Rodney Galvin and the Graytown Bank Robbery
In Graytown a youth, Rodney Galvin, mastering a clock room he barely knew, overhears a bank robbery plan. He frees a captured burglar by dangerous means and captures him with a clever trap using the town clock works, earning a $600 reward and admission to the Institute of Technology.
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Qraytown
Gils
Stepa
Dourt
Jackson
Rodney Galvin
Rodney
Harry Grant
Cinces
Lncka
Graytown
Rooney
Jess
Mome Ote
Pailey
Sexton
Rod Bey
Belfry
National Bank
Chilla
Mary Grant
Sen
Aaid Rodney
Anl
Aingers
Institute of Technology
Hodney
Rodocy
Keanty
James
Mr. Hyde
Rodney Garvin
Chino
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lamp Chimneys Made In This Country by Millions Annually
A New York Sun article details the lamp chimney trade, noting 12,000 men and boys employed in chimney making, with millions produced for home and export. It traces origins to the East, highlights regional glass works along the Alleghenies, and explains vast variety and quality improvements, domestic consumption in New York, imports from Germany and France, and extensive exports worldwide including Mexico, the West Indies, and Asia.
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Alleghany Mountains
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Yodlans
Bastan
Wile
Goa
New York
Germany
France
Europe
Herope
Mexico
West Indies
South America
South Africa
China
Cigarette fortunes and gullible guides in an odd tale
A man lights a cigarette for a young woman who dislikes smoke. She jokes she can read fortunes in cigarette smoke and teases him about his fate. The exchange ends with apologies as the cigarette flickers out. Nearby, tourists travel with a chatty party and a silent man awaiting the next view of a gorge and waterfall.
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Menson
Hoe
Abe
Memphis Scimitar
Sea Bolton Abbey
England
Pedforth
Sensational Misfires From Rural England Amuse Londoners
A column catalogs spoof rural "news" such as cow racing bans, sermons against the craze, a famed horse explosion tale, and a Denbighshire satanic scare. The pieces trace how hoax reports spread nationwide, inflaming fears before being debunked as local exaggerations or misinterpretations.
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England
Midlands
London
Meath
Britain
Surrey
Gypslea
Denbighshire
Ayrshire
Glaciers and Glacial Fantasies Across Europe
Descriptive passages compare glacial seas from Gorner Grat to the vast Aletsch and Rhone glaciers, with dramatic imagery of frozen seas and ice islands. A Parisian note recalls Bishop Brooks joking about a clergyman’s age, contrasting the “sunny side” with the “shady side” in a witty exchange.
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Steutzerland
Zermatt
Oberland
Chamonix
Gorner Grat
Rhone
Mont Blanc Range
Col
New York
Bishop Brooks
Man sues woman over fare for service trip
An Ilinoin man claims a woman he courted rejected marriage to avoid paying for a trip and expenses. He argues the affair was a small business with demands for clothing and medical bills. He remarks on an umbrella and a woman's resilience.
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Mary
Curing Warts by Suggestion
A 15 year old girl with many warts on both hands was treated on June 1 by revaccination after reading reports of cures. The warts gradually disappeared by seven weeks, leaving temporary white spots. by June 20 no trace remained as noted in a London hospital record.
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Dibble Staple
Lutiden Hospital
Fragmentary Woolward Avenue Altercation Transcript
A garbled dialogue on Woolward Avenue records men arguing over a dime and a possible compromise. The speakers, including a person named Lit and others, discuss payments, accusations, and a clock, with repeated requests for money and a sense of tension without clear outcomes.
Voices From The Blues And The Mind’s Dark Lowlands
A meditation on the blues and memory. It argues that dwelling on past failures deepens despair and blocks present joy, urging readers to forget wrongs to avoid becoming trapped in a bleak, lifelong swamp of remembrance.
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Ifo
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Misspoken Sermon Sparks Laughter in Hyde Park Church
In Hyde Park a clergy man’s bloopers during a pulpit talk amused younger parishioners. While praying on the text Let thou my feet in a large place he mangled the wording and asked the Lord to "Choose then, dear Lord, a large place and establish my feet thereon." Chicago Times Herald reports the humorous lapse.
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Fanny
Hyde Park
Chicago Times- Herald
Might Try Couplet in a Droll Exchange of Letters
A humorous exchange unfolds as a poet tests a quatrain and learns the editor finds it too long. Bertha questions the editor’s verdict while the couplet’s wit and spelling debates echo through a domestic scene.
Adventures of the Old English Mall Coach
An 1819 Exeter Road tale retells a dramatic coach journey from Ballsbury to London. A nocturnal threat, described as a calf, attacked the left tender as horses went wild. Guards and passengers faced a horse-dog-goat assault with a mast and foremast figures involved, a dramatic struggle ending with capture and captivity of the beast.
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Ballsbury
London
Charles G. Harper
Exeter Road
Lita
Deast
Wasnions
Howes
Midnight railway nuisance keeps sleep from the weary
Westminster Review notes how a nightly tramway and passing trains shatter the comfort of late sleepers. The whistle, bumping cars, and distant forge sounds persist until dawn, when an early excursion train rouses them again, testing patience through the silent hours.
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Whlel
Tost
al Expresa
Stuart
Mortag
BO Fou
Weatminster Review
Early Days of Freemasonry and Papal Condemnation
The piece notes that outside England freemasonry faced church opposition, citing 1738 Clement XII bull and a 1789 edict threatening death for supporters. It claims bishops were urged to prosecute and that Paris parliament refused registration, with a French author singled out as a victim. The rest shifts to aphorisms about belief shaping life and fashion.
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Clement Etl
Parlement of
Parle
Spith
New Lippincott
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