Country Roads and a Moth Save The Day In Black Tale
A rural couple boast of hard work and piety while lamenting rough country roads. A railroad tale recounts a sobering fright on Vestibule Limited where a moth shadow saved passengers by mimicking a ghost via a lighted glass, prompting respect for providence.
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Jack Black
Jim
Frank
Rock Creek
Rock Creek Station
Brank
Chicago
The
Limited
Siberian Hospitality’s Measured Rituals and Gratitude
The piece details Siberian peasant hospitality as a calculated custom. Guests arrive indirectly, tea is shared from samavar, cups are overturned after, and a ritual thanks lists every item consumed. Equal portions and polite refusals prevent quarrels, ending with a pledge to visit again. A Highland man notes his wife is flawed yet not perfect.
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Siberian
Fraudulent pensions exposed in sweeping pension office cases
A sweeping review reveals numerous pension frauds led by a Washington clerk who, with a confederate, procured 24 false pensions worth 144 dollars a year each, totaling over 3,400 dollars annually. Other schemes include a Michigan widow double claiming, a living soldier posing as dead, and a Somerset County veteran fabricating injury to gain a disability pension.
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Pension Office
Washington
Michigan
Asheville
Pension Bureau
Illinois
Somerset County
D. I. Murphy
Agin
Inn narrative on turbot and a cold headed tale
An American traveler in England notes a village inn serves slightly spoiled turbot to guests with colds. The innkeeper explains that locals believe the fish loses savor for those who cannot smell clearly and thus they still enjoy the dish. The tale highlights quirky hospitality customs.
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Midland
England
The Old Hen Went Too
A mother uses Johnny’s bantam hen and thirteen chickens to coax him to bed. Johnny admits fear of the dark but argues the birds go to sleep because the old hen accompanies them, suggesting his mother should accompany him too.
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Africa
Samuel Baker
Mahomet
Samuel Says
Egypt
Kassala
Acmet
Sar
Johnny
Boston Journal
Native Dialect Humor In A Scotch Seaport Supper
An English clergyman visiting a Scotch seaport learns the meaning of kippered and uses local language in his sermon. The tale ends with a quip about how eloquence may sway women but figures convince men, as notable in Harper's Bazar.
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Harper’s Bazar
Dakota Jack and the Marshal Duel in Noonday Town
A frontier town faces a deadly noon showdown as Dakota Jack and the town marshal meet in the square. Both exchange shots from open streets. twenty four bullets fly and both men collapse within twenty feet, dying as the crowd witnesses a brutal game fight.
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Dakota Jack
Dakota
Jack
Marshal Craw
Marshall
Tom
Free Press
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