Christmas Mystery aboard the San Francisco Express
Cap tells how a seven year old girl, a deadbeat father, and a Greasy Bear pocketed gold lead to a miraculous Christmas gift. The tale unfolds on a Pullman train near El Paso, with Cap revealing a hidden stake of $402.23 found in a stocking above Pearson’s ranch. The crew and passengers hear a tale of loyalty, law, and a white Christian heart.
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Oakland Pier
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St. Nicholas
St. Louis
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Rockies
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St. Loucy
Little Girl
Advice to Smokers From the New York Sun
The piece cites General Grant’s cancer linked to smoking and argues nicotine differs from cancer. It offers simple rules for lighter tobacco use: choose light colored cigars like Claro, avoid smoking on an empty stomach, dispose of part of the cigar, limit to three or four cigars daily, and cleanse teeth after smoking to prevent staining.
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General Grant
Claro
Colorado Claro
Maduro
Colorado Maduro
Frog and Peasant Tale Ends In Ward Caucus Joke
A frog in a pond charms a peasant and his wife with song all night. The next morning the peasant threatens the frog with a club for waking him. The frog learns the moral that a compliment to a speaker at a ward caucus may lead to legislative ambition.
Inside Track for Beauty Show Odd Phrase
A quirky line suggests deeper appeal wins at a beauty event with humorous wordplay on beauty and inner worth.
Romance Surfaces From Wreck of Steamship Daniel Steinmann
A Halifax dispatch reports a romance tied to the Daniel Steinmann wreck at Sambro in which 124 people died. Peter Michaelson left 39,000 dollars and valuables with Herschild in Denmark, who refused to return them. The Danish consul, aided by deciphered receipts found among wreckage, has located the document and cabled Copenhagen.
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Sambro
Peter Andreas Michaelson
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Hasle
Denmark
Mr. Tobin
Tobin
Copenhagen
What is Good Breeding in Everyday Life
Good breeding means always avoiding unnecessary pain and being uniformly kind to all. It is the art of being frank yet dignified, patient, and considerate, no matter social level, as a milkmaid with a gentle mind can be as well bred as a duchess.
Poem Question Echoes Peace Tone Over War Glorification
A spring poet asks if they will be missed and urges voters not to fire another gun. The lines imply anti war sentiment and a plea for restraint amid conflict.
Silent Grant Surprises Elder in War Memory
An old Virginia Methodist preacher recalls a wartime gathering where Generals Sherman, Humphreys, Meade, Custer, Ord and others joked. A lone, calm figure is General Grant who, after kissing the preacher's granddaughter, asks for his home and reveals his family at City Point, showing gentleness beyond battlefield rumors.
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Custer
Ord
Galena
City Point
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General Grant
How Jackson Got His Title Old Hickory
Ben Perry Poore recounts General Andrew Jackson earning the nickname Old Hickory during the Creek War. Exposed to a freezing march, Jackson slept in a half frozen camp until Allen and John cut a hickory tree to make a shelter. A drunken scout exposed the tent and boasted Old Hickory emerged, later adopted by Jackson supporters as a presidential nickname.
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Ben Perry Poore
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Old Hickory
Jackson
Captain Allen
John
Toper
The White House as a Museum of Art and Beauty
The White House covers about one third of an acre and has cost up to two million dollars. Modeled after a Dublin castle, architect Hoban from South Carolina drew the plans for five hundred dollars. Built in the nineties, it cost three hundred thousand, later burned interiors added about one million seven hundred thousand. Presidents since Washington have lived there and added to its furnishings, including John Quincy Adams bringing the first billiard table and Abigail Adams drying clothes in the east room. It has become a museum of art and beauty through ongoing furnishing updates.
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White House
Dublin
South Carolina
Hoban
Washington
John Quincy Adams
John Adam
Abigail Adams
Big East Room
Beekeeping Quip Reflects on Stings and Honeyed Skin
A humorous note contends bees and wasps avoid stinging if skin is coated with honey though the insects often act before a person can prepare. The quip highlights the nuisance and unpredictability of buzzing pests.
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Madisonburg, PA
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Rebersburg, PA
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Woopwakd, Pa
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Penn St
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Main & North Streets
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Bower & Oavis
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Bellefonte, PA
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Allegheny Street
Yocum & Hastings
UC. Meyer
Hoy
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Centre County
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High Stree
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Emanuel Brown
Safane Hajebi
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Lock Haven
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Walnut St
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Ast Evalia
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