The Coiner Thornley Captured In Tomson’s Court Case
Inspector Jones aids Lomax undercover as a widow to trap Bill Thornley alias Springer alias Saxley alias Thorndyke. In Tomson’s Court Lomax discovers Thornley inside a room with a wounded mother and infant and uncovers a cache of counterfeit coins.
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Lizzie Thornley
Thornley
Bill Thornley
Springer
Saxley
Desperado
Tomson
Greengate
Blackfriars Bridge
Lomax
Inspector Jones
Thorndyke
Schofield
Jones
Albert Street
When a Lost Voice Returns to Haunt My Heart
A solitary speaker imagines a long absent loved one reappearing in memory. They picture shared summers, stairway steps, woodland paths, and a reunion that defies distance and even death. The poem ends with the hope of waking in heaven beside the beloved.
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Lattle Peter Street
Tomson
No. 13
Prisoner Thornley Sentenced After Brutal Assault
A ruffian named Thornley was found guilty after a confrontation that left him restrained with bracelets. His wife and child were taken to the Royal Infirmary where they suffered ten days and nights before dying, and Thornley received a long term of penal servitude.
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Thornley
Royal Infirmary
Indian Revenge in Cerbat Range At Fremont County
Detroit Free Press correspondent reports Haulapai conflict after detective Peas arouses tribe by spying on alcohol sales. He shoots at an Indian camp, kills two bucks and two squaws, injures a girl, and flees. Indians surround him later and he dies. Tensions rise as miners threaten retribution against any attacked squaws.
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Hawley
Congress
United States
Senate
Blair
Ingalls
Mr. Blair
Messrs
Dolph
Teller Horst
Montana
Morrison
Matson
Holman
Reed
Hiscock
Hepburn
Brag
Randall
House
Committee of Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Stockton, Hill
Arizona
Detroit Free Press
Hill
Cerbat Range
Peas
Indiana
Wallapai
Mineral Park
They Want to Go Home
A Boston Record excerpt recalls a hospital ward scene at dusk with convalescent children reciting prayers and a crying infant saying I want to go home. The narrator notes the poignant longing for home and mothers, and later hears delirious adults repeating similar prayers amid hospital corridors.
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Boston Record
Children’s Hospital
City Hospital
Sis Maria's Epiphany Sparks Corners of Egypt
In Egypt a Black community tale unfolds with Aunt Jinny the wash woman and her daughter Sis Maria. Maria’s plan to join the Episcopals triggers family conflict as the parson and starch become a comic pivot in a social tableau of church, class, and race.
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Times-Democrat
Egypt
Antony and Cleopatra
Jinny
Sis Maria
Episcopal Church
Israel
John
Wesley
Squire Dawson
Maria
Good Old Methodist Church
Pendulum P. Dandruff
Fried Liver House
Rachel
Sis Maria Orter
Eustis
Mt. Dora
Parson Johnson
Slang in Society and Its Harm to Modesty
A moral exhortation condemning slang in speech and conduct. It argues slang erodes virtue, urges mothers to curb daughters slang use, and calls for reform led by mothers and daughters to influence sons and brothers. The piece cites ridicule of slang as unworthy of wit and nobility.
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Europe
Christian Intelligencer
Evarts Story Told At Cooper Institute Tale Of A Secretary Of State
A Cleveland Leader account recalls a humorous anecdote about William M. Evarts when he was secretary of state under Hayes. At a New York meeting, a Vermonter mistook Evarts for someone else, exclaiming that Evarts looked as though he boarded, a quip Evarts reportedly enjoys retelling.
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Cleveland Leader
Senator Evarts
Hayes
Evarts
Cooper Institute
New York
William M. Evarts
Mr. Evarts
Iswan
Coffin Carrying Man Passes Toward Freedom in Underground Railroa
An 1859 tale from a Boston correspondent recalls an agent in Washington DC guiding Job Yancy, a captured enslaved man, in a coffin packed with rations to Providence Rhode Island. The desperate journey included degradation and danger, but yielded a free man at a private home.
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Underground
Columbia
D. C
Job Yancy
Providence
R. I
Job
Yancy
Jon
Andressure
North
New York
Boston Correspondence
New York Tribune
Dat Las Ole Goose Steals Roosted by Aunt Dilsey
In Fairfax County Virginia Aunt Dilsey in charge of poultry confesses she stole the last goose to pray and save her soul. Her employer suspects the theft and Dilsey replies that no goose will stop her from meeting her savior.
