The Finding of Fingall and a strange love tragedy
A dramatic tale unfolds as Fingall and Cynthie love across family feuds and a fatal misjudgment. Fingall saves Cynthie from blame, but a double tragedy strikes when a father and son die, and Fingall vanishes before reuniting with Cynthie two years later. Fingall returns to find her recovering, and the pair are briefly together with hope for a future.
Noah Claims Everest of Ararat as Peak of Triumph
No competition surrounds Noah's boast as he chortles over reaching the top of Mount Ararat. He defies future explorers to adopt his methods, asserting his summit success and challenging others to imitate his approach.
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Noah
Mount Ararat
Debtor Life and a Bold German Bulb Theft
A Memphis News-Scimitar piece warns debtors to pay cash to avoid guilt and spiraling interest, while a German police report details a clever thief who hoodwinked Essen officers into handing over nearly 200 bulbs, exposing laxity in the electric company response.
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Memphis News-Scimitar
Hiesen
Germany
Electric Supply Company
Electric Light Company
Essen
Where He Had Seen Her
A man asks a young woman if they have met before and she replies that she is the moving-picture heroine model. She confirms they have likely not met, while noting she poses for film heroines, in a curio of social encounter reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Short Stories Co., Ltd
Fingall
Pierre
Shon McGann
Lawless
Ringall
Cynthie
St. Gabriel’s Fork
Fenn
Skun
Sue Granger
Betzville
Main Street
Sue
Ashdod Clute
Ashdod
Rhinocoura Betz
Uncle Ashdod
Rhinocolura
Aunt Rhinocolura
Rhinocoura
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Equal to the Occasion First Actor Death Scene
On stage the first actor fires six times with a revolver to no effect. The second actor shows presence of mind and declares remorse. He contemplates death as requested by Sir Randolph, then collapses in a death agony.
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Sir Randolph
Candidate Rejects Backroom Deal for Yacht Sail Auction
An exchange quotes a candidate rejecting a backroom plea to fund an aldermanic canvass. The suitor demands cash for a sail design while asserting influence over the election. The candidate dismisses the suggestion, choosing not to engage in such an arrangement.
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Gail
Yotea
Washing Off Suspicion in Brook Incident
A terse city item portrays a hobo denying any intent to harm the brook's fish while addressing suspicions of a black hand attack as reported by the Bom ton Herald.
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Bomton Herald
Taking Him at His Word in a Theatrical Career Twist
A Baltimore American quip depicts a father urging a son to find a calling. The son lands a job at a theater as a carriage megaphone announcer, illustrating literal obedience and a whimsical career choice. The item captures a light, humorous note on parent and child expectations.
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Baltimore American
Passageway mystery in Brown's unfurnished lot scene
In the City scene a friend surveys Brown's empty lot and discovers a passageway revealed as the dining room, prompting astonishment as quoted from the Boston Transcript.
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Brown
Scott
Boston Transcript
The Swinging Cathedral Dreamer Galileo
A 19 year old Italian boy dreaming in Pisa Cathedral in 1583 sparked Galileo Galilei’s rise from medicine to mathematics. He built a telescope magnifying 32 times, proved Earth’s motion, faced Inquisition, recanted, then pursued pendulum clocks. His work yielded telescope, microscope, thermometer, and pendulum clock, shaping astronomy and physics.
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Pisa
Galileo
Gabileo
Mer
Copernicus
Middlebury Optician
Galleo
Europe
Inquisition
Michelangelo
Sir Isaac Newton
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