Puritan Visitor in Boston Night Encounter on Old South Street
A drifting tale unfolds on a damp Boston night as Brown meets a strange English Puritan named Fight-the-good-fight Smith near the Old South Church. The pair wander Washington and Milk streets discussing Puritan lore, electricity, and modern life before a sudden arresting moment beside a Winthrop statue.
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Old South
Washington Street
Milk Street
Ren Jrow
Brown
Carr
Dorcas Doughty
Chet
Blackstone
Stilman
Salem Street
Tsearee
Fight Smith
Smith
Paddy Ryan
John Smith
F. Smith
John
Wanalansett
Maldon
Mistress Doughty
Fily
P. F
United
United States of Holland
Holland
United Tes
Columbia
Ocean
Brave
Dan Brown
Friend Brown
Mariner
Iona
Tremont
Boylston
Browne
Wanaitansett
England
Naaman
London
Salem
Dartmouth Street
Levant
Trinity Church
Fi Smith
Charles
Laud
Brooks Church
Dame Dorcas Doughty
Scollay Square
John Withee
Holloo
Winthrop
Fight
Sign of Distress and Password in Maine Rum Tales
Bill Nye laments Maine rum laws and traffic, describing secretive entrances to drink with gas fixtures and cryptic passwords. He recalls encounters with a Bangor woman and explains how drinkers travel long distances to find alcohol, followed by recollections of a drunken friend overwhelmed by addiction and a lingering breath of danger in town.
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Maine
Boston
Bangor
Warn Against Relying on Whiskey and Popularapproval
Thadason warns that subsisting on popular approval and free whiskey harms a man, especially when engaged in strenuous work. An empty stomach and free whiskey prove highly injurious, he states, noting that mere social favor cannot sustain great muscular exhaustion.
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Thadason
Birt Nye
The Lovely Horrors Wax Show in New York
A playful, sharply odd visit to New York's wax figure carnival dubbed the chamber of horrors. The narrator mocks price gouging, marvels at lifelike figures, and recounts comic misreads with wax policemen and Jersey visitors, noting the surprising realism and social humor of the spectacle.
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New York Mercury
New York
Congress
Gotham
United States
Winter Garden
Chamber of Horrors
New Jersey
Jersey
Jessie James
Missouri
Emeine
Spoorle
Nyg
Prospects of a Large Cotton Crop
New Orleans June 9 The monthly report of the National Cotton Exchange on the growing cotton crop says the season may be a rest for several years East of the Mississippi conditions equal or better than last year West of it more favorable Mississippi bottoms show marked advantage Very early to estimate yield Acreage up 686000 acres from last year 104.
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New Orleans
National Cotton Exchange
Mississippi
Jman Croraiz
Bisaaries
France
Will Rae
Porat
Civiale
Brea L
CIALE
F Tribune
Farner
Jean Civiale
Dupuytren
Paris
Mevticat, Academy
Lion of Honor
Appicon
Lacyclopedia
Jane
New York
Civiate
W. IL. Hale
Washington, D.C
Elysen
M. F Flowens
L. B. Jones
Ciale Remedial Agency
Fulton St
New Sayne
Trouble With the First Lead in Whist Problem No 1
A whist column analyzes Problem No 1 with a focus on lead choice and trump management. It discusses why leading a low trump can lose control and explains the penultimate lead strategy, detailing inferences from card fall and partner signaling, and notes reader solutions and critiques from Correspondents.
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Mr. Clark
Cavendish
L. D. Cook
Mr. Cook
E.S
Snepee
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Toronto
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Conference of the Methodist Church
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Keough
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Jim Jams
Denver
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William
Rutherford B. Hayes
Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Liebig Co
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Winchester & CO
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J. Hl.reeves
Chatham Bt
Star Co
Northford
Conn
Ayer
D. L. Benson
Tawaron, Ill
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
John P. Lyman
Portsmouth
N. H
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America
Young
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Globe
Mass
E. C. Hadley
Washington St
Joan H. McCalvin
Garden Wall
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Slocum
Stenographic School
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London Team O
Washington
Renley
Henley
Richmond
Ind
Lewias Schiele & CO
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Borich
East Hampton
Coon
P O.addrss
R. Ward & CO
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Greece
J. V. Stanton & CO
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A. L, Smith & CO
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Hudson Manufacturing Co
San Luis Park
Col
Homestead
Colorado Loan and Trust Co
New England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Weiig Ou
Trelle
C. Fowler
Moodus
Dr. H. G. Out
Pearl St
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Marston Remedy CO
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