A Dead Man and the Postmaster's Double Life
A narrator recounts a tale from 18g8 of Beton's railway opening to Tagasirog and a postmaster at Donski who, visiting a storm bound, reveals a lifelong secret. The postmaster is revealed to be a former cuirassier who faked his death to reunite with his wife Olga, now the widow of the Donski post station. They live a hidden life while his pension continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tagasirog
Kharlof
Itlitin
Gunrage
Studsia
Donski
Paris
Don
Plato
Olga
Little John
Troika
Kharkos
Paul
Kharkof
Starosta
Empress’ Regiment of Cuirassiers
Petersburg
Turkey
Self
Khardof
Writers as Orators in America and Britain
The article contrasts American editors and literary men who speak well in public with their British counterparts who struggle at public rostrums. It cites Archibald Forbes’s poor delivery at a London dinner and notes Thackeray Jerrold and Punch wits failing as speakers. It ends suggesting a deeper reason awaits philosophical explanation.
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America
George William. Curtis
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Monthly Magazine
Holace Greeley
Henry J. Raymond
Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
John W. Forney
A. K. McClure
The
Times
Philadelphia
London
Archibald Forbes
Pen
Thackeray
Douglas Jerrold
Mark Lemon
Punch
Lincolnshire
Ingram
Compositions Exercise Promotes Student Writing Skills
A weekly one hour session assigns subjects such as maple sugar making ghosts and railroad car observations for pupils to write. The teacher guides but does not write, then collects, reviews, and corrects with peer help. A mother asks a boy why he did not kiss a girl during a visit saying he lacked enough to go around.
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Journal of Education
Wit and whimsy from old time sketches and ads
A dense collage of humorous anecdotes and social quips, touching on letters with the phrase wife permitting, clerical pieties, arithmetic quips, a mocked Russian name, and party banter. It weaves jokes about trains, photography, governors, and a lecture with nitro glycerine, ending with a review note on midwinter number and Lincoln portraits.
Moths in Carpets Cause Housekeeper’s Steam Remedy
An English journal advises mothers to guard Carpets from moths by laying a wet cloth on the carpet and passing a hot flat-iron over it to steam the carpet and kill the larvae. A Santa Barbara belle’s quip “Two bits worth of complexion” appears as she strolls into a drug store.
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Santa Barbara
Railroad Time Table from Freeport and Rock Island lines
Time table lists trains north to Sioux City and passenger schedules from Freeport to Chicago and West to Rock Island. It includes departures at 4:25 PM Sundays and various freight and passenger times, with agents J Johnson and A Mitchell noted. Also shows connections with Rock Island and W U K R lines and local officials.
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Unote Ofntrat
Freeport Mallen
Sioux City
Freeport
Chicago
R. H. Hover
W. A.steinett
Ticket Ag
T. Gen.Pass
Ouivagc
Iowarr
Firpress
Accom
Forreston
Mt. Morris
Oreon
Rocelle
Aurora
WO Rochelle
Oregon
Rincelbey
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Iis
Shem
Ham
Hem
Sham
Soph
University Magazine
Jim
Tsay
Sim
Thomas
Dombey
Maria
Missis
Jane
Sandy
Mr. Beecher
Long Branch
Tai
Tnd
Diddel
Brooks
Lincoln
Wyatt Eaton
New York World
Scribner
Tr. Eggleston
Roxy
Rudder Grange
Frank R. Stockton
Scribner & Co
Broadway
N.Y
Eevee
Ssence
W .Johnson
A. Mitchell
Chicago & Worth-Westerxraily
Western Union Railroad
Rockford
Rock Inslani
ST. Lou
Rock Island
Traaineon W. U.K
Eastleave Freeport
Eseereesesenre
ANG Mai
VSA
United States
Canada
Europe
Washington
States Patent Office
National Bank
D. C
Son
Joseph Casey
Tate
U. 8
Courtof Chains
U. S. Patent Office
Congress
Every &Tale
Louis Bagger & Co
Solicitors of Patents and Attorneye
le Droit
Washington, Dn. c
Fide
CLUB
Freeport Journal
Dailtes
Jaturmal
Erklies
Harper's
Munro’s Fireside Companion
New York Tribune
Corry
Toledo
Chile
Ancess
Sym Panerer
Chicavo Journal
Tribune
Adeebee Vesteerteen
American Farm Journal
Bee Keeper's Magazine
Gardeners’ Monthly
Prairie Farmer
New Yorker
Arthur’s Home
Atlantic Monthly
Appleton’s Journal
Cocey’s
Harper's Monthly
Peterson's Magazine
Scribner’s Monthly
Scientific
Scientific American
Popular Science Monthly
Hall’s Journal of Health
Yaokeh
AO Herald of Health
St. Nicholas
Nesses Senene
Teanvee
Tansill
Swarts & Stocking’s
Popular Drug Store
Rome
I, Hanior & Co
Porthaid
Maine
Col
Chicago & Bridge Streets
Home Journal
N.P. Willis
G. Morris
Belles-Leitrens
Beau Monde
the Home Journal
Harper’s Magazine
Harper’s Weekly
Lippscott’s
Blackwood’s
Littell
Appleton's Journal
Morris Phillips & CO
Park Place
New York
the Nursery
Joan L. Shorey
Branffeld St
Boston
D. Kuehner
Galena and
Exchane Sts
West
D.kuehner
Jacob Kline
Freeport, I
van Buren
Dr. Dean
Tod
Woun
A. G. Herrick
Kev
F. A. Read
J.D. Diffenbaugh
Bok
J. Dean
Sole Promierer
Gaenn Avenue
Bridge St
Johny &c
Shane Wana
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