Perkins Family Memoir and Jeopardized Murder Case
In Boston 1879 Abigail Perkins vents anger at heir sister Melvina over a father's grave stone and life savings while a melodramatic tale follows Jennie Clark and the La Grange case. A detective unveils a motive tied to inheritance as Frank La Grange resists justice and a reprieve effort unfolds amid prison visits and ominous plans.
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Boston
Mflyixa
Hitchin
Melvina
Reuben
Subbs
Abigail Perkins
Father
Dodd Ao
Bodd
Herrin
Liza
Clark
Sue
Lowe
Jennie
Dodge
Frank la Grange
la Grange
Himesit
Frank LaGrange
Brazil
Frank
Frank i
Weill
Raik la Grange
Sue Ben
Love's Young Dream in Virginia City Chronicle
A minstrel troupe observer witnesses a marriage proposal scene on South B street as a young man offers a $250 engagement ring. The rejected suitor retreats to the window as the couple exchanges dreamy vows, while passersby comment on the scene and drift away.
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Virginia City
South B Street
Pet
George
Leur George
Tuyen Be
Visit With Cambridgeport Witch Doctor Reveals Voodoo Beliefs
A reporter visits a Cambridgeport goopher known as Hicks, meeting wary elders and a conjoining witch doctor. The piece details goopher lore, ritual cure preparations, and claims of removing a conjured demon through chants and staged dying rituals.
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Cambridgeport
Harvard Sreet
le Heurs Hicks
Mr. Hicks
Tome
Old Darkey
Darkey
Mr. Hicks Ag
Hicks
Darkeys
Coujure
Possessed of a Demon: Eugenie Burton in New York Court
Eugenie Elisa Burton a near nine year old girl described as possessed faces a murder attempt case in Judge Kilbreth’s New York courtroom. The child’s peculiar speech, striking olive complexion and alleged danger to guardian Mile. de Watly are detailed along with troubling acts against furniture, piano, carpets, and her step sister Dora as investigators seek motive tied to property.
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Eugenie Elisa Burton
Justice Kilbretk
New York City
Mile. de Wally
Fittie
Dora
Justice Kilbreth
Ler
Eugenie
Weil
Luis Melformavion
Eve
Sue
Wuut
Kugent
Paris
Berg
le Wathy
Vera
Mile
Ge Wally
Doe
Gideon Fitzome
Albert Sauer
Monroe Street
Gideon
Justice Bixby
Issex
Shadge
Chicago Day of Rest Described as Social Decline
A Chicago writer in the St. Paul Pioneer Press argues Sunday in Lake City has become an occasion of general unrest with low elements of society gaining ascendancy. He condemns unrestrained revelry and drunkenness and notes late hour crowds of half intoxicated youth returning from Saturnahian feasts filling streetcars and insulting sober passersby.
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Chicago
St. Paul
They Were Lungaged In Shawmut Car
A man described as a country gentleman engaged to a woman sits in a moving car on Shawmut avenue. His arm circles her waist as a conductor shouts Sawyer Street, prompting a quick defensive reaction from the man who retorts they are engaged.
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O'Brien
Jackson
O’brien
Busuwna
Aisiis
O'Bien
O'Bhea
O’rien
O' Brien
OBrien the prisoner's life of crime in Massachusetts
A sign of the danger and futility of crime, David OBrien narrates six burglaries and repeated prison terms in Massachusetts. Born in Belfast Me he describes how he was drawn into theft by companions and how long stretches in state prison shaped his life. He chronicles six convictions and the harsh penalties that followed each lapse into crime.
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Massachusetts State Prison
Massachusetts
Howe
O'Brien
Cuamovertain
O’brien
Belfast
Linself
Greal
tLove Woom
O' Brien
U’briep
Mansfeld and
Sourt
Newton Lorner
Locke & Cole’s
Nay
Stoughton
O'Krien
Lowell
Amere Machine
Tree
Jos
Sea
Uno
Maunfield & Loring
Roxbury
Toose
Barrigan
O’urien
Washington Street
Debu J
Stevens
Apa
J’erkins
Washington Forest
Briev
O’briev
Portland
Wute
Coa@ries May
al Perkins
Barrigao
St Vers
Boston
Wen
Rievens
BO Very Oriel
Harrigan
Atate
Brien
Perkive
Entity
O Brien
Jackson
T'Ve
Louer
Massachusetts State
David O’brien
Ireland's History reviewed in a witty Dublin brochure
A light appraisal of the new history of Ireland from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time by H. E. The reviewer notes playful digressions on Adam and Eve in Ireland and Balaam in Ireland, and lauds the work as a pleasant humane panorama without bitterness.
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Ireland
Dublin
H. E
Habron
Ferr
Firma
Neat’s Ark
Oliver Cromwell
Bone
Om Moore
Mr. Gladstone
Prisoners Escape Tunnel Under Kiev Prison
The St. Petersburg Journal reports that Kiev prisoners tunneled out after a betrayal by a conspirator. Officials allegedly allowed the escape and even praised the prison director for clever handling. The Central prison at Kharkov is cited with high death tolls and mistreatment claims.
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Kieff
St. Petersburg Journal
Anoiher
Prsoners
Adde
Kiel
Charkots
Kocesgan
Tricks of the Chameleon
The chameleon's color change is famed yet its form changing is equally remarkable. It can resemble a disconsolate mouse or a crouching lion with a carved back and erect tail, and it can flatten its belly to resemble an ovate leaf from below.
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Popular Science Monthly
Last Interview with Arevil and Odd Market Tales
A collage of odd brief items from the Detroit market and police court notes. Includes a mock interview with a duke, a hungry tramp tale, a spoof Bible chapter, a German accused man, and local anecdotes about sleight of hand salesmen and a street incident.
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Arevil
Canada
Duke
Lana En
Duke—Weil
Tie
Detroit Free Press
Yesteray
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