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Easton
J.C GODWIN CO
Washington St
My Vocation and the Detectives Dream of Fame
A 35 year old clerk in the Strand narrates a comic flight of fancy about becoming a renowned detective. He idolizes criminal types, misreads facial cues, and shadows a mysterious stranger with exaggerated courtship of danger, only to stumble over a lamp post and a public house distraction.
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Arthur Clarence Fitzgerald Mackenzie
Strand
Desperate plot unfolds in Colonel Lewis garden
A narrator overhears a planned night raid on Colonel Lewis's house in Cardon Street and hides in the garden. Two detectives from Scotland Yard reveal themselves after the attempt by Black Jake and Ned Sawyer ends with a gunpoint confrontation. The narrator is captured, then released, and later learns his supposed criminal associates were detectives.
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Litt
Lewis
back garden
Cardon st
Jake
Ned bawger
Lesvis
Cardon street
England
Simpson
enid
Black Jake
Ned Sawyer
Scotland Yard
Thad
McPadden
Lost Fortune at Bluffing Col Wallace in Mississippi Card Game
In a famed river gambling tale Colonel Wallace of South Carolina loses a public poker duel to Pete Welch the eastern professional gambler. The match includes a $100 ante and escalating bets culminating in a high stake bluff where Wallace offers slaves as collateral. Welch wins the pot and Wallace ends with only about $4,000 while buying back two slaves. The scene unfolds in a club noted for discreet betting and draws attention as one of the era’s sternest contests on the green baize.
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Mississippi river
Pete Welch
Colonel Wallace
South Carolina
Wallace
Pete
Welch
honda
anapy
Sound travel in compressed air pipes in Westphalia mines
Mr. N Schach reports experiments on compressed air pipes showing the furthest voice transmission in a straight pipe is between 1500 and 1700 feet. For moderate distances a pipe about 20 inches in diameter yields the best results, slightly larger pipes aid short range.
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N. Schach
Bean Culture in Western New York A Grower Explains
A western New York farmer, cultivating 50 to 80 acres of beans yearly, shares practical notes from The Country Gentleman. He describes soil needs, seed per acre, crop rotation with wheat, harvest impact, varieties like marrowfat and pea beans, cultivation methods, prices around 85 cents per bushel, and the value of bean straw for livestock feed.
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C. P. Roberts
New York
Country Gentleman
Michigan
California
Piling Manure Before Drawing For Spring Field Work
An illustration from The Farm and Fire elde explains piling manure before spreading for plowing. It notes how fermenting in heaps saves labor, increases capture of nutrients, and mixes mold with stable fertility, while arguing many barns are larger than needed and waste manure when scattered.
Graveyard imagery and travel notes from China and frozen insect revival
A letter from an American naval officer's wife describes a train trip to Tien-tasin near Tianjin, noting graveyards and desolate landscapes, and comments on burial practices. The second piece reports experiments by S F Aaron reviving frozen insects and other small creatures, with younger specimens showing higher cold resistance.
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Tien-tain
Baltimore
Tien-tasin
China
F. Aaron
Mr. Aston
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