The Old Mill Mystery Continues with Mary and Gideon
Mary Ashworth confronts captors plotting to blow the mill shed. Gideon Prawle is bound and unconscious as a deadly time bomb lies nearby. Mary frees herself, frees him, and they flee as the infernal machine explodes, changing their perilous night.
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Gideon
Hamer
Mary
Carter
Gideon Prowle
Gibeon
Gideon Prawle
Tom
Mary Ashworth
Beon
Joseph Hamer
Not at All New to Him from the Chicago Tribune
A visitor views a family album as a young woman speaks of her brother Jack’s college trouble. Jack’s fondness for horses and leading a team has led to suspension, a common Arizona blunder according to Mr. Lariat’s remark.
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Far West
Jack
Mr. Lariat
Arizona
Chicago Tribune
How He Got Two Dinners in One
A humorous exchange from Texas Siftings about dinner plans. Murray Hill asks Hostetter McGinnis to dine tomorrow, but McGinnis declines, preferring the day after. The dialogue turns to whose wife invited whom, highlighting comic social etiquette.
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Murray Hill
Hostetter McGinnis
Texas Siftings
Three Years More Grover Promises Now Proved False
Nixon Waterman laments the three year mark under Grover Cleveland, accusing him of broken promises and failed free trade. He argues factories close, soup is diet, and many men become paupers while voters regret the policy and predict a shift in 1894. The piece criticizes the president and forecasts another change.
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Senate
House
Democratic Party
Toledo
Tomorrrow
Grover
Cearly
Nixon Waterman
Chicago Journal
Democratic and Republican Claims Voice Postwar Economic Clash
A compilation of editorials and quotes from the St. Louis Globe Democrat New York Tribune Toledo Blade Philadelphia Press Iowa State Register and a Philadelphia speech by Thomas B Reed. The pieces attack Democratic rule and the Wilson tariff while predicting a Republican victory and economic distress. Names include Wilson bill references and political commentary on party divisions and public debt.
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Pennsylvania
Holland
Watterson
Ohio
Harrison
Grant
Cleveland
Congress
Democratic Party
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
N. Y. Tribune
Simoom
N. Y. Recorder
Iowa State Register
Thomas B. Reed
Philadelphia
Bland labels democrats anarchists and revolutionists
The writer quotes Mr. Bland accusing his brother party of being unable to govern and controlling legislation. He notes Democrats telling many truths about their pathosis.
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Bland
Minneapolis
Marriage of Two Towns Near Mitchell and West Mitchell
A plan to merge the twin towns Mitchell and West Mitchell with a midway church site proposes consolidating to form one town. Two local businessmen will build three brick blocks on the new town site if the merger proceeds. State Sportsmen’s Association directors met in Independence to finalize details for the seventeenth annual tournament set for June 5 6 and 7.
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House Committee On
Martin
Board of Supervisors
Mitchell
West Mitchell
Senator Mitchell Proposes Winter Racing Ban in DC
Senator Mitchell introduces a bill in the United States senate to prohibit racing in the District of Columbia from December 1 to April 1. The note adds horse care advice warning about coarse feed and rough terrain harming performance.
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Mitchell
United States
Senate
District of Columbia
Princeton to Debate Without Yale or Harvard This Year
The article notes Princeton will debate without Yale or Harvard due to differing systems of debate. Lehigh discusses dropping lacrosse or baseball for funds, deciding to raise money to keep both teams.
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Princeton
Yale
Harvard
Lehigh College
Facts From The World At Large In A 19th Century Span
A compilation notes Americans as leading penmen with British a close second. Texas grows wild tobacco rivaling Havana. Spiders are seven times stronger than lions per size. Yankee life expectancy surpasses German and English. The least touchable body area lies between the shoulder blades. H A Lusk’s Florida farm near St Andrews Bay yields a seven foot cassava root and a twenty inch circumference sweet potato.
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Havana
Texas
H. A. Lusk
St. Andrew’s Bay
Fla
Fragments of jokes and quips across era humor pages
A collage of witty exchanges and humorous anecdotes from various papers. The snippets touch on life turning points, fashion bonnets, stage life, pride and self perception, religion bragging, acorn cures, missing watch tales, marriages, letters, and prize fighting, reflecting lighthearted social commentary and colorful banter.
Cheating by Aid of Electricity
A New York professional gambler describes a hidden electric device used to cheat at dice. He explains a battery under the table connected to the top, with a knee button to magnetize altered dice filled with steel filings and putty to appear normal. He claims to win by forcing five sixes while the opponent’s throw varies.
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New York
Miss Van Dyke Married Van Rentless Well
A brief exchange hints Miss Van Dyke marrying Van Rentless and jokes she might have chosen the butler. The dialogue concludes with a curt truth.
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van Tassle
Miss van Dyke
van Rentless
Absent-minded professor spills claret at dinner
Mabel notes the professor is distracted as Susie questions Liewse. During dinner he spills the salt and, in error, pours claret on it. The scene captures a moment of social awkwardness and comic misfortune.
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Mabel
Susie—Liewse
iLlala
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N. Y
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B. A
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Trength
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Josamer
Chapter
Reed
Republic
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Carpenter
Iowa
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R. Y
Zoological Gardens
Boston Herald
Edward Atkinson
F.N . Barrett
China
Algeria
Roanoke College
Virginia
America
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Presbyterian Board of Home Mission
Lutheran World
Parliament of Religions
Maulvi Maduddin
Mohammed
India
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Church Missionary Society
Punjab
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Church of England
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Earth
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Russia
French Republic
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Germany
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Robert T. Hill
Washington
Government
Tue
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Boston
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London
Canada
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William Clay Wallace
Newark
N. J
Yale University
Robbins Battell
Norfolk
Percival
Wisconsin
WIT and Wisdom
Galveston
McFingle
McFangle
Tommy—Paw
Figg
Indianapolis Journal
Ram
Dazeleigh
Deacon Broadaisle
Williamsport Review
Boston Transcript
Buffalo Courier
Upson
Gotrox
Downes
Inter Ocean
George Washington
Adam
Foreighers
Boston Globe
Brooklyn Life
Corbett
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