denison describes Russell Sage once a dominant Wall Street figure whose power wanes. The portrait notes fading blue eyes a gray seamed face and a life of rigid discipline and vast wealth shaping national tradition.
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Russell Sage
Lindsay Denison
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Notable Churches in Ohio's Buckeye State Legacy
The Carey Ohio shrine Our Lady of Consolation attracts pilgrims from across the nation with claimed healings. Luxembourg-born settlers built the church after 1868, and nearby Glandorf houses a grand brick church with a 225 foot spire. The Moravian Church at Gnadehuetten honors Heckewelder, and St. Matthews in Muskingum is a notably small Episcopal church. The Kirtland Mormon temple marks early LDS work in 1831 with ties to Manchester, New York.
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Carey
Our Lady of Consolation Church
Buckeye
Leo
Itaun
Luxembourg
Blanchard River
Putnam County
Glandorf
Ciites
America
William Dean Howells
Moravian Church
John Hus
Constance
Eee
Muskingum
Eckewelder
Washington
Heckewelders
Moravia
Saxony
Bedford
England
John
Tuscarawas
Heckewelder and
Zelsberger
Muskingum River
W. H. Rice
Heckewelder
St. Matthews
Madison Township
Muskingum County
Ohio
United States
Virginia
Kirtland
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Manchester
N. Y
Miss Boggs Rejects Modern Inventions and Auto Doctors
Miss Boggs scoffs at modern inventions insisting the old way is best. She warns her niece that when illness comes she does not want an automobile doctor and demands a horse doctor regardless of distance. The exchange centers on the physician’s car and Miss Boggs’s demand for a traditional fallback.
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Miss Boggs
Lane
Porterville
Cranston
Marshby
The Finishing Touch
The landlady recalls her family wealth and an unlucky speculation by papa. She sighs the old home lacked the air of solid respectability for there were no stone lions in the front yard. She laughs at the joke and passes the prunes.
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Detroit Tribune
Jokes and pockets in a Cleveland Leader quip
The Cleveland Leader riffs on old jokes about a woman's pocket being hard to find. A humorous exchange features Dobbs who remains single and Blobbs who married an heiress, with a playful line about borrowing five dollars.
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Dobbs
Blobbs
Cleveland
New England Justice and the Sled Crooks
Ebenezer Snell embodies early New England farmer virtue tempered by Puritan sternness and Yankee humor. William Cullen Bryant recalls a cousinly tale showing communal justice in late 18th century New England. A farmer who stole sled runners faced a community remedy demanding a bushel of rye for three poor widows, with explanation.
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New England
Ebenezer Snell
William Cullen Bryant
Bryant
W. A. Bradley
Masked ball night sparks knightly standstill tale
A playful tale from Flifegende Blaetter recalls a masked ball where Emily enjoys herself while her husband, dressed as a knight in heavy armor, cannot move all night. The piece quips that many girls dream of marrying millionaires and thus neglect cooking.
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Emily
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Valley of the Son
Kin
Tjon Valley
Zinca Klark
Furuskiar
Noltitz
FIGHT
Germany
Gnadephutten
John Heckewelder
Kirtland, A
Episcopal Church
Gnadenhutten
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