A Man's Love and a Wealthy Fraud in Mollie's Fate
Brinsley, smitten with Mollie Malcolm, pursues a yearlong courtship replete with gifts and social outings. Mollie's engagement to Dick Darlington ends Brinsley's hopes. a note reveals Mollie will marry Dick. Brinsley dies after a rumored overdosed life, leaving Mollie his fortune to buy the mansion Dick admires.
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Brinsley
Mollie Malcolm
Mollie
Fred
Dick Darlington
Mr. Darlington
Africa
Dick Darington
Fred Brinsley
Domestic farce and wild animal clashes headline page
Classified like fragments recount a dinner scene with a dog stealing meat a divorce injunction and a dramatic outdoor fight between a man and a mastiff in Oklahoma, plus a man fending off two attacking snakes near a farm in Pennsylvania.
Ignorance of Cotton Triers Sparks Banquet Banter
A Georgia cotton grower recalls a New York Cotton Exchange member at a cotton goods convention banquet. Decorated tables featured cotton balls, and the NY trader wondered aloud what the white fuzzy substance in the middle of every table was, highlighting perceived trader ignorance.
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New York
Georgia
New York Cotton Exchange
Exchange
Wlustrated Sunday Magazine
At the Boarding House a New Cook Faces Rush
In a Cornell Widow scene the landlady orders help as waiters scramble to serve 14 remaining meals with only dirty dishes to offer. The exchange captures a tense, bustling moment in a domestic setting.
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George
Cornell
Moving Sonata Stirred Wagoner and Yan Debate
A Wagoner praises a sonata as the most moving music heard, while He counters that a furniture yan beat it all hollow, sparking a brief clash over taste and sound.
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A Wagoner
Sonata
Pours ink on wife to keep her at home
Ridgefield Park New Jersey man David Cunningham, 27, of 66 Preston Street, drenched his wife with ink at Eighteenth Street and Sixth Avenue in view of Detective Sheedy to stop her from leaving. The stunt failed to deter her and resulted in Cunningham being arrested.
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Ham
West Seventeenth Street
Cunningham
Preston Street
Sixth Avenue
Ridgefield Park
N. J
David Cunningham
Eighteenth Street
Sheedy
Mercer Street
Forgotten Jail Release Ends Laughter in Missouri City
Miss Bertha Race, arrested March 9 with Arthur Meyers and Edward Pilot for alleged lead pipe theft, was held 28 days before Judge Butler ordered her release and witness fees. She planned to return to St Joseph, Missouri. The report mixes a courtroom error with a dogfight scene involving Sypert.
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Denver
Cole
Bertha Race
Arthur Meyers
Edward Pilot
West Side
Williams
Miss Race
Butler
West Ride
Batler
Black Snakes Attack Farmer in Allegheny Mountains
A young farmer eight miles east of St. Pauls Settlement in Somerset County faced two seven foot snakes as he drove cows toward Vanderbilt. Joseph Cook of Pittsburgh killed the larger snake with a knife and clubbed the second after Merrill’s whip failed.
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Merrill
Cook
Jasper Augustine
Uniontown
Somerset
Alle Gsheny Mountains
St. Paul's Settlement
Somerfield
Somerset County
Vanderbilt
Joseph Cook
Pittsburgh
Wind Blown Check Found Fifty-Two Miles Away
A check for 32.60 belonging to 8. F. Hess of Woodbine Maryland was found near Hummelstown Pennsylvania after a wind event. The piece blew about 62 miles from Hess’s home where it had been left intact before a tornado demolished the house and barn.
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Woodbine
8. F. Hess
Hummelstown
Hess
Italian grocer reports bizarre theft to police
Leo Prescori, an Italian grocer in Chicago, sent a note to police claiming thieves stole 2 960 264 yards of apaeghetti and expressing hostile wishes about the culprits. The strange report highlights a serious misdeed tied to a local business in the city.
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Chicago
Leo Prescori
Apaeghetti
Tombstone Found at Footville Depot After 25 Years
In Footville near Janesville Wisconsin a tombstone intended for D B Breed’s grave was shipped to Footville and stored in a railroad freight room for decades. The stone’s inscription was worn and the brick of time erased its name. Breed later learned of the stone and retrieved it to place at the cemetery long after engraving.
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Sypert
Supert
Janesville
Wis
Footville
Evansville
Beloit
Breed
Jinois
D. B. Breed
Doubtious
One Trip Enough For Him
Elk City Oklahoma veteran LD C Coffman sixty one returned from a California trip reporting a sequence of arrests robberies and detentions He says he was jailed in Denver accused of killing a man attacked in San Francisco forced to wire home for funds and held as a spy in Juarez before returning with only a nickel to reach Elk City He prefers staying in Oklahoma.
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Elk City
Okla
California
LD. C. Coffman
Mr. Coffman
Denver
San Francisco
Jie
el Paso
Juarez
Fult
Coffman
Oklahoma
A Youth of Eighty One Dinner Ages United
Ten guests at a dinner for Thomas Loyhed in Los Angeles totaled 883 years. The youngest guest was an eighty year old youth.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Thomas Loyhed
Toasted Cheese and Egg Sandwich Variations
A vintage guide lists multiple toasted sandwich ideas. Cheese melts with cream on bread, while Egg Sandwich uses hard cooked egg butter and Worcester sauce. Variants include Sardine, Baked Bean, Sausage, Bacon and Egg, and Hot Fried Sandwiches with lettuce and celery.
Road to Happiness
A succinct meditation on happiness as a journey, contrasting long, complex paths with candid souls who pursue the simplest route to joy. The author asserts the straightforward road may be the best, inviting reflection on personal choices and fulfillment.
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Heaven
Jean Vinot
Bee sting cure claimed for rheumatism and sciatic pain
A Norfolk doctor asserts that bee stings cure rheumatism and sciatic pain and also treat inertia. The note presents the sting as an infallible remedy and includes the doctor’s claim about its effectiveness.
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Norfolk
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Altman
Darlington
Europe
Miss Malcolm
Misa Malcolm
Jong
Father
Henderson M. Jaceway
Arkansas
Philadelphia Telegraph
Muskogee
Clay Supert
Mr. Supert
Pete
Man
Brute
Henry van Dyke
Tombstone
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