The Ransom of an Overcoat and a Ball Game
E Wilbert Marsh, carrying a new overcoat, helps a pretty stranger with a letter. A city ball game distraction leads him to wager his coat on a bet and lose it to a rival. The coat yields a discovered letter from Ollie to Sam Nebaum planning a theater outing, while a comic mistaken chase unfolds.
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James Buchanan
Daily Story Pub. Co
E. Wilbert Marsh
Stort
Marsh
Sam Niebaum
Sam
Fred Crombie
Fred
Brooklyn
Olli
Miss Ollie
Ollie
Overcoat Ransom and a Stolen Letter Misadventure
A man forgets to mail a crucial letter. A woman rushes, loses purse, endures rain, and returns exhausted. The next day E. Wilbert Marsh appears with ransom for the coat, only to find the same money and cigars in the pocket, while recalling the unmailed letter and its vanished evidence.
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E. Wilbert Marsh
Chinese and His Pen Tale of deft handling
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recounts a newspaper man who learns a stylographic pen is simple to fix after a repairman demonstrates. a Chinese man in town had previously dismantled and reassembled the pen with skill, proving superior handling and invention beyond the maker, while noting stereotypes about Irish and American approaches.
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Philadelphia
A Child's Faith in His Absent Father
A Philadelphia politician recalls a moment in Harrisburg showing his young daughter's trust in him. The child believed the moon broken only a small piece remained and said it will be mended when her father returns. Her hopeful certainty reflects family faith in a public figure.
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Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Luna
Thorough Paced Economy Story in Old Cincinnati Tale
A young Cincinnati man, skilled with money, marries into wealth and lives rent free in his father in law’s house. He explains the house belongs to him by inheritance but would incur taxes if he accepted it now. The anecdote highlights frugal prudence and social mobility via marriage.
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Cincinnati
A Unique Procession at Madonna di Pompeii Shrine
A London Graphic correspondent describes pilgrims to the Madonna del Rosario in Valle di Pompei. People travel from distant regions and Sardinia, dressed in notable costumes. Contadini walk or ride white‑ox drawn carts, singing and playing instruments as barefoot girls with hair down enter the church to intercede for ill relatives.
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London Graphic
Valle di Pompei
Madonna di Pompeii
Italy
Sardinia
London Lad Sold Into Slavery Becomes Shawnee Kin
A London Jewish boy Samuel Sanders was kidnapped in 1760, sold into bondage in America, fled to North Carolina, joined Daniel Boone in the Kentucky wilderness, was adopted by Shawnees after capture, married a Shawnee woman, and his descendants thrive today.
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London
England
America
Samuel Sanders
Sanders
Virginia
North Carolina
Daniel Boone
Boone
Kentucky
Ohio
Ship of the desert: steamer stranded in California desert
In California near Needles a large stern wheel steamer named the Alviso sits stranded a mile and a half from the Colorado River, halted when the river shifted course last September. Indians warned Capt. J. W. Babson as flood levels fell, leaving the ship high and dry while residents await summer runoff to refloat. The incident highlights the Colorado River carving new land along the California Arizona border, a playful record of river changes and proposed pledges in territorial shifts.
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California
Colorado River
Desert
Colorado
Alviso
J. W. Babson
Needles
Babson
Wyoming
Arizona
Sleep Walking And Sleep Talking In The Brain’s Hidden Wake
The article explains that while organs and muscles may be active during sleep, the brain can sleep partially or fully. It cites Speir Armstrong and Child studies showing 47 percent of men and 37 percent of women talk in their sleep among 200 college students. It notes sleep talkers can answer questions, with more women than men answering, and that most sleep talkers are under 25. It gives examples from a sleeping lawyer who recalled nothing of an entire evening.
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Speir, Armstrong
A Kentucky Summer Outfit Story
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky recalled a mid June summons to Washington when his young daughter sent him a trunk of summer clothes. She packed seven white shirts six winter scarves a toothbrush a Bowie knife and two revolvers with a note saying she hoped he is well. He praised his daughter's judgment saying she sent what a Kentucky girl regards as a suitable summer outfit for a gentleman.
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Senator Blackburn
Kentucky
Washington
Papa
The Height of Ignorance Tale Told by Grover
A Boston Record recounts lawyer Grover enjoying a tale about a Yankee quarrel with his brother. In court the brother’s testimony drew sharp criticism and the man’s supposed intelligence was mocked as excessive information.
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Grover
Boston Record
Mr. Grover
No Boat Free from Danger Moral Tale
A father warns his son to avoid rocks when rowing with a friend. The boy and foolhardy companion capsize in deep water, nearly drowning. Moral: rocks may appear anywhere there is a fool on board.
Blood Balm promises cures and free trial appeals
A ragbag of patent medicine claims and ads. Blood Balm touts cures for blood and skin diseases, promises free samples from Atlanta, and urges readers to help spread word. Other items push Dr Kline nerve restorer, Putnam dyes, a teething syrup, catarrh cure reward, and Pope letter statistics.
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Buoop Baum Co
Mitchell Street
Atlanta
Kline
B H. Kuixt
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Colorado Rver
Lizeldavw
Petar Crise
Srepenee
Hall
J. W. O’brien
Third Avenue
Minneapolis
Minn
Ayer
J. Early Finley
Ironton
J. C. Ayer CO
Lowell
Cross
Buckingham
Hall & Co
AML
Sears, Ruck & CO
Chicago
Candy Cathartic
Dragytota
Pean Aeteag
Wasi
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