Elsie and the Wanderer Welcome by the Farmhouse
A weary traveler seeks shelter at Raymond farm and is warmed by Elsie Young s hospitality. The man reveals a tale of long separation from a betrothed Alice and a vow kept to care for her family. El sie learns he is her long lost suitor, and they reunite after twenty years, renewing their bond and finding solace in each other amid memory and family.
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Elsie Ray" Amond
Bophis
Elsie
Mary
Willie
Oisie
Elaie
John Francis
Aordes
Ale
Imabe
Naymond
Eor
Elsie Young
Jani
Raymond Farm
Exo
Beryant
Rosso
Matam
Ildren
Alice
Ollo
Yi “ Seeehildeen
Exaotin
Willin
Ali
Elsia
Orisia
Brazil
Paraguay
Poyais
Honduras
Gregor MacGregor
Tfa
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Mr. Rothschild
London
Sydney Smith
Charitable Corporation
Equitable Loan Company
Stock Exchange
Blackwood
Paris Petit Journal
Savings Bank
Tale of Head and the Misses via Telephone
A Cincinnati gentleman in Amers Indiana, known for catching the 5 o clock train, is humored by a prank call. A friend in the office rigs a setup introducing the women, while Head pretends to have nothing to do. A caller’s reproach over the wire reveals the ruse and the planned 1 o'clock train mix up.
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Cincinnati
Wes
Mr. Head
Georgia
Duguste
Death by boa bite in Madrid stage act
Karvlyi a Magyar strongman died during a live performance in Madrid when a 20 foot boa constrictor coiled around him. The audience applauded as he cried out, then witnessed his death grip. Postmortem found eighty seven bone fractures and spinal dislocations from the constriction. The snake remained on the corpse for hours until milk lured it away.
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Europe
Karvlyi
Madrid
Karolyi
Karey
Zlondon
Too Clever to Live and the Young Philosopher Barre
A historical note on John Barretier praised as master of five languages by age nine. He published Latin works, translated a Hebrew text into French, impressed the King of Prussia, earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Halle, and was lauded in Berlin before dying at nineteen after eighteen months of illness.
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John Barretier
Benjamin
Prussia
Halle
Berlin
Barre
Europe
Chambers’ Journal
Nicotine Tales From Hen Roost Trouble In Four Frenchmen
In Tobsoco Hen Royst tale four Frenchmen devised theory that inhaled tobacco smoke makes fowl flesh pale and tender. A fowl housed chicken was burned with caporal smoke, and birds fed until flesh looked nicotine saturated. An adventurer stole a bird, cooked and ate it, then suffered violent pains from nicotine poisoning.
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Lina
Felicia Hemans Early Life and Poems
Child prodigy Felicia Hemans grew up at Gwrych in an aristocratic home. She explored imagination in an old apple tree with Shakespeare, wandered moonlit paths dreaming of goblins, and bathed at the sea shore. Her education was informal, yet by fourteen she published a small volume of verse.
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Mrs. Hemans
Felicia
Rosalinda
Imogens
Beatricea
Gwrych
American genius credited with fifteen major inventions
An English paper credits American genius with at least fifteen inventions used worldwide. It lists items such as the cotton gin, ploughing machine, grass mower and grain reaper, rotary printing press, steam navigation, hot air engine, sewing machine, India rubber industry, horseshoe manufacturing machine, sand for carving, gauge lathe, grain elevators, large scale artificial ice, electro magnet and its practical use, and the composing machine for printers.
Frontier Sioux Utes clash and odd garden wonders reported
An officer recalls ancient Sioux and Ute hostilities with a fatal ambush in the mountains north of Fort Steele, then notes riders and a hundred slain. The piece also mentions a pumpkin growing from a peach tree, rattlesnake bites in Virginia, Kaffir etiquette, French savings, and historic bells around the world.
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Laramie Plaina
Fort Steele
Urea
Moscow Hotel Oddities and Russian Travel Tales
A traveler recounts a Moscow hotel experience with filth and crowded rooms, noting cleanliness rarity in Russia. The piece includes a French proprietor’s quip about self defense and a vivid scene of candles, beds, and swarming insects. The narrative shifts to a siege tale of a doomed elopement and a dying mistress, then to Talleyrand’s praise of Hamilton and his high regard for American statesmen.
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Russia
Bussia
Moscow
Prigorged
Blevenski
Bazar
Jeter
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Kenowiay
Marshall and
Eir
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Rossa A
Bane
Ms Fee
Aiasa Cme
Academy OF Music
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Ba 'Bo Fremont
Esamaond
Gittant
Vbek
Sunny Doris
Tungea
Elsie Raymond
Piedmont Airine
Danville
O. Huter
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Hater
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New York Evening Telegram
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B Ya Eagle
Grant
Red River
Mr. Howard
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Republic
Tis
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Walliam WH. Seward
Zagle
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World
Journal of Commerce
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Zimex
Fort Lafayette
Sumner
North American Review
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Washington
Mr. Lincoln
Miss Lincoln
Taylor
Elizabeth
George III
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Whitworth
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Joln
Chambers
Reevens
Pomutus
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Joshua Reynolds
Hertford
Samuel Rogers
Gainsborough
Duchess of Devonshire
Box
Ellis
Mesars
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Greuve
David Cox
Academy
Yokins
Predacey
Quil Sale
Erie
Archase
Wokins
David Gos
Cumming
Quilter
Turner
Br. Ruskin
Magazine of Art
Ora Med As Is Olden Times, the Teol Tj. Pote Cagvement
King
Harper's Magazine
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Wirt
Imsean
Daniel ‘Webster
Webster
Munchausen
Patrick
George ‘Tomes
Pittsburgh
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Tomes
Chicago
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New Jersey
Hattie Coleman
Loussians
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Isaish
Beck
Weill
Isaiah
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Colorado
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Jack
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Boston Herald
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Schoharie Republican
William of Orange
Hamilton
Talleyrand
Alexander Hamilton
Lesdera
George Ticknor
Oime
van Buren
England
Joan Napoleon
Fox Salt Hamilton
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