Reward Offered by Short Story Publisher for Thrilling Tales
A Boston publishing firm advertises a $4200 cash prize for unusual experiences and thrilling adventures written in a lively style for Brace Cart. Entry requires five complete stories and references. contest closes March 8 with free conditions and postage paid.
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King 7 Shortstory Publishing Company
Beaton
Mass
America
Bend
The
Short Story Publishing Co
High-Hortford St
Boaton, Masa
It Lies About the Mouth of the Gulf of St Lawrence
The article warns mariners of the Gulf of St Lawrence hazards including fog, icebergs, rock walls, submerged shoals, and the Sable Island wreckers. It details Belle Isle straits, Labrador currents, and the perils of fog and tides that can mislead ships and endanger crews. It notes the past dangers from wreckers and the modern defenses along the Nova Scotian coast.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gulf of St Lawrence
Labrador
Nova Scotia
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Belle Isle
Newfoundland
Sable
Magdalene Island
Fragmented schoolboy essay on a play scene
A ten year old writer presents a garbled passage describing a villain twisting his moustache and shouting threats while a hero declares victory. The excerpt includes misspelled lines about a dagger, blood, and a drowned maiden, with crude transliterations of dialogue and stage imagery.
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Saya Ohevina
Joubert Recalls Majuba Hill Clash in New York Visit
General Joubert in New York years ago as Henry George's guest recounted negotiations with Britain at Majuba hill. He cited the British commander in chief and his decorations as contrary to terms while Joubert pointed to his riflemen saying no other terms would be offered.
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Joubert
New York City
Henry George
Majuba Hill
Nome mining folder from Northern Pacific portland map series
The first Nome district folder mirrors the Klondike map origin with views of Nome City and the beach showing mining methods. It provides sailing dates from Seattle and Tacoma and through rates, urging travelers to contact NP agents for advance arrangements. Also notes hopes for heavy spring passenger business to Nome.
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Klondike
Northern Pacific Railway
Nome
Nome City
Seattle
Tacoma
N. P. Ry
Alaska
Puget Sound
A. D. Charlton
Portland
Chas
St. Paul
Minn
A Titian in Mexico Revealed in Ruined Church
A Mexican Herald story says a famous canvas in the ruined Church of Talosutzon Mexico is a genuine Titian. Visitors travel worldwide to view the painting as the padre guides them through a dark corridor to a sunlit room where the artwork shines with masterful color and composition. Eminent figures support the Titian attribution though a $6000 offer from the Bishop of Mexico was reported.
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Talosuutzon
Mexiico
Mexican Herald
Mexico
Tithan
Philip
Spain
Notable Impressions and Misadventures Across Entertainers
A collage of anecdotes features Alf Hampton's sharp imitations of Nat Goodwin and Goodwin's dry remark, Kate Field's Latin lessons with Walter Savage Landor, Prince Henry of Orleans’ book collaboration, Gen Joubert’s Majuba debt, and Hampton Carson defending a Sambo defendant. Other bits cover Bob Palmer’s diamond quip and a Detroit husband’s half dollar ruse involving a porter, ending with a comical mix up over torn currency and a wife’s puzzling logic.
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Nat Goodwin
Alf Hampton
Hampton
Goodwin
Kate Field
Walter Savage Landor
Florence
Bia
Prince Henry of Orleans
Paris
Prince
Joubert
New York City
Henry George
Sun
Majuba Fou
United States Court
Philadelphia
Hampton L. Carson
Sambo
Bob” Palmer
Sir Brilliant
Bannister
Bob
Palmer
Detroit
San Francisco
Chicago
Porter
New York Vulgarity and War Reflections
A fragmentary reminiscence quotes a New York remark about vulgarity in conversation and a Cuban War veteran’s blunt view of war. The veteran says war is terrible but the next day in battle it feels “bally” and overwhelming. The piece also notes a grocer’s boast that prices cannot be beat.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
New York City
St. Nicholas Avenue
Alexander Hamilton
New York
Indy
Cuba
William Archer
All Mati Magazine
Wind-up of 618 Business Holding Hack New Transactions
R G Dun and Co reports 1899 failures total 9393 with liabilities around 12.13 million. Year end brought more defaults totaling 90.88 million as firms and banks closed. Manufacturing shows no new trend while prices adjust. Iron, steel, wool, cotton, and wheat markets inch through revisions and demand shifts. Export figures for six months show Atlantic and Pacific shipments down from last year.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Steel and Wire Company
Atlantic
Pacific
Seattle Markets Daily Prices Scan Onions to Potatoes
Market listings show new onions at 1.00 per sack and potatoes at 16 to 20, beets 75 to 85 cents per sack, turnips 60 cents, carrots 50 cents, and cauliflower 7 cents to 1 dollar per dozen. Apple and peach boxes, prunes, watermelons, butter and eggs listed with varied regional quotes for Puget Sound and Portland markets.
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California
Puget Sound
Washington
Walla Walla
Oregon
Hope
Keel—boss
San Francisco
Nevada
Valley
Farly Rowe
Oregon Burbanks
River Burbanks
Salinas Burbanks
Valencia
Cat Alerts Fire In Kisthardt Home Early Morning
A cat's mewing for hours woke the Kisthardt family after hot coals from the stove ignited the carpet. Flames spread slowly but the cat's cries drew the family downstairs to find a smoky kitchen. If the fire had reached the dynamite in the pantry the house could have exploded.
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Kisthardt
Philadelphia Public Ledger
New Cable Lines and World News Speculation
France seeks news of the Transvaal war via cables under English control and plans a large spend to free itself. The passage compares such efforts to those of people with dyspepsia who buy remedies like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Winton residents expect the world to end with the century's close.
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France
England
Transvaal
Hostetter
Winton
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cures and Misc Notices
A long杂 article blends medical cures advertisements and local notes. It covers catarrh remedies by Hall's company, Kipling trivia, cold remedies, and various local items including train equipment updates, an adoption syndicate in New Brunswick, and Maine spool factory output.
Western Weekly Offer Promotes Free Book Trial
The Western Weekly of Denver Colorado advertises a limited free copy of a gorgeously illustrated volume on mining and scenery for two two-cent stamps as a one week trial subscription. The notice invites readers to join a tenth year publication with adventure stories and mining news.
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Nocky Mountains
Pubitan
Itenot
Western Weekly
Denver
Colo
Corn Wheat promises higher yields and fattening value
Corn wheat is described as a superior fattening crop that can be sown in spring like wheat and could yield 100 bushels per acre. It supposedly has similar meal quality to corn and can be grown in a wheat country, with oily straw after threshing and seed priced at 10 cents per pound or 85 per hundred. Address M. Jd. Shields & Co., Moscow Idaho.
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M. Jd. Shields & CO
Moscow
Idaho
Swanson
J. BR. Smith
el Dorado Springs
Marten Bowers
Caraghar
Ohio
Neuraisia
Smith
Swanson Rheumatic Clume
Micago
Ill
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