A Tangle of Hearts Ends in Delicate Runaway Secret
In a 1893 tale of a bachelors club, the president confesses love for Agnes Upton triggering rivalries among four members. As plans to woo her unfold, Agnes elopes with an Italian count, prompting accusations and a grotesque round of bachelorly bravado. The club ends with a toast to its continued bachelorhood.
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Bachelors’ Club
Curypter LV
Huncey
Agnes
Miss Upton
Larnes
Tam
Ames
Barnes
Apollo’ Barnes
Fernshaw
Mr. Upton
Yernshaw
Chapman
Uptons
Tails
Agneston
Lrnshaw
Dr. Chapman
Fernshay
Homosum
Agnes Upton
Tsee
Robin
President
Painful Ignorance in a Pullman Car Tale
Carroll Smith of the Seaboard Air Line recalls a Jackson Mississippi to Memphis trip where a farmer and his family, traveling in a sleeper, failed to use the ice water cooler, misused the bed hammock, and risked the child's safety during sharp curve turns, provoking laughter and alarm among fellow passengers. The incident ends with a porter correcting the sleeper's misuse of the hammock for the child.
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Carroll Smith
Seaboard Air Line
Lindell
New Orleans
Jackson
Miss
Memphis
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Vegetarian influence and aging feats amid varied notes
Observations note vegetarians with clear complexions and Paget joining vegetarianism. Pattie D Omalley dies in Chicago at 101 leaving 42 grandchildren and 74 descendants living. Life spent farming and fishing linked to vigor. temperance noted but not sole cause. Commentary on alleged female criminality cites cases in Rhode Island and Georgia. Missouri county judges released to avoid bond payments. if they refuse, jail. otherwise risk mob action. A humorous suggestion they resign and move counties due to salary discomfort.
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Pattie D. O'Malley
Chicago
Missouri
Native Police and Black Trackers in Australia
An exposé attributed to Californian views on Aboriginal Australians describes trackers as instinctive and highly effective. It argues half castes resist civilization, praises native police troopers, and details brutal conflicts, thefts, and raids between settlers and Aboriginal groups.
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Australia
Von Siemens First Patent Earned Behind Bars
After graduation from Berlin artillery school and a duel in Wittenberg, 21-year-old Von Siemens served in a garrison. He was jailed five years in Magdeburg fortress for the duel but used the prison to set up a lab and perfected galvanic gilding, applying for a patent from his cell and earning a pardon. He then moved on to Berlin.
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von Siemens
Berlin
Wittenberg
Madgeburg
Siemens
The General's Spoon Story at Butler Campaign
Detroit lawyer J W Donovan recalls a 1877 Indianapolis campaign moment when General Butler read a Mount Vernon Times item about him being the most hideous looking man and answered with a mock spoon theft tale. Butler then delivered a long, spirited defense against slanders and calumnies, ending with a sharp question on how much time a man with vast duties had to steal spoons.
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Barnes
Mr. Upton
Fernshaw
Chapman
Myself
Miss Upton
Agnes
Aoe Pimeelee
Butler
J. W. Donovan
Detroit
Indianapolis
Mount Vernon
America
Ben Butler
Gen. Butler
Gen. Grant
New Orleans
Mr. Donovan
Expiation and the blue mackintosh girl’s church plate act
A Buffalo Express item recalls a girl in a blue mackintosh who recounted a bus fare incident. She initially handed five pennies to a conductor, miscounting, and kept an overpayment of 80 cents. She later returned the money on the church plate, justifying the act as restitution.
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Buffalo Express
Cheap Light Powers Northwest Towns With Water
Water power in the Northwest is rapidly replacing coal for electricity. Abundant mountain streams near towns enable cheap light heat and power, transforming what began as an experiment into a major industrial development. Electricians seek any nearby stream within ten miles to light towns and supply power cheaper than coal.
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Northwest
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Delmonico’s
Broadway
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Upton House
Mrs. Upton
Lady Paget
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George
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