Tom Broxton Chooses Departure Over Paris Tour
Tom Broxton resolves to return to college after a tense day as guardian Mr. Matthews maps routes through Europe for a proposed trip with Olivia Westover. Tom, driven by unease over Olivia and a looming family talk, insists on leaving for college and writes off further discussion.
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Tom
Europe
Acend
Paris
Olivia
Nedmie
Alivia
Snce
Florence
Savonarola
Mrr
Westover
Geks
Havier
Gon
Ollie
Berlin
Vienna
Mr. Matthews
Clarence
Jeanny Westover
Rcom
William
Jeanne
Miss Matthews
Pana
Papa
Darling
Fion
Tom Broxton
Clarence Westover
Westovers
Livia
Mattthews
Broxton
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Mystery at Broxton Hall in Tom Broxton tale
The fragment describes Tom Broxton and guardian Matthews amid a mystery at Broxton Hall. A figure tampers with a desk, a bag is found, and a torn letter hints at secrets around Tom’s eighteenth birthday party. Matthews plans Tom’s future abroad while suspicions linger about ownership of the hall.
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Tom
Spillman
Matthews
Jim- A ‘Ardéner
Mary
Bee
Broxton Hall
Ing
Col
Broxton
Tom Broxton
Eitat
Baltimore veteran compares Boer and Civil War tactics
Gen. W. E. W. Ross, a Baltimore GA R veteran, discusses Anglo Boer War tactics with a World reporter. He contrasts British volley fire in close ranks with effective individual US-style fire, recalling smoothbore and rifled muskets and loading quirks from Civil War days.
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Baltimore
Africa
W. E. W. Ross
G A. R
THE SUN Promises Clear News for Domestic Readers
An advertisement urges readers to choose THE SUN for comprehensive news in readable form instead of subscribing to other papers, highlighting its suitability for battery shelves and home use.
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SUN
Hanna gift to street railway workers in Cleveland
Senator Hanna the president of the consolidated street railway company ordered five thousand dollars distributed among the employees as a Christmas gift Saturday night in Cleveland Ohio.
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Cleveland, O
Hanna
Little Consolidated Street Railway Company
Peculiar Skeletons Unearthed Near Enon
Edward Ryan digging in a gravel pit near Enon unearthed two human skeletons. One skull bore two uniform horns on each side, two inches long, and the skulls showed cleaving marks as if cut by a sharp instrument. The find is thought to be remnants of a pre Indian race. the skeletons were giants.
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Springfield
Edward Ryan
Enon
Bank Director Fails in Kentucky Overdrawn Funds
DRY RIDGE Kentucky December 26 An expert bank examiner reports Director A Carter has over drawn 14554 12 from the People's deposit bank. The bank is capitalized at 25000 Carter has assigned. Assets 21000 liabilities 24000.
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Dry Ridge
People’s Deposit Bank
A. Carter
Carter
A Catholic Jubilee Announces Holy Year in Rome
The pope informed Catholic sovereigns of the coming holy jubilee for the new year. The Italian government orders schools to celebrate with recitations from anti-clerical poets about Italy’s union.
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Rome
Union of Italy
Springfield Illinois Street Car Strike Off and Notable Deaths
Springfield Illinois reports the street car strike ended while tragically engineer Barney Conway died in a Russell, Cod wreck. Myrtie Peck a renowned equestrienne is dead in Boston and the Gem theater in Deadwood South Carolina burned as a notorious west house. Democratic national committee will meet in Washington February 22 to set time and place for the national convention. Gardner New Jersey introduced a bill granting a $50 monthly pension to the mother of the late Captain Gridley.
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Springfield
Tll
Barney Conway
Russell
Cod
Myrtie Peck
Boston
Gem Theater
Deadwood
S. C
Uess
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Gardner
New Jersey
Capt
Gridley
Digestive Aid Promises Quick Dyspepsia Relief
Dyspepsia Cure digests food and aids nature in rebuilding exhausted digestive organs. It is touted as the latest discovered digestant and tonic able to relieve and cure dyspepsia indigestion heartburn flatulence sour stomach nausea and related digestive discomforts. Prepared by E. C. DeWitt & Co Chicago all drugsists.
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E. C. DeWitt &Co
Chicago
New Haven Plans Heat Retaining Cooperative Kitchen Service
New Haven plans a large cooperative kitchen delivering hot meals to homes using a heat retaining device. S. H. Street and 20 local businessmen back the project promising ready to serve dishes at prices equal to raw costs, with oatmeal for ten cents and rapid wagon deliveries across the city.
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Edward “Bellamy
Bellamy
New Haven
Herald
S. H. Street
Ecuuntry
Major Bell in Philippine Fight in Undress At Manila Creek
From Manila a U S officer recounts Maj Bell of the Thirty sixth Infantry rushing to the firing line in bath attire when insurgents attacked near Manila He used a pistol clubbed revolver and a blunt strike to kill a towering Filipino fighter before realizing he was in a state of extreme undress and scrambling for his uniform.
Calico on the Gridiron in Lexington Gridiron Row
In Lexington Wyoming December 20 authorities bar a Saturday football game between Sayre female institute girls and the Misses Williams and Ms Silhiney s school female seminaries. The schools say no game will be played but the young ladies plan to decide the contest without faculty approval.
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Lexington
Sayre Female Institute
Selling Out Robes and Harness in Vanderpool Quiet Sale
The notice lists selling out robes blankets harness trunks and trunks in Vanderpool. It mentions a meal business lunch service daily from 10 am to 2 pm with ladies' lunch on the second floor. A laundry ad urges readers to use the Union Co operative Laundry and to consult The Sun's Seventh page liners.
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Vanderpool
Ormozés
W. Pearist
Fragmentary Chicago Transit Timetable Fragment
A damaged OCR shows scattered timetable entries from Chicago transit and station timings. Mentions include Ticket Office 25 W Washington, night express, Chicago f tales, express, vestibule, Monon accommodation times, with several uncertain hours and stray phrases.
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Washington-st. Chicago
Trains Marked by Cars and Schedule Note
The listing explains the train types Daily Sleeper Parlor and Chair dining cars with Sunday exceptions indicated. It notes the car designations D S P C and marks trains that operate without service on Sundays. The description focuses on the naming of car types and the Sunday exception rule.
Chicago and Peoria Rail Schedule Fragments
Readable railway timetable snippets show lines from Chicago to Lafayette Peoria Bloomingdale Champaign and Columbus on Springfield and Columbus routes. Services include various arrivals and departures with approximate times such as morning 4 45 and evening 11 35, indicating mixed local express connections.
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Veqoria
Peoria
Bloom
Peoria & Bloom
Champaign
Springfield
Columbus
Columbus & Spring
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Boston Mail
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Benton Harbor
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Lafayette
Chicagog
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