The Adventurer’s Christmas Night Burglary Tale
A narrator recalls a wild Christmas Eve in a western English town at a lodger’s house. Two burglars, father and son, with a plan to rob and possibly murder him, confront him as he sleeps. He awakens, disables the intruders, and with neighbors and police, captures them. the son is identified, the father drunk in a cellar, and both are sent abroad. The tale ends with gratitude and reflections on Christmas joy.
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Altain
Sho
Mia
Winzaie
Mrs. Wingate
Lahosen
Thevan
Thad
Ming
Tye
Oshaw
Bill
Bam
Ife
Amy
Vensel
Ilex
Atara
Christman
Miscellanyo Coveny Newsravers Stick to Your County Paper
The piece urges readers to support local newspapers as neighborhood advertisers and sources of current information. It cautions against abandoning subscriptions in hard times, urging readers to cut other expenses first and preserve access to intelligence for themselves and their families, noting that poverty is in spirit only.
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Hough
New York
Wiscons de Tasmer
Leviathan launch idea from Middlebury local observer
Sidney Moody of Middlebury Vermont offers a peculiar suggestion for the Leviathan. He argues the ship could be made gas tight by filling the city gas into its decks to lighten weight, enabling Taunton with present appliances and perfect engineering.
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Sidney Moody
Middlebury
Vermont
Tie
Brunel
Frightful Farm Tale Revisited by Comic Paper
A comic paper retells an old yarn about a sea captain retired to a farm and a mischievous nephew. The captain dresses as a ghost to scare the boy into rising cows, aided by a monkey that imitates the prank. The boy initially shrugs off fear, then admits being scared as the staged specter looms in the woods. The monkey chases the captain back to the farm while the nephew shouts at his pursuers.
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Avild Harum Searum
A Poet's Estimation of Americans in 19th Century Note
From New York to the London Illustrated News Charles Mackay describes Americans as expansive in ideas and liberty, with a booming New York City, marble palaces and grand Broadway. He contrasts labor in England with American enterprise, notes California gold, and comments on Missouri and Wisconsin debts and taxation across several lines of fiscal detail.
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London Illustrated News
Charles Mackay
U. B
Paria
London
California
Broadway
Regent Street
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