Prospector Brent Reunites with Fellow Seekers and Family
Brent Thurlin, a long time prospector, shares camp with Moses, Dikker, and Sam after a hunger driven discovery. They reveal their hard luck stories and Brent learns of the others families, then decides to return home with a share of the gold to support his mother and hers mortgage. Moses guides Brent to take town money and wedding gifts for a proper finish.
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RENTWOOD
Brent
ls morrow
Dikker
Sam
Dassent
Moses
Brent THaurlin
Lizzy
Alice
Willin
Tikker
Two Runaways Snappy Wit From Chicago News
In a quip exchange, Languid Lewis claims a boss ran away with a woman who was laid up six weeks while Boastful Benjamin counters a friend who ran away with a bogs and was laid up six years, illustrating sharp local humor.
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Lewis
tally
Benjamin
Chicago News
Poet in Prison Warns Others In Verse Footnote
Editor prints a fellow inmate's poem from a five year term in the Eastern penitentiary with a footnote explaining the inmate’s confinement as a cautionary note to other poets.
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Eastern
Philadelphia Record
He and She Talk Music in Playful Revival
In a short dialogue from Pick-Me-Up, He asks about musical ability, She responds she plays the piano. He notes the reply isn’t an absolute denial, hinting at a nuanced exchange about talent and interest.
Marcia and Charlie Ride to Kiowa for Land
In Nebraska during the Kiowa land opening Marcia Brooks and her lover Charlie Keith race their mounts amid the stampede of settlers. They secure claims together and plan to marry at the government markers, amid heat, dust, and fevered excitement.
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Marcia
pap
Bonnie Belle
Charle Keith
darter
dart
Prairie City
Tom Hobson
Charlie
Marela
Kiowa
Low
tomnn
Marcela
Chariie Keith
Ieve Marcia
Jill dunning
Effie Darrow
Nebraska
sandy
Marcia Brooks
guo
amd
Bonnielle
Iead
galt
Eden
Portable Firearms in Europe and Asia Through History
The text traces early portable firearms from Mohammedan use in eastern Asia to their European adoption. It notes Damascus arquebuses at festivals, Rhege’s 1591 siege muskets, the burden of heavy matchlock guns, and the evolution to lighter firelocks by the early eighteenth century, with soldiers carrying ammunition in chandeliers and pouches.
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Europe
Asia
La Brocquiere
Jerusalem
Damascus
Rhege
Charles I
The Word Widow and a Boston Fruit Seller Adverts
A fragment discusses the word widow tracing its ancient forms from Sanskrit to Latin and Anglo Saxon origins. It notes Donatello a Greek in Boston who runs a fruit stand and prints ads claiming American fruits are for durability. It includes quips about luck and ignorance from Washington Star and Aschy.
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Max Mueller
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Germany
Himalayas
Donatello i8
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