Barrels and Deportation Escape for Russian Immigrant
A Russian Jewish immigrant, Hyman Motowvitch, avoided deportation by hiding in a barrel aboard a steamer near New York. Sailors lowered the barrel into Hoboken, and he emerged later in Connecticut, while another man with defective eyes, Max Goldman, was deported instead.
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Rusalan
America
Hyman Motowvitch
Montpevitch
Mosowvitch
New York Bay
Hoboken
Cohao
Max Goldman
Wildcat Feud With Rat Plague On Jamaica Boat
A Jamaica steamship Valdivia returning to New York from Port Antonio faced a rat infestation led by a banana rat army. Captain Kruger loaded two ferocious wildcats in Inagua to combat the pests. The cats mauled rats aboard the hold but the rodents overwhelmed the crew, spreading chaos and fear across the vessel during the voyage.
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Magineer
Hanson
Valdivia
New York
Port Antonio
Gustave Shirmer
Inagua
Han‘son
Jamaica
The Fox and the Rooster Folktale
A fox stalks a rooster and pretends friendship. The rooster boasts tricks but foils the fox by watching him. The fox seizes the rooster but the hen alerts him to danger. The rooster frees himself by flashing cunning and shouting, ending the tale as “that is all there is to the story.”
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Gos
Reynard
Owever
A Child Describes a Dad and a Quiet Stranger
A storyteller recalls a father’s confusion with a child who craves noise and play. The narrator wonders about a stranger who resembles another boy who sits quietly on a lap and never speaks, suggesting a hidden figure behind the family scenes.
Romulus and Remus Twin Founders of Rome
The text recounts Romulus and Remus, twins born to Sylvia and the god Mats, saved from death by a she wolf after being exposed on the Tiber. Raised by a shepherd, they learn their origin and avenge their mother by killing the Alba king, with Romulus later founding Rome in 753 B C. It then presents a knotty math riddle about apple sellers and a note on viewing 900,000 landscapes to see the Earth's entire surface.
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Romulus
Remus
Sylvia
Mats
Alba
Tiber
Mare
Romaulus
Rome
Amuling
Water lilies and playful nurses in summer tale
A poem depicts kindly nurses tending water lilies as children dream of summer messengers. Their cheerful smiles and perfumed air set a bright scene, with children returning in summer to pick and carry the Isles waiting there.
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Cape May
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May
Avalon
Vis
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Ocean Grove
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Aixteen Dayar
Vormult
J.B. Wood
Geo, Wi
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Jamestown
Jamestown Exposition
Jamestown Peninsula
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Baltimore
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Washington
Potomac River
Richmond
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Wallace Dry Goods Co
Batiste
J. C. Wallace & Son
Proprietors
Syracuse
West Water Street
Oqeven
Indiana, PA
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10Th Sts
PENNA
J. L. Pet
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Irman
R. W. Wehrle & Company
Indiana, Pal
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Frantz Bros
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