THAT DREADFUL BOY CHAPTER XXI TRAVELS AND TROUBLE
Dick and Claude secretly plan a schoolyard journey to see their fathers, prompting alarm for their mothers. Bessie and Mr. Scrimmager race to East Boston and then to the ship where the boys are last sighted, while Tom in Zanzibar reads about Dick and resolves to press on with his search.
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Tom
Bessie
David
Young Dick
Claude
Connecticut
Mark Twain
Je Yor
Mr. Scrimmager
Thomas
Codl
Sylvester
Old David
Bessie Was Now Terribly Alarmed, and Sent At Once To Mr. Scrimmager
Polce
Scrimmager
Brookeford
Europe
Mimma
Papa
Boston
Chater
Weir
Charlie Ross
Mr. Smiley
Lessie
Rem
Litte Dick
Mrs. Sylvester
Dick Sylvester
Manna
Mast
Mr. Livingston
Mamma
Grandma
Skim
Livingston
Tom Sylvester
Zanzibar
Ten Per Cent
Smiley
Gordon
Colonial Club
Sam
Mary
Little Dick
Ins
Maryeth
Liv Pigston
Mand
King
Mr. Livingstone
Margie
Weaver
Maggie
Mr. Scrimmmager
Corbett
Marm
Teddy
Newport
Bes
Solci
States
Dea
Taskar
Aoee
Earth
Jena
The Woman Called Mary in Tom's Quiet Aid
Tom tends the ill woman as she recalls happier days and trusted friends. A black boy named Douga is sent from the mission for care. The scene focuses on pain loneliness trepidation and a desire for solitude while a sick child rests nearby.
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Mary
Tom
Poe
Douga
Eleven Foot Alligator Killed Near Bainbridge
Mr Reuben Cloud killed the largest alligator seen near Bainbridge Georgia measuring eleven feet six inches long and four feet across the back. The beast weighed about 800 pounds with sixty five teeth and tusks weighing one and a half pounds. The hunter pursued and shot the animal after it threatened alarm by climbing onto a tree top.
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Bainbridge
Reuben Cloud
Cloud
Charleston
Sparta
Georgia
Texas
Georgia Penitentiary
Pike County
Ala
Macon
North Carolina
Florida
Newton
Miss
Fauquier
Pulaski County
Colfax
Newton County
Atlanta
Tennessee
Dade Couty
Edinvore
George Blocher
Georgia and Tennessee Snapshots of Unusual News Events
A mixed mosaic of curiosities and incidents across the South. Georgia reports include penitentiary populations, a Georgia cotton exhibit, a shoesless Macon resident, and frogs falling in showers. North and Mississippian items note onions, brandy from apples, and a fatal tree limb accident.
Niagara's Mysterious Falls Tales of Danger and Death
A historical reminiscence recounts dramatic Niagara River incidents before Captain Webb. It details near dry-channel observations in 1848, fatal leaps, rescues, and eerie mysteries, including a puzzling found corpse and elopement-linked deaths amid whirlpools and daring stunts.
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Captain Webb
Niagara River
Webb
Diamonds to Let How Presents Hire For Weddings and Receptions
A Globe reporter interviews a Washington street store proprietor about jewelry rental and appearance hiring. The firm explains renting costly diamond sets for evenings, with security for strangers, and recounts two lucky customers in Swampscott. They also rent antique silver services for weddings and panels of bric a brac to enhance display, noting competition and advertiser benefits.
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GLOBE
Washington Street
Boston
Swampscott
Tila
Fowler
A Living Sacrifice to Style
Washington Letter warns against dyeing hair after a brown eyed girl with brown hair harms her scalp using blonde dye. She loses all her hair, must wear a wig from age 17, and ends engagement due to fear of revealing baldness. The piece frames vanity as tragedy, noting her beauty and many lovers yet sorrowful outcome.
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Washington
Young America Seeks Presidency in An Unusual Prayer
A Kaskaskia boy said a self penned prayer asking for guidance to be a good boy and to become president and ruler over all the States. He inquires whether presidents go to heaven after death and closes with thanks for a pleasant day and a request for another one soon.
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Doly
Table Rock
Hin
Mark
Philadelphia
Lizzie
Second Sister's Island
Lewiston
Rowell
H. T. Raymond
Mond
Pittsburg
Kaskaskia
Heavenly Father
Hops and Mandrake Hop Bitters Promoted as Universal Cure
An advertisement extols Hop Bitters as a universal remedy claiming to quiet nerves, aid sleep, and cure kidney, liver, digestive, and women’s ailments. It lauds hops mandrake and dandelion formulas and cites cures for Bright’s disease, diabetes, dyspepsia, rheumatism, scrofula, and various chronic conditions, urging trust in the product sold widely.
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Brigh
Buehu
Bright
Wfsum&wyly Syll
Hostetter
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Mes
Kate Tannatt Woods
Mr. Scrimmeyer
Skin
Rascal
Mr. Allen
Sie
Southern
Niagara
F Partington
Goat Island
Canan
Lake Winnipileogee R. RB
Young America
Kaskas
Chapter
Istetter
Druccists
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