Frontier Grit and a Trainyard Escape in the West
A first person reminiscence recounts rugged Idaho mining days and a risky escape on a railway carriage. A young traveler recalls a past voyage involving a scheming old woman, a tipsy accomplice Sammy, and a seventeen year old girl pleading for help. The tale culminates with the escape and a shift to London life after trauma and recovery.
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Jim
Man’s Bend
Strikin
Fort
Pope
Andrah
Lucre
Idaho
Jack
Pender Jim
Pard
Leadvile Herald
Redface
Sammy
Love
Mosslands
Letty
London
Luckborough Road
Poispethe
Mr. Samuel Nixon
Pye
Logan
Fifth Glass Whisky Feat Ends in Tragedy in Limerick
Ken nessy a pork butcher of Limerick City who boasted a fifty pound note wager to swallow six whiskies in sixty seconds collapsed after five glasses and died. Backers watched as timekeeper signaled the start. a surgeon found he was insensible and post mortem noted extreme whisky saturation.
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Kennessy
Limerick City
Fennessy
Champion
Dublin
The Strange Story of a Small Boy
A boy recalls trading a railway key for a fragment of hair and bonnet trim, rivalries over music lessons with Finke in Luckboro, and a risky train escape between Mosslands and Luckboro. The tale blends mischief, family ties, and a fateful ride that left his nerves scarred.
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Thompson
London
Letty
Herr Otto Finke
Finke
Vaterland
Mosslands
Luckboro
Graceful Mexican women and basket carrying arts
A Philadelphia Times description notes Mexican women display grace via early taught basket carrying. It describes a girl lifting a heavy laundry basket with towels wrapped around a towel rolled to head size, balancing with two hands, walking with poised, quiet dignity.
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Philadelphia Times
Democratic Convention at Springfield endorses ticket and platform
Illinois Democrats nominated Alfred Orendorff for State Treasurer and Henry Raub for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The State Central Committee members, with Chicago HQ, include Joseph Chesterfield Mackin and J. H. Hilfreth among others. The platform defends free government, denounces Republican excess, supports Irish rights, tax reform, tariff revision, and calls for a public vote on Warehouse and Railroad Commissions. It also opposes prohibition as a limit on personal rights and urges united support in the next election.
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Springfield
Alfred Orendorff
Sangamon County
Henry Raub
St. Clair
State Central Committee
Chicago
Joseph Chesterfield Mackin
Cook
J. H. Hilfreth
Theodore T. Gurney
B. Chase
R. W. Corbett
Kane
W. H. Mitchell
Stephenson
J. M. McCombe
Bureau
A. J. O'Connor
la Salle
E. B. Buck
Kankakee
W. T. Dowdall
Peoria
C. H. Whitaker
McDonough
Union
Democratc Party
Illinois
National Republican Committee
Republican Repudiation Coalition
Virginia
Republican Party
Ireland
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Warehouse and Railroad Commission
Congress
Illinois Items Chronicle Disorder and Community Notes
The report notes the release on bonds of alleged Miss Bond attackers from Taylorville after a near lynching. It lists Frances Willard urging Sunday prayer for the Carlinville temperance meeting, a Cairo fire causing about 25000 in losses, Mrs. George Tressler giving birth to twins, Jerseyville Baptists raising 13000 for church remodeling, and the State Farmers' Alliance second Chicago meeting with officers re elected and nationwide spread to 13 states and 200000 members.
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Bond
Taylorville
Frances E. Willard
Illinois W. C. T. U
Carlinville
Planters House
Iron Mountain Railway
Pacific Express
Cairo
George Tressler
Chenoa
Jerseyville Baptists
State Farmers’ Alliance
Chicago
William Simms
Knox County
J. W. Villers
Vermillion
David Wae Wood
Codlaes Bere Ary
Henry Winn
Anwand
New York
Indiana
Michigan
Dkneis
Missouri
Lew
Minnesota
Nebraska
Dakota
Kansas
Tennessee
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Poorlman
Vssible
Samuel Nixon
Biess
Illinois State News
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