The Great Mixed Pickles Plot Aboard the Golden Rod
Barnes and Clancy uncover a smuggling scheme tied to Cuban filibustering just before the Spanish American War. Captain Levi Cross hides gunpowder in pickle casks aboard the Golden Rod, aided by Jack Fenwick. A revenue cutter Albatross pursues, cannons misfire, and Cross is betrayed, ending with surrender and capture of crew.
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Georg
Parnes
Spain
United States
Ife
State Department
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Jersey
Barnes
Levi Cross
Geome
Jamaica
Cross
John Polk
Joe Tompkins
John
Clancy
Eermit
Joe Tomkins
Ville
Mennage
Captain Farewell
United Statis Revenue
Albatross
Galden
Hariwin
Galléen
Barnes and Caney
Tompkineville
E Barton
Staten Island
Ike
Nature
Polk
Janey
Wood
Chaney
Shehsman
Ting Foger
Lavi Crow
Golden Tool
Phipmate
Jack Fenwick
Capenne
Jack
Revenue Cutter
Farewell
Leutenant
Plast
Hornes
Hoermely
Albatrorg
Golden Rod
Revenue
Much Used Wedding Present From Providence Journal
A Providence girl six months married received wedding cards from an old friend who had given her a present. She planned to swap a duplicate silver card tray, monogrammed with her initials, by having the jeweller remove and re-cut the initials. The jeweller refused, noting the tray had already been altered five times and was too worn to recut without cutting through the bottom.
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Providence Journal
Providence
Public Health Fight Over Drinking Cups In Harrisburg
Dr Samuel G Olsen health commissioner targets public drinking cups amid complaints of unhygienic use as Dr Lixon cites examples of people soaking mouths in antiseptics then drinking at railway stations. The piece also profiles Stories by Gillian and humorous anecdotes involving Arkansas hog drives and party pranks.
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Samuel G. Olsen
Pennsylvania
Lixon
Harrisburg
Ardmore
Tommy
Novel snail farms and other odd ventures near Los Angeles
A Frenchman Vernot runs a thriving snail farm near Los Angeles, claiming easy upkeep and potential Paris markets. The piece surveys diverse, profitable ventures from frog farms in Pennsylvania to Maryland terrapin operations and crab fisheries on the Chesapeake, plus gourd, ostrich, skunk, and snake farms across the United States, highlighting local ingenuity and cash values.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Vernot
Paris
Pennsylvania
Edith Stege
Stege
Lega
Maryland
Chesapeake
Crisfold
Lavalette
Washington
Lafayette
Yorktown
Peake
Discreet Bon and the Comptroller of the Currency
The comptroller Willian PB Ridgely described a regulator as ingenious as a dealer’s son. In a peculiar anecdote from Springfield, a boy was asked by his father to saddle a horse and adjust its gait. As he settled, the boy whispered a cryptic question: Are you buying or selling?
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Gillian
Firat
Finnigan
Indiana
Gillan
Los Angeles
Nesbit
Baltimore American
Knife and Fork Club
Kansas City
Rip van Winkle
Arkansas
oWell
Success Magazine
New Hompahire
Willian PB. Ridgely
Springfield
Prominent Townsman Wheadare Monkton Illness Reported
The notice notes the town figure Wheadare Monkton is seriously ill. It states the illness is funded twice daily by Dr. Benltn in consultation with Dr. Morgan. Recovery is in great doubt according to the nonal notion advertisement in the paper.
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In & Kanone
Monkton
Benltn
Morgan
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Gillilan
Hyde
Henry
Comepaull
Adamson
Georgia
Minnesota
Skunk
Agricultural Department
Watkinsville
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