A Christmas Experience in an Odessa Lazaretto
An English traveler recalls a Christmas spent in an Odessa quarantine facility. A Greek man and a young woman quarrelled loudly, culminating in the man stabbing the woman and hiding her body beneath floor planks. After release, the man is led away in irons. the fate of the woman remains implied. The piece closes with miscellaneous notes on holly and a light verse about Santa Claus.
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Odessa
Turkey
A precarious push. A winter in Yosemite cabin tale
A newlywed couple stay in a Yosemite valley cabin through winter after choosing to remain past the season's end. A hunting trip leads to a perilous bear encounter on a cliff, ending with the grizzly slain and bearskin becoming a cabin rug. Christmas duties are overshadowed by fear, strengthening the couple's bond.
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F. A. Ober
Yosemite
Alicia
Guardian of the Valley
Table Rock
Grizzly
Middlesex
Abbie C. Jenness
Sudbury
Frank A. Rich
Cambridge
Sudbury Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
H. Folsom
Register
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Pliny
England
Lonicerus
France
Europe
United States
Santa Claus
Pa’s
Mamma
Yosemite Valley
Alfred
Glacier Point
Svunsliyo
Fl Haynes
Clothier
Maynard
Hudson Carriage Company
Savings Bank
Boston
Hudson
Hudson Carriace Company
W. H. Moulton
Savings Bank Building
C. P. Walker
Marlboro Junction
Westerly
Quincy
Scotch
S. Fowler
H. S. Richardson
Kk, H. Maker
Concord Mass
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
J. C. Friend
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
T. F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concorn Junction
Mas
D. Cilmore
Maynard's Block
Concord Junction
Teremiah Sheehan
Hapgood
Stow
Enterprise Office
Peck, Stow
Mass