Ma's Old Beau and the Missouri Mortgage Swindle
In a Missouri village a pair of orphans Clara and Mary Merwin faced a forged mortgage on their father’s estate. A mysterious visitor Abner Pierce exposes a Tennessee swindle by examining a mortgage with a magnifying glass, exposing Alexander Campbell alias Bell as the fraudster. Pierce stays to help resolve the case and assist the sisters, earning their gratitude.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Clara
Mary Merwin
Missouri
Abner Pierce
Clara Merwin
Mr. Merwin
Mr. Pierce
Alexander Campbell
Trut
Mr. Campbell
Pierce
Phillip Merwin
Tennessee
Nashville
Alexander Bell
Campbell
Philip Merwin
Mary
Bell
The Clever Magician and the Bell Ring Trick
A Paris bound magician and his assistant stage a publicity stunt promising to make the cathedral bell ring on cue. The scheme relies on candles in a window and a ringer in the belfry, producing a clever if hollow effect that ends with a wink from the audience and a local official.
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Robert London
France
Wag
Paris
Desspair
Diableric
What I Have Seen
A reflective paragraph recalling lives shaped by choices and consequences. It notes a young man’s failed paths from farm sale to asylum, constant travel, profligate spending, a daughter’s unhappy marriage, honesty lost for gain, parental poverty from folly, and a wife restoring a family while her husband falters.
Wait and be patient with household duties say elders
A column urges restraint and kindness in marriage, noting how hard both spouses work and recalling the wife who cared for a dying child. It appeals to be patient, respect, and to create a peaceful home atmosphere despite fatigue and strain. A jab at Eufaula's town character ends the piece.
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Miss Simmons
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W. B. Tackett
Gillespie’s Corner
Abner T. Smith
Attorney At Law
Cuthbert, GA
Fielder
L. Fielder
Cuthbert
Georgia
Randolph
Stewart
Quitman
Clay Early
Calhoun
Terrell
Supreme Court of Georgia
U.S. District
Southern District of Georgia
America
England
Jas. H. Guerry
Dawson, Ga
8. G. Robertson
Westmoreland
Brig. iHite
Isis Mendhes
South Lampe Street
R. WM
J. Johnson
Fort Gaines
Tf R. Rivennon
Usenness
United States District Court
L. Warner
Aving
Benevolence
Aera
Wilen Sowing
Bb. W. Ellis
Beau
Little Miss Simmons
West Side
Nathan
Inter Ocean
Eufaula
Hades
Lufaula
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