Proxies and Scheming Rail Barons In A Family Saga
In this tale, Hon. John Sharpe plots to seize control of the P. and G. railroad using proxies and a daughter Edith who becomes newly fascinated with bridge building. Havens, an engineer, aids their scheme, and a Denver stock vote hinges on proxy power as tensions rise in Chicago and Santa Fe.
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Joha ‘Sharpe
and G. Railroad
Anetana
Ealith
John
Chicago
Stork Exchange
Centipedreek
Mise
Edith
Miss Edith
Havens
John Sharpe
America
Mr. Havens
P. and G. Road
Youan
G. Road
Jobo
Denver
Santa Fe
Tad
Joba
Sears
Eadh
W. Gang
Chiivers
Chilvers
Chivers
M and W. Gang
Jon
P. and G
1St Road
Forest reserves and timber and water policy origins
The piece discusses forest reserves as a policy to ensure perpetual timber supply and protect water for towns, cities, and power. It explains how forests regulate stream flow, prevent soil erosion, and reduce sedimentation in rivers, citing Appalachian-like regions as examples and noting recreation value in reserves.
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Appalachian Mountains
United States
Clarence
Fragmented note on Persian Parthian rulers and Rome era incest tale
A garbled OCR style passage traces an obscure link between Persian and Sassanian histories and a tale of incest in Baran during the Sassanian era. It mentions Babaram Segara and various parried names, with scattered phrases about legal and moral issues, but the text is largely unreadable and fragmented.
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Fern Blatery
Baran
Babaram
Segara
Wits
Indy Agin
Horseshoe Luck Quip Sparks Blunt Exchange at Market
A fragmentary dialogue from Clavaldnd Plate Dealer features a quip about horseshoes and luck. The snippet hints at a shopkeeper remarking on a husband and the superstition of horseshoes, but the incomplete text limits fuller context or names.
Left for Winnipeg to hear operating surgeon
Mr. John Kennedy, of Wawanesa Manitoba, and his wife traveled to Winnipeg last Thursday to be operated on by Dr F W E Burnham, the Broadway surgeon, while their daughter plays the popular Guess not and neighbors close windows during practice.
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Parmelee
Winnipeg
Wawanesa
Man
John Kennedy
F. W.E. Burnham
Broadway
New Orleans Picayune
Reflections and moral musings from a bachelor era
A fragmented New York Press excerpt contemplates cleanliness of conduct, marriage tensions, and social pretensions. It jests at male vanity, piano ditties, and the idea that wealth influences domestic harmony, noting a man’s willingness to spend at home signals companionship and shared comfort.
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New York Press
Fooled Once
A brief exchange from a quarrel shows the husband accusing the wife of always making bar and the wife replying that she only did so on their wedding day, as reported by the Chicago Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Journal
Modest Youth and Office Labor Tale in Tribune
A Chicago Tribune snippet recalls a modest youth Thomas Jones Sev who sought honest work as an office boy for a great corporation, earning two dollars daily and remaining faithful and unassuming. The piece also references a classroom exchange contrasting logic with sophistry and notes on a generic pain killer’s praised virtues.
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Thomas Jones
Naent
J Corporation
Chicegs Tribune
Diphtheria Fly Pads Comedy and Museum Misreads
A jumble of quoted wits and anecdotes parodies daily life from early 20th century humor pages. It mentions fly killers, ice cream cravings, a South Carolina club scene, a British Museum mummy, and a joke about a car accident. Characters include a girl, a papa, an actor, a Husky attendant, and two country youths. The tone is light, satirical, and miscellany.
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London
British Museum
Bill
Fragmented OCR note on Ezra and Hebrew law
A damaged London Globe fragment discusses Ezra and the Hebrew law in archaic phrasing. It cites verses about a decree by King Arta Xerkes and a priestly scribe, mentioning the river and reverence for the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra
London Globe
Mortgaged Goods and Odd Loan Tale From Detroit
A garbled Detroit snippet recounts a heavily mortgaged property valued at $2 with twenty five loans. An old colored man on a hotel veranda takes a baton from a passerby as a bemused party questions how a tiny stove, rock ing chair, and worn bed could secure twenty five mortgages at two cents apiece.
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Mare
Tiane
Cabo Locke
Noah
Detroit
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Lewis
Ron
Wili
Wilson
Dodds
R.H. the Prince OF Wales
Curzon Bros
Canada
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Peasure Tailors
City Road
Finsbury
Charon St
Toronto
Ont
Garey J
Winnipeo
Felow
Philadelphia Press
South
South Carolina
Haper's Weekly
Hull
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