Fragmented mutterings mix humor and crime in city notes
Stocky miscellany of odd scenes, legal quips, disguises, and locals fills a page. A Baltimore lawyer cites jury misgivings on a beer sale case while a ragged tramp carries flowers, a West Side man faces a startled pistol report, and wedding notices with charity undertones surface amid letters about past marriages and city gossip. The piece blends humor and small news in a shuffled, period voice.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Baltimore
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State street
The Matrimonial Wine and the Old Prospector’s Advice
A tale recounts a father offering blunt guidance to his son about women during a ball. He compares women to mines, urging caution and urging the son to seek genuine substance over surface appearance, then to pursue practical, lasting value in a marriage.
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Blinkins
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Prospector's Odyssey to the Black Hills Ends in Homing Hope
A rugged prospector abandons a farm for a fabled westward search. He reaches the Argonauts era then returns to his old hill country only to resume prospecting. After decades of drift from Arizona to White Pine and beyond, he eyes the Black Hills as a final resting or staking ground, with kin awaiting his tale.
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James Russell Lowell
Eureka Sentinel
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forelands
Reese
White Pine
Arizona
Piddie
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Black Hills
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Helena, Montana
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City Meat Markets
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