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Fairfax County
Virginia
Dilsey
Meetin
Renaissance of boxing in New York society era
The piece traces the boxing revival sparked by Professor McClellan and Marquis of Queensberry rules, detailing how amateurs, socialites, and veterans embraced gloves and sparring. It highlights New York as a hub with figures like Donovan guiding a growing pool of skilled, disciplined sparrers and the need for proper training and heart.
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New York
Hosn
C. McClellan
Marquis of
Queensbury
McClellan
Michael Donovan
Marquis
Mr. Donovan
Mike
Donovan
Madison Square Garden
John
Boston
Charles Mitchell
England
Dominick McCaffrey
Pittsburg
Lombardy
Parkrow
Upper
Fifth Avenue
New York Athletic Club
Fettle
Tom Brown
Williams
Ottawa rider rides four miles on zephyr without harm
According to James L. Olney of Ottawa Ohio a late zephyr carried his horse through the air for four miles and set it down safely without any scratch or sprain.
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James L. Olney
Ottawa, O
Zephyr
Woodfin Named Executor for Harrison Phebus Estate
Capt P T Woodfin of Salem Mags has qualified as an executor of the Harrison Phebus estate the noted Old Point Comfort hotel keeper. Bond set at 600000 with each executor required to be a Virginia property owner.
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P. T. Woodfin
Salem
Mags
Harrison Phebus
Old Point Comfort
Virginia
Tutt’s Liver Pills Esteemed Worldwide by Doctor Tutt
Containing a tribute to Dr Tutt a New York physician whose liver pills are praised as a global remedy after twenty five years of study and practice The passage also notes dismissals at the Cincinnati Enquirer and an East St Louis police suspension creating a local turmoil.
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Tutt
New York
United States
East St. Louis, DL
H. G. Root
Pearl St
Tutit
Murray St
W.W
Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute touted in Buffalo ad
An 18-physician Buffalo medical complex markets its cure for chronic diseases including nasal throat lung liver kidney and women’s ailments. It claims home cures via correspondence and guarantees surgical cures for ruptures piles and related conditions while promoting related medical ads and prices.
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Buffalo
N. Y
America
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Celebrated Volcan Beats offer in Marshall Michigan
Promoters advertise thirty days trial of Volcan Beats and electric appliances to men with nervous debility and loss of vitality. Illustrated pamphlets mailed free in sealed envelopes. Readers are urged to write for full particulars at once.
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Tue Vourar Bert Co
Marshall, Mich
Shi Lis
America
Parmer’s Paradise
COL Ado L. and & Loa C
W. J. Horne
Wasashay
Chicaco
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Alabama
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Stanton
Rev. H. Dyer
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Rhode Island
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J. G. Flourney
Mississippi
Edmunds
Plumb
Secretary of the Interior
Senate Committee On Public Funds
Mitchell
House Committee
Gen. Ewing
Judiciary Committee
Beck
Sureme Court
Alfred Denney
van Wyck
Union Pacific
Thurman
Manchester
Victoria Railway Station
Deansgate
Simmons St
Mass
W. H. Tutt
Mortimer Roe
R. W. Criswell
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Allen O. Myers
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Washington
Minneapolis
G. N. Hawkins
New Richmond
Wis
McCaine
St. Paul
J.B. Perkins
Morris, Minn
Brown
Vancouver
Hall
Ayer
Newport
Perry Davis
Pai River
T. G. Emaley
Mason City
Elko, Nev
Dr. Pierce
Canadian Pacific
Mensman
Caswell, Hazard & Co
Lyon
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Lil
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
Hood
N. Nieurix Gate
Quincy
J. Seneca
Peoria
I. Hood
C. I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Courtcura
Drvna and Chemical Co
Earth
Tut
Hardy
J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ubie
Clauss
C. M. Sites & Co
Washington, D. C
N. W. Mutual Endowment Society
P.O. A
Minn
Taz HvMaseglemedy Company
Lafayette
Ind
Joseph Cillotts
Frazer
Binghamton Binghamton, N
Fwengland Conservatory OF Music
Brass
E. Tourjeb
K. Prankili Bon
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