Delilah and the Captain at Squanton Church Pew
In a coastal hamlet at Squanton rivermouth Delilah clashes with her father Captain Drew over replacing their church pews with new hardwood ones. A hurricane brings danger as Captain Drew and a volunteer crew rescue a wrecked ship Magnolia with the minister Doane braving surf to save him.
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ELILY
Squanton river
Delilah
Squanton
Howard Doane
Drew
Mr. Donne
Mr. Doane
Captain Drew
Thatcher
Dellinh
Coffin’s beach
dedi
Dellly
Boston
met
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Symanton
Priscilla's Philanthropy in a New Year's Day Rescue
Priscilla Ballad, distressed by a sick homeless child, finds Jim Horrigan starving near a newsstand. She helps him through Mrs Horrigan and the Hor rigan family, while Gerald Hollister quietly aids, and the two reveal an engagement as Jim receives a turkey for every New Year, birthday, and Christmas.
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Murphy street
Priscilla
Prisellia
Della
Gerald Hollister
Tie
Gerald Slollster
Prisciiila
Sielp
Priscilia
Priscilla Ballad
Gerald
Worrigan
Jim
shiandin
Mrs. Horrigan
Pat
Jim Horrigan
Poaching Mix-Up: Servant Poaches Eggs for Supper
A country girl hired as a general servant is asked to poach six eggs for supper. She returns proudly with "half a dozen beauties" and explains she understood the request because her father and brothers "do a bit of poaching." The scene unfolds as a humorous misunderstanding in the household.
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London Mall
Is the proprietor in the city and dead at the undertaker
A kiosk of quotes from Slaper's Weekly features a visitor asking if the proprietor is in and learning he is dead, followed by a railway cases anecdote. The dialogue twists around misdirections and the timing of a whistle, ending with a wry remark about a subsequent man on the track.
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undertaker’s
Slarper
New York
Morgan
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METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE
DENTON JOURNAL
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JOURNAL
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CIUFFONIERS
NUTTLE HARDWARE CO
DENTON
MARYLAND
F. J. WRIGHT
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District of
Colusnia
Virginia
SOUTH CAROLINA
PENNSYLVANIA
DELAWARE
the
United States
The Sun
Europe
China
South Africa
Philippines
Porto Rico
Cuba
Washington
THE FARMER’S PAPER
Tor Sun
Baltimore
Norfolk
Charleston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Tirz Sus
Tig Sun
Mail
Daily Sun
Sunday Sun
A. S. ABELL COMPANY, $Publishers and Proprietors
Gre
s & Pew
Cheasterfield
Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope
London Standard
Chicago Journal
J. G. Reed
EMORY LYNCH
Walter Austin
CIVERY, PEED & EXCHANGE
Third St
Denton, Md
Peninsula
C. E. COLLINS
Hobbs
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