True Friendship and the Nantucket Vow Breakers
In a disjointed tale, two wealthy friends Mitch and Hertz make mutual wills. Hirsh begs a police reward for Hertz, while a collage of ads and odd notes follows, presenting a patchwork of 19th century clippings, from romance to finance, with the bizarre tale of three women who flee law, art, and literature for love on Nantucket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitch
Dad Finn
Hirsch
Herts
Hirson
Hirevk
Retson
Hertz
Potica Calealy
Tirsch
Hirshh
Romaina
Hisuch
Darley Dare
Marcy
Enid
Grace
Sophy
Tam
Art
Ang Literatura
Enic
Uoth Tal
Amooth
Graco
Sophy Bundgama
Max Leelie
Graca
Desert Island
Nantucket
Wet
Baid
Sis
Reienoa
Kyida
Trachel
Indies
Kay
Boston
Hardloud
Anid
Skelaton
Dafianca
Gould
May
Miggtins
Elea
Max
Graz
Gracy
Hternaus
Ecinace
Sleeping Car Mischance and Farm Notions From Old Times
A rambling reminiscence describes an awkward first night in a Canadian sleeper car with a startled Briton encountering a sleeping compartments’ curtained chaos and a startled Black porter. The piece shifts to moral reflections on unfinished work, praising steady effort, then segueing into a prose-flavored excerpt about contented farming and a poet-tinged note on Joaquin Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asmerica
Yorkshire
Canada
Dietin
Ty Woot
Sam Little Modest
Potter'y
Porter
Trath
Catela
Joaquin Miller
Gerald
Anind
Roe
Courtliuf
Weighing the Baby and a Cavett of Adage
A misadventure at a batcher shop ends with a mother snatching her two month old after the butcher jokes the baby weighs fourteen pounds with bones. A Covington girl wins for an essay on the ideal husband praising generosity, forgiveness, and discretion over scandal.
Summer Seal and Tales of Oceanic Whales
In an 8 year old report a steamer near Cape Hatteras observed a hundred whales circling the vessel, one swimming around the hull and getting blood in the water after a collision. The tale expands to sea creature lore from South America to the equator, including seals on Chilean rocks, sea lions near San Francisco, and a British ship sighting a sea serpent near Madagascar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Cape Hatteras
North Cayaiiny
Equator
Wil
Polar
Southern
Pacific
South America
Chili
San Francisco
Mediterranean
Gill
Italy
New England
Pensacola
Larida
Tampico
Gulf
Mexico
Cape Town
Suez
Madagascar
Seal Rockn
Africa
Pers Bapy
Cantain
Hia
Oge
Tle Mport
Bia
California Log Car From Tulare Redwood Proposed For World's Fair
A California plan to harvest a giant Tulare County redwood logs into railway passenger cars for the World’s Fair is outlined. The log would be cut into two forty five foot lengths, shaped into coaches with bark roofs, interior finished, and iron bands added for safety. Hauling would span roughly sixty miles by oxen and rail route, with six months to complete, before sections are joined and fitted with Pullman style interiors including a dining car and sleeper. The project imagines a monumental, costly undertaking to showcase wood craftsmanship at the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
San Francisco Examiner
Tulare
Kaweah
Visalia
Trifies
Ox Taann
Pullman Care
Bath
Brother Shop
Idtenen
Prith
Lightship Baskets and Desolate South Shoal Life
A quirky look at lightship basketwork by Nantucket crews aboard the South Shoal Lightship. Scrimshaw craft from white oak and rattan fills long winter hours amid fog, buoy watches, and stark isolation. The piece blends nautical whimsy with shorebound attempts to replicate crafts ashore and a digressive aside on pronunciation debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nantucket
New South
South Shoal
Nother Carey
Gustav Kobber
Remarkable Mystery Clock Sparks Local Curiosity
In Council Bluffs Iowa jeweler KM Wollman displays a two-globe clock that operates with interlocked mechanisms. The upper and lower glass spheres rotate at different speeds, powered by a hidden spring and pivots, with no visible connection. The device remains a puzzle as witnesses note its precise twelve hour cycle and require investigation to reveal its secret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curyisus
KM. Wollman
Corncil Blatfs
Iowa
Wollumade
Council Bluffs
Sigma
August Flower Heals Senecas Woman After Years of Ills
Mrs Sarah M Black of Senecas Missouri suffered neuralgia of head stomach and womb for two years. She described pale yellow face dull head dull pain in left side restless sleep and poor appetite. After trying many remedies she used August Flower and reports a wonderful improvement with complete relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah M. Black
Senecs
Theo
C. G. Green
Woodbury, NJ
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Genie
Fluak
Otto Pluto
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Bas Aps
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Glalt
Powell
Bt. Paul, Minn
Walthall & Co
Rete Horse Cave
Olre
Bol Drugglers
Harrison
Koward Bolden
Keauing
Pinkliant Mudicles Co
Lyne
Mass
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Garrard
Tuandes
Lydia
Finkham
Aindian
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Dominion Reesele
Ui Revie
Mare Wallous
Beal Fo
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St. Phil
New York
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Chia Gaper
Dr. Harter
Ron Tonls
Litsie Liver
Pierce
Golden Musical Discovery
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Apheel
Phur
Dr. May
Enla
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Eual
Grieve
Rachel
Mr. Ford
Racal
Cear
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Latax
Sonia
Mr. Bord
Ford
Garee
Lierd
Harlem
Hooster
Maude
Agai
Toe Yard
Onzie
Knox
Childran
Ubry
Faiah
Pak
Tai
Tuch
Asmin
Tamroa
Mamma
Lita
Matoma
Sorey
Lnabiod
Lee Tor Lucrvasa
Wah
Denee
Wrike
Tor
Ae WasMinuron
J. ‘Curcumari
Lenox
Covington
Howe
Lessing
Curidus
Swent
Philip Fitzgibbon
Liguyship Haskets
Pittsburg Chronicle
England
Shingiss
Dukane
Dinwiddie
Prince of Wales
Sir William Gordon-Cummning
Tranby Croft
Yankee Blade
Stanley
Central Africa
Llouve
Chu Dictricta
St. Nicholas
Bern
Hood
Dima
Ogane
Mase
Romig
J. Rosalias
Pastor Koenig
Wis
Pastor Koanig
Koenig Med. CO
Chicago
Dottie Sfor
Harter Medicine CO
BL. Louis
Kesad
Milli Ad Dre
P.O. Box Ld
Phia
Ntem
Heil
RED Diamond Proms
Sapolio
Dewan
California Fle Syrup CO
Cal
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