Detective in Smithtown Corner Quest
The detective arrives at a rural station in West Smithtown chasing a lead on a murder linked to Smith’s Corner. The agent doubts the place exists and the sleuth, showing a badge, presses for clues while noting no such town on the map. He learns the case concerns a farmer killed near Smith’s Corner, as trains and the village play into the pursuit.
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Smith’s
West Smithtown
Smithville
Smith’s Pond
Smithtown
Smith’s Corner
Mr Nash
Smith
Nash
Kalamazoo
Kalama- 700
Mr. Nash
Fenderson
Smith's Corner
Murder Unfolds In Smiths Corner Train Confrontation
Detective Nash corners John Smith after a staged chase around a rural station. The farmhand hiding in a closet is revealed to be the victim, Henry Fenderson, and the Smiths Corner locale is confirmed near West Smithtown. The agent and suspect are tied to a murder plot revealed by telegraph messages and a prepared train arrival.
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Parrow
Nash
John Smith
Smith's
Henry Fenderson
Ilan
Smith's Corner
Detective Nast
West Smithtown
Amie
Wrong Church Tale Renames Pew Buyer to Heavenly Rest
A Cleveland man recalls Rev Stephen N Tyng, a famed New York divine, who turns away a wealthy patron wishing to rent the church pew with the condition of avoiding any church work. The rector tells him he belongs four blocks away at the Church of the Heavenly Rest.
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Cleveland
Stephen N. Tyng
New York
Church of the Heavenly Rest
A Changed Man Admiral Capps Warns Against Drinking
The admiral addressing a temperance society recounted a tale of a man who fell from promise to ruin due to excessive drinking. He spoke of a worn man who confessed to a noble woman that she deserved a better partner, and she replied that she had chosen rightly in saying she would have married him anyway.
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Admiral Capps
Hind
Jenny
James
New York Tribune
A Religious Innovation in Philadelphia
A well brought up girl near Rit tenhouse square yawned at breakfast last Sunday and told her mother she did not feel like going to church. She suggested, in a polite tone, that they simply send cards instead.
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Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia Tloes
The Easiest Friend Quips Over a Bout of Giving Up
In a terse exchange from the Baltimore American a sarcastic jab questions which of the speaker's many problematic habits could be given up while a nettled reply references lending money to a friend.
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Baltimore American
Whistler and the Lady Meux Portraits
Whistler painted three portraits of Lady Meux, including the missing Sable Picture. Biographers describe the first Arrangement In White and Black and a later Flesh Color and Pink and Gray. A cited incident with Lady Meux at a sitting sparked Whistler’s rage. he never spoke of it again.
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Whistler
Lady Meus
Lady Meux
Pennell
Hfe
Meux
Fea
Menx
Arper Penleston
Jimmy
Meus
Sablest
Jimmy Whistler
Magician Seeks Treasury Post as Webster Refuses
An anecdote from the Tyler era recalls Daniel Webster joking with a traveling magician who asked for a treasury job. The magician boasted he could count notes and reveal 25,000 hidden, but Webster retorted that many superior magicians would leave far less.
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Webster
Treasury
Mr. Tyler
Daniel Webster
Signor
Mr. Webster
Signor Bilis
Outwitted the Orientals at the Baghdad customs
An account from eastern lands recounts a humorous yet instructional escape from bribes at a customs post near Baghdad. The narrator describes bargaining with guards who demanded baksheesh, swapping mounts—placing an Arab on his horse and riding a mule himself—to pass the checkpoint while maintaining calm and wit.
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Lunds
Fatum
Baghdad
Wollarris
Ker- Mainshub
Thad
Soonley
Custom House
London Dialect as Old Kentish Tongue Claim
The article discusses Mackenzie Macbride's book London's Dialect which argues the London dialect preserves Kentish roots. It cites examples like thet for that benk keb and tele graph have long histories. It notes Elizabethan forms such as bylyffe and abaht and ahtside as evidence of archaic pronunciation preserved south of the Thames.
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London
Mackenzie Macbride
Education Department
London County Council
Thames
The
Trent
Elizabeth
John Stow
Monster Whales and a Fifteen Foot Shark Tale
A fragment recounts Frank T. Bullen describing monster whales noted in New Zealand lore and Greenland captures. It mentions a whale with a shark fifteen feet long found in its stomach, a 250 ton leviathan on a voyage, and a humpback driven by parasites. It also notes a California bay incident where a mother whale destroyed most boats after a calf was killed.
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Frank T. Bullen
New Zealand
Greenland
Mr Bullen
Bullen
Hfe
Bay of
Californis
BEN BUTLER'S BLUFF IN SURRENDER MEMOIR
General John A. Lingham sat on the military tribunal for Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln assassination conspirators. In debates Butler charged the commission concealed a diary that would prove Surratt’s innocence, then revealed a blank memorandum book, while Wingham misread it as pivotal. the diary was with Stanton and Johnson demanded it, but the book proved irrelevant to the conspiracy.
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John A. Lingham
Mrs. Surratt
Lincoln
G. Tf. Butler
J. Wilkes Booth
Stanton
Johnson
Torture by Water and a Fateful Marriage Tale
A historical note describes Louis XIV’s water torture, the “question ordinary,” where ten pints then twenty pints of water caused severe pain and potential confessions. Included is a Washington Star humorous vignette in which Chloe, a large Black cook, declares her imminent marriage and recalls her costly past divorce, warning about risks of matrimony.
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Louis XIV
G. Duval
Paris
Chloe
Chive
Washington Star
Ruins of Yucatan Unearth Ancient Stone Age Builders
Arthur Diosy reports Yucatan explorations reveal a vast 800 mile ruin chain. The people possessed advanced architecture and decorative arts yet lacked metal tools. The stone age civilization, with stone carvings and a Bronze Age comparably absent, rivaled Egyptian artistry.
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Yucatan
Arthur Diosy
Mr. Wiosy
Egypt
Turned the Tables at the Catskills Station
Two hunters returning from the Catskills test New York city humor on a small railroad station agent. They ask when the 8 40 train gets in. The agent replies with a pun about the train and its conductor’s dog. The joke ends as they speak to the agent again about the timing.
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Catskills
New York City
Evers
Dauntless Romance Recounts a Narrow Escape
In a brisk exchange, Dauntless claims the figure cleared the sill and vanished into darkness, while Realism notes a moment earlier the captive was riveted. Romance retorts that a small spot on the scene was torn free by a superhuman effort and carried along.
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Romance
Puck
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James J. Ross
WM. Dennkey
Sec. & Treas
Kent County Mutruac Insurance
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Mutual
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Greensboro
Jonn T. Carter, Jr
Denton, Md
Alex. Noble
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Nora L. Frampton
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Warvey L. Cooper
Kemp Stevens
Kranz-Smith Piano CO
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Fred Kranz
Mansfield
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Roe
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