Garrett Wealth and Vast Baltimore Interests Revealed
The article details Mr. Garrett's vast holdings in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stock—about two sevenths of the company—plus significant real estate, farms, and other securities. It notes wealth estimates between 25 and 30 million dollars and lists numerous rail line interests and properties including Montebello, factories, and warehouses in Baltimore. It also references his farming, gardens, and stock-raising operations, with broad property holdings and extensive real estate investments in the city.
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Pitsburg
Connells
Curinnath
Washington
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Ohio
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Pope & Cale
Trina Desler
Tee
Mount Vernon Pilace
Montebello
Estes Montebello
Guiman
Oil Wells of Balakhani and Roman Echoes in Antiquity
The report describes Balakhani and nearby fields with wells yielding 800 barrels daily, a dramatic 30 foot jet, and floods that halted refinery work. It notes vast production and a city of petroleum activity, then shifts to a discussion of ancient Roman metropolitan correspondents and their role in relaying news from the Capitol.
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Ninevah
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Acta Populi
They Couldn't Like Him Speak at the Wine Supper
At a Paw neighborhood wine supper hosted by ladies, men paid ten cents per word. The sole contestant who spoke not a word faced no fee and ate through the menu. One unknown guest, determined to endure, wrote in his pocket slate I am deaf and dumb, shocking observers. Providence Journal reports this peculiar scene.
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Providence Journal
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Philadelphia Bulletin
A Boy's Ambitions Through the Ages of a Dreamer
A nostalgic sketch traces how boys’ dreams shift from brass bands and circus feats to railway brakeman, baseball umpire, barber shop monarch, militia, law, teaching, and politics. It notes few reach Congress, most abandon bold aims, and many drift through varied careers before national candidacy ends in disappointment.
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Pring
Blackstone
Senate
After Dinner Speakers and Public Orators
A fragmented reminiscence on after dinner orators including reference to Mr. John Bright and the dangers of overlong speeches. The text mocks digressions at banquets and notes how a speaker’s faults can provoke critical laughter and scrutiny.
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Daner
Lens
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Howard Faul
San Brancisco
Indian Appetite and Proverbial Improvidence in a Frontier Tale
The fragment describes improvidence among Indians, a tale of hunger and quick meals. A young man named Fiale, Rice, and Morrigan consume their lunches and tea or coffee. The narrator mentions a tramp who demanded food and warned of Lo’s return, hinting at frontier tensions and daily hardship.
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Redman
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Nev
Steville
An Autumn Musing and a Study in Gilded Nature
A fragmentary autumn prose scene depicts an editor and a mysterious muse amid a sunset gilding fields and orchards. The piece blends artful nature imagery with a hungry scribbler and philosophical musings on genius and perception. It concludes with a brief society note about a Boston widow accused of fraud against multiple victims.
Laura and mother quarrel over young My Bicker plate
A mother defends Laura's attention to the young man while a daughter criticizes his awkward manners and lack of education. The mother dismisses the concerns, urging that a 26 year old should overlook such idiosyncrasies.
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