Terrifying cold grips Britain as docks freeze and lives lost
A London report warns of worsening weather across Great Britain with ice and cold claiming lives. Ships at Newport remain unable to dock, while Kiel notes ice in the Baltic. A coasting accident in Appleton, Wisconsin, leaves several youths dead or missing, and heroism rescues two survivors.
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London
Great Britain
Newport
Monmouthshire
One Pete
Kiel
Fehmarn
Holstein
Lake of Constance
Appleton
Wis
Briggs
Tom Jally
Otis Mma Adsit
Waa i Atrikit
John Schreiner
Miss Carey
Schreiner
Railroad Bridge
Schremer
Mac Cresswell
Alfi
Batty
John W
Mies -Adell
Fragmentary misread ad notes amid stained OCR
A garbled OCR fragment references a Cal. Fig Syrup Company warning about kidney liver and bowel effects and a Paris train accident with Beesantin Whiteheal editor. It mentions a quarrel between John Bille and a farmer Ellige, a stabbing and a man named Be santin Whiteheal hospital condition, plus quack remedies and pills.
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Cal. Fig Syrup Company
Tate
Paris
Beesantin
August Flower Poem Fragments evoke deep blue mood
A fragmentary verse echoes a melancholic August Flower theme with lines about feeling blue and enduring gloom. The speaker, Howes, describes a deep, unfading sadness that spreads to others, creating a somber, almost eternal atmosphere.
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Howes
Lottie Deane’s Mistake in a Country Town
Mrs Ross Deane, a lively, pampered wife in a thriving rural town, intercepts her husband’s office chair and plushe s a discarded envelope from a scented letter. Her curiosity sparks a curious unravelling as she discovers more about her spouse and the household, with consequences hinted in a domestic tale of vanity and deception.
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Ross Deane
Ross Renna
Masquerade Night Sparks Jealousy and Late Homecoming
In a tense scene, Lottie fears her husband Ross will slip away to a bold lover. The clock nudges toward 11 then 1am as Lottie confronts the truth at home. Ross awakens, recalls the masquerade, and reassures her with reassurances and a tender embrace.
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Boas Doane
Lou
Lottie
Rass
Jim
Royal Ross
Ross
Belle
March Mortgage Crisis on a Frugal Farm
In a frost tinted twilight, seventeen year old Addy and her sister Kitty face a looming mortgage due the next day. With father bedridden, they weigh selling eight barrels of apples to pay thirty five dollars, while avoiding asking Willis Avery the mortgage holder for aid.
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Kitty
Ut Kitty
Laura Osgood
Willis Avery
Acron
Pope
Addy
Mapleton
Dyson
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Tue Johnson
Lottie Deane
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Thor
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