Kiss-Me-Good-Night Tale From a Railroad Era Veranda
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. In a warm quiet summer resort, a group shares a ghostly tale about dreams turning real. Tom Watson recalls Jim Westrall, a fearless engineer, and a deadly night when a rock and a missed kiss changed lives aboard a Panhandle to Cork cut train.
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Wrrad
Lengst
Tom Watson
Thomas Watson
Mr. Watson
Jim Westrall
Jim
Pittsburg
Altoona
Coe
Dan
Sennine
Marvel
Panhandie
Bill
Storage Batteries and How They Store Energy
An early explanation of storage batteries compares electrical energy to water and weights, detailing how chemical affinity inside a cell stores energy. It describes constructing a simple cell, forming the battery, and scaling to multi- plate and grid-type designs with instructions on charging, discharging, and maintaining cells for practical power output.
Calm talk turns to danger as Jim vents anger at engine
A