Return to Jinestown: Old friends and past loves rekindle on train
Sam encounters Tom Wiltse on a roundabout excursion train and learns Ned Brooks has returned. Tom recalls their past in Royville, Mattie and Bil Bates, and Sam confronts jealousy over Mattie now linked to Bates. Ned joins as tension edges toward memory and reunion.
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Sam
Tom Wiltse
Tom
Ned Brooks
Jinestown
Ned
Mattie
Yom
Royville
Bil Bates
Cushing
Halloween Pumpkin Prank on Bates Farmyard
Four youths plot a Halloween trick on Mattie Vaughan and Bill Bates, stealing three large pumpkins from a field, planning to place them as terrorizing head statues and slip away before a return train. Ned, Sam, and Tom debate daring yet fear the consequences, while Mattie’s and Bates’s houses loom as tense backdrops to their plan and its risk of discovery.
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Tom
Mattie Vaughan
Bill Bates
Kycey Sam
Bil Bates
Ned
Mattle
Jim
Sam
JH Dsates
Bil
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Bill
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BI Bates
Son
Myttle
Ateast
Return of Mattie and Sam in a Halloween scare
In a tense scene Mattie confronts Sam Casling during a Halloween prank gone awry. Ned Tom and others chase a train toward the woods while Mattie reveals her marriage to Bil Bates and the truth about her return from South America. Sam admits he’s been fooling himself and begs forgiveness. Mattie signals a hopeful reconciliation after years apart.
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Mattie
Ned
Tom
Sam
Muattle
Sam Casling
Jamestown
Bates
Seattle
Bhi Bates
South America
Bil Bates
Bill
Gloucester the Fishery Capital of the United States
Gloucester, a three century old fishing town, remains the nation’s leading fishing center. On the wharfs hundreds of tubs hold freshly caught codfish washed and cleaned by expert crews, then salted and dried before boxing for export worldwide.
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Gloucester
United States
Springfield Union
Imagination Shapes Sleep At Sanitarium
A nervous patient at a sanitarium says noise from No 22 keeps her awake. The doctor moves the other patient to the roof for quiet, but No 22 never sleeps there. The next day the patient reports perfect sleep, revealing the mind's power over illness.
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The Cheapest Sport and Falconry Reflections
Ky s Magazine argues falconry as the cheapest sport yet a deadly, blood heavy pursuit. It notes the quarry always holds advantage and that escapes end in injuries or death.
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Workdusum
Ky's
The Honest Man Reflected In Modest Crowds
A fragment from the Ohio State Journal notes that nearly every man in the crowd seems to hide modesty as if avoiding rush, praising humility as the noblest work of God and a virtue in observers and leaders alike.
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Ollo State Journal
The Simple Habits and Humble Dinner of Robert E. Lee
A short Civil War anecdote portrays General Lee’s popularity among troops through his simple habits. Amid shortages, Lee hosts a frugal meal of corn bread cabbage and water, while guests decline meat. His cook explains the meat was borrowed from a courier and later returned to the owner.
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Robert E. Lee
Charles Morrie
Lee
Darky
Marie Robert
Yachtsman near rocks as cook stays below
A celebrated amateur yachtsman anchors near a dangerous shore as a squall hits. Two anchors fail, and another is cast to avoid drifting onto the rocks. Exhausted, the skipper goes below to rest while the cook keeps dressing the mayonnaise, saying he cannot leave it unmixed or it will turn. The tale ends with the cook insisting mayonnaise must be watched closely during the crisis.
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Sam
Yassir
Sual
Compound Eyes Insects Use Many Tiny Lenses
Dr Edward A Ayres explains in Starper's Magazine how insect eyes are made of thousands of tiny lenses forming a compound eye. Locusts and house flies show fused lenses, while ants bees beetles moths and dragonflies have eyelets ranging from thousands to over a hundred thousand contributing to vision.
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Edward A. Ayres
Slarper’s Magazine
Be Sure You're Right Then Mind Your Own Business
A traveler on a shore railway train finds a dress suit case protruding from an overhead rack. He realizes it belongs to a friend who had alighted earlier, and after guiding the conductor, the case is sent to the next station to be returned. The friend later appears while en route to a dinner, underscoring the moral Be sure you're right and then mind your own business.
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New London
Overboard Label On Warships Signals Urgent Discard
A label reading Overboard marks items aboard a modern war yegee to be thrown overboard when action with the enemy looms. Alcohol chests turpentine tanks paints spare spars and other easily destroyed items bear the tag. Occident College president reportedly used the phrase to describe those deemed useless in life’s struggle.
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Occident College
California
Army
Navy
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