Dawn of a Daring Stage Plot in a Dynamite Factory Tale
A reporter tours the Acme Powder Company’s nitro glycerine and dynamite works at Black's Run near Pittsburgh. He details the production process from acids and glycerine mixing to cartridge packing, the dangers, and near catastrophes, noting the factory's distance from towns and the strict safety measures.
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Disratcn
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Union Depot
Black's Run
A. V. EK. Kk
Hulton
Allegheny River
Logan’s Ferry
Hulwn
Black
Iasid
Manareer
Black's Ran
Acme Powder Company
Duquesne Way
Pittsburg
Chile
Peru
Nobel
Acme
Tarentum
Girle
Ohio
Shousetown
Parker Craft
Dupont
Orks
Chester
William B. Arthur
Acme Dupont
Buickney
Bradford
Mr. Stickney
Allentown
Stickney
Croton
New York
Iromaty
Somerset County
South Penn
Washington
Acme Dynamite Works Displays Employee Courtesy Card
A card hung at the Acme Dynamite Works during a prior visit reflects employees own wish and their voluntary enforcement of the rule. The note implies pride in self governance and orderly conduct.
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Acme
Storren
Golden Age Fashion Glitters With Gold in Dress and Tables
A London correspondent notes a fashion boom where gold decorates bonnets hats gowns and tableware. Dining settings feature gold-edged glasses crest-engraved hor d’oeuvres even Venetian crystal with silver gilt mounts and tassel shades in ivory silk to harmonize with yellow and white florals.
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London
Remedy Proven To Prevent Pneumonia Claims
A claim from the text states that a remedy for the grip has prevented pneumonia in cases treated properly. It asserts the remedy has sold over a thousand bottles daily for seven months and is available from druggists.
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Chamberlain
Drazvists
Memories of Great Men of Letters and Keswick’s Charm
In Keswick and the Lake District, reflections on Wordsworth Southey Coleridge and other literary figures mix with descriptions of Skiddaw Helvellyn and surrounding scenery. The piece links landscape, history, and memory, noting Greta Hall Southey’s home and Crossthwaite Church, with vivid, period voice.
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Keswick
England
Helvellyn
English Lake
Etna
Calabrian
Italy
Tonian
Sicily
Onchurch
Lake District
Cumberland
Westmoreland
Lancashire
Coniston Old Man
Scafell Pike
Saddleback
Ullawater
Bossenthwaite
Derwentwater
Thirlmere
Steers Rydal
Windermere
Coniston
Crummock
Lowe's Water
Wast Water
Ellerwater
Buttermere
Grasmere
Grise
Derwent
Holme
Tiorn
Langdale
Ambleside
Kirkstone Pass
Glen of
Stock
Lake
Helvellyn Ie
Dumfries
Robert Oboly Gers
Dis
Covery
Crossthwaite
Robert Southey
Coleridge
Thomas de Quincy
Kenwick
Shelley
Harriet
Harriet Martineau
Felicia Hemans
Prof
Wilson
Christopher North
Rugby
Dr. Arnold
Wordsworth
Scott, Fitzgerald
Tennyson
Greta
John Rigg
Southey
Woleridge
Ge Ofeswick
Greta Hall
John Kennedy
Gibson
Bassentwhaite
Lodore
Borrowdale
Crosathwaite
Kentigern
Derwent Vale
Walla
Thomas of
Hskhead
Rawnsley
John Beckett
L. WakEmax
Dining Car Stock and the Drummers’ Hotel Secrecy
A dining car correspondent describes life aboard a moving train on May 1, 1891. He notes stock and cash control, daily reports, passenger checks, and the bustle of cooks and waiters as the coach speeds along. He recalls ice cream service and a vivid, if satirical, reminiscence of Delmonico’s and a provocative chocolate narrative.
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Dibtator
Sweetbread
Diogenes
Ice Cream Parlor Tales and Travel Notes in Texas Town
The narrator visits an ice cream parlor amid odd details a hairless dog and a model husband, then shifts to travel life on trains. He critiques hotel cooking, dining car checks, and the vast inventory from soups to 13 fish types while praising press and traveling salesmen and recalling Jay Gould.
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Charlie Deimonico
Texas
Tate
New York
Association Hall
Youn Jay Gould
Dallas
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Jay Gould
Gould
Western Union
Jay
Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank
Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s
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Rabanest
Nighest
Providence
Tatentam
Pughtown
English Lake District
England's
Northumberland
Yorkshire
Irish Sea
Antrim
Snnefell
Isle of Man
Solway
Shires
Burns
Solway Side
Old Town of
Boston Globe
Mrs. Langtry
Venus de Medici
Mra. Langtry
Ncensefrrnes
Ieee
Nook
Pataware
Mr. Delmonico
The
Freeser
Ck Ofoue
Mac
Nightyless
Drexel, Weaies & Co
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