Young Telegraphers Heroic Gambit by Morgan Raid
A Civil War tale recounts General John Morgan raiding a Pantation telegraph station during Halleck’s Corinth campaign. Nine year old Jimmie Venable doubles as a spy using a wire setup, telegraphs a false train order, confounding Confederates and earning a small reward after Morgan departs.
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Marion
Morgan
John Morgas
Middle Southwest
Union
Halleck
Corinth
Tennessee
Pantation
Chharge
Tom Venable
Vensble
Venable
John Morgan
Mar- 620
Jimmie Venable
Jimmie
Statlon
P. Stanton
Juanle
Goldy
Morrar
The Last of the Slavers I Mystery of the Fog Covered Derelict
The narrator, first mate aboard the Mary Goodwin, recounts meeting a doomed schooner off the Atlantic on a fog bound night. A derelict slave ship appears with a dead bride aboard after a mutinous crew vanished, leaving a log claiming a plan to seize slaves. They destroy the ship and bury the bride at sea as the bell continues to toll.
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Mary Goodwin
Philadelphia
Newfyrontland
Halifax
Cape Race
Cape Breton
Becamp
Earm
Canary Islands
Africa
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
America
How a Fierce American Was Appeased
A wandering American recalls a Paris hotel encounter and a Budapest show misperception that Americans are all black. In a Paris music hall a waiter strikes a girl. the narrator defends the child, calms the scene, and leads a collection to pay the girl. The manager uses the money to pardon the waiter and asks Americans to return home quietly.
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America
Myurope
Hotel Des Invalides
Paris
May
Buret
Budapest
Place Moon
Toleto
Register
Toledo
Atlantic
Pacific
Allegheny Mountains
Agane
Walter
Thaginger
Pn Airl
Carl Stetwalter
Cil
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