Rangers cover plot against McLean factory in town
In Allington a Rangers raid aimed at stealing uniforms and machinery is thwarted when pigs attack Hicks McGuire and Thompson. Pete and Mose, alerted by Captain Fowler, plot to warn Marie McLean and hinder the conspirators. The escape ends with disarray and pursuit.
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Pete
Hicks
Marse McLean's
Musehief
Canton
Mose
Firefly
Nancy
Hanes
Matthews
Cem
Victoria
Thompson
McGluire
di Oelock
McGuire
Jemmy Huson
Marie McLean
Monkey Pete
Pig
A Vagrant From The Clergy
A New Haven crowd encountered a vagrant former minister at the Hotel Mozart bar. John Stevenson paid him a drink and told him to leave town. The man, once a church minister, is now seventy two and has suffered forty years of hard drinking.
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New Haven
Conn
Catherel
Mozart
John Stevenson
Faithful Dog Postman Don Delivers Despite Absence
Lewiston Journal tells of Don the dog postman in East Sullivan Maine who carries mail daily a quarter mile to E Simpson’s home and barks for his pay. One noon he failed to enter as owners were away and returned the bundle to his master, a crestfallen look on the canine. The Bar Harbor Record notes there are emptier heads than Don’s.
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Lewiston
East
Sullivan Me
Don
E. Simpson
Bar Harbor
A Girls Railroad Feat Paris Letter Rival Found
A 14 year old girl from Auvergne undertook a 510 kilometer journey from Vienna to Paris on foot to avoid burdening a relative. She rode the buffer of a goods wagon for miles after exhausting funds and cold fatigue before railway staff uncovered her state and arranged care and return to relatives.
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Paris
Vienna
Auvergne
Arizona scheme forms Saluda Southern Railway with new town plan
A special report from Phoenix outlines a Saluda Southern Railway Company capitalized at 19 755 000 to build 73 miles of track from a new town eighteen miles north of Phoenix on Rio Verde lands. The project includes water storage on Verde River and a belt system linking Phoenix Glendale Tempe, with other lines to Nogales Yuma and Flagstaff. The incorporators are canal company affiliates and work is set to begin soon.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Saluda Southern Railway Company
Rio Verde Canal Company
Verde River
Great Canal
Salt River Valley
Canal Company
Glendale
Tempe
Nogales Yuma
Flagstaff
In Expensive Cold Storage House and Odd Dialogue Bits
A Michigan refrigerating house demonstrates low cost cold storage using cedar block walls lime mortar air gaps and straw filled lofts. The 24 by 30 foot chamber costs a little over 600 dollars and uses natural ice for cooling to keep fruits ripe for a month. A collection of witty exchanges from the Indianapolis Journal features humorous banter about generosity pride and social mores.
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Michigan
Cleaning slippers with alum and fullers earth
Use equal parts powdered alum and fullers earth to clean slippers. Apply with a dry brush and rub until clean. For glace kid slippers, use gasoline with a flannel cloth to wipe clean.
Liverpool clergyman baptised fourteen thousand infants
The Rev. C. A. Carter of St. Mary's Church Liverpool England has baptised 14014 infants over seventeen years averaging sixteen per week with steady parish records and devotional service.
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C. A. Carter
St. Mary’s Church
Liverpool
England
Household Hints From a Pennywise Homemaker
A column offers kitchen and home tips including table decor with a green thorned leaf scarf, scarlet flowers, and curtain ideas in white net ecru and sage. It explains egg freshness by salt water test, newborn baby bands in wool or silk and wool, and uses of boiled egg skin for boils and eye styes.
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al- Hngten
Rangers
Bessie McLein
Old Louis
Osdiel
Moore
Ecubonds
Armrors
The
Tanurers
Dante
Mathers
Tau
Powler
Pioise
Seifoeberg
Moguias
Air
Fowler
Bragg
John
McLenz
Jim Harvey
Marser
Rascal
Black John
John Hicks
Mars
Mars'r
Sanday
Webber
Allington
Lieutenant Hicks
Begorra
Honey
Russell Harrison
QUA Pleasure Club
Eise
Indianapolis Journal
Jane Eyre
Pennsylvania
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