Bold Express Robbery Tale From 1860 Train Run
A former express messenger recalls a daring 1860 robbery west of Susquehanna. He details arranging a distraction with a baggage man, swapping guards, and lifting a $50,000 safe by a staged wagon heist. After a kitchen blindside blow, he pursued the thieves through fields and forest, recovering the safe with help from a late arrest.
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B. Lewis
Express
Damme Hestrick
Susquehanna
Honesdale
Trunk
A Petruchian Courtship and Wedded War Story
A memoir about courting Agnes Bugbee and the feigned opposition plan that led to marriage. The narrator describes initial resistance, a staged shell game to win her, and how marriage softened his fears, ending with his wife becoming a model partner.
Costly Adventure On Rails Ends In Misguided Love
A Denver banker’s niece misses a kidnaped plan by a road agent on a Denver Laramie run. The masked thief abducts Frances Delaney at dusk after a Union Pacific stop, but a misread ruse leads to a comic outcome. Blake returns the rancher’s daughter to Denver as Frances weighs marriage vows to salvage reputation.
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Union Pacific
Laramie
Denver
Twessengers, & Ranches
Daugh
Frances Delaney
Miss Delaney
Denver and
Drew Rein
Walter Blake
Blake
San Francisco
Lulu Ross Medgeley
Man Picked Up at Sea on an Anarchist Plot
The Euphemia near Gibraltar rescues a man in a small boat who warns of a buried infernal device aboard in a plot by New York anarchists. The box is found in John Ramsden’s baggage. the rescuer reveals a brother’s warning and saves the ship, then disappears with the device and the supposed bonds thief. Police pursue but lose track as the pair flee. Captain Berkeley notes wary behavior toward strangers.
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Euphemia
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Naples
Price
John Ramsden
New York
Strait of Gibraltar
Aca
Roger T. Berkeley
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Ad Claims Cure
A Queens Virginia resident touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleas ant Pellets as curing scrofula erysipelas and other skin diseases. He reports weight gain from 130 to 175 pounds after six bottles and three pellets, credits the medicine with blood purification and health restoration. Free Medical Adviser offer shown with stamps for mailing costs.
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Dr. Pierce
Hilary Koons
Queens
Golden
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
A Pretty Particle and Planets in a Poem
A verse by Clinton Scollard in Lippincott's Magazine celebrates Bibylia a teacher versed in many ologies and shows a pupil's view of astronomy. Venus stands out among planets with belts and rings while the poet yearns for a celestial spark.
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Bibylia
Sibylla
Clinton Scollard
Lippincott’s
San Francisco Examiner Quote Sparks A Dramatic Plea
A fragment from the San Francisco Examiner features a tense exchange with a character urging action as a rope is feared to break, highlighting a moment of panic and plea for a safer outcome.
At the Breakfast Table
A New Orleans Times-Democrat conversation sketches a young matron, an old maid, and a bachelor at a hotel breakfast. They discuss housekeeping, with jokes about John away much of the time and raising children in a hotel, prompting a quip about using the elevator and a shift in the talk.
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John
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Kind but Firm Bishop and the Portable Bath Tub Tale
An English bishop owned a portable bath tub. On a pastoral visit he forgot it and found the housemaid had used it. He called her to his study and gently said that he did not mind her using the tub, but objected to her doing behind his back what she would not do in his face.
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Bannard
Laget
Agnes Bugbee
Miss Bugbee
Fife
Bebelf
Bien
Petruchio
Prate
Truman Bassford
Mary
Lippincott
Fond Father Test, Cat Trick, Elsie’s Reply
A playful dialogue between a father and daughter Elsie. He asks what a cat is and what creeps up stairs at night, she answers with a simple Papa. The exchange highlights a child’s quick wit and the father’s gentle show of her intelligence.
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Elsie
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Cambridge City, Ind
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Mr. Putoff
Cambridge City Lumber Coo
Astronomy
Venus
Mars
Saturn
San Francisco Examiner
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