Night of Terror at Deering and Paris Train Plot
A telegraph operator in Deering recounts a October 1870 night when armed robbers seized him to stop a midnight train at the embankment. His wife Alice, 18, navigated a stormy route to Paris to summon help, aiding in a dramatic rescue that captured the gang and led to trials and honors from passengers and officials.
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Deering
Pacific Railroad
Paris
Vermont
Alice
Tait
Stirling
John Martin
Rufian
Hill
Paria
Robert
San Francisco
Martin
Selim
Seon
Thad
Telegreg
Deering Station
Express Company
Montreal Star
One Picture of Hell in English Drama
An English dramatist imagines a man in a dream conversing with departed ancestors. One declares hell exists as a state of apathy where there is no interest, enjoyment, ambition, or desires. The man could go to heaven yet feels no urge, a condition seen in idle rich society and club life.
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Alice
Thad
Robert
Paris
Hell
Heaven
Maine
Kennebec (Me
On Train Bet Turns Into Odd Cure Offer
Two men on a train bet they can kiss the young girl's cheek to cure her neuralgia. The girl objects preferring an infirmary. The other man suggests a kiss might ease the pain and a rheumatism claim is tacked on, as reported by the Boston Home Journal.
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Maggie
Jalgin
Doston Home Journal
Tom Reed at School Provokes with Old Time Reminiscence
Ex-Speaker Reed as a boy was tall and slender and outspoken. He once bit a red apple and challenged others to find reasons it should not touch his lips. A master’s rod promptness followed as a response. A doctor advises extreme caution with a paralyzed old gentleman under daily nurse care. The new assistant claims careful, slow walking from Philadelphia experience.
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Tom Reed
Philadelphia
Un American compliment sparks delight
Detroit Free Press quotes Chollie and Fweddie in a playful scene where Chollie is praised as perfectly lovely and told she is un American, prompting lighthearted reaction and amusement.
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Cholle
Fweddie
Chollie
Detroit Free Press
Editorial Boomerang from a Dismissed Leading Article
A small Austrian provincial newspaper hides a leading article, withdraws it to avoid government ire, and is then seized by police for malicious ridicule of the empire. The editor learns the confusion as the night’s clever ruse backfires.
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Enlioe
Reine Zeitung
Ventriloquism Defined in 19th Century Paper
The Brooklyn Eagle explains ventriloquism as a vocal technique that makes voices seem to come from a different source by shaping mouth and lip formation. It notes the ventriloquist draws a long breath and slowly exhales while minimizing lip movement and using throat and palate adjustments.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Journalism as the big brother of literature headline
Kate Field asserts journalism is the big brother to literature, essential for ideas and daily intellect. She argues newspapers, constrained by space, push literature toward broader accessibility, with readers gaining from quicker consumption and evolving taste shaping future classic writing.
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Kate Field
Washington
Long Lived Clergymen and Other Professions
An English statistician finds clergymen live longer than men in other vocations, outranking gardeners and farmers. Following ministers are grocers, fishermen, lawyers, commercial travelers, plumbers and painters, blacksmiths, railway laborers, tailors, doctors, liquor dealers, and hotel staff. The Buffalo Courier notes the likely too-harrowing newspaper data. The great blessings of mankind lie within us yet we fail to see them, like people in the dark.
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New
Buffalo Courier
Diamonds Move Like Molecules, Ball’s View Challenged
A New York Herald report outlines Sir Robert Ball of Liverpool’s claim that diamonds consist of rapidly moving molecules. It explains how such motion accounts for hardness and edge cutting, using glass and metal interactions as examples, followed by a note on stamp language, La Fontaine, and a Maine shift toward earlier evening life.
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Sir Robert Ball
Liverpool
Ball
New York Herald
Origin of California Name Linked to Spanish Chivalry Tale
In a lecture, Thomas E. Steven cites 1510 Spanish chivalry writings as the source of the name California. He notes a fictitious tale of Califia a queen of an all female island with endless gold, which reading spread belief among Spaniards and even influenced Cortés’ voyage, naming the peninsula California.
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California
Thomas E. Steven
Ll. D
Amadis
Gaul
Esplandium
Califla
Island
Cortez
San Francisco Chronicle
Stealing and finance names in a harsh economy critique
A quoted Religious Herald argues that small thefts mark a thief while large embezzlement and government robbery label the betrayer as a defaulter or financier. It condemns how nations plunder each other through negotiation, yielding vast losses and indemnities, calling the era out of joint.
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Stock Exchange
Cannon’s Time Was Soon Up in Illinois Story
Washington Post recounts Representative Cannon of Illinois telling a self mocking tale in Congress. He defends his constituent against New York’s Cox, exchanging a quip about hands in pockets before speaking one and a half sentences. Cannon’s animated gesture ends as time expires.
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Cannon
Ilinois
Mr. Cox
Mr. Cannon
Washington Post
Truthful Fisherman Proclaims Catch To His Wife
A citizen jokes with a fish dealer asking for the six largest trout to prove his honesty. He declares, despite being a poor fisherman, that he will tell his wife he truly caught them, saying we all know he is no liar.
An Indian Timekeeping Tale On The Railways
A deputy commissioner sends his servant with a letter bag to catch the mail car. The bag returns unseen as the train already left at 3. The servant explains the timing confusion by noting the moment the train’s whistle marks time at the station and away from the origin. The New York Clipper recounts a clash of punctuality and perception in early Indian rail travel.
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India
New York Clipper
Driving the erring. Bays na Lubec paper notes fishing method
On dark nights Bays na Lubec paper describes fishermen driving herring by lighting birch bark at the end of a pole to lure fish into a shallow scoop. Water boils with the eager fish as a large net is lowered, filled, and hauled aboard, yielding hundreds of hogsheads in a season for canning and smoking.
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Bays Na Lubec
Rosy Scribe and the Lost Child Confession
A reporter relates buying candy to coax a nameless lost child to speak, only to discover the child is his own son. The exchange exposes newsroom secrecy and the moral twist in pursuing a dramatic story.
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Big Daily Paper
Sioux Falls
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Tunis Mills
R S. Fountain
W. W. Tunis & Bro. Lumber CO
J. M. Bravien
Fillzitsboro, Mid
J.M. Beaven
Hillsboro
Mad
South Bend
Oliver
Gale
Syracuse
Richard T. Carter
T. C. Hackett
Baltimore Coal Tar and Manufacturing Company
Camden Street
Baltimore, MD
New York Mail and Express
Carth
M. Charles Mussett
M. Musset
St. John River
St. John
N.B
St. John’s
Kiss
Baltimore
la Fontaine
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