Judith Crest and the Delmar Bank Heist
Judith Crest travels by night to confront banker Starling over a missing farm loan and retrieves six thousand two hundred dollars from his pocket, aided by a pistol in perilous moments as Myron Dwight arrives and watches the tense scene unfold.
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Star
Joshua
Chicago
Crest
Gtv
Aroid Myron
Judith
Myron
Phua
Christian
Starling
Makua
Piget
Con
Ranford
Delmar
Anford
Josh
Mr. Starling
Judith Crest
Miss Starling
Myron Dwight
Aunt Judith and the harmless Mrs Crest scheme
A narrator notes Aunt Judith and Mrs Crest in a scheme where Myron Dwight keeps an unloaded pistol as a memento. The line suggests hidden knowledge only Myron shares, while Joshua grows prosperous alongside him.
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Judith
Mount Washington Forestry Peril Prompts State Alarm
New Hampshire faces major forest loss as a lumber firm targets Mount Washington and Mount Willard. The New Hampshire Forestry Commission warns of widespread damage from sawmills, with rivers choked by debris and cowed fish. Despite hotel profits and local jobs, state pride should spur action to halt depredations.
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New Hampshire
Mount Washington
Mount Willard
Boston Transcript
Zeeland
Crawford Notch
New Hampshire Forestry Commission
Rapid Canceling Machine Advances at New York Post Office
The inventor of the first canceling machine at the New York general post office remains employed there as newer, faster models replace his device. Early machines could stamp four thousand per hour, while the latest electric unit handles forty eight thousand. Initial models were discarded after speed gains outpaced the hand worker, and a previous design, though fast, damaged envelopes. Now five machines operate by electricity at the post office.
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New York General Post Office
General Post Office
An Eccentric Judgment at an Australian Colony
Captain King later Governor in an Australian colony grants pardon to a prisoner whose petition bore a lone name, explaining he has lived with one master, while dismissing the other who had many powerful patrons. The tale contrasts singular loyalty with influence in colonial governance.
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King
Sydney
Peculiar Check Described by Pittsburg Patch
A Pittsburg Patch item recounts a humorous bank check dated June 25, 1892. The note promises twenty three dollars if credited, estimates sixteen dollars now, and pledges to “make up the rest on Tuesday of next week” with the signer John Smirth? leaving a playful request for courtesy.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
John Smirtu
Building Made of Human Bones Near Nisch Servia
A square structure about sixteen feet high was found near Nisch Servia built entirely from human skulls and bones. It comprises fifty six piles with seventeen skulls and seventeen pairs of crossbones per pile. The date of erection and the builder remain unknown.
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Nisch
Servia
Japanese Paupers and the Humidity General
An estimate puts paupers in the Japanese Empire at under ten thousand within a 237 million population. The writer suggests a method to cashier General Humidity to temper his harsh devotion to mankind’s suffering for a period.
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Japanese Empire
What Children Have Done and What They Should Do
A collection of short vignettes on children's kindness and mischief. A Berlin official's 13 year old daughter feeds a hungry old man, later revealed as a wealthy benefactor who leaves her his fortune. Tales follow youths at sea learning hard work, a Detroit family grieving, a boy teased at a party, a birthday dessert quip, and a curious car ride with an observant child. Also notes on the invention of the post office and Persian postal history.
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Joshua
Judith
Delmar
Starling
Chicago
Berlin
Hermine
Little Hermine
Baltimore Sun
Philadelphia Times
Detroit
Arthur
Roper
Boston
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Willie
Maddie
Aunt Emma
Emma
Cyrus
Persia
Darius
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