The Convict's Flight and Pardoned Murderer
A dramatic tale recounts a prison escape by a giant convict who kills a turnkey with a sharpened iron and escapes through the yard before being recaptured with a rifle shot. An inspector reveals the pardoning order, returning the man to his cell amid somber closure.
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Old
Penitentiary
Water Pines
Tell
Cen
Fia
Turnker
Con
Vict
Ming
Terrile
Heaven
Raik
Philadelphia Bulletin
Primitive Mexican Tribe Executed Murderer For Killing Botanist
An Oaxaca Zapoteca chief recounts a remote tribal justice tale. A Mexican Indian tribe executed an offender who killed a visiting American botanist by feeding him to dogs, then speared him on four stakes as punishment for the crime.
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Countess of Grenard
Washington
Beirs
John Ward
Jean Reid
Curio
George Bancroft
Lafayette
Richmond
New York Press
Oaxaca
Pinga
Some Married Meditations on Wives and Women
A humorous meditation on marriage and female psychology noting how partners influence each other. It likens women’s mystery and intuition to male vanity and jokes about household plots, fashion cues, and social performances in couples.
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Mary Ramsey Wood
Grandma Wood
Sherwood
FP. Bcingok
Grama Wood
Knoxville
Tenn
Episcopa
Jacob Lemons
Mary Jane Lemons
Isaac Lemons
Tra
Nener Lemons Bullock
Catherine Reynolds
Lemons
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Missouri
Plains
Oregon
Martha Washington Pioneer
Washington County
John Wood
Wood
Antesters
Carolinas
Grandma
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Sis. Reynolds
Ramsey
Warm Spring
Meo
Christian Herald
New York
Wmelineator
Charles’ Burnham
The
Association of Theatre Managers
Half dress and straight line lessons from a playful math tale
A London Express quip highlights a playful classroom moment as Professor Finot asks about a half dress and Teddy defines a half circle as a straight line caught bending. The scene blends geometry lesson with light humor and a London tone.
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Professor Finot
Teddy
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Deznair
Georgs Wither
Shah Jehan
Lord Curzon
Lord Gurzon
Agra
Neurasthenia
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Harper's ‘Bazar
Hells
Rome
Belis
Europe
Beusemaich
Simehiaie
Maki
Mexico
Chicago
China
Orissa
Dumas
England
Ireland
Jae
Fiske
Colby Smith
St. Jenny
Brunswick
Adv
New York Sun
Heien
Talboy
City
Duke ‘University
Des
Rot
York Sun
Kreps
Clarence L. Cullen
Cube Root
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