Race for Life and a mountain train rescue tale
In 1886 two youths Teddie O'Brien and Char Cameron race a waterspout flood through Colorado's Arkansas Gorge to warn a stalled Denver Rio Grande train. They outrun the flood, reach Canon City, and receive gold watches from the railroad. the tale ends with a vow to revisit Texas Creek.
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Teddie O’brien
Char Cameron
St.is
Colorado
Texas Creek
Denver & Rionde
Arkansas River
O'Brien
Water
Denver
Teddie O'Brien
Teddie
Hanging Bridge
Grape Creek
Silver Cliff
Denver and Rio Grande
Canon City
Eddie
Hat Carted by Coal Team Through Busy Morgan Street
A small child walking on Morgan street drops her daisy trimmed hat as a coal wagon approaches. The team pulls up slowly. the hat sits between the horses’ fore feet while the child hesitates. The teamster backs carefully and clears the hat before resuming the voyage, the child reclaiming the hat.
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Morgan Street
Buffalo Courier
Children's Column Bouts of Cute Characters and Rhyme
A juvenile page presents a shepherdess rhyme and a light tale about a raccoon and a rabbit crossing a river in a leaky tub. With no bailer or swimming ability, the pair face a perilous drift as the scene ends.
The Rabbit Plans a Thirsty Escape
A fable about a rabbit and raccoon devising a plan to drink water from their boat to lower its level and reach the shore, only to watch the tub sink as they near safety. The tale concludes that shifting responsibility does not absolve one of it. A second vignette recalls Johnny fishing, a kite story, and a boy’s kite making with simple wooden frames and paper sails.
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St. Nicholas
Tambourineur Heralds French Ox Sale in Rural Jest
A rural French custom features a tambourine playing crier leading an ox to a public sale. The animal, kept with rope and led by a butcher, is paraded as the price of its flesh is announced at one franc twenty five centimes per kilo. The ox enjoys his moment despite the rope, while the crowd is kept curious by the drum.
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Harewell
France
Cele
A Wonderful Planer Masterpiece From Glasgow
A new vertical and horizontal planing machine for marine engineers combines a box section bed plate, a compound slide set, and a circular table. It uses dual horizontal screws with bevel gears for horizontal planing and a vertical screw for vertical planing, with long driving nuts and automatic plus hand feeds. The tool saddle is balanced by an internal weight and vertical chains, and belts allow quick returns with staggered engagement to reduce wear. Change between vertical and horizontal drive is instantaneous.
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Glasgow
Spider and Fly: Yellow Jacket Rescues Fly in Grocery Lot
A gray spider battles a fly near a sugar barrel while a yellow jacket intervenes. The jacket helps fend off the spider, then defeats it but is wounded, while the fly torments overhead. The trio exit the scene with the spider dead and the jacket damaged.
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Philadelphia Times
Yellow Jacket
Carnegie's Humble Origin and Other Short Items
Andrew Carnegie began as a stationary engine attendant and became a telegraph clerk for the Pennsylvania Road before rising to prominence. Roscoe Conkling's generosity is recounted by Col. Robert J. Ingersoll in the surrogate's office. A Sparta Georgia man dreamt his clock would be found and recovered it after a fire. Proverb warns that waiting for a dead man's shoes leads to bare feet.
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Atlantic
Andrew Carnegie
Roscoe Conkling
Robert J. Ingersoll
Hoyt
Conkling
Charles Smith
Sparta
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Perl
Ordy
Charlie
Es's Gulch
Tin Jones’s Gulch
Jones's
Arkasas
Father
Leried
Ings
Ted
Feer
Texa Creek
Rorge
Jane's Gulch
Grape Creek Bridge
Kingdom Come
McClure
St. Louis
Royal Gorge
William
Jimcomb Riley
Detroit Free Press
Russia
Caucasus
Dry Goods Chronicle
Fen
Patty Pie
Nzer
Doil
Johnny
Kitty
Arctic
New York Ledger
Carnegie
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