My Neighbor Mrs Fraser and the Station Tale
A nameless narrator rents Laburnum cottage and befriends Mrs Fraser, a quiet widow who believes she is a young wife awaiting her husband. At the village station, the truth emerges: her husband died in a railway crash decades ago, yet she remains hopeful and continues to prepare for their imagined child, a mercy their caretaker Sarah sustains.
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Devonshire
Laburnum Cottage
Longfellow
London
Tam
Edward
Tom
Darby
Joan
Mrs. Fraser
Sarah
Mr. Smith
Father
Mr. Fraser
Barah
Royal palace marvels and a lifting chamber tale
In Genoa on March 18 1830 Greville Memoirs describe the king and queen sleeping together with ivory altars and holy water guards at their bed. A device like a car is installed inside the palace, raised by a chain to the top floor, carrying six people to access each landing.
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Genoa
Old Time Remedies for Insomnia Warn of Blood Overload
A printed health tip warns insomnia stems from excess brain blood and urges removing the cause. It advises avoiding long mental labor, tight clothing, and cold feet, and keeping warm feet. It adds that moral causes require no special cure beyond care and common sense.
Smiles and Tears In Sorrow's Shadow
A New York Ledger poem extols smiles and tears as light for kindred souls. The verses describe how radiant expressions lift hearts, ease despair, and offer glimpses of paradise, urging gratitude for affection and pity amid sorrow.
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Gret
Lovya
New York Ledger
Growth and aging balance in the human body
The article explains that growth continues into the twenties and beyond, while after growth ceases the body maintains balance between intake and waste. In old age, after sixty, waste exceeds reparative nutrition causing tissues to shrink. Growth depends on nervous excitation and healthy blood, with youth needing extra nutrients for developing tissues to avoid arrested development or disproportionate lengthening.
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New York Ledger
Secretive London Cigar Trade Exposed in Pearsons Weekly
A correspondent describes a large London trade in maker use of discarded cigar ends and street scraps. Leaves are soaked in a tobacco bath to create cigars, with autumn collectors using chestnut leaves dipped in filth to imitate tobacco. A past defense involved cigars made of brown paper steeped in tobacco juice.
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London
Pearson’s Weekly
Blind Tigers Haunt Prohibition Era City
Anecdotes from Atlanta’s past recount a blind tiger raid and the police chase led by Recorder Anderson. A blacksmith named Smith myth threads through local lore, explaining how tradesmen like John the smith became the surname Smith.
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Jedge
Anderson
Atlanta Constitution
A Saloon Gamble Turns Into a Lesson in Names
In a New York Sun piece, a gambling duel at a bar ends with a surprise turn as one player’s fortune shifts, followed by a comic tale of John Ditto whose name leads to misreadings and entanglements from hotel registers to marriage. The piece blends a cautionary tale with a stray anecdote about mistaken identity.
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Jobn
John
John the Coppersmith
John the Smith
John Smith
Clifford Maver Me Bee Dee
Joe
Scott
New, York
John Ditto
St. Louis
Hinkleschneider
Ditto
John Hinkleschneider
Somerville
Tex
Laclede Hotel
Texas
A.—Bscranton
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Ela Wheeler Wilcox
ANS Brotha
North Carolina
Page
W. F. Pennington
Acent
Hillsborough
Maryland
HE. Cooper & Bro
A. E. Cooper & Bro
Denton, Maryland
Atlanta
Sss5.co
Turner & Moore
General Southern
S. Paul Sr
Baltimore
Washington, D.C
THE
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Diulaware
Samuel W. Hall Newell Ball
William D. Denney
Samuel W. Hall
Newell Batt
Bridgeville
Del
Robert J. Holliday
Clayton
William N. Boggs
Strlasurer
Teller First Nat’ Bank of Delaware
Richard R. Kenney
Dover
Franklin C. Maull
Lewes
Charles H. Atkins
Milton
State of Delaware
Clarence D. Sypherd
del Burton & Sypherd
Hiram Reedy
James N. Todd
Denton
Richmond
Iva
Longman & Martinez
WM. E, Brown
Lewis
Wheeler Transportation Line
Great Choptank
Trappe and Tuckahoe Rivers
Pier
Light Street
Oxford
Trappe
Cambridge
Chancellor's
Secretary
Clark's
Choptank
Lloyd's
Dover Bridge
Kingston
McCarty’s
Ganey’s
Todd's
Downes
Towers
Williston
Tuckahoe Bridge
Reese’s
Coward's
Covery’s
Sillshoro
Queen Anne
Delaware & Chesapeake R. R
Cambridge & Seaford R. R
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Covey
Coward
P.m. Ganey
McCarty
Medford’s
Clark’s
Hillsboro
Northwest
P. H. McShane & Son
Denton, Md
F. W. Redden
W. F. Murphy
Dealh
Murphy
NEW Pointain Hotel
COR
Pratt & Calve
Eleevator
Bernard Reilly
WM. H. Deweese
Fred R. Owens
Attorneys-at-Law
Court House
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H. Deweesn
Caroline County
James Swann
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