The Two Girls and the Gipsy Camp Adventure
Zoe and Fay Marchmont wander from home and meet a gipsy camp led by Meg. A friendly gipsy girl guides them toward Marchmont Grange while their dog Rags protects them from danger. They return home with a reward and the dog gains a collar and gold purse from the grateful family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoe
Fay Marchmont
Nursie
Fay
Marchmont Grange
Cic
Meg
Geneyes
Ray
Rather
Railway humor and station life in a bygone era
A humorous essay criticizes railways and stations for affecting scenery while noting some charming spots. It recalls jokes about locomotives, a New York paper's primogeniture line, and a Midland guard juggling roles amid a penny-packet railway economy, ending with a wry misadventure tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruskin
New York
Western Railroad
Midland
Express
Praise and Prayer as the Heart's True Duty
The piece urges praising God over constant complaint, arguing true prayer flows from gratitude not sighs. It calls Christians to cultivate a spring of praise in the heart, to keep the door of blessing open, and to make praise a daily habit rather than mere petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Heaven
Castoria Ad Keeps Infant Well Known In Old Timers Talk
A fragment references Castoria in various life stages from child to parent. The text includes a dated quip about living better and mentions a traveler and a wife, with unclear surrounding details.
Ancient prose on human nature echoes modern wisdom
A 2450 year old text questions moral perfection and trust. It warns there is none upright among men and that people lie in wait for blood. It likens the best to a briar and cautions against placing trust in friends or a confidante.
The Tombs Prison described in vivid detail and history
The piece portrays The Tombs as three-tiered prison with 144 cells in the oldest section and a capacity of about 288. It notes a humane yet strict discipline, inmate labor by ten-day prisoners, and mentions cases of nonconfinement residents. It recalls Matron French and Deputy Warden Finley and tells of an old man with a life of memory and mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French
Finley
N. S. Tribune
Remarkable Dakota Soil Pump Folklore Exchange
On a Eastern train a man from Dakota discusses farming land myths. He recounts digging a 40 foot well with a wooden cottonwood pump whose trunk grew roots and branches, and now his children swing beside the pump as water flows through the hollow trunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Joys of Pisciculture and the One Solitary Fish
A county farmer builds a lake from pond ground and finds a stranger fishing there asking about ownership. The man claims the pond and jokes about buying bull heads in Detroit. The tale ends with the farmer planning to claim the lone fish before night if the pond freezes. Detroit Free Press. First-class job work done at the JOURNAL Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Journal
Mace
Grand Outfit
Thug & Co
Augusta
Maine
Baggage Car Tales: Fear and Morbid Impressions of Dead Bodies
A Rock Island baggage man recalls riding with six or eight corpses and the eerie feeling of imagining the deceased alive. He describes jars of fear, imagined movements, and the mental struggle to keep calm on nightly runs through lonely country.
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Rock Island Road
Chicago Herald
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Rags
Castoria
Miss
Billings
Laansaw
Metropolis
Sunscrink
Jacob Fjisenhuth
D. I. Brown
Main St
Millheim, PA
Mr. Brown
Kenhuth
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
North Carolina
AS. G. Blatchley
N. E. City Hall Square
Hee St
H. HaLieta Co
Portland
Chestnut Street
K. A
North
Philadelphia
Keystone Hotel
Selinsgrove
Penna
Phila
F. A. North & CO
Cugstout ST
U. S. Patent Office
Washington
C.A. Snow & CO
Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Police Gazette
United States
Richard K. Fox
Franklin Square
N. Y
Domestic Mfg CO
Marjon
Harwood
Furniture & Hardware
Hanwood
Noppy Ag and
OA Furnits An Einen Econ
T, Mauce’s
Couns
W. T. Mauck
Springfield
Ohio
A&c
Cte
Enterprise Vapor B Medicator Co
Union Square
Tal
E. 8. Daniels
Havaa, N.Y
CIA
E. Cushman
Dalian
H. D. Cushman
Three Rivers, Mich
Marsis
Battle Creek Machinery Co
Geir
Agonce Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Tise
AYER
Sheree Pladel Phi
LoWeur Gach
Ayer & Son
St. Louis
Jodenn Eames
Ward & CO
Louisiana, Mo
Jamaica
Joseph Burnett & CO
Boston
Chicago
Galt
Preyeet Aat
Taos
J. Weidener
Patest
Second Street
Palmer Bass
Falmer Mass
H, Palmer & CO
Rockford
Farquiar
York, Pa
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