Midnight Train and the Dead Baby Mystery
A doctor recounts a midnight journey in which a young widow cradles a dead infant on a train. The physician and his wife shelter her, uncovering secrets of fear, a hate-filled husband, and a budding reconciliation as Captain Tremayne arrives to comfort his wife and claim their future together.
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Orden
Tam
Merton
London
Mary
John
Mr.Merton
U Pe Tremayne
Captain Tremayne
Peseanetin
Mauryni Sr Covery
Hugh
Mrs. Merton
Tremayne
Tone Door
Honest man and knave speak in different voices
A curious miscellany item cites moral aphorisms on character and usefulness, then recounts a Denver News observer’s encounter with a Chinese slave who became free in America and later joined Chinese miners near Como, Chicago? The piece follows with notes on his race, language, and names Montoya and Ong Fung Yu.
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Denver
Col
Celestial Kingdom
Orient
Spain
Strait of
Formosa
China
San Francisco
America
Colorado
Como
Montoya
Ong Fung Yu
Christian Character Grows Like A Tree Through Patient Effort
The quote frames character as a long term process rather than a one time act. It compares growth to a tree that bears fruit with steady care and continual attention.
In the Midst of Secrets We Walk and Wonder
A reflective meditation on unseen atmospheres and their hidden ties to human thought. The passage considers how mystery surrounds us and how little we understand about the air that envelops us and influences the mind.
The Ble s Sabbaths Bright Home Day Blessing
A short piece urges making the first day of the week a bright cheerful day at home. It argues against Blue Laws and calls for music prayer Bible reading and kind conversation to create a perpetual blessing for the family and community.
Tender call to guard children from harm
A reflection on how every child carries a mother's heart and a father's hopes. The piece laments paths toward evil and the sorrow of parents when a child goes astray, urging action to rescue young lives from harm.
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Harm P— Southern Cross
The Children in the Garret
Uncle Hal recalls a childhood on a farm with a large old house and a garret stacked with dusty antique machines and relics. He describes spinning wheels, looms, churns, crates, and candle molds that fueled boyhood games and curiosity while the garret served as a cherished, mysterious playroom.
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Hal
Advertising Pays The Steam Of Business, A Boston Retailer Says
A Boston retailer explains advertising pays by noting trade slows when ads stop and cash receipts tell the tale. He compares prices, uses fixed pricing, checks rival deals, and warns that stopping ads hurts sales in the long run. The conversation mirrors a lesson from the Rupes in the Boston Journal.
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Boston
Zoston Journal
Trained hog enters theatre with Edwin Forrest
Edwin Forrest stands near a theatre door when a man shows a trained hog and asks admission. The gatekeeper questions the profession, Forrest retorts in jest and signals a wider entrance, implying a company of trained animals could enter.
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Edwin Forrest
Forrest
Dr. Bale Cough Syrup Heals A Cold Joke
A humorous fragment shows a man asking where heaven s beat gift to man lies and receiving a playful reply about Dr Bale s cough syrup having cured his cold. The exchange carries light tone and period flavor.
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Dr. Bale
Prudente
Chapter 261 Act Amends Clerks Statutes For Supreme Court
Chapter 261 amends and adds to Chapter 198 of the Public Statutes regarding clerks of the Supreme Court and the Court of Common Pleas. The measure updates duties, eligibility, and administrative provisions affecting clerks in these courts. It outlines scope, applicable offices, and transitional rules for implementation.
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General Assembly
Justice Court
House of Correction
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Public Statutes
JosHua M. Addeman
Secretary of
Recipe for Building a Town Quick Guide
A list of civic advice urges town growth through selling lots at fair prices, attracting businesses, supporting local firms, promoting worthy projects, praising your town to strangers, backing the local newspaper, donating land for enterprises, avoiding public criticism, and investing surplus locally in profitable factories. It emphasizes practical steps to boost town prosperity.
Humbugged Again and Cured by Hop Bitters
A letter from St. Paul in the Pioneer Press recounts how Hop Bitters cured a chronically ailing wife in less than two months, noting the improvement lasted eighteen months and praising such “humbugging.”
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H. T
St. Paul
Pioneer Press
Tramp Discovers He Flees From Mother-in-law
A Kansas man who came to a house intending to drive the woman away for food and money found the woman in charge was his long-lost mother-in-law. He reportedly ran four miles before stopping.
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Kansas
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotes Vitality and Recovery
A woman reports her daughter improved after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla with the first bottle, noting relief from distressing food issues and extreme fatigue. A second bottle cured her symptoms, emphasized by claims of unique concentration of vitalizing purifying properties.
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Hood
From a Wall Collapse to Pest Remedies and Quips
A man trapped under a fallen wall pleads for help while jokes about his wife’s reaction to his lateness. The text then extols Sanforil’s Radical Cure against consumption and a pest exterminator claim for Barns and homes, ending with a Dr. Johnson quip about conflicting ideas.
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Phenix
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Geo. W. Brown
Marshall St
Providence
F.H. Drake
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Detroit
Mich
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Jackson, Mich
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Mass
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Weeks & Potter
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Japan
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Farsrags
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Holden
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Torn
Sanforil
Parsons
Dr. Johnson
Millwright
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Hoop
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China Ton
E. F. Twist
Norwich Conn
Sunlight
Shadow
John B.gough
Becky
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Sey
Hommen
Mons Spat
de Wor Irons Co
Hartford
Conn
WM. Simpson & Sons
Eddystone
Eddystone Print Works
Simeon Tidsell
Saugerties
N. Y
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Krondout
Rondout
Baltimore
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Innickso & Co
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Court of Probate
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Waltee
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