Mrs Crusoe's Moods on a Fundy Island Resort
Tucker and Nan Carroll drift into comic danger after their canoe is swept away by Bay of Fundy tides. He teases and pleads while she frets over their engagement, misreads sea weather and elopement risk, and a kindly Boston cleric, Rev Philip Hardman, appears. He offers tea and a boat to the mainland, leading to an improvised marriage before supper.
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Tucker
Nan Carroll
Bay of Fundy
Lubec
Miss Carroll
Pacific
Nan
Robinson Crusoe
Philip Hardman
Boston
Dave
Hall of Fame notes and varied obituaries from the era
Major General George L. Gillespie gains a patent for a new metal of honor. Commander Booth Tucker plans to train six children for Salvation Army leadership. Judge Andrew J. Harlan, surviving Twenty‑First congress member, was born in 1815 in Ohio. Captain Moses Gibson died in Washington after presiding over Wisconsin’s first Republican convention. John Ahnweiler, a Dallas native who died, was a drummer boy at Waterloo. President Dillon of the North Missouri Press Association will marry before his term ends. White Whittlesey of Subury is presented a fencing sword once worn by David Garrick. Theodore S. McLellan, Maine’s oldest printer and companion to Pierce Hawthorne and Longfellow, turned ninety‑three in Brunswick. Yale reports 12,605 living graduates. Rev. Joseph S. Lord, born 1808, is the last survivor of class of 81. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Jones of Johnson celebrate sixty years of marriage with no deaths in the home.
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George L. Gillespie
Booth- Tucker
Salvation Army
Andrew J. Harlan
Savannah
Ohio
John Ahnweiler
Dallas
Tex
France
Napoleon
Waterloo
Dillon
North Missouri Press Association
White Whittlesey
Subury
Conn
David Garrick
Theodore
Mclellan
Maine
Franklin Pierce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Longfellow
Brunswick
Yale University
Joseph S. Lord
Laingsburg
Mich
Fletcher Jones
Johnson, Vt
Armour’s Christmas Gift Admonition Sparks Termination
A Washington Post tale recounts P. D. Armour’s practice of giving office staff suits each Christmas. One subordinate ordered a lavish frock coat and paid nearly $100, prompting Armour to fire him and remark he could spot a hog from long experience in packing.
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P. D. Armour
Coincidence on Train Reveals Lifelong Ties Between Men
Two travelers on a western state railway share a car and exchange business cards. Geoffrey D Arneille, attorney at law from Williamville, and a man who grew up there discover common roots. The other man realizes his boyhood friend Jeff Darnell is the same person, ending their chat as one continues to his destination.
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Geoffrey D’arneille
Williamville
Jeff Darnell
Goodby
Orinoco
Rio Negro
Amazon
South America
Harper’s Weekly
Exercise as a warning against overemphasis on sport
A Youth's Companion note cautions that excessive focus on physical training can lead youths to neglect other tasks. It argues that exercise should serve to enable work and duty, not become the sole aim, citing a New York senator who credited longevity to avoiding exercise.
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Senator Evarts
New York
Knight in Spain romance blooms from unseen neighbor
A sickly girl Miss Mouse in a quiet building fixates on her mysterious neighbor, the “Gentleman of Spain.” She imagines a refined, educated partner, never meeting him, while he quietly nurses her through illness with violets and careful attentions. Their bond deepens as truth emerges during a wedding vow.
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Vetera
Spain
Maggie
Miss Mouse
Gentleman
Ranish
The Glib Mr Jackson Burglar Turns the Tables
A house buyer, Mr. Jackson, guns, and a clever owner trap a burglar in a Glenville home. Jackson cuts alarm wires, is caught by a bear trap, fires at the builder, and is later restrained by police, water hose, and a jail term for burglary. The would-be thief also blackmails about a priceless coin and stamp collection.
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Mr. Jackson
Chicago
Jackson
Rathier
Short Stories and Oddities in News
Within twenty years of cane culture lawail ranks second globally in sugar production and Japan begins to heed his example. A grave marking for Virginia Care, born on American soil to English parents, will be pursued on Roanoke Island North Carolina. Vermont’s repeal of wildcat and lynx bounty leads trapper Jesse Bentley to release three lynx into his own traps. A Bridgeport hospital baby claims a record of twenty four meals daily, under seven inches long and two pounds. Over 22 million acres of public lands were handed to private individuals, expanding the U S productive region by nearly the size of Indiana.
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Lawail
Japan
Virginia Care
Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Vermont
Jesse Bentley
Sunderland
Bridgeport
Conn
Indiana
United States
Editorial Flings and Market Notes Across Papers
A selection of brisk newspaper quips on Lawson versus Lowell in Boston, Vermont maple sugar on sale by April, Rockefeller buying Sleepy Hollow, a German jurist doubting poker as chance, Abdul Hamid arming for a peace conference, and a wry note on the American naval demonstration against Turkey.
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Boston
Lawson
Lowell
Longfellow
Philadelphia Inquirer
New York Evening Mail
John D. Rockefeller
Sleepy Hollow
Rockefeller
Atlanta Journal
United States Senate
Philadelphia
Turkey
Abdul Hamid
Detroit Free Press
Pith and Point From Atchison Globe
A humorous Atchison Globe column notes that sacrificing pleasure for others fosters patience for age training. It argues future worry is useless, contrasts rich and poor spending, and laments sociable men intruding on daughters with beaus.
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Atchison Globe
Alpine Pickings Deface Swiss Glaciers With Signs
Switzerland complains that advertising signs mar glaciers in Grindelwald and other resorts. Winter guests rival summer visitors as tourism grows. The Swiss government cannot hire enough diplomatic staff since the salary is only 500 dollars a year.
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Switzerland
Grindelwald
Swiss
Johnnie’s Discourse on Water
A playful schoolroom narration on water its many uses and effects. It mentions rain flooding a cellar onions and horseradish watery metaphors and a girl named Waterman. The piece notes sailors dams fires and a large eel story ending with a reflection on drowning and floods.
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Johnnie
Jane
Father
Waterman
Wester
Joke Lost on Him Turns on New York Police Story
An officer recalls a London chophouse scene where a cockney mocks New York policing. A New York valet anecdote says a bobby directs a visitor three times around the Flatiron at noon to reach a hospital, provoking laughter and doubt about the bobby’s sobriety.
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Oficer
London
Soho
New York
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Ide
Broadway
Flatiron
New York Tribune
Noise and Public Quiet Across Nations and Times
The piece cites Schopenhauer on insensibility to noise as a marker of undeveloped nerves and notes Americans may be nearly as tolerant as Europeans. It recalls Sir Arthur Sullivan composing at night due to noise, urges local authorities to unite on quiet, and quotes Bernard Shaw criticizing state aided noises like church bells and military bands.
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Schopenhauer
Arthur Sullivan
Bernard Shaw
London
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Ile
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Rt. A. Jackson
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