Crooked Mose Aids in Night Ranger Plot
In Allington Hicks and Matthews plot a raid on the Ranger armory and factory. Pete the stable boy and the dwarf Mose plan to thwart them by sabotaging their ambush with a trapped box collapse that injures Hicks and McGuire, prompting a chaotic escape as the chapter ends.
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Pete
Hicks
Maffews
Marse McLean’s
Mose
Firefly
Nancy
Matthews
Victoria
Thompson
McGuire
Jemmy Huson
Marie McLean
Monkey Pete
Vagrant Clergyman Causes Stir At Hotel Mozart
A New Haven business gathering at Hotel Mozart bar exposed a dilapidated former minister who once performed a family’s marriage and baptism. John Stevenson, recognizing the seventy two year old man as an ex-pastor long bound to drink, paid him off with a bill and told him to leave town. The once respected clergyman, now a vagrant, has spent over four decades as a slave to alcohol.
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Matthews
Hicks
John
Rangers
Simpson’s
Jim Harvey
Captain Fowler
Pete
Black John
Canton
John Hicks
Mars
Capen Webber
Mose
Nancy
Allington
New Haven
Conn
Mozart
John Stevenson
Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson
Faithful Dog Postman Beats Odds in Maine
Lewiston Journal recounts Don the dog postman of East Sullivan delivering mail daily across a quarter mile to G. E. Simpson’s home. He barks for payment, then returns the bundle when the residents are away, prompting Bar Harbor Record to joke there are emptier heads than Don.
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Lewiston
Sullivan
Don
G. E. Simpson
Althoug
Bar Harbor
Don’s
A Girl's Railroad Feat Paris Letter Rival Emerges
An 18 year old girl from Auvergne challenges the Austrian trunk journey feat by riding 540 kilometers from Paris to Vienna on foot then perched on a goods wagon buffer to finish the trip. She endured cold fatigue until railway officials found her and sent her to relatives.
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Paris
Vienna
Auvergne
Aas
Cxnse
Arizona Scheme Unveiled For Rio Verde Canal Area
A Phoenix special reports a Saluda Southern Railway Company plan with 19.8 million dollars in capital to build 878 miles of rail from a new town 18 miles north of Phoenix on Rio Verde Canal lands. The project links with Glendale Tempe and Phoenix, aims to water 300000 acres in Salt River valley within two years, and seeks rights of way toward Nogales Yuma and Flagstaff. The incorporators are canal company insiders and belt lines are planned to connect the valley. Also noted is a New York wedding with no attendance by President Harrison’s family and Mrs. McKee’s travel from Indianapolis to Terre Haute to visit a brother.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Saluda Southern Railway Company
Rio Verde Canal Company
Verde River
Salt River Valley
Canal Company
It River Valley
Glendale
Tempe
Nogales
Yuma
Flagstaff
Russell Harrison
Inexpensive Cold Storage House Built in Michigan
A cedar block refrigerating house with lime mortar joints and six inch air spaces, cedar floor and straw loft. The 24 by 30 foot room costs just over $600 and uses natural ice for cooling to store ripe fruits for up to a month.
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Michigan
Cleaning slippers with alum and fullers earth
Use equal parts powdered alum and fullers earth to clean white suede slippers. Brush dry and rub until clean. For glace kid slippers apply gasoline with a cloth.
Reverend Carter baptised fourteen thousand infants in seventeen years
The Rev. C. A. Carter of St. Mary's Church Liverpool England has baptised 14 014 infants during the last seventeen years an average of sixteen a week.
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C. A. Carter
St. Mary’s Church
Liverpool
England
Household Hints From a Bygone Dinner Tablescape
A column of practical tips covers table decor with a green thorn-backed scarf, white linen embroidery shades, and curtains in ecru and sage. It offers egg age tests using salt in water, baby clothes bands in wool or silk blends, and a boil remedy using a boiled egg skin to reduce soreness and styes.
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Eb Allen
Bessie McLean
Louis
McLean
Fowler
Court House Square
Atlanta
Jake
Marie Capen
Kinzie
Kyinder
Bragg
Lieutenant Hicks
Begorra
Honey
Aouon
Indianapolis Journal
Jane Eyre
Pennsylvania
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