Angel Esquire Thwarts Borough Lot in Lombard Street Plot
Angel Esquire uncovers a London bank heist plot led by Spedding and Connor. Old George hints at a cryptic book as a clue while a night-time burglary plan falters when a commissionaire notices their group and Angel Orderly witnesses arrest, exposing the scheme and its leaders.
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Vinnis
Angel Esquire
Scotland Yard
Clapham
Kingsland Road
Kingslane Road
Angel
Beale
Spedding
Spedding, Mortimer & Sarah
America
Carter
Old George
Connor
Rders
Jimmy
Lombard Street
Eesa Oas
George
British Museum
Old Beale
Limehouse
Bat
Gayle
Lamby
London
Bat Sands
Borstal
Parkhurst
Curt Goyle
Honor
Andrew Carnegie recalls a dining room remark about honor and a Pullman smoking compartment scene. Taxpayers uneasy about taxes are warned they may face similar scrutiny in the afterlife.
Ginger the Sparrow Tale at the Rail Station
Farmer Smith narrates Ginger the dog meeting a sparrow on a hitching post at a rail station. The sparrow asks for a few hairs to help build a nest for his wife. Ginger refuses to spare tail hairs but shares a few hairs and explains his tail importance while avoiding further trouble with a bee sting.
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Ethel
Ginger
The Bullfrog Teacher and the Dunce Cap Lesson
In a classroom tale Dr. Bullfrog assigns Willie a dunce cap for struggling to learn arithmetic. Fannie correctly solves five plus one as six on the blackboard, prompting Willie to realize his mistake and return to his seat.
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Ethel
Dr. Bullfrog
Willie Treetoad
Willie
Dr. Bullefrog
Fannie
Frog trio near dog lessens school trip danger
Mrs Frog warns Jack and Jill Frog and Willie Treetoad to go to school but they opt to play in the woods. A large dog chases them. Willie climbs a tree while Jack and Jill hide under a log. After the scare they vow not to play hockey again.
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Ethel
Casey
Mrs. Frog
Jack
Jill Frog
Willie Treetoad
Little Willie Treetoad
Willie
Jill
Little Willie
Man Who Ran a Town: Pilkington's Dexter Dictatorship
Harper's Weekly recounts J W Pilkington who led Dexter Iowa for seven months by contract. He ran stores, set up a salesman school, hired a window dresser, offered lawn prizes, and pushed civic vigor, prompting residents to debate living in and for the town.
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Iowa
Harper's Weekly
Robert Sloss
J. W. Pilkington
Dexter
Pilkington
Moose River Census Days Tough with Log Camp Life
Sioux City recounts veteran enumerator N S Bruner of the 1900 census describing a perilous month in northern Minnesota. He faced logging camps mosquitoes and forest fires while lugging pack and pistol, crossing log jams, and narrowly escaping drowning on a dam crossing with a logger’s help and a pay cut due to hazards.
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Sioux City
Bruner
Baby Prince’s Fun About To End In German Court
Berlin reports the crown prince’s son soon faces discipline and preparation for rule. He will be taught martial drills and a trade, following a long Hohenzollern tradition. Emperor William recalls his own joys teaching walking, while notes of daily telephoned reports reveal the family routine.
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Cannon
England
Egypt
Spedding
Patrick Connor
Connor
Eee
New York
Berlin
William IV
Hohenzollern
William
The Surgeon's Hand and the Miracle of Sight
A Century story by Mary Murdoch Mason describes a surgeon wielding magnetic energy through his palm to drive a tiny steel blade. The charged blade enters the eye, revealing the cornea iris and pupil as the surgeon declares light. The hand glows with power then rests, symbolizing a healing act.
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Mary Murdoch Mason
Instinctive humor and grief in a southern town minister
A harper's Weekly vignette shows a cleric moved by a widow whose husband has died. In dialect sermon, he consoles the widow promising there is another who shares her sorrow in unfailing love. The widow asks who that person is, her eyes wet with tears.
The First Immunity Bath Fizzles in Satirical Tale
The New York Sun recounts Achilles explaining his vulnerability with a quip about his mother’s washing of his ears while neglecting his heel. The famed immunity bath ends as a fizzle and fails to protect.
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New York Sun
Achilles
Poem of Freedom From Minnesota Convict
A poem by Con Sordini printed in Century Magazine reflects on war and art, contrasting battlefield imagery with mournful music and a claim to artistic fire. It invokes Chopin, biblical lines, and a plea for release from oppression, ending with a signature line attributed to John Cartes.
The Dream Saved Him and Other Miscellany
A fragment from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat recounts a diocesan convention tale about a wheeling man’s prayer and a deacon who shouted Hallelujah. Also includes a poem about Welsh fairies and a Century-era note on Ballinger and Beach politics.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Hilary Little Laycock
Wheeling
New York
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Nee
Kensington
Torough
Mr. Spedding
Charles G
Arles
G. D. Roberts
Minneapolis Journal
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Farmer Smith
Ginger and
the Little Sparrow
Dunce
Frog Boys
Hookey
Minnesota Woods
United States
Baby Prince
Kaiser
Minnesota
Cornwall
Tristan
Babylon
Zion
Dole
John Cartes
Fr Howells
Ballinger
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