The Six Months of Joe Renshaw's Escape
A magistrate sentences Joe Renshaw to six months hard labor for midnight entry. Renshaw lingers, plans vengeance on the prosecuting solicitor Mr Timpany, and after release he infiltrates Timpany's home through iron shutters to steal valuables, aided by a centerbit and quiet craft. Bendigo the bulldog dies from a sudden theft victim.
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Joe Renshaw
Benjamin Timpany
Jace
Renshaw
Mr. Renshaw
Mr. Timpany
Joe
Timpany
Bendigo
Mr. Timpeny
Wally
Burglar Tricked by Poisoned Port and Lawyer’s Scheme
A burglar, after looting deeds worth tens of thousands of pounds, pockets a bundle of Bank of England notes and a bottle of port. He falls asleep from a drugged wine trap set by a client’s attorney. Five hours later he wakes in a police cell awaiting twelve years of penal servitude.
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Jimmy
Joe
Bank of England
Mr. Timpan
Coe An
Timpany
Odd London Tea Set Hire Serves Many Daily
Pearson's Weekly notes a thriving London trade where about 20 000 people each weekday borrow tea services knives forks and dishes. Sundays exceed this figure as entertainments rise. Showy metal teapots are favored and demand grows in summer for entertaining visiting relatives and extra decor like curtains and rugs.
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London
Pearson’s Weekly
Kruger and the Uitlanders
In a Johannesburg agitation over burgher rights Sir Henry Loch reports Kruger’s view: the Johannesburgers resemble a baboon once fond of him but burned by speculation their fingers. They seek vengeance on Paul Kruger after a recent accident.
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Kruger
Johannesburg
Sir Henry Loch
Sir Henry
Sweetheart Abbey’s Love Tale Amid Ruins in Scotland
In Galloway Scotland the ancient ruin Sweetheart Abbey harbors the legend of Dersorgill and her husband John Balrol. Their hearts are said to lie embalmed on her breast as ivy and time surround the walls. The tale endures as a romance of death and devotion for six centuries.
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Galloway
Scotland
Dersorgill
John Balrol
Dream Books and Oil Lands in a Notorious Bet
An Indiana man recounts a comic oilland tale from Ohio where a landowner named Barnes refused a test well and, guided by a dream book fortune teller and family advice, repeatedly set and lowered his asking price from $1 500 to $50 per acre. A syndicate spent $7 500 drilling without profitable returns, disproving the dream driven forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Ohio
Barnes
Jacob
Detroit Free Press
Musical taste when shirts are strained by Wagner
Mrs Umblatter, wife of a New York orchestra director, shares her standard of musical excellence. She notes she dislikes Wagner operas not for their sound but because they ruin his shirts, preferring Italian operas when the cloth is weak and repeatedly mended.
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Umblatter
New York
Royal visitor questions odor at Chicago stockyards
The stockyards in Chicago boast worldwide fame as a vast abattoir and cattle pens. A royal representative touring the area was given full attention and shown the scale of daily slaughter. Before departing he asked an intelligent guide if the odor caused any inconvenience, receiving the surprising reply What odor your highness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ribifons of Dyes and Coal Tar Derivatives
The article notes that since Perkin's mid 19th century discovery of aniline dyes, artificial coloring matters have surged. It cites over 3,000,000 distinct dyestuffs available now and at least 25,000 covered by patent specifications. Natural colorings are fewer and may soon be eclipsed by coal tar derivatives.
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Perkin
Thomas B Reed Wit on a Dry Stream Macadamize It
When Thomas B Reed was speaker a member sought funds to improve a stream. Reed asked to amend the bill saying there is no water in that stream and proposed macadamizing the stretch instead of dredging it. The anecdote highlights Reed's blunt humor.
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Thomas B. Reed
Mreed
Kelburg Poland A City Fully Carved From Rock Salt
Kelburg near Cra cow Poland is an underground city excavated in rock salt with over 3000 inhabitants who work in the salt mines. Streets and houses are white salt, and a cathedral carved in salt is lighted with electric lights. The town is reputedly free of infectious disease and most residents die of old age.
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Kelburg
Cracow
Poland
Uncertain About Her Ace
A Boston servant, unaware of her own age, recalls living eleven years with one family and has always believed she is twenty eight. She recently read of an old woman who died at 106 and muses that she may be as old, noting she cannot remember a time when she was not alive. Boston Christian Register.
