No Tub On This Train Four Days Ends In Frustration
In a sleeper car journey a European passenger demands a bath tub at eight thirty in the morning. The porter explains tubs aren’t carried on the train and jokes about many tubs in San Francisco while passengers adjust to a tubless trip and a later commotion interrupts preparations for a berth.
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Marjorie
Lathrop
Porter
Mallory
San Francisco
Chicago
Jimmie Wellington
Wellington
Sncorlums
Wolf
Snoozbums
Harry
Jimmie
Mrs. Wellington
Dr. Temple
Roger Ashton
Mr. Wellington
Ira Lathrop
Brattleboro
Pretty Anne Gattle
Charlie Selby
Ira
Wedgewood
Yassah
Number Three
Discomfited Masher Attempts to Greet Newspaper Man’s Wife
A gray-haired man over sixty approached the wife of a well known publisher as she stood under an umbrella in cold rain. He stood beside her and asked if she awaited someone, prompting her sharp reply Santa Claus. The intruder departed abruptly.
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Wedgewood
Baid
Yassah
London Times
Mallory
Anay
Rabbits in Australia Costly Invasion From Early Settlement
A squatter introduced rabbits near Melbourne to recall home. The herd cost him 250000 and now the colonies pay 3500000 annually. Within five years a pair can produce 20000000 offspring, and in Australia they have shown they can exceed that.
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Australia
Melbourne
Colonies
Eloping couple on train sparks comic passenger caper
Lieut Harry Mallory and Marjorie Newton, bound for Reno to wed, dodge a preacher aboard a Transcontinental train while a cast of passengers and relatives swirl around them. A ruined wedding plan, frenetic disguises, and comic misadventures unfold as the couple hunts for a minister and navigates a carload of observers.
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Watrys Mallory
Philomines
Marjorie Newton
Oon Porter
Jimmie
Wellington
Nene
Jimmie App
Reno
Bae
Sammy Whitram
Jiminde
Temp
Marjorie
Roered
Passen- Hary
Dis- Lathrop
Inmune
Mallory
Maris Fatoure
Meide
Anne
Harry Mallory
Philippines
Porter
Ira Lathrop
Sammy Whitcomb
Anne Gattle
Little Jimmie
In the Composite Car a tense poker game unfolds
A gentle stranger invites Dr. Temple to a freeze out poker game. The gambler swipes Temple’s cards, Mallory’s intervention looms, and the conductor accuses Temple and the old clergyman of gambling. Temple’s secret threatens to surface as the scene ends with the conductor warning them off.
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Mallory
Ypsilanti
Dr. Temple
Night Train Across Iowa Toward an Unmarriable Bride
Chapter excerpt follows a sleeper dimly aware of a distant bride as the train crosses Iowa en route to the Mississippi. Mallory lies awake in a stateroom while distant whispers and a hushed border romance unfold two cars away.
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Porter
Iowa State Line
Mallory
Ilinois
Mississippi
Iowa
Last Call for Breakfast On A Train Bride And Groom Start Morning
Mallory wakes aboard a moving Iowa bound train as guests neaten berths and chatter breaks into a gossip hive about the bride and groom. Marjorie emerges from her berth in a disheveled, wavy-eyed state, ready for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Mallory
Jimmie Wellington
Marjorie
Bertha
Minute Men of New England Rise as Revolutionary Cadre
A brief history notes the Minute Men formed before the American Revolution by Massachusetts and New England patriots pledging to defend the colonies at a minute’s notice. They enrolled under the Provincial Congress act of November 23, 1774, with many future Revolutionary names appearing in their roster. The Massachusetts Historical Society preserves this list of enrollees.
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Massachusetts
New England
Massachusetts Historical Society
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Rupert Hughes
LU. K Fiy Ca
Ami
Murmud
Brea
Shaw
Burt
Widsewoud
Mr. Wedgewood
Bern
Santa Claus
Henry W. Savage
Fly Go
Mrs. Temple
Rascal
Kan
Republicas
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