A Tale of Disguise and Romance in The Beeches
In a provincial town a man renounces his youth to woo his cousin Nellie, who has memory loss from illness. A letter from his wife uncovers the ruse, forcing him to abandon the deception and face a reckoning with Nellie and society. He sheds his youth wardrobe and returns to plain life, while Julia’s reappearance unsettles all.
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Thad
Julia
Jad
George Marshave
Nelly
George
Erbert Spencer
Schopenhauer
Marsh
Beeches
John
Coler
Cae Atra
Mr. Moread
Beech Avenue
Hac Morehouse
Mae
Choeolor
Uenehiy
Nellie
Malock
Johnny
Noy
Mallock
John William Abernathy
Andover
Nell
Helen
Mr. Smith
Dex
Jobn
Seman
Professor Abernathy
Dr. Marsh
Helen Jane Saltor
Mmyself
Glen
Jon
Baya
Wigov
Professor Rose
Xenia
Pinkerton
Yaller Jim
Cleveland
Hendricks
James G. Blaine
General Logan
New York
Castle Garden
Sixth Avenue
Uptown
Fifth Avenue
Blaine
Blain
Ode to the dog and boy in verse from Brooklyn Eagle
R J Burdette laments the bond between boy and dog and the joy of canine companionship. He contrasts the loyal mutts and hounds with a critic's tainted view of genteel dog owners. The speaker finds bliss in dogs and boys, while denouncing a woman with a perfumed pampered pet.
The Arizona Kicker’s Whimsical Advice Column Ripples Local Quirk
The Arizona Kicker parodies a town’s church drive and lists humorous items from the Detroit Free Press style weekly. It lampoons fund raising, revivalists, local officials, advertisers, and a critic, mixing cheeky boasts with evergreen small-town gossip and mock notices. It notes a birthday appeal, wardrobe requests, and a playful feud with a rival editor.
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Detroit Free Press
Eee
Kicker
Apvicke Gratt
Lampas Jake
America
Jake
No Use for a Warrant
Foster's reporter quotes J. Boyce, a water department worker, recounting a brick assault that left his jaw broken in two places and his face heavily bruised. He says a man struck him while he sat on a ditch edge, and he plans to pursue the assailant later.
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Vover Democrat
J. Boyce
Foster
Drunken Citizens on a Chicago Street Corner
A New York Sun report notes a Saturday night scene in Chicago with a police officer cautioning a man slumped on a curb. The citizen, drunk, pleads that all street corners are occupied by “si mp posts,” highlighting urban nightlife and disorder.
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New York Sun
Chicago
Tsay
PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN. A humorous look at 1888 politics
Edgar Nye wryly observes campaign culture from New York streets. He riffs on mugwumps, party finances, tapping tables at headquarters, and the spectacle of rallies while disparaging excesses and the commercialism surrounding elections. He also tangentially muses on scrapbooks and memory.
Scrapbook Saga and a Curious Bank Scrape
A narrator recalls collaborating with a patient bank cashier who kept a scrapbook by his own methods. The tale mentions a summer resort, a father’s distant residence, and a cluttered search for an English colliery article. The fragment ends musing on how few people can do things exactly as one would.
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Prohibition Party
St. Louis
Chicago
Perdition
Daniel Webster
Orator
Delmonico
Oratory
Congress
Camaga
Africa
Harrison
Pensacola
Congressmion
Steport
Commissioner of Education
Sassafras Commonwealth
Farge
Gabriel
Manilla
Pulaski Markle
Chisel
Teethhurst-By
The
Burdick
Andy's Sick Cow Brings Laughing Vet Oddity
Waterbury Sunday Herald tells how Anthony W. Ashby, foreman for Benedict & Burnham, sought help from Colonel Bolster an amateur vet. They searched Woodtip fields for a missing calf blamed on a delicate cow. The cow unexpectedly gave birth then and there, prompting further joking remarks about endless calving.
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Waterbury Sunday Herald
Anthony W. Ashby
Benedict & Burnham's Carpenters
Woodtip Road
Colonel Bolster
Bolster
Andy
Ashby
Woodtie
Fly
Mr. Ashby
Long telegram entry wins prize in 19th century contest
Philadelphia Call notes 450 entrants in an English journal prize for the longest twelve word telegram. The winning transmission reads a garbled, mock official phrase about administrative counter revolutionaries and inter communications, transmitted for sixpence.
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Philadelphia
Cimar Teen Neteneneral’s
Road Agent's Deathbed Confession of First Gold Heist
On his deathbed a veteran bandit recalls his first stage robbery in California. He describes planning with three accomplices, hijacking a Shasta stage near Chico, seizing a treasure box, and fleeing through Oregon and Washington before capture. The tale ends with his partner Jim's death in prison and Idaho Bill's final fate.
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Thad
California
Ani
Faul Jenkins
Faro
Jose
Monte
Shasta
State
Chico
Siskiyou
Yreka
Gray
Slim Dim
Stae
Jim
Rafe
Getti
Nenemerg
Joose
Butte Creek
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Lhad
Dea
From Our Exchanges Wide World Snippets Of News And Oddities
A collage of brief notes from governors poets and politicians to odd accidents and local curiosities. Highlights include Missouri's governor's modest pay Amelie Rives Chanler's fan letters South Carolina's first woman politician stamp tax and strange incidents from Kansas California and Michigan plus global trivia on diamonds Panama customs and a peculiar sleep cure.
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Missouri
Amelie Rives Chanler
Elize Garner
South Carolina
Herington
Kan
Montreal Star
United States
Washington
Traver
Cal
Liverpool
Sacramento City
Florida
Barrows
Christian Register
Aroostook County
Louisiana
New Orleans Picayune
FE. J. Nicholson
Jeffersonville
N. Y
Bootblack
Kursehner
Chicago
West
Panama
Argonia
Goodnight
Congress
Kentucky
Georgia Journal
John Mileham
Topeka
Kane
Cleveland
Imperial Arsenal
Vienna
Danube
Penn
William Wright
Samuel Field
Joseph Chandler
Barrett
Ernest Raymond
Houston
Baby Hood
Michigan
Georgia
Newport
Australia
Mount Morgan
Queensland
Kingston
Ont
Middleburg
Buenos Ayres
Vermont
Green Mountain
South America
Ulysses
Herald
Caivar
Vincennes
Ind
Cay
Wong Chee
San Francisco
Pennsylvania Central Road
Bill Dalhoff
Iowa
Urne Grubb
Wytheville
Betor
London police adopt new pocket carry belt change
Fragmentary report notes the London police changing gear to pocket carry in place of belt. The Cincinnati Times Star hints at a remark about a newborn with a playful misprint. The garbled OCR leaves uncertainty on details.
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London
Cincinnati Times-Star
Opeka
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A. L Duane
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R. J. Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Meathound
Arizona
Secrety Norri
Jim Gibbons
Jerusalem Hill
Prairie Star
St. Jacob's
Radway
Trask
Mr. Allen
Trollope
Wei
Bill Nye
William
Edgar W. Nye
Sma
Riley’s
Idaho Bill
San Francisco Examiner
Per
Peter Thelan
Greeley
Charles F. A. Hinrichs
Wallington
Muscatine County
Maiden Lane
Switzerland
la Chaux-de-Fonds
Marboro
Poughkeepsie
China
Celestial Empire
Daylich
Alfred C. Hobbs
Hartford
Conn
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Duke of Wellington
Henry E. Smith
Fitennedla Kilpatrick
Trugsteps
Buffalo
Buffalo Xpress
Coralets
Scott
KaNabad
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West Virginia
Robert Muirhead
Grantsburg
Marshall County
Kansas
Western Exchange
Artin
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Seattle Tines
Brussels
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Hill Boys
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Thes Company
Cable Street Railway
Tenth Avenue
Hla
Fezonien
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