Place de la Concorde A Century of Historic Grandeur
A description of the Place de la Concorde in Paris notes its location beside the Tuileries and Champs Elysées and the Seine, its Luxor obelisk imported from Egypt in 1836, its weight and height, and its role in French history from the guillotine to the 1848 republic proclamation.
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Paris
Place de la Concorde
Tulle- Fes
Champs Elysees
River Seine
Luxon
Rameses the Great
Temple of
Thebes
Mohammed Ali
Egypt
France
Venger
Louis XVI
Bastille
Marie Antoinette
Rattlesnake Fang Tale From a Southern Plantation
A southern man recalls his uncle near Montgomery who killed a huge rattlesnake in a cotton field. The strike broke a fang on the hoe blade, the fang carried venom and was kept as a curiosity in an ebony box for years.
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Montgomery
My uncle burns a dangerous relic after a servant is wounded
A study scene ends with a servant using a peculiar device to remove a splinter. The arm swells within an hour and shows snake venom symptoms. The uncle, trained in medicine, saves the girl but gangrene forces amputation. He promptly destroys the murderous relic.
Two and Four
A trolley conductors dispute over fare changes ends with the driver refusing to stop for ten blocks. The story shifts to a wartime quip about Corporal Caithness, famed for a Waterloo pin
An Aspiration of Woe and Whoa from Milwaukee Journal
A brief editorial note from the Milwaukee Journal contrasts woe and whoa as a counsel toward better driving. The piece hints at caution and restraint in behavior behind the wheel.
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Milwaukee Journal
Two Failures One Success
A tale of love and sacrifice where Kitty rejects John as penniless but promises to seek fortune in the city. Years later they meet again as she explains she found fortune yet remains emotionally distant, while John earns a modest living, revealing their altered fortunes and enduring affection.
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John
Kate
Kitty
Flo
Strange doorstep tale of a baby found reading on arrival
A humorous anecdote recalls a mother wrapping her child in a newspaper and placing it on a doorstep. She rang the bells and vanished, leaving the servant to discover the baby sitting crosslegged reading the sporting news.
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Stubb
Penn
Pickpocket Plot in London and Glasgow Tale
A London detective visits Glasgow and insults Scottish police. A streetwise boy agrees to lift the English detective’s watch for half a crown, revealing the watch later found on the boy. The item is tied to a street tale in Piccadilly with a note on Piccadilly collars and a brief scientific note on the atmospheric ocean.
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London
Glasgow
Tommy
Hts
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