Secret summit in a village uproar over a horse theft
Bill Green reports spotting Dick Brayton near Averill's after midnight and an oak tree bearing a birch bark diagram. Wayne and a crowd debate Brayton's guilt, with Deacon Snyder’s farm mapped as the crime scene and Brayton named as the suspected head of the gang. Some defend Brayton, urging a fair trial.
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Crow
Bill
Dick Hrayton
Wayne
Sill
Sutbin
Hill
Brayton
Averill’s
Josh Balcomb
Deacon Snyder
Dick Brayton
Bill Green
Mr. Boone
Mr. Porter
Brownsville
Deck
Dick Brayton Captured By Horse Thief Ring
Dick Brayton is confronted by a mob after a knife and tree mark are linked to him in a horse theft probe. A plan to search follows as suspicions rise. later, he is seized by Bill Green and accomplices and taken toward Mr Porter’s, with danger looming.
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Mr. Boone
Mr. Porter
Dick Brayton
Bill Green
Averill
Mr. Stevens
Wayne
Brayton
Samanthy
Samantha
Nannie A
Nannie
Hill Green
Bill
Stone
Edo
Ace
Deacon Snyder
Hill
Fellera
Robert Bonner
Sone
A Lively Stone Tortoise and the Sleeping Pet Tale
The London Spectator shares a humorous country house tale about a tortoise, a new cook, and a misadventure in a coal cellar. As the animal slept through hibernation, the tortoise woke to chaos, prompting the astonished cook to reveal a cracked coal pile and a stunned mistress.
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London
How Prince Patrick Got His Name
The appointment of the Duke of Connaught recalls why the Queen named her seventh child Arthur Patrick Albert. An 1849 Dublin crowd urged, Make one of them Prince Patrick and Ireland will die for you, a hint remembered when the duke received the name Arthur Patrick Albert and later became Duke of Connaught.
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Patrick
Duke of Connaught
Ireland
Prince Albert
Dublin
Prince Patrick
Arthur Patrick Albert
Emerald Isle
Duke of
Connaught
Sound travel speeds and a streetwise warning
A Washington Post anecdote describes a man with plaster on his nose explaining sound travels at 2,000 feet per second. The young man learns the lesson after a close call, and the tale ends with a humorous admonition about calling someone a curse word only when far away.
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Washington Post
Counting the Cost and a Clever Business Line
Paraphrased excerpts show a dramatic exchange about beauty and a sharp business quip. A Detroit Journal note cites a bankerlike figure asking about restraint while a coachman admits inability to stop a runaway carriage. The businessman then suggests diverting the horses into something cheap.
Dr Hartman Advice Women Health Free Help Wealth and Beauty
Dr Hartman offers free advice to women writing with symptoms and history of trouble. He claims vast reach and cures tens of thousands. His book Wealth and Beauty is sent free from Columbus Ohio and medicines are available at any drug store.
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Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Legend of St Winifred’s Well and its neglect
The article recounts the tale of Winifred a seventh century British maiden martyred by a prince Cradocus whose head’s resting spot birthed a healing spring later venerated in Holywell in medieval times. It notes the spring’s fame declined and a courthouse built over the well by the Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII.
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Winifred
Great Britain
Cradocus
St. Bueno
Holywell
Sounty Fiat
England
Countess of Richmond
Wother
Henry VII
Artificial Pearls From Fish Scales Develops In France
A consular bulletin states the United States consulate at Lyons France has been asked to supply fish scales for producing artificial pearls and other ornaments through a newly discovered French chemical process.
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United States
Lyons
France
Eagle Linen Writing Table Desk Paper Ad
The Eagle Linen Writing Table offers ruled and unruled sheets in 100 page packs. Letter size priced at 25 cents and Note size at 15 cents. Seek your dealer and refrain from alternatives.
Blues in the Blood Health warning and a laxative pitch
An erasive health ad warns that lazy liver causes depression and headaches and urges readers to take Cascareta Candy Cathartic to flush poisons from the blood. The copy promises guaranteed satisfaction, warns of counterfeit tablets, and notes prices and mail order details from the Nectarling Remedy Co.
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Iisa of Humanity
Ashlee
Ntekling Remedy Co
Chicago
Montreal
Can
New York
Lane
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Mr. Butterfield
Detroit Journal
DR. Hartman
Goulder
Rock Island
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