Cross and storm reveal long held family ties
In a Spanish language tale from the St. Louis Star, Leon and Jesita, trapped by a night storm, reunite at a mountain cross where Jesita lies distraught. Leon learns Jesita is his mother through a revealing confession as the tale links past wedding vows beneath the cross and the family’s enduring bond.
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Iralf
Santa Maria
Leon
Jesuta
Jesita
Carita
Iean
Moreno
you valley
senor
Jeslin
St. Louis Star
La Cruz Legend Awakens Local Nighttime
A Mexican town near Jalapa hosts a Sunday concert beside the wooden cross on the hill. A storyteller recalls the cross bearing ritual, a tale of Jesita and Leon, love, quarrel, and a stormy night that tests forgiveness and fate.
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Jalapa
Plaza Granda
La cruz
caro
senor
Santa Maria
Jesita
Leon
cherlly
Jesua
Senor Leon
Jestin
muale
Prompt Pay for Doctors Stressed by Edward Bok
Readers quoted Edward Bok urging prompt payment of doctors’ bills. The La dies' Home Journal editor notes that only a quarter of medical charges are paid promptly and argues fairness demands patients settle dues quickly, placing doctors’ interests ahead of delayed payments.
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Edward Bok
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Pistol Saber Considered for French Cavalry
French military authorities entertain proposals for a pistol saber a saber with a small firearm built into the blade. On impact the blade retracts and fires the pistol a recoil of about two tenths of an inch suffices. The shot penetrates no steel breastplate. Weighs one third more than a normal saber and can be used as a regular saber when unloaded.
The Stumbling Block to Wall Street
A Mug House club member, failed turf gambler, decides to seek easier luck in Wall Street. He explains odds on horse racing versus stocks, claiming stocks move up or down with a 50 percent win chance, and bets on success despite warning from a New Street separator about brokers and commissions.
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Mug House club
Wall street
Prejudiced Against the Flane In The Boston Transcript
The Boston Transcript records Fogg saying he would be delighted to hear the plane go as the Instrument from the next house is carried downstairs to the furniture wagon. This fragment reflects a historical newspaper tone and quoting style.
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Fogg
Boston Transcript
Irish SergeantSaul? Crack Shot Captain Patillo Tale
An anecdote from the New Orleans Times-Democrat recalls Captain Patillo, famed for marksmanship, who misfires thrice on a long range showing. An Irish sergeant signals each shot with a flag, claiming bulls eyes until the hero realizes his reputation saved by the sergeant's cue.
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Patillo
Miles
Washington
Pattllo
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Fate of His Dress Suit
A man explains he cannot attend informal affairs because he lent his swallowtail to a friend who later died and was buried in salt. The landlady reveals the suit was buried with the body, leaving the owner without his dress wear and funds to replace it. The anecdote ends with the speaker declining social events.
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tse
Philadelphia Enquirer
A Warm Reception and a Day in a Circus Bill Poster
A Alfred street resident returns early from a trip to find a belligerent maid and a stormy argument with his wife amid a chaotic scene. A later anecdote from a bill poster in New York Sun recalls hanging bills from ceilings to surprise crowds, detailing a clever yet risky prank.
Census “family” meaning ineligible for real kinship
The New York Post discusses how the census uses the term family to include anyone eating at the same table. Hotels, dining associations like Cambridge Memorial Hall, Danvers Lunatic asylum, and even a bachelor living arrangement count as families. Domestic servants could not be attached to their own households, so they joined the families they served.
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folka
New York Sun
Memorial Hall
Cambridge
Danvers Lunatic asylum
bachelor’s hall
New York Post
Left in the Cars and a Skates Lost Tale
A Mall and Express reader recalls Artemus Ward and notes people overestimate memory. A parcel clerk reports about 150 items left in elevated railroad cars daily, while a girl’s roller skates from last week are found, illustrating everyday loss and chance discoveries in transit.
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Artemus Ward
genttleman
New York Mall and Express
Handles on New Umbrellans
A New York Sun note explains how people swap handles between umbrellas, keeping a preferred size and shape. The practice allows transferring a favored handle from worn umbrellas to new ones, or swapping for a desirable match.
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New York Sun
Life at Alto Crucero Cold and Heat in One Place
The Chicago Record describes Alto Crucero where water freezes in shade yet sunlit areas feel scorching at altitude. Temperatures swing 6 to 30 below zero with no artificial heat. Natives endure cold barefoot on ice while wrapping faces to keep air out. Women herding flocks survive weeks with little shelter or food beyond parched corn dried meat and coca leaves.
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Alto Crucero
Chicago
Hoard For His Poems Joke Tells Of Struggling Poet
A humor exchange follows a poet’s claim that he earns from poetry. A friend challenges the claim as impossible. The poet recalls earning six months’ board for game poems sold to his landlady who kept a box of poems left behind, though she likely did not want them.
Clothed With Power in a Travelers Tale
A jocular portrait recalls a traveler fresh from central Africa who mingles with royalty and swagger in Belgravia drawing rooms. The anecdote toys with notions of power as a duchess probes the queen of Boorabootoo, while the man jokes about ornate honors and garments in a satirical exchange.
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central Africa
Belgravia
Loamshire
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P. H. GOT
W.H. DENNY
8. T. RHODES
W. F. PENNINGTON
EUGENE LYNCH
W.H. ANDERSON
H. C. HOBBS
W. R. PETERS, M. L. BLANCHARD
LORD
I. T. BAKER
J. CULVER, BE. W. INGRAM
Wye
Denton
Greenwood
Biiendale
Milton
Lewes
Queenstown
WILLIAM M. CONN
QUEENSTOWN, MD
WM. HOPPS & CO
BALTIMORE, MD
NEW YORK
BALTIMORE STREET
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
JOHN K. CALLOWAY
W.W.TONIS & BROTHER LOMBER CO
TANIS’ MILLS
TALBOT
North Carolina
PAGE
HUGHES
DENTON, MARYLAND
Lehigh
HUGHES LUMBER AND COAL CO
reilroad Ave
DENTON, MD
geet
SPA
PERAR
Denton Hardware
Pride Axe
Arbuckle’s
Levering’s
Enterprise Coffee
Garrett’s
Lulu
Porter
Pic Nic
Harvey's
Ames
Batchelor L. H
Walter Baker
Moody’s
N. Y. Mills
STEWART BROTHERS
Jon, MAR
clors
PHILADELPHIA
Wheatley
J. W. WHEATSHEY
D. ver St
Sos
W. E. BROWN
MAIN STREET
Kea
T. W. SMITH
Ridgely
JAMES T. COOPER
Undertaker
J.C. LTB & COMPANY
FRUIT AND P PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Carden S
Traders’ National Bank of Baltimore
First National Bank of
Stewartstown
Stewartstown, Pa
MAGICA DANCE
Clarisse
Clanese
Atlanta Constitution
Alfred street
Detroit Free Press
Mabel
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