Tommy Tucker and the luck of the sunken lots
In New York near Central Park a family called Tucker prospers on a rough city farm until misfortune hits. A misfit winter brings illness and hunger, but a found horseshoe and a doctor’s aid spark a turnaround as Tommy, the boy, helps care for livestock and inspires hope that prosperity returns through pluck and perseverance.
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Central Park
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Mr. Tucker
Cresus
Mother Tucker
Robinson Crusoe
Mr. Tuckty
North Pole
Jon
Job
Lueck
Mr. Croesus
Mr. Crowsus
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Sonny
Dack
Top
Croesus
Reminiscence of Weather and School Absence by Jones
Jones reflects on childhood clouds as small at first but followed by squalls. He notes only a schoolboy with poor health misses school, implying lingering illness shapes early life.
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Jones
A Day of Funerals in Loxpon Ontario
In Loxpon Ontario on May 26 a citywide funeral day overwhelms the community. Over 150 burials occur as hearses and vehicles crowd the streets. Saloons close and prayers echo as families mourn and many go mad with grief. Coffins run short and a Great Western Railway carload carries extras.
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Colin
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Odd Fellows, Mason
Great Western
Fannie Cooper
William Glass
Resolutions Adopted by the Davenport Canal Convention
The Davenport Iowa May 26 convention adopts a series of resolutions urging Congress to fund a Mississippi waterway system linking the Mississippi, its tributaries, and the eastern seaboard with a canal from the Mississippi to the Illinois River at Hennepin and then to Chicago waterway, support river improvements, barge transport, and toll-free Erie Canal. The report, unanimously adopted, calls for expanded Mississippi River Commission and a two-representative state delegation to Congress.
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Misssippi River
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St. Anthony
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Notable Kentuckian Evangelist Gains Crowds and Miraculous Claims
Rev. George O. Barnes, educated at Princeton and once a Presbyterian pastor, now travels Kentucky mountain regions holding camp meetings with his daughter as singer. He preaches in local language, accepts only food and lodging, and draws large crowds. claims include miraculous cures through oil anointing.
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George O. Barnes
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Chicago
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