Mysterious Orphan Charlie Finds Providence at Last
In a dim tenement attic a neglected child named Charlie endures hunger and fear while scavenging for survival. Two rich aunts, Miss Nancy and Miss Betsey, discover the boy hiding under a staircase and realize he is Phoebe Wells's son, the missing mamma he longs for. Police intervene as the captors are arrested, and Charlie is welcomed into the aunts' home, finally finding a caring, secure place.
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Mrs. Dennis
Mike Dooley
Mike
Charlie
Norah
Norsh
Sme
Mickey Warren
Willin
Michael
Little Charlie
Folka
Mickey Mc#argan
Nancy
Charle
Mother Dennis
Betsy
Charley
Miss Nancy
Ancy
Betsey
Mamma
Phoebe
Mss
Phabo
Pariah
Providence
Phebe Wells
Margery
Mr. Dowley
Mike Doolay
Hogs and a Widow Move Hearts in Train Tale
A New York Sun item recounts a Jersey City to Patterson train incident where a poorly dressed widow with a crying ill child faced crowded cars. A self centered passenger known as the Hog is moved to share seats and later raise $40 to aid the family as other travelers join in sympathy. In Lewistown an undertaker notes a deceased man with a key and $700 in a box, left behind by a miser who could not take his money with him.
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Jersey City
Patterson
Renge
Havana
New York Sun
Lewistown
Ata
Tawistown
City Hall Scene Sparks Frantic Forgetful Rally
In a bustling street scene near City Hall a crowd of about fifty men gathered as a boy shouted for a wife to remind her husband to bring home tea. The crowd chuckled and admitted they had forgotten the item themselves. The piece notes a note in the Detroit Free Press. The Flathead Indians of British Columbia reportedly abandon the practice of compressing infant heads as a dying custom.
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Detroi Free Press
British Columbia
Entangled Hearts at the Anthony Ball
Katie Lane, the village beauty, rejects Wilkes Lee for his friend and rival Maud Anthony stirs trouble. Wilkes overhears Katie’s confession and later returns to marry Katie after a moonlit reconciliation, ending in a secret wedding between Katie and Wilkes.
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Katie
Maud Anthony
Wilkes
Wilkes Lee
Anthony’s
Lees
Les Lee
Lightning rod man and life agent die after prolonged argument
In Madison county Florida a lightning rod salesman and a life insurance agent repeatedly interrupted each other during a canvassing visit on Merrill avenue. Both collapsed from talking too long, dying side by side in a grimly comic ending. Nearby, the community mourns as Bob Sutton, an elderly local, dies and his family buries him in a new cemetery amid superstitious fears of future deaths.
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Merrill Avenue
Cherrily
Sreuter
Zifa
Madison County
Fla
Bob Sutton
Bob
Oddities and notes from coast to coast in 19th century chatter
A miscellany of brief items reports three cent grape prices on the Pacific coast, a Pottstown couple concealing their marriage for a year, and jail inmates in San Jose demanding extra rations. Telegrams beat pigeons in news, Cambridge grows, Dakota’s products mix conventions with grasshoppers, and Sumter County baptisms surge. Local quirks include a fox hunter’s church calls and a Georgia man’s 15 year old hen producing eggs and chicks.
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Parta
Pacific Coast
Pottstown
San Jose
Cal
Thames
Corning
Cambridge
Briss
Harvard
Dakota
Pittsburgh
Sumter County
Alabama
Tennessee
Rockdale
Georgia
Ohio
Guy
United States
England
Montreal
Saratoga
William
Unangat
Rastus
Uncle Rastus
New York
Europe
Perugini
Diello
Johnny Chatterton
Perugial
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Mary F. Hobinson
Belgravla
Lathel
Eamica
Phabe
Sara
Abarlia
Maia
Nora Macarty
Nora
Litte
Barney
Katies
Maud
Mr. Lee
Katie Lane
Guy Lane
Geomeone
Anthony
Wilkes Lea
Mica Anthony
Kate
Oor Exe
Ducoriste
ST. Charles Street
Yaner
DR. White
Tutt’s
Petrie
Radnerd
Parker
Uate
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