The Town That Lost Itself
A Vermont frontier tale follows Tiberius Smith and narrator as they stumble into a remote northern Vermont settlement on the edge of Essex County. They discover a pressless, isolated community that has lived 40 years with no news, prompting a plan to revive a weekly paper that spurs wartime fantasies and a spectacular press-freedom clash.
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Vermont
Essex County
Tiberius Smith
Billy
Pneland
Canada
States
Tiberius
Columbus
Tib
Union
Green Mountains
Tih
Green Mountain
Bellows Falls
United States
Bib
Reubenj
Ituil
Winter
Jeff Davis
Texas
Sheridan
Virginield
Monitor
Mervimus
Jiles
Durgin
Fort Donelson
Deadye
England
Jersey City
Holton
Home Hollow
Burg
Reuben
Tiberian Weekly
Highlands
Hesex County
Tiberias Smith
Silent firearm by Hiram Percy Maxim patent sparks regulation talk
Hiram Percy Maxim has secured patents for a near silent firearm. The device uses a muffler-like mechanism to deaden the noise of gunpowder explosions, rendering the discharge nearly noiseless across pistols to large guns. Authorities fear the weapon's potential and call for government regulation.
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New York
Hiram Percy Maxim
Hiram Maxim
Noiseless gun invention alarms police and experts
A device that silences a firearm by diverting gases through tiny holes could revolutionize warfare and crime. Experts fear silent killing from cover, enabling snipers to fatally strike without reports, while police urge strict control to curb misuse.
Love Notes in Tree Reveal 1881 Letters from Lovers
Workmen in New Jersey found two old letters dated 1881 tucked in a hollow elm. One letter from Alice to Jim requests a meet and escape together, while the other from Jim to Alice expresses doubt and a waiting plan, suggesting a troubled romance linked to the lovers’ unhappiness.
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New York
Richfield
N. J
Jim
Alice
Picturesque Kansas Congressman Mystery Letters in Tree
A Kansas woodlands tale describes a Congressman and a girl named Alice leaving notes in a hollow tree. Squirrels gnawed edges of the letters, suggesting they were dropped through a seven foot opening and pulled to the ground by rodents.
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Jim
Alice
Kisses Halt U S Marshal and Vassar Girls Aid Truancy
United States Marshal Louis Henkel arrests banker Louis Goldman on bankruptcy and contempt charges over nine thousand seven hundred eight dollars and saloon property. Goldman jailed until the funds are paid. At Poughkeepsie Vassar College girls join police to study probation as truancy reform effort with reports at the M C A.
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Philadelphia
Louis Goldman
Roosevelt
Tronvepta la Trustees
Vassar
Poughkeepsie
Vassar College
Inez Mulholland
McCabe
Vagne
M.C
Puzzle Over Mercury Findings Challenge Planet Between Sun Theory
Prof W W Campbell of Lick Observatory reports Flint Island photographic plates show no planet between the sun and Mercury, removing the old theory that unseen planets tug Mercury from its natural orbit. He says mathematicians must seek other forces to explain Mercury’s irregular path.
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San Francisco
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Flint Island
Campbell
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Cruz
Walden Fawyet
Chile
Sir Hiram Maxim
Kansas
Victor
Eredock
Victor Murdock
Congress
Wichita Daily Eagle
Henkel
Goldman
Brooklyn
Golilmiai
Olivet
Hough
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