A Bold Escape in Bristol Jail Cell
A narrative voice recalls capture near Marlboro and Bristol. The narrator endures a bitter cold cell, torn from companions, and uncovers a hidden letter from D. to Della. A jailer’s daughter aids, revealing a hanging threat and a plan to escape using improvised rope made from knitted yarn.
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Della
Detin
Dello
Marlboro
Oxford
Parliament
Bristol
Col. Exnox
Delia
Col. Essex
Anthony Killigrew
Twan
Dusex
Juvenile Gamblers and the Track Dope Game
The piece describes young girls and boys in Chicago and New York drawn to racing lore and dope sheets as they chase winners and losses. It notes the lure of gambling begins early, with youths learning at the track and in pool rooms while immigration of words from the dope sheet shapes their decisions.
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Pliny
Chicago
New York
World Today
Geoffrey Mardingham Foolish Will Unmasks Heir
Naomi Bruce defends the dead man’s memory as Geoffrey Mardingham reveals he faked death to test his relatives. The assembled kin, led by Mrs Foxley and lawyer Peckham, are exposed as hypocrites. Naomi is named adopted child and potential heiress. the others leave in disgrace.
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Dlugham
Jay
Nosey
Squire Mardingham
Geoffrey Mardingham
Mrs. Moxley
Naomi Bruce
Naomi
Lndy
Gosling
Lennox
Mardingham
Naom Bruce
Mr. Peckham
Fraportini Warda
Mrs. Foxley
Mr. Foxley
Mr. Lennox
St. Vitar
Nehemiah
Foxley
Nonmi Bruce
Geoffrey
Ors
Allence
Peckham
Peckham & Marble
Geoffrey Murdingham
Bruce
Indianapolis Sun
Life Worth Living
A poetic meditation questions if life is worth living and how to perceive heaven, divine messages, and the beauty of life. It reflects on motherhood, the tenderness of a child’s lips, and the inner zeal sparked by such moments, as printed in the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodavell Inn
Prnkvate
St. Thomaa Street
Revdellife
Chaptha X
Rous
Rascal
Sicily
Palermo
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Plan to create acre farm colonies near Billings
George H. Maxwell, executive chairman of the National Irrigation Association, urged Billings residents to back a plan to establish acre farm colonies on 160 acre tracts with irrigation. Instructors would teach Eastern migrants to farm and irrigate for a year, creating ready colonists for new regions and easing urban congestion. A railroad already piloted a similar scheme in Arizona’s Salt River Valley, subdividing 160 acres into acre plots.
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Billings
Mont
George H. Maxwell
National Irrigation Association
Maxwell
Arizona
Salt River Valley
Northmites Agriculturist
Jokemaster’s Quip Sparks Shared Laughs
A Philadelphia Telegraph caption quotes a jokemaker’s rule about humor. It notes that a quick laugh at another’s joke earns laughter back, while telling a joke of your own invites shared amusement and camaraderie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Telegraph
Navy officers and a widening gap in global navies
An annual report by Rear Admiral George A Converse urges increasing lieutenants from 350 to 600 and lieutenant commanders from 200 to 300 to meet gunfire needs, warning current officer levels are inadequate compared with British, French, and German navies. The piece also notes Supreme Court decisions affecting twenty colleges in the Fayerweather will case and critiques testing large architectural enlargements of the Capitol. It surveys bank examiners, immigration, and civil rights policy debates shaping the South, plus postmaster actions against carriers, and ends with tariff and canal port controls in the U S Panama agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Converse
Bureau of Navigation
Norton
Expéris Erice
Converse
Supreme Court of the United States
Fayerweather
Daniel B. Payerweather
New York
New York Court of Appeal
United States Circuit ‘Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Seivs
United States Supreme Court
Tribune
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Silver Spur
Bao
Deliny
Aeenny
Anthony
Gleys
Cornwall
Migtrons Killigrew
Jack
Tote
Squire
Dlosaran
Swind
Washington
Chadwick
Treasury Department
Oberlin
Congress
House Committee
Warren J,umber
Lockhport
H.W. Aldrich
Concord
N. H
Wynes
Tom.ber
National Association of the Carriers
Aldrich
United States
Panama
Colon
Paname
Taira
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