Duel and elopement plot in Georgian court tale continues
Narrator recounts Giles Vernon facing capital charges for abducting Lady Arabella Stormont as the Ajax battles French ships. Richard Glyn earns £20002 prize money and Lady Arabella schemes fade with Daphne. The party flees to London then seeks aid from the Prince of Wales.
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Peter Hawkehaw
Hichard Glyn
Arabella
Stormont
Etven
Berth
Giles Vernon
Ste Themes Vernon
Hawkshaw
Vernon
Philips Overton
Thomas Vernon
Overton
Arebella
Ajax
Mediterranean
Richard Glyn
Glyn
Daphne
Richard
Giles
Peter
Sir Peter
AMN
Lady Hawkshaw
London
Bir” Thomas
Arabella Stormont
Whitall
Hastler
Peter Hawkshaw
Mr. Glyn
Giles-Vernon
Admiralty
Kent
Irvin Cobb tale of a little negro and a bully
A Saturday Evening Post vignette recounts a weary little Negro in a resort who flashes bills to buy a drink. A larger, darker man challenges him and is knocked down after the small man defends himself, asking the intruder who he is. The exchange ends with the bully surprised by the little man’s streetwise response.
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Irvin Cobb
Billy
Treasure Hoarded in India Believed Vast Sums Hidden
The article notes that India hides immense wealth in gold, alive, gems, and silver. It cites late Duncan MacLeod estimating up to 1.5 billion dollars in gold alone, with silver and gems likely comparable though unquantified.
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India
Dunning MacLeod
Man in the Water Cry for Help Amid Drowning Scene
A man cries for help while in the water as onlookers report a drowning incident. A witness nicknamed Broil Gent reacts to the scene, noting the urgency of rescue efforts.
Skin Eruption Cured by Cuticura Remedies
Mrs R K Whitaker of Winchester England recalls her two and a half year old daughter’s severe itchy leg eruptions starting in October. After two doctors failed, two weeks of Cuticura Remedies healed the child, who at fourteen has no recurrence.
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R. KR. Whitaker
Winchester
Team
Boston
Reputations echoed in a debate between two observers
The Autocrat and the Recondite Person discuss reputation in a brief exchange. The Autocrat notes a man earns a reputation from the expectation of one day having it. The Practical Person adds a remark from his son about some men gaining and keeping a reputation while others let it control them.
Cheap Wit and Laundering Tips From A Colonial Era Page
The fragment references Joel Chandler Harris and rival editor Simon Simpson trading playful barbs over cheap wit. It notes fine wash goods needing proper starch and laundered presentation to improve appearance, and ends with a brief Nebraska Journal anecdote about an angry streetcar passenger.
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Joel Chandler Harris
Simon Simpson
Mobile
Joel Harris
Joel
Simon
Thelfty Scot and the voyage perils at sea
A Scotsman and his wife travel from Leith to London by boat. Off the Yorkshire coast a great storm arises, forcing several narrow escapes from foundering, while the wife quips about dying at sea and her husband retorts in a grim pun about burial at sea. The piece blends humor with peril at sea.
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Leith
London
Yorkshire
Sandy
Diana
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