Love and the Locksmiths Love and the Locksmiths.
Agatha, locked out and in distress, is aided by a suave stranger with skeleton keys. Her father suspects theft, but the mysterious helper turns out to be Roger Bainbridge’s homesake, revealed as a friend who returns the watch. In time Agatha embraces romance with Trezer.
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Agatha
Agathna
Mr. Black
Black
Bainbridge
Mr. Anderson
Mr. Binck
Roger Bainbridge
Bainbridge Genter
Mr. Brathbridge
Jiu
Agaitha
Trezer
Clever Deserter Describes Ingenious Castle William Escape
An army officer recounts a dramatic escape tale from Castle William involving a prisoner who shaved others, saved clippings to craft a false mustache, smuggled plain clothes, and joined plumbers to walk out past guards unseen, a notably theatrical escape.
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Castle William
Governors Island
New York Times
Why Pa Wan Mad Ate Why Pa Wan Mad
A farmer finds a small boy beside an overturned hay load on the main road. He invites the boy in for dinner and reassures him. The boy fears his father will be mad, only to reveal the father is under the hay load, prompting a humorous twist.
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Farmer Jones
Sonny
Township road work in Ohio shows stone road process
A township trustee explains how to build stone roads in Ohio townships. He details grading, half-thickness earth, layered stone 4–5 inches thick, and rolling with a ten ton roller. He notes costs per mile, freight changes, donations and labor use, and the role of the levy and bids in road construction.
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State of
Ohio
J. I. Peters
Good Steads Magazine
Oak Harbor
Alches
Hida
How to tell the time by a watch with no hands
A medieval riddle describes a peasant who winds a handless watch to tell the hour. By counting 130 ratchet clicks and dividing by thirty, he deduces four hours and twenty minutes past noon, proving time by watch mechanics and a starting wind. Another note recalls a Hungarian tale of Death demanding 400 kronen, revealed alive as a judge and a banked legacy.
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Americio
Death
Presburg
America
Post Office Savings Bank
Vienna
Pall Mall Gazette
Denmark and Thule the Ancient Land discussed
The piece debates whether Denmark is the original Thule or if Thule refers to distant northern lands. It contrasts Pytheas’s vague Jutland claims with medieval ideas that Thule lies as Iceland or Greenland, noting Tacitus tied Thule to areas near Orkney within the Shetlands-Loudon Chronicle.
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Denmark
Thule
Pytheas of
Massilia
Alexander the Great
Jutland
Pytheas
Iceland
Greenland
Tacitus
Orkney Islands
Comparatively Lucky Social Exchange in Boston
A Boston Record excerpt recounts a settlement worker praising a protege with a black eye. The worker says things will be all right and the protege retorts that her situation could be worse, noting the speaker has no husband.
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Boston
Foolish to Quit Says Shopper in Chicago Record-Herald
A shopper urges hesitation as her husband debates purchasing a claimed bargain. She insists she is far from exhausted yet, and questions the idea of shopping further despite the price appearing reasonable.
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George
Chicago Record-Herald
Old Proverb Tweet Sparks Witty Exchange in Chicago Record
In a playful rooftop exchange a reader quotes a lyric line while another retorts with a vow against mother-in-law jokes. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the humorous back and forth reflecting lighthearted culture and social wit of the era.
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Chicago Record-Herald
The Storm Telephone Message (Original) Lavonia Mills
Lavonia Mills in a stifling room of sewing learns of her lover Henry Thurstons dire warning as a summer storm rages. After his death she discovers a hidden will and bonds in a Thurston farm stash, revealing an inheritance while cousins contest the estate. The mysterious phone message remains unexplained.
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Lavonia Mills
Layourd
Avgonia
Henry Thurston
Lavonia
Enoch
Lydia Thurston
Henry
Lydia
Thurston Farm
Hooch
Thurston
Farmer Atkins
Amy Banning
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