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Boston
Boston Christian Register
Norwegian Skees and Snowshoeing in Winter Norway
The piece explains how Norwegians embrace sking and skees during winter, detailing skee construction from ash wood, the long ten foot runners with grooves, and foot loops for control. It notes the wooden gear blends hard and flexible traits, enabling precise foot movement on ice and snow.
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Norway
C. E. Borchgrevink
St. Nicholas
Sawed Fish Show Sparks Quick Lesson
A London Telegraph note recalls a showman outside his tent advertising a “great sawed fish.” A learned gentleman corrected the label to swordfish, paid tuppence, entered to see a cod half-sawed, and left amused by the showman’s quip about spelling and education.
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London Telegraph
Ostrich Logic and the Blood Purifier Claim
A satirical note compares ostrich logic to unseen dangers like microbes in the blood. It endorses Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy that supposedly purifies blood, removes impurities, and cures skin eruptions such as boils pimples and sores.
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Tere
Humanity
Dr. Pierce
Golden
Doctor Pierce
James R. Moss
New London
Painty Co
Dr. Sage
The Modish Woman and the Short Gown Era
The passage contrasts restrictive fashion of Mrs Barbauld’s era with the later shift to shapeless short gowns. It notes stays tight lacing high heels and headgear for society scrutiny, while the sack dress offered relief for long afternoons, allowing comfort until calls or outings.
The Rainfall Pattern on the Atlantic Slope
The wettest area on the Atlantic slope lies between the thirty fifth and thirty sixth parallels along the Appalachians near North Carolina. Asheville sits on the eastern edge of this high rainfall zone, receiving about seventy inches annually. In the northwest coast from British Columbia to northern California, rainfall ranges from 80 to 100 inches yearly, more than double New York City's amount.
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Appalachians
North Carolina
Asheville
British Columbia
California
New York City
Godwnn's Mid-winter Clearing Out Sale Opens
February 1903 sale at Godwnn's offers 45 days of winter goods at cost with many items at or near half price. Men's wool pants 98 cents. tailor-made pants 3.50. boys shorts 39 cents. suits and overcoats 10 dollars. 50 pairs of shoes 98 cents. hats 98 cents. shirts 76 cents. children's hosiery 3 for 25 cents. domestic bargains league wide with calicoes 5 cents, muslin 5 cents, ginghams and Madras cloths discounted. numerous specials in linens, towels, and other fabrics.
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Eclipse
Scents
Great Mental Strain and the New Class You
A quirky Baltimore American column mocks students and teachers with a fabricated scene of a tense student drafting a political economy treatise, then shifts to an old English soldier recalling a Victoria Cross tale. The piece blends humor with war reminiscence and a cabbage beheading punchline.
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Baltimore American
Caboags
India
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Sweetheart Abbey
G. K. Ebling
Riddely, MD
Sam
WM. T. Jones
Als
Queen Anne
J. R. Wooters
Dover Street
Hotel Avon
Easton
Maryland
Preston
Denton
Harvey M. Thawley
Contractor
Carpenter, &c
Henry Br, Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis & Goldsborough, Attorneys-At-Law
Caroline
Counties
Pliny Fisher
Qsear Clark
J Fletcher Clark
Bastom
C. Deen
Fowling Creek, MD
Caroline County
Ames T. Sylvester
Red R. Owens
Dexton, Maryland
R. Cochran, JR
Wilmington
Del
Mason
OHN
Dungan Justice OF the Peace
Hillaboro
P. Covey
Agner, MD
Godwnn
Lansdowne
J.C. Godwin CO
N. Washington St
Easton, MD
W. J. Blackiston
Denton, MD
Enger
Echine Silent Offices
Fiancee
Speedy
S. NowEkk & Son
Fonerae
Masa
Anklam Mfg Coo
Smith & Wright
T. W.smith
Ridgely, MD
Sindsv
Skauuy
Dueyz
Tamest
Cooper
Undertaker
John W. Causaey
WM. Denney
Sxec'y Anp Treas
Kent County Mutual Insurance
Dover
Delaware
Mutual Planance
John T. Carter, Jr
L. Irving Jones
Greensboro
Alex. Noble
Preston, Md
Fay
Mr. Wright
Optician
Idgely
Smith & Wright, Law Building
T. H. Evans & Company
Light Street
Baltimore
Rerty
ISB
SPA
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