Robbery Plot Foiled by Nora Wilson and James Cliff
Nora Wilson and James Cliff uncover banker Holt’s chloroform plot to rob a gold satchel. Holt is exposed by the chloroform odor and the recovered cuff, bowie knife, and skeleton keys. Holt is jailed and the gold deposited for the Cliff family. The couple marries and starts a nest egg for their children.
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Nora
Arnica
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Holt
James Cliff
Nora Wilson
St. Louis Republic
Shorthand Typewriter Promises Word by Word Printing
An invention, a compact typewriter weighing 2 1/2 pounds, lets multiple fingers strike keys to print whole words in one stroke. It aims to replace shorthand with readable records, offering phonetic spellings and speeds around 100 words a minute, suitable for dictation and newspaper use.
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Vow
Sun Office
Joy and Love Persist Beyond Sorrow
A speaker recalls idealistic lines about living in the moment and joy. A friend counters that joy remains elusive, then life later tests love and manhood as the speaker vows devotion despite past scorn. The verse reflects longing, resilience, and spiritual love.
Conductor Stovall Knows the Track by Feel of Motion
A traveling man recalls Conductor Stovall on a Southern train near Charlotte North Carolina. Stovall claims precise location by feeling the train’s motion and notes Stanley’s crossing during a blast. He runs about 300 miles and can tell every curve without looking away from the rail.
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Stovall
Washington
Charlotte
N. C
Capt. Stovall
Stanley’s Crossing
Atlanta
Smallest New Zealand lamb frozen for refrigeration test
A tiny lamb exported from New Zealand was frozen in a block of ice to demonstrate a refrigerating process. The text features poetic excerpts and fragmented lines, intermixing described scenes with verses and later references to dawn and night. The piece blends imagery with stray OCR fragments and literary quotes.
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New Zealand
Awakening to Life and Bloom in Spring’s Call
The verse extols spring awakening as earth regreens the landscape and birds sing. It urges readers to shed sloth and gloom, awaken the heart, recall the Maker, and bloom as the year returns, with monthly renewal hinted in the imagery.
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