A Narrow Escape Unfolds From First Elevator Ride
Uncle Rewken narrates a near disaster in a late 19th century tale about a first elevator ride. The narrator and his wife escape serious harm after the crate bursts, a punch lands, and by sheer luck they exit a danger-filled room. A young man inside the room aids them and is rewarded.
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Rewken
Villaige
Larnes
Bor
Barnes
Chvck
Sellar
Howe
Sith
Tragic Alpine Tale Woven Into Autobiography
A fragmentary excerpt recounts a long ago Alpine accident where a husband perished and the wife later waited at a hotel for the body to emerge from a glacier. Forty years later the preserved corpse reappears, only to reveal the husband is now a young man, a revelation that mocks time and memory in a Spurgeon autobiography aside.
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Alps
St Tener
Ghiefer
O. Fl. Spurgeon
Insurance notices and local sale advertisement fragment
Fragmented OCR text lists insurers and large asset figures, then an offered bargain for a new hover and a Baltimore glass Plate policy line. Mentions multiple companies including Detroit Firs and Marine, Providence Washington, American Central Insurance Co, and Bubbers Surety. Ends with a request for prompt terms.
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Bon Insurance Office
London
Epg
Detroit Firs & Marine Inc. Co
Detroit
Mich
American Central Insurance Co
Loula
Providence Washington Insurance
Providence
Safeta
College Street
A Proper Epithet and Averted Rupture Tale
A fragment from a period piece presents a priest resolving a domestic quarrel over a misapplied term. The dialogue hinges on whether a term was abusive or merely a poor choice, revealing tension between accusation and forgiveness as a couple contemplates separation versus reconciliation.
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Druskin
Priedrich August Dressler
Yan
Leo
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F. E. Gleason
C. M
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Austin, Punn
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St. Tonis Republic
Chas, H. Webber
Ward
Lowney
Ziegler
Johnson
Mieyer
Funks
Austin Candy CO
Edward
Mill Street
Autin
Minn
Fox
Heatre
Addison-Jones
Ave. Chicago
C. H. Johnson
Furst Blogh
Austin, Minn
F. I. Crane
Phaus
N. W
Hinds
Austin
HH. A. Avery
Austin National Book
Interstate
Minx
C. Huser
W. Bridge St
Austin Daily Herald
Ani
Toys
J. M. Thomas
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