Mad asylum tale mixes whimsy and menace in Stockport
A narrator visits The Asylum in Dingleton Cheshire, meets Sir Solomon Shapton and Keeper Pottleton, witnesses mad residents and a party of eccentric experiments. The piece blends satire with a stark glimpse of asylum life and ends with a dramatic escape and grim reflection on a benefactor. The tone echoes old newspaper fiction with quirky dialogue and macabre irony.
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Allison
Rims Stockport
Cheshire
Garren Worges
Blackbird
Ain
Caine
Meer
Asylum
Todge
Altisun
Amukinygf Pipe
Jookinge
Hinself
Jones
Sir Solomon Shapton
Shapton
Mr. Wingrave
Solomon
Coipae
Mir Solomon
Sip Solomon
Mia
Efor Boeaald
Allisen
Avery
Pottleton
Salomon
Sir Solomon
Wingrave
Pam
Nisan
Alison
Oxen Pilot Helps Blind Mate Across River Ford
Onx s Kindness recounts Governor Morrow's two oxen near Loveland. The blind ox followed a steering grunt from its mate and a pilot, who watched closely to guide steps away from banks and holes. The tale includes their antics near the mill pond and a Malayan palm saying.
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Onx
Barclay Ballard
Richmond
Ind
Morrow
Little
Miami River
Loveland
Uliid
Ballard
Mill Pond
Varied Products From the American Aloe Tree
A report notes the diverse uses of the plant called American aloe, yielding thread needles ropes cables paper clothing soap and sugar. it states that brandy is not produced.
Diverse notes on war prep science and Alaska reports
A collection of brief items covers Henry Lacn’s secret cure claim for yellow fever, wartime refugee moves from Metz to interior France, a Duke of Portland ejecting an intruder, Alaska’s fishing and mining outlook, a post office recall ruling, French potato yield gains, extraterritorial law in Asia, a Holyoke father’s grave visit, California manufacturing appeal, Yukon miners’ struggles, and European military crisis statistics noting July August spikes and officer risk.
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Henry Lacn
Savannah
Germany
Metz
Strasbourg
Duke of Portland
Caithness Forest
National Geological Survey
Alaska
Toe Post-Office Department
Washington
United States
M. Girard
China
Japan
Siam
Keben
Hankow
Yokohama
Bangkok
Atlanta
Gia
Eugene Starr
Holyoke
Mass
Sandersville
Sherman
Georgia
Starr
Massachusetts
Yukon
San Francisco
New York Tribune
Austria
Europe
Italy
Spain
England
Modia
The Valuable Products of Tar and Industry Comment
A New York Mail and Express piece quotes Anthony N Brady of the Albany Municipal Gas Co on coal tar waste value and naptha cost, likening waste utilization to a Troy junk dealer’s cotton rag discovery that birthed a million dollar venture. The second excerpt depicts a father comforting a dying child about heaven, showing affectionate mom ent.
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Albany Municipal Gun Company
Anthony N. Brady
Brady
Troy
New York Mail and Express
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G. B. Burgin
Gerald Allison
Dingleton
Dudley Wingrave
Inner Temple
London
Crab Wincrave
Stockport
Jocum Tenens
Muddleaby
Gerald Alison
Dudley Wingrove
Tyner
Pierce Exes
Migetter
Viehter
Plottleton
Mottheton
Peeter
Theron
Winorwel
Authors’ Alliance
Tie
California
Tice State
New England
Boum
UN States Revenue
Theo
Jean
Heaven
Bias
Artief
Joan
Jeas
Deteolt Free Press
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