Clerk’s Love and Fortune in a Chicago Firm
A New York accountant Bronson falls for his long faithful confidential clerk Per C. After a planned staff change sparks a secret affection, Bronson travels to Chicago to propose. Miss Clark, revealed as Per C., becomes Mrs. Bronson, shaping a Western home life admired by his family.
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Ulster
Avisley
Mr. Bronson
Eavite
Mr. Sturtevant
New Yorker
America
Prairies
St. Nicholas
Miss Clark
Mr.turtevant
Chicago
Bronson
Dilis
Mae NS
Bturtevant
Central Park
New York
Wes
Sobicr
Lily
Sturtevant
the St. Nicholas
Flo
Clarks
Thaye
Sturtevant & Co
Sturtevantp
Kitty
Eliza
West
Clark
Lost Relative Recalled by Husband at Dinner Table
A Boston Traveller excerpt recalls a wife noting a resemblance to a missing woman. The young man smiles and agrees the likeness is clear, though many years have passed since she was called away.
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Kate
Boston
Detroit Smuggling Tales Among Wealthy Detroit Women
Detroit Post reports on smugglers among well to do women who smuggle cotton textiles and luxury fabrics to Canada via Windsor. Officers and detectives crack down as smugglers exploit secrecy and clever packing, with tales of supplies hidden on bodies and in garments.
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Detroit
Canada
Windsor
Detroit Post
Alligator Attack Near Crosstown Shocks Pennel Sharp
A farmer's boy Pennel Sharp was attacked while bathing near a Conemaugh branch in Pennsylvania by a large black animal with white teeth believed to be an alligator. Sharp lost his leg below the knee and survived after amputation. residents fear the creature and hunt it, suspecting a May freight car accident released an alligator bound for Philadelphia Zoo.
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Pennel Sharp
Crosson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Conemaugh
Young Sharp
Sharp
Lio
Philadelphian Zoological Garden
Alloona
Cost Price Dispute at Carson Clothing Store
A customer in Carson Nevada entered a store to buy a suit priced at 30 dollars. After a dispute over price the countryman offered 16 dollars and debated the tag while the clerk and boss argued in mixed languages before mentioning a 24 dollar cost price. An unrelated line notes Prince G abdicating.
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Carson
Nev
Holt
Brice
Jeminie
Gherman
Parisian Ballrooms and Royal Graces Across Europe
A Paris report details three quadrilles at a state concert with dressed ladies and bouquets. The Greenock Advertiser notes past rejections of poetry. Parisian ball customs include betrothal balls and quiet civil marriages preceding religious rites. The Prussian crown prince diversifies with sandwiches and beer after a regiment luncheon. A monument to Andersen is unveiled in Copenhagen with royal spectators. Elizabeth of Austria is cultured and multilingual, fond of art and her daughter Valerie, but avoids court chatter.
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James Russena
London
Greenock Advertiser
Scotland
Paris
Sotr
Charlotte
Bois de Boulogne
Thasing
Trans Christian Andersen
Copenhagen
Rosenborg
Denmark
Greece
Elizabeth
Austria
Europe
Iele
Valerie
Various Scientific Notes From the Era Highlight Patents and Natural Observations
Kentucky inventor H C Micherson challenges Moison’s patent on quadruplex telegraphy while notes describe a fish birthing species in Tulare Lake California and a rare obsidian mountain near Yellowstone. Additional items debate outcomes of hygiene ideas, glow worm phosphorescence theories, armyworm hibernation, and ancient obsidian use by Native Americans.
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H. C. Micherson
Kentucky
Moison
Tulare Lake
California
Mivises
Yellowfever Commission
United States
Havana
Pronanty
C. V. Kinzy
St. Louis
Beaver Lake
National Park
The
Yellowstone
Grand Canyon
Gibson River
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No. 6
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Mr. Walker
Detroit Belles
Prince G . Lt
Schwarsburg- Soudershausda
Science and Industry
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