The Heiress at Fifteen Strays in Oilskin Garb
Geraldine Campbell, fifteen, defies London dreams by slipping from Inchmaven in a rain gear to fish with Donald. Her grandmother, Mrs. Campbell, worries she will never become a proper heiress while admiring her vigor and the wild Highland blood she suspects lies within.
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Jerry
Geraldine
Echo
Granny
Oll
Donald
White Bridge
Jane
Geraldine Campbell
Inchmaven
Argyll
Mrs. Campbell
Charlotte
Maria
Diarmid
London
Elinburg
Moray Place
Edinburg
Katie
Lodge Gate
Midlothian
Edinburgh
Inchmaven Castle
Campbell of
Royal chess lessons and mutton prices in Victorian talk
The passage surveys royal how to advice in delicate situations as Queen Victoria plays chess with the Queen of Femum, with Lords Melbourne Walmer ston Hobhouse offering counsel, and a pun on advisers. It notes England and Australia supplying London with fresh mutton, tied to steady prices.
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Victoria
Lord Melbourne
Lord Walmerston
John Hobhouse
Sir John
Ted
Ourhocgih
England
Australia
London
Blue and the Gray and the Crazy Scout Reminiscences
Excerpt discusses veterans at the Soldiers' Home in Los Angeles California with praise for meals beds and grounds plus a narrative of a mountain cave rescue titled The Crazy Scout from the Atlanta Constitution and an economic survey of war costs across several nations and battles including Bannockburn Marengo Austerlitz and Sadona with figures for casualties and expenditures.
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Drage
Chattanooga
W. N. Hawley
Atlanta Constitution
Thompson
Baugh
Stere
Sergt. Brown
John Trope
East
Tennessee
Walden’s Ridge
Chicago Boodle Aldermen and National Gossip in 1900s Press
A montage of editorials and quotes from Chicago corruption coverage and reactions across papers. It notes anger at aldermen, calls for reform, and references city politics, influential cases, and public sentiment linked to the Hayward murder verdict and Congress outcomes.
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Congress
Kansas City World
Pittsburg Dispatch
Louisville
Boston
Fifty-third Congress
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Germany to take part in Prenen exposition of TV
Notes of Current Events report Germany will participate in the Prenen exposition of television. Marshal Yamagata named Japanese Minister of War. Hldridge T. Gerry ejected from the New York Assembly floor by Speaker Dish. Burkhart of Cincinnati sent two American bison to Bismarck for a birthday gift. Fred Lawrence, former advance agent for Forepaugh and Barnum, has died at Concord, New Hampshire.
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Germany
Marshal Yamagata
Hldridge T. Gerry
New York Assembly
Dish
Ale. Burkhart
Cincinnati
Bismarck
Fred Lawrence
Forepaugh
Barnum
Concord
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Austria
Austerlitz
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Italy
Sadona
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Detroit Tribune
Hartford Courant
Gould
Nebraska State Journal
Washington Post
New York Advertiser
New York Mail and Express
Hayward
Harry Hayward
Washington Star
Baltimore American
Indianapolis Sentinel
Miss Ging
Minneapolis
New York World
St. Paul Pioneer
Dana
Sun
Minneapolis Journal
New York Sun
St. Paul Globe
Charles A. Dana
South Bend Tribune
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New York
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Dr. Morse
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