Deceit on the Buffalo Dockside Aboard the Arklam
Captain Brundage and his mate plot a fake death to keep Miss Antrim from discovering a fraud scheme. The plan includes a deaf dummy captain and a staged shipboard death to secure the 25 dollar payoff and mislead the company. The Arklam arrives at Buffalo as Miss Antrim confronts the crew about Brundage’s fate.
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Bill
Arklam
Buffalo
Brundage
Buffalo Docks
Mar
Hrundage
Sherlock Navigation Company
Chester
Chicago
Mr. Prout
Jim
Miss Antrim
Prout
Love
Fanda
Might
Auble
Devious voyage ends with Polly Antrim outwitting Brundage
Polly Antrim exposes Jim Brundage and forces a payout on the Arkham voyage. Brundage, disguised as Captain Chester, deceived Polly to avoid exposure and profit from a staged single-man act. Polly and the loyal mate Prout secure $250 from Brundage to settle the ruse as they plan to settle ashore together.
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Capt. Brundage
Mr. Prout Ankde
Miss Polly
Bill
First Railroad Train Ride Noted by Mrs Farrar of Macon
Mrs Salina Farrar mother of Macon Mo postmaster Charles Farrar recalls being a passenger on England’s first railway train from Huddersfield to Liverpool. Engineer Edward Entwistle piloted three flat cars with no seats as crowds cheered in 1830. She describes the night return, lack of headlights, and the crowd awaiting the train’s arrival.
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Salina Farrar
Macon
Charles Farrar
England
Kansas City Star
Edward Entwistle
Des Moines
Huddersfield
Yorkshire
Liverpool
Mr. Entwistle
My Mother
Annea
Ghostly Hand Guides Illinois Central Engineer Heroic Save
Horace L. Seaver, veteran IC engineer for 43 years, credits a spirit companion with guiding his locomotive and saving 1,090 soldiers during a 1890 crash threat. The ghost allegedly warned of a burned bridge, allowing a safe stop before disaster near Champaign.
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No. K
Horace L. Seaver
Chicago
Kankakee
Ilinois Central
Mr. Seaver
Seaver
Champaign
Chicago Journal
Railroad Right to Hobos Told by Buffalo Scotty
Buffalo Scotty recounts a harsh upbringing on a Tlinois farm where a railroad sparked his life as a hobo. He describes a grim family history, a mother who kept the lamps lit, a father driven to despair, and a self perpetuating urge to ride the rails. He details years of camps, drink, robberies, and losses, and warns that for runaway farm kids the true circus is the railroad.
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Buffalo Scotty
Tlinois
Dad
Editor Named Director General of National Volunteer Emergency Corps
Gen James Evelyn Pilcher editor of the Military Surgeon is appointed director-general of the National Volunteer Emergency corps. The corps formed in 1900 to aid in national calamity or war and is now reorganized along the lines of the United States Army medical corps.
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James Evelyn Pilcher
Military Surgeon
National Volunteer Emergency Corps
Medical Corps
United States Army
Freight Cars In Wild Cash
A mineral train of 24 coal wagons on the Highland line near the Perthshire Inverness-shire border derailed after the engine coupling snapped. The wagons topped a four mile descent, the guard leaped to safety, and the cars piled in a hillside wreck. No lives were lost.
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Rudyard Kipling
Senlis
Paris
Amiens
Creil
Compiegne
Pont Sainte Maxence
Highland Railroad
Perthshire
Inverness-shire
Iaceline
London Mall
Brazil Rail Network Ownership And Private Leases
The federal government runs about 1 287 miles of rail lines and owns four lines totaling 784 miles, leased to private firms. State governments hold 110 miles. Private ownership and operation account for roughly 8 000 miles.
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Brazil
Hnes
Rag Time Snippets and Local Vignettes from 1908
A collage of humorous observations, jokes, and short anecdotes. Topics range from germs on currency and a runaway fiancée to liver smells, mud turtles, baldness cures, and small town editorials. The piece includes quips about trains, shopping, hell, mulberries, and tramps, closing with a cheeky note on morning wakefulness.
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Polly
Polly Antrim
Rundage
Mr. Praut
Jim Brundage
Jimmy Dear
Clark Street
William Prout
Misa Polly
United States
Whippingham
Isle of Wight
Merwood
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Ghost Whispers
Train
Shade
Engineer
Railroad
Louinue Visnes
Byron Wiliams
Carr
Tie
The
Houston Post
Houston
Hell
New York Newspaper
Texas
Queens
Charleston News and Courier
News and Courier
Miles
Saya
Archbold
Ohio
Adde
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