Railway Bride and the Fatal Train Duel
In a dramatic 1875 railway tale, Joe Thurston, a freight driver, wins his wife Jennie back after rival Mark Maldon’s revenge plot. Mark, driven by jealousy, sabotages a run, but Jennie intervenes, and a switchman’s warning saves the couple as they narrowly avoid a collision with Express No. 80.
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Joe Thurston
Mark Maldon
Redwood Station
Jermie
Joe
Mark
Jonnie
Jennie
Clare
Jos
Atsle
Joyo
Jennia
Express
Abe
Joo
Hiia
Joot
Clear Spring
Apaley Tenation
Mar
Uke
Jon
Jon Thurston
Tie
Thornton
Cheat Spring
Pac
Jov
Tam
Villian
Apaley Junction
Titanie
Apsley Sunction
Expresa
Ling
Experiments on Rats and Anecdotes from Petersburg
Fragments describe a whiskey experiment on two rats in Peter s burg Vermont where they drink and fight after eighty drops, followed by a humorous tale of two bachelor brothers Jakob and William Grim who marry and grow old together, plus miscellaneous moralistic quips about love and women.
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Chen
Tervier
Jaco
William Grim
Jacob
William
Tarts
Jacob Grim
Switzerland
William Tell
Ant Ulacer
Muntain
Alpina Rocks
Thad
Via Hala
Cambridge
Athens
Georgia
Jersey City
Bessie Turner
Bessie
A Woman's Two Arguments and Alpine Picaresque Observations
A long miscellany passages describe a woman on a train carrying a basket with twin infants prompting the conductor to relent after a photo provokes pity. It moves through Swiss travel tropes and Alpine tourism, noting guides, beggary, and travelers, then shifts to cooking schools, social customs, and moral quips, with assorted vignettes on culture, fashion, and daily life.
Panther Attacks Norfolk Hunter in Sudden Stable Encounter
Mr. John K. Markill of Norfolk, St. Lawrence County, was returning home from a storm when a panther sprang from behind as he opened his stable door. The beast clamped the neck, a fierce dog joined the fight, and Markill, aided by a helper and a piehfork, finally drove the panther away. The animal measured seven feet five and a half inches from tip to tail, brownish with short, thick legs.
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John K. Markill
Norfolk
St. Lawrence County
N.Y
Markill
Partridge Gift for Dying Girl in Putman
Agnes Lodgerwood of Putman yearned for a boiler partridge as illness worsened. Friends offered a squirrel but the dying girl preferred the partridge. Later that day a partridge crashed into the house, was caught and cooked, and she died soon after.
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Agnes Lodgerwood
Putman
The Value of Newspapers and a Khedive’s Plans
A reflection on newspapers as affordable weekly knowledge drivers and a note on the Khedive of Egypt pursuing a Nile valley railroad into Africa. The piece imagines African explorers soon traveling in sleeping cars and writing vivid journeys.
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Egypt
the Nile
Africa
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