The Buccaneers of Our Coast by Frank R Blockton
In a St Nicholas series, Spain faces Drake and his crew as amateur pirates siege Nombre de Dios. The town panics while a small English force resists with trumpets and muskets. Drake’s group retreats, fails to seize booty, and then shifts to raiding a Panama mule train for gold, leaving silver behind.
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Frank R Blockton
St. Nicholas
Stockton
Spain
England
Drake
Nombre de Dios
Perth Amboy
Raritan Bay
Francis Drake
Panama
Wanted Agents for Confederate Soldier Book
Promote a new single volume Civil War history titled The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War. 500 pages, 12x16 inches, 1100 battle scenes portraits maps. Earn from $100 to $200 monthly. Veterans and descendants urged to request free illustrated circular and agent terms from Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., Louisville KY.
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Courier-Journal Job Printing Co
Louisville
Painter Seeks Jobs For First Class Work
R. H. Calvert offers plain and ornamental painting services this season and promises high quality work that can boost a property's value or appeal. Contact details are not provided.
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R. H. Calvert
Laughter and its shrinking place in modern life
A reflective piece discusses the loss of hearty laughter in polite society, contrasts youth and infancy with aging minds, and recalls scenes of joyous giggles from Miss Ethel and babies. It then shifts to grim laughter, a dying maniacal sound, and a Portland incident where a squaw repelled a smoking passenger with a flying umbrella, shocking bystanders.
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Ethel
Isola Dei Pazzi
Venice
London
Sir Lewis Morris
Forum
Apples Cooked Right The Ewing Method For Apple Sauce
Mrs Emma P Ewing instructs a lesson on cooking apples focusing on apple sauce. She warns against metal contact and recommends porcelain lined kettles or granite ware, minimal water and salt, and layering sugar after cooking for best flavor. The guidance condemns spices dilution and iron or tin utensils.
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Emma P. Ewing
Callon Harmon Co Offers Dirt Cheap City Residence
An office notice invites buyers to contact Callon Harmon & Co to purchase a desirable city residence at a very low price.
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Callon Harmon & Co
Marching through rapine quote in cable misquote
A historical note describes how Gladstone and Parnell were linked in a cable shorthand that mixed a famous phrase with horse names Veracity Tyrone Lobster. The next day New Zealand papers published a bizarre paragraph combining the insult with animal names.
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Gladstone
Parnell
Rapine
Empire
Tyrone
Lobster
New Zealand
Lightning Safety Says Stay Away From Metal During Storms
The New York Ledger advises that lightning danger is reduced by avoiding metal objects and wall contact, with the middle of the room safest and lower floors safer. It notes lead roofs require ground contact via spouts and suggests counting seconds between flash and thunder to estimate distance, warning that about a quarter mile per second indicates closeness.
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New York Ledger
A Little Ad Built a Business Foundation
A compact exchange notes how a small advertisement served as the foundation for many a business man's success, citing the Boston Courier. The remark frames ads as pivotal early tools in commerce.
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Walker
Boston Courier
Young Spoonamore and Miss Quickstep Debate Music
A humorous exchange from the Chicago Tribune features Young Spoonamore challenging Miss Quickstep on recognizing music. Miss Quickstep asserts her recognition of a wedding march when heard.
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Young Spoonamore
Miss Quickstep
Chicago Tribune
Alaskan Ceremony Fakes Wedge Miracle on Stage
Spokane review reports a staged quasi religious spectacle in Alaska where a large wooden wedge is shown as piercing a woman's head. A two piece contraption with blood bladders creates realistic eye bulging and blood flow, later removed to reveal the ruse.
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Spokane
Wash
Courting Danger Question Posed to Uncle Simon
In the Chicago Record a reader asks what constitutes courting danger. The reply defines courting danger as any act that tests risk or defies safety, prompting reflection on caution.
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Simon
Chicago Record
The Blind Buyers Who See With Their Hands
A Chicago Times Herald feature tells of T J Lockwood, a former soldier blinded in war, who built a thriving Buda Illinois store. His buyer J Oechsley, also blind, loses his sight but learns to tell goods by touch, proving a master buyer and earning praise from merchants for skill beyond sight.
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T J. Lockwood
Lockwood
Buda
Mr Lockwood
Isj Oechsley
Dedsley
Chicago Times-Herald
Lightning Strikes Near Atlanta Colonel Survives
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports Colonel Curtright of Atlanta survived a trio of electrical strikes in 1892. A bolt hit a poplar during a storm and another struck a house, stunning residents. Later a tree along his route splintered into his wagon, and a final flash unroofed his home as he returned.
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Curtright
Atlanta
Pittsburg
Then and Now
A Romantic poem excerpt from Harper's Bazar voices a lover asking for memory of his best self after death and urging forgiveness. The speaker invites the beloved to envision Eden in their past and restore divine surprise in living days, urging thoughts of his best self now.
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Mem
Eden
Harper’s Bazar
Whose Bill Is It The Smart Man and Hotel Debate
A man argues with a friend over who pays a hotel bill. The proprietor settles by noting the bill may be his or the man’s, and eventually the man offers to pay his half immediately to keep the matter clear. The exchange ends with agreement on “our bill.”
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New York World
Currant cake joke from a Bradford village tale
A London Telegraph anecdote from a village near Bradford notes a stranger who brings currant cake breakfast. The foreman jokes that the cake is common and can be added to a heap of similar handkerchiefs, highlighting local fondness and humor.
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Bradford
Henkercher
London Telegraph
Shepherd and Sheep Joke Sparks Sunday School Laughter
A London Tit-Bits item recalls a clergyman who likened himself to a shepherd guiding his flock. When asked what the shepherd does for the sheep a keen child quipped Shears them causing amusement among the listeners.
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London
The Risk of Wearing a Single Eyeglass
The text argues that using one eyeglass harms the less-used eye by ceaseless effort to equal the other eye. This strain is presented as dangerous and likely to cause gravest health outcomes. It emphasizes eye safety and warns against asymmetrical use of vision tools.
Synapta Water Insect Uses Ship Anchor Mimic
The synapta, a water insect, is equipped with an anchor identical to ship anchors. This device lets the creature cling firmly to any selected spot underwater.
Bullet from Trafalgar killed Lord Nelson preserved
A preserved bullet from the Trafalgar battle is mounted in a crystal locket and kept inside a crimson bag with gold tassels.
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Lord Nelson
Trafalgar
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