The Bleaker Lift Night Rescue
Rhoda, station keeper at Bleaker’s Lift, faces five armed men bent on forcing a sabotaged train. She feigns cooperation to warn Romford’s old man, then cuts wires and faces danger with a pistol as Telegraph Bill signals treachery.
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Bleaker
Job Daly
Job
Rhoda
No. 7
Dave
Rhoida
bin Sire
Rock Bottom
Hhis
Buddy
Blenker’s
Big Dave
Romford
Bill
Nia Temple
Dave Brody
Lydia E Pinkham's Remedy Promoted Despite Teaser Claims
A Chicago reader touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments amid advice to insist on the product. The narrative shifts to a fictional scene of danger and revelation featuring Rhoda and Dave, with a railway setting and a revelation about Dave Brody and his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Mrs. Jawerzki
Arch St
Death Toll Rises From River Boat Explosion in St Joseph
Memphis report states 17 dead after river boat explosion on Saturday. two more may die. Nine injured crewmen died, five drowned, three killed by injuries. Engineer Floyd Morgan notes steam gauge last read 145 before blast, government limit 144. Federal investigation expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Acket
City of St. Joseph
Floyd Morgan
Two Girls Burn in Nantucket Boathouse Tragedy
Nantucket July report details a fire at the Burnes family boathouse injuring two young women, Miss De Hav en and Miss Wilson, who died. Thomas Kerr and Thurlow Weed Barnes, both seriously burned, along with valet Ulysses Pahud, were among the injured while efforts to rescue the women continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nantucket
Thomas Kerr
New York
Thurlow Weed Barnes
Albany
Young Burnes
William Burnes, Jr
Helen Wilson
Mildred de Haven
Brooklyn
Ulysses Pahud
Barnes
Lis
Kerr
Young Barnes
Delstawen
Miss Wilson
Ruth Wilson
Harry Wilson
Kitter
Pharbe Sudking
Tanner
Buffalo
Pahud
Recipe Fragments and Anecdotes from The Meanest Man
A compilation of homemaking tips and light prose from a periodical page. Recipes for cookies and baked goods appear alongside domestic hints on cleaning jars bottles and sofa covers. A short tale about two travelers and a discussion of Perry Knapp as Toledo police chief closes the snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Creel
American
Perry Knapp
Toledo
Ohio
Knapp
Jones
Chiles
Much Too Busy To Wed In Brockton Bride Proposes Delayed Marriage
Charles A Cobb a Middleboro furniture mover rang his bride to be Henrietta Jacobs Saturday night keeping the wedding on hold as his auto work and moving jobs spanned from Middleboro to Fall River and Providence. She said they would marry Monday probably and Cobb would delay only to finish moving assignments.
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Brockton
Mass
Charles A. Cobb
Middleboro
Mra
Henrietta Jacobs
Cobb
Fat River
Tie New Auto
Art
Fall River
Providence
Biter
Moniay
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Webster
Griges
Cleve
Plain Dealer
New Haven
Aml Tam Anxous
Weil
Ans
Mack’s
National Monthly
Bride-to-Be
Thomas
Etay
American Clothing Co
No. Main St
A. Tomasi
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