The Reporter's King and the Opeki Embassy
Albert Gordon becomes American consul to Opeki with Stedman as secretary. They plot a civilizing show of medals, baseball diamonds, and a standing army while navigating Hillmen raids and a curious reception by a friendly King. The adventure blends satire and colonial bravado as plans unfold.
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Lbert Gordon
New York
Opeki
Travis
United States
Stedman
Bradleys
Iland
Gordon
Albert
Legation
Connecticut
Bradley, Jr
Yokohama Cable Company
San Francisco
Yokohama
Octavia
Telyon
Essonwah
Messenwah
Ene
Marahant
Stacny
Shouser
Obert
A Mad Dog in the Desert Aboard the Grand Canyon Trek
Charles F. Lummis recounts a perilous ascent and fall while crossing the Grand Canyon. He describes the canyon’s sublime scale and danger, then details a near fatal ledge fall and a perilous back jump to safety, emphasizing the ordeal as part of a grand Pacific crossing.
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Colorado
Earth
Brink
Grand Canon
Crooked Joe and the Runaway Engine Heroics
A young boy nicknamed Crooked Joe earns hero status when he oils a rail to stop a runaway engine at the depot. The crowd cheers as the superintendent honors his courage, and a future for him is framed as a chance to learn and work, not wealth.
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Mary
Joe
Mr. Crump
Joseph Bryan
Ban
Bookwalter plans agricultural village to curb farm loneliness
Millionaire John W. Bookwalter proposes a 150 farm community in Pawnee county Nebraska centered on a town the size of Bookwalter. The plan includes a town hall, library, schools, stores, and social groups to keep farmers close, share farming methods, and boost rural life. He envisions 1200 to 1500 residents, improved roads, later electric light, and a model village to unite farmers for mutual advantage.
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Springfield
Chicago Herald
John W. Bookwalter
Herald
Republic
Indiana
Wabash
Mr. Bookwalter
James Leffel
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Nebraska
Bookwalter
Europe
Switzerland
Germany
France
Wabash Bottoms
Brookwalter
United States
Pawnee
Denuty
Ohio
Ilinois
Ausas
The Bryan Family and the Tragedy of the Rail Yard
Mary A P Stansbury recounts the sad tale of Michael Bryan killed by a locomotive and Mary Bryan’s grief as their young family endures. The railway company covers burial costs and later hires Mary after Joe heals.
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Mary A. P. Stansbury
Joe Bryan
Joe
Michael Bryan
Railway Company
Mary Bryan
Ye sticker and ye stuck A satirical verse from Philadelphia Press
A verse contrasts a rich sticker class with a poor stuck class and laments income gaps. It depicts the sticker as grand and wealthy while the stuck fade financially. A separate anecdote involves Miss Quidnune and Johnny, with a humorous exchange about reading and behavior.
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Philadelphia
Age of the World Debated by Wallace and Croll
The discussion compares geologic timescales for rock formation and denudation. Wallace cites 28 to 200 million years, while Croll argues for tens of millions to hundreds of millions, suggesting long durations before modern fauna. The debate highlights Darwinian time-scale tensions.
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Wallace
Gentleman's Magazine
Haughton
Croll
A. R. Wallace
Huxley
Midnight Tragedy and a Doctor's Nocturnal Night
A Rochester tale shows how imagination inflates fear after a gasometer explosion. A doctor’s wife, believing a burglar is at the door, reacts with a staged scream and false wound, then faints. Neighbors debate whether a real intruder or a frightened visitor sparked the scene.
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Rochester
Tom
Joe
Raptor
Decline in St Helena Prosperity Before Parliament
The island of St Helena seeks a grant in aid as revenue falls short of local needs. Once a bustling colonial port visited by Indiamen and famed as Napoleon's exile site, it now faces reduced traffic due to new canal routes and changing world commerce.
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St. Helena
England
Napoleon
Halley
Cape
Subscription drive offers various magazines at reduced rates
The Weekly Globe promotes subscriptions to many magazines with reduced annual prices and free postage. Readers can request any title not listed, and must subscribe for a full year to The Weekly Globe. orders may include The American Art Journal. Subscriptions limited to one per address.
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Weekly Globe
The
Globe
CLOBE
Boston
Mass
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Chapter
Sam
Shadow
Peach Springs
Kingman
Mojave
Old Mexico
Los Angeles
Yucca
Millionnaire Bookwalter
Little Joe Bryan
Quidnune
Johnny
Guidnune
Topa
News Journal
GLOBA
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Agriculturist
BEE Admire
Burlington Hawkeye
Ballon’s Magazine
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Belalands Ssn
Bouton
Igradterves
Christian Leader
Critic Literary Reviews
Cleveland Weekly Plaindester
Cincinnati Weekly Times
Century Magazine
Christian Union
Cottage Hearth
Galled Electedta
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Leslie
Germantown
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Godey's Lady's Book
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Home and Farm
Mocmenaias
Aes
Esseccoeses
Journal of Microscopy
Ladies' World
Life
Louisville Weekly Courier-Journal
Lippincott's Magazine
Littell’s
North American Review
N. Y
N.Y
Weekly Post
Weekly World
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Weekly Herald
New Princeton Review
New York Witness
Our Little Men
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Lady's Magazine
Popular Science News
Popular Science Monthly
Presbyterian Review
Philadelphia Weekly Times
Philadelphia Medical Times
Rural New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Sunday School Times
Scribner's Magazine
New
Spirit of the Times . the Republic
Arthur's Home
American Poultry Journal
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Cassell’s Magazine of Chautanana Young Folks Journal
Detroit Free Press
Engineering and Mining Journal
Crish-Amer
Atlanta Constitution
American Machinist
Andover Review
American Dairyman
Atlantic Monthly
Senses “ Family
Decor
Demorest's
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