Eleanor Stevens Will Reveals 5000 Pound Bequests
A sensational society tale recounts Eleanor Stevens, famed heiress and eccentric, whose sudden death triggers a unique will clause. Each rejected suitor is promised 5000 pounds, with a later twist as a mistaken identity uncovers a living Eleanor Stevens who explains the ruse and reveals the true bequest conditions.
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Eleanor Stevens
Willard Prats
Cheapside
J. C
Misa Stevens
Mohammed
Earth
Heaven
Miss Stevens
Miss
So Doling
Hlewnor Stevens
Beechwood Street
Belgravia
Willard Pratt
Stevens
Eleanor Stegetia
Melgrayia
Wittaan Prater
Kinger
Eleanor
New Shirtiies
Pratt
Iis
Black Forest
Trefiso
Tam
Baptist Fish Tale From Charleston Slavery Era Anecdote
A Cincinnati Enquirer quotation recounts a Charleston tale from 1862 about a dignity old man on a wharf and a darky fishing. The darky returns a fish mocked as Baptist fish, with the onlooker asking why. The exchange implies a comment on slavery and attitudes of the era.
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Charleston
Inc
Tim
Cincinnati Enquirer
Were Good Fellows A Frontier Desperadoes Reconsidered
Hotel guests discuss the fading image of the western bad man. They describe famous desperadoes as generally good fellows who avoided trouble after gaining deadly notoriety, noting exceptions like Luke Short and Doc Holliday and that many became peace officers. The piece contrasts myth with measured behavior and comments on frontier justice.
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West
Atin
Uwks
Colorado
Dodge City
Coulson
Luke Short
Short
Doc’ Holliday
Leadville
Holliday
Miscellaneous world notes and urban data from 1900s
Facts span dairy country in Central New York to German city exhibitions, apartment prices in German cities, almond cultivation in California, ant counts by Emil Yun, and rosette notes on church capacities in Europe. Also includes a definition of loot, roof shingles Japan, Galveston tempest views, and a stomach remedy advert with Grover's City drug store.
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New York
Boston
California
Berlin
Hamburg
Leipsic
Dresden
Emil Yun
Geneva
St. Peter's Church
Rome
Milan
St. Paul's
London
Japan
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Price Inc
E. C. Dewitt &Co
Chicago
Grover’s City Drug Store
Castoria Nostalgia and Opera Glass Jokes
A compact collage of humor lines and advertising snippets. The page notes CASTORIA for infants and children The Kind You Have Always Bought and features quick quips about opera glasses rings and a string of punchlines from Chicago Indianapolis and Ohio papers.
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Chicago News
Iron Foes and Fancy Contracts Echo in Courtroom Gossip
In a brisk exchange from the New York Weekly and Boston Journal, a dealer urges a fearless iron dog, while a character muses on a century of lineage amid bankruptcy court records, revealing sharp social quips and legal undercurrents.
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New York Weekly
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Bella
Western Frontier
Gayton
Northamptonshire
Dorothy Bellingham
Linnen
Pope
Grover's City Drug Store
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Little Eva
Mr. St. Clair
Indianapolis Press
Scicle
Boston Journal
Mary Alice Jones
Serale
Naob
Ohio State Journal
Plossie
Plessie
McMenamin’s
South Centre Street
Nate Norm
Geo
P. Bible
A. M
The
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Aopress
Mail the Record
Wilkes-Banny
Boyle
Youngling
Centre Street
Drifton
Oneida Junction
Harwood Road
Humboldt Road
Oneida
Keppton
Hazleton Junction
Harwood
Ranberry
Tombicken
Deringer
Unday
Rheppton
Doringer
Tomhicken
Cranberry
Roan
Sheppton
Silam
Beaver Meadow Road
Stockton
Hazle Brook
Eckley
Jeddo
Jedup
Hazleton
Jeanenville
Audencied
Traction Company
Wilkesbarre
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Pointe Woat
Lothar
Amith
Suette Ehigh Valley Railroad
Pass
Mahanoy City
Shenandoah
Mt. Carmel
Shamokin
Weatherly
Mauch Chunk
Allentown
Bethlehem
Ruston
Philadelphia
Sandy Run
White Haven
Scramton
All Points
Delano
Pottsville
Freeland
Pottaville
Aston
Scranton
Easton
Kollln
Wilbur
Cortlandt Street
New York City
Chas
Lek
G.J. Gildroy
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