The New Skipper of the Nancy and a River Love
Joe Parsons, a bank clerk, wins the aid of a young woman who leaps from a pier and nearly drowns. He rescues her aboard the Nancy, learns she is Nora Durions, and promises to help. Months pass until he meets her again as a bank applicant, rekindling a guarded romance in a town on the river.
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Parsons
Fred Allen Sprane
Allen
Thrili
Industria
Peoeles
Joe
New York
Athimina
Burt
Promis
North
Zgoodiy
Aesin
Nancy
Joe Parsons
Woman of
Triben
Finnesapelis
Sleepwalking dogs and a vanished hound tale from Missouri
A Denver woman's sleepwalking story echoes old canine exploits as hunters recount dogs wandering off during watches. The Missouri preacher demand extends to London, with Rev. John A. Brooks of Memphis, formerly Missouri, sought for a London church.
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Missouri
London
Ocean
Binney
Christian Church
John A. Brooks
Memphis
Tenn
Brooks
Kansas
City Star
Unclear fragmentary interview on a perilous harbor incident
A damaged OCR excerpt shows a distressed woman recounting a possible assault on a pier. She mentions a frightened husband and a fear of being divulged. The text is garbled and incomplete, offering only scattered dialogue and stray names.
Mirror Made of Celluloid in London Invention
A London scientist has created a celluloid mirror that accurately reflects objects. The mirror is unbreakable, cheaper than glass, and lighter. The piece notes people rushing around on Monday as if ashamed for idleness Sunday.
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London
FOR LITTLE FOLKS Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
A child friendly miscellany recounts lantern origins and old time watchmen. It explains units like cubit and fathom, shares candy making on paper, and narrates a tiger encounter story, a whistling boy, and notes on the First American Flag and Indians not taxed.
Spy and Smoke Dispatch Tale From Civil War Times
The tale recounts a Confederate spy captured with incriminating papers. In a strange exchange, the general and prisoner share cigars, the general smoking away the dispatches hidden in the tissue paper. The prank ends with the spy praising the service but lamenting the loss of vital information. Also told is how Ulysses Grant became his name through a miswritten middle name and a trunk mix up at West Point. Joe Shelby’s cavalry tale ends with a starving private spared by a pork swap.
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Prioner
Confederacy
Neral
Geneal
Carolina
The
Free Press
Grant
West Point
Hiram Ulysses
H. Ulysses Grant
Thomas Walker
James Marshall
Ulysses
Ulysses H. Grant
Roe’s Hotel
Wes Point
A. H. Grant
George G. Wagga
Ulysses Hiram Grant
Washington
U. S. Grant
Thomas Hamer
Jesse Grant
Poinsett
Simpson
Military Academy
Elter
Joe Shelby
Arkansas
Shelby
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Denver
Sam
Bil
Bethers
Peper
Col. Seaton
Chass
Tom
Benjamin Franklin
Harrison
Lynch
England
Cambridge
Mass
Somerville
Capitol
Qoyy
Gee
CPS Sre
Vlging Eyes
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