Welcome Home in a Bayport Seaport
The narrator returns after twenty eight months at sea and contemplates life ashore. He describes his frugal finances eight pounds fourteen shillings and a future at sea or ashore. A chance meeting with a striking brown eyed woman in a hotel prompts thoughts of introductions amid harbor scenes and ship talk.
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To London for Seafaring Life and Second Mate Hope
The narrator resolves to sail for London on Monday to seek a berth on a vessel bound for India or China. He envisions earning money as an able seaman, possibly becoming second mate after a year, and reflects on his father’s grave, Bayport acquaintances, and the social sting of potential shame. He notes sailors’ sensitivity and contemplates leaving town for a sea career.
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Ladiga
Transun
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Transom
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Chadburn
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London
India
China
Ater
Bayport
Tobacco speculation yields quick fortunes in cigars and cigarettes
Nonoy in Tobacco Inter Ocean Lounger notes tobacco as a speculative medium where a leaf with unique flavor or color can be branded and sold as a hit. He cites Davenport and Chicago firms turning modest beginnings into fortunes, and the cigarette industry’s rapid rise from humble starts to millionaire status in six or seven years.
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Inter Ocean
Cizars
Davenport
Chicago
Virginian
Whistling Method for Locomotives Described
The Rehobets Sunday Herald reports a Western railroad systematizes whistle signals with seven whistles for down brakes thirty two for up brakes forty for a back up and two snorts. Instructions urge clear whistle practice at crossings and at meal times with valve and water squirts before proceeding.
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Rehobets Sunday Herald
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Selling a Spavined Horse and Cautious Wit
A Burlington Hawkeye note warns that a horse showing bluntness and early spavin should be sold, preferably out of county, while warning of a deacon with a blaze-faced mare aiming to travel for similar gains. Emerson cautions concentration as prudence and dissipation as evil. The Detroit Free Press cites fig brandy as a California drink that makes a San Franciscan indifferent to all.
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Burlington Hawkeye
Detroit Free Press
California
Made It All Right
A man kicked by a horse lies in a doctor's office. An old acquaintance laughs and reveals the horse is Lightfoot the trotter from Kentucky. The man exclaims that being from Kentucky makes the mishap all right, joking about liniment.
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Arkansaw
Lightfoot
Kentucky
Silk Fibre Lengths and Atlanta Essays
The Chicago Herald notes silk fibres can reach remarkable lengths with silk cocoon reels from 1,000 yards to 1,295 yards cited by Count Dandolo. The piece also highlights Helen Wilmans arguing humans should actively shape their environment and includes quips about social talkers from Arkansaw Traveler.
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Dandolo
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