The Amateur Detectives Track a Burglary at Tarbox Farm
Robert Rudd recovers from a fall and bounty hunter Carden is trapped by Anak, Charlie, and Tarbox. They corner him at the barn, seize stolen money, and hand him to the authorities. Tarbox strengthens his finances by banking the spoils while Dr. Grey faces village gossip as Robert earns trust through tricks and song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
Charlie Davis
Dr. Grey
Pareere
Charlie
Carden
Anak
Mr. Tarbox
Tarbox
Nathan
Mrs. Tarbox
Robert Ruad
Queer Savings Bank
Norway
Tarvox
Rascal
Dann
Saree
Rob
Robert Rudd
Caraen
Ronald Perey
Ronald
Sidney
Mrs. Percy
Sidney Grey
Ronald Percy
Bosner Eae Sidesonnenes
Sam
Mrs. Grey
Robert Rudd Accepts Offer From Stranger in New York
Robert Rudd, recently separated from the circus after an ankle injury, accepts a five dollar weekly offer and travel expenses from John Fitzgerald to work and write in the West. He leaves Dr. Grey and heads to New York tonight, with plans to start at the St Nicholas Hotel tomorrow morning.
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Rupert Repp
Crampton
New York
St. Nicholas Hotel
Joan Fitzgerald
Robert
Sidney
Ropert
Permene
Ronald Evcy
Ronald
Fitzgerald
Rob
Dr. Grey
Cree
Robert Ruda
St. Nicholas
John Fitzgerald
Victim of Treachery on the Minnesota Frontier
Robert, traveling with his mysterious employer Fitzgerald, questions his past and a possible link to Julian Richmond. In Minnesota they tour land owned by an absent Mr. Robertson, with a dangerous plan brewing. Fitzgerald lures Robert toward a burned squatters cabin and pushes him into a deep well, leaving him to die as the story pauses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
Fitzgerald
Mr. Fitzgerald
Crampton
Wood
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Fitzzerald
Goat Island
Robert Rudd
Hit
the Inquirer
Julian Richmond
Julian
Albany
Cornelius Richmond
Hudson
Richmonds
Rupert
Niagara
Mel
Hugo
Mate
Kert
Chicago
Sherman House
New York
Ashley Robinson
Broadway
Joan Fitzgerald
City Post Office
Rovert
Witzgerald
Fitz
Cara
Brandon
Minnesota
Mlorence
Dearborn House
Hugo Richmond
Richmond
Tam
Fitza
Harsh Rebuke and Hidden Secret Drive Young Man Northward
A young man named Robert faces a rude employer and a withheld secret. Stranded far from friends, he recalls loyalty and regret while weighing a future pursuit of a man who lives in Albany. The sequence hints at a larger mystery defining his path.
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Robert
Fitzgerald
The
Grays
Albany
Army Worms Blockade a Train at Marshall Station
A Kentucky Central line train was stalled for hours at Marshall Station as army worms eight inches deep covered the tracks forcing a halt to service. No injuries reported and crew assisted by the local crew to clear the line after the infestation.
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Maysvilie
Kentucky Central Road
Marshall Station
England’s iron trade and wage comparisons abroad
The piece outlines an 1881 Senate inquiry on wage rates across nations, noting data inconsistencies from different years and periods. It highlights factors shaping pay such as hours, housing, labor organization, machinery use, piecework, and union influence, setting up Nimmo’s discussion and a table from Joseph D Weeks on 1878 iron mill wages.
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Joseph Nimmo, Jr
Bureau of Statistics
Senate
Nimmo
Joseph D. Weeks
Pittsburg
Penn
Wage disparities in iron work reveal US edge over England
The table shows 1878 wages for iron workers: $5 per ton in Pittsburg versus 1.792 per ton in Staffordshire and Warrington, England. Boilers and barbeters earned far more in the US, while overall daily earnings in Pittsburg were about double those in English mills, with 1879 data indicating US rates roughly 100 percent higher across furnace labor.
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Pittsburg
Staffordshire
Warrington
Eng
United States
England
Weeks
Barbeatera
Cumberland
Cleveland
Prediction of a new genius in literary history
M D Conway cites Professor Henry Morey predicting a future great intellectual figure. The essay links this prophecy to evolution and societal benchmarks, recalling Emerson, Darwin, and Darwin’s voyage, and notes Emerson’s early Nature and Lettere and Social Aims with Darwin’s ideas foreshadowed.
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Ihbave
M.D. Conway
Cincinnati
Henry Morey
Mocer
Carlyle
Darwin
Emerson
Madonna
Nazareth
Heine
America
England
Lawa
Ormens
Beagle
Agassiz
Cambridge
The
Longfellows
Lowell
Dumb Tongue Curse At Richmond Parishioner Trial
Excitement at Rev. John Jasper church in Richmond rises as a colored youth allegedly struck dumb after lying to his mother and church expulsion. Reports quote Rev. Jasper and local colored leaders claiming divine punishment for perjury, with witnesses confirming the boy’s speech loss and vow to paralyze his tongue. A funeral viewing in Chicago also noted as 6500 people gathered two days to view the Seybold children murder scene.
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John Jasper
Richmond
Jasper
John Cooley
Charlottesville
Joseph Wilkingen
Chcaco
Seybold
Starving Virginians Report From Patrick County
In Patrick county reports say people die of starvation as a party travels the lower county with three barrels of shelled corn. Families, including a wife and three children, plead for bread and flour while eating raw corn. The starving stretch across the county with over 5000 threatened, and aid appeals grow urgent.
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DanvinLe
Patrick County
Lurner
Remarkable Podhalian People of the Tatras
Dr. Le Bon reports the Podhaljans, inhabitants of the Tatras in Galicia, as a small but vigorous race living on oats and goat milk whey. They abstain from alcohol and animal foods, live simply yet enjoy strong health and long lives, with a tranquil, low-resource existence and poet artistically inclined nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French Geographical Society
le Bon
Carpathian Mountains
Galicia
Tatras
Europe
Atras
New explosive dynamogen from Viennese engineer announced
Inventor M. Patri introduces dynamogen a solid cynoder explosive likely to rival gunpowder. It contains no sulphuric or nitric acids nor nitroglycerine and cannot injure guns or cartridges. Compression increases quantity while size stays same and tests report minimal recoil. Manufacturing is claimed to be simple safe weather resistant and cheaper by about 40 percent than gunpowder.
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M. Patri
Made Deaf by the Telephone
Fall River residents risk losing hearing in one ear from overusing the telephone. Doctors in Boston confirm the condition and advise alternating ears to avoid overwork and gradual deafness.
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Fall River
Boston
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