Maud Wilkinson and the Wunderson Mystery at the Park
Maud, seventeen, introduces Mr Wunderson a stranger who pays her train fare after she loses her pocketbook. Her father suspects impropriety and questions the stay, uncovering Wunderson as a known offender in league with deceit. Police remove the culprit as Maud discovers the danger of romantic flirtation. A second ceremony then occurs in the parlor with a different lover present.
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Mr. Wilkingon
Maud
Mr. Wilkinson
Mrs. Wilkinson
Tts
Wundergon
Duke of Newcastle
Wunderson
Mr. Wundarson
Eva Evergreen
William H. Jeffries
Camden
Lire
Maud Introduces Mr Wanderson to anxious family
Mrs Wilkinson questions Maud about the new guest Mr Wanderson as Maud boasts of him yet reveals lost money a diamond and a pocketbook. The family prepares for church and dinner while the daughter defends the visitor amid worry and confusion.
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Maud
Mrs. Wilkinson
Mr. Wunderson
Uncle Harman
Father
Lucy
Mr. Wonderson
Wonderful
Wonderson
Mr. Wanderson
Desperate Bull and Bear Fight Near Tahlequah
Charles Crosby recounts a brutal bear and bull bout on Rhody Burns farm near Tahlequah in Indian Territory. A 11 foot deep arena drew 200 spectators who paid 32 cents each as Brain the 300 pound bear and a 1600 pound ferocious bull clashed for 13 rounds ending with the bear killed. The crowd dispersed after praising Burns entertainment value.
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Charles Crosby
Post Dispatch
Indian Territory
Tahlequah
Rhody Burns
Rhody
Brain
Bruin
Bear
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tailor Leopold Eyring’s disappearance shocks New York
Leopold Eyring, a East Eleventh Street tailor, left home after learning his wife bore twins. He never returned, leaving a widow and two infant children. The family, poor and unemployed, begs charitable aid as winter approaches. The New York Herald reports the tale.
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Leopold Eyring
Eieveral
Eyring
Leopold
East Eleventh Street
Dime Supper Triumph at Pawtucket Feast
A neighborhood dime supper in Pawtucket featured ladies arranging the event while men faced ten cent forfeit for each word spoken. One silent guest, a "queer chap," outlasted the interrogations by simply eating and finally writing on a slate that he was deaf and dumb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawtucket
Bulls in Road Causes Narrow Buggy Accident in Berks County
Reading Eagle reports Jacob G. Zerr of Geigertown, president of the Berks County Agricultural Society, narrowly escaped injury when two bulls fought in the road between White Bear Hotel and Geigertown. One bull struck the buggy causing a wreck. occupants were thrown but unharmed. The horse was frightened but not hurt.
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Jacob G. Zerr
Geigertown
Berks County Agricultural Society
Philadelphia
White Bear Hotel
Mr. Zerr
Zerr
Reading Eagle
Joy That Hills Telegrapher Hears Wife Is Dead
A telegraph clerk’s wife in frail health spent a Normandy summer on a farm. A neighbor’s letter announced her death, sending the husband into a swoon and hours of stupor before he met his wife alive and healthy, his joy turning to insanity.
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United States
Hills
Normandy
Coons and Dog Die in Timbered Water Fight
A dog owned by Mr. White of Lauvie's Island chased a coon from a slough area into its hiding place. After digging and barking the dog attacked. The coon dragged the dog underwater by the nose, drowning the animal, while the coon swam ashore unharmed.
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White
Lauvie's Island
Portland
Oregon
Whispers of History and Odd Tales From The South
A collage of anecdotes and social commentary recounts abolitionist aid to Kansas settlers, kindergarten reforms showing progress in a week, a dying man guarding secret wealth, a Chicago murder turned accidental death, a dentist’s effect on toothache, and a Lincoln Nebraska church anecdote about rocks delaying mass.
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Cooper Shavings
Rolling Mill
Cooper Shop
John Riley
Detcher
Jerome Allen
Conrad Conk
Greencastle
Ind
Iya
Greencastle Star
Greencastle, Mnd
Cheorge
Indiana
Indiana and
Columbia Streets
Cooks Drug Store
Hall
Henry
Henrys
Townsley
C. Cook
Castle Mills
Gage
South Greencastle
James Gillespy
New York
Southwest Corner
Public Square
Greencastle, Nd
W. J. Hazelett
Onl
St. L
IL. Na.& C
Ntt
T. G. Bowman
John Burley
T. G. Bowman & Co
Tr. G. Bowman & CO
East Side Public Square
Malholn
William_S. Murnorn
HANNA
Apam
Patna
Washington St
Mulholn & Hanna
Lamgdon
Kid Groves
Germantown
Dan Langden
Ati
Lie
Gomg
Cooke
Putnam County
Cook
Boboerie
Greencastle Foundry
and— Machine Company
Meanufacturers
Culver
Ann
von Belt
8Th Dépot
Kraearis
Phillip
Albaugh
Hathaway
SWAGL
Adrs” Pure, Owns
Conrad Cook
West Side Public Square
John T. Craig
Howe & Vermilion’s
Vandalia
J.T. Warren & CO
W. Second ST
Cincinnati
TurStar
St. John
Patmos
Patmos Isle
John
Rome
Earth
Eden
New Jerusalem
Man
Sona
Fari Ag Virtue
Patmog
H. B
Lena
Christine Ladd
Poquonnock
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
Ladd
American Journal of Mathematics
Harvard
Iorce
Miss Ladd
Vassar
Springfield
Mass
Nermoet
Eyring’s
Silent Man
Vdacksonville Sun
Edward Everett Hale
Lawrence
Topeka
Hampden
Manhattan
Wabaunsee
Ossawatomie
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company
Kansas
Mr. Hale
Kansas City
Missouri
Virgil James
Little Rock
Ark
James
Virgil
Yarnet
Harray Lipschitz
Chicago
Denison
Texas
Lincoln
Neb
Rocka
Asia
Tim
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