Two Telegraph Operators Meet Beyond the Wires
A shy bond forms between two telegraph workers, Kaufman and Kiefer, as they pass time talking about books music and football over the wire. Kaufer plans a vacation visit while Kiefer contemplates leaving duty and meeting in person, finally arranging a roadside supper with Adah Kaufman at station 12 after a chance encounter at a remote desert outpost.
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Kiefer
Iennfman
Phes
Kief
Pouwish
Kaur
Nief
Station 12
Kaufman
Kaul
Scott
Fle
Fretzie
Telegraph Station
Kiefe
Kauf
Adah Kaufman
Mr. Kiefer
Puen
Mgr
Fiomne
Theo Milo
Anit
Dhs
Suneunee
Navigational Compass and Sea Vigilance
A New York Tribune note explains that steering a modern ship by compass remains safer than relying on visual judgment. Waves and roll alter course, so frequent solar and celestial checks are required to correct the compass line.
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New York Tribune
The Drinking Orchid and Its Waterless Quest
A naturalist recalls strange orchids perched on riverbank limbs near the Rio de la Plata. They bend long stems to reach scarce water, then coil them back. Descriptions of thirsty, immobile plants testifying to longing as dying tubes seek a drink that never comes.
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Rio de la Plata
Blake's Visions and Hallucinations of a Poet Painter
The article surveys William Blake as a visionary poet painter who dined with prophets and conversed with archangels. A visitor recalls Blake insisting on a sitter not seen, claiming a figure named Lot appears for his portrait. Blake’s visions also include a fairy funeral witnessed in his garden with a procession of tiny grasshopper colored beings carrying a body.
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Willam Blake
Charles Lamb
Blake
Jill
Lot
Trely
An Easy Victory at Naples Train Station
Lord Charles Hamilton in Naples creates a scene with a ferocious bulldog blocking a first class carriage. The platform inspector orders removal, but Hamilton refuses and smokes while Italians detach the carriage and form a new train. He finally questions when the train will start as the delay continues.
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Charles Hamislton
Naples
Rone
Lord Charlies
Lord Charles
Lim
London
Cobbler's Dream Reigns at Duke's Court in Jest
In the days of Philip the Good a cobbler is dreamt to be king after attendants switch him into royal attire. He attends mass in ducal chapel, celebrates a grand supper and ball, then wakes to tell his wife of the wondrous dream.
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Philip the Good
Purgunds
Sruges
Sacred horn nuts of Japan enter U S commerce in 1888
Travelers and collectors know the horn nut or sacred nut of Japan. A New York commission merchant received the first large consign ment in 1888. They grow underwater, burn with a blue flame, and taste like boiled chestnuts when cooked.
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Japan
New York Commission
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Hall’ Caine
Kiet
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Laist
Hiis
Royal Theater
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Sian
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West Denton Hour Mill
C. E. Collins
Prop
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Western
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Fox’s
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Maryland
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Dr. Miles
Salem
Miles Medical CO
Elkhart
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Anthony's Mill
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N, Charles St
Baltimore, Mn
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Ridgely, Maryland
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Attorney-at-Law
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Denton, Maryland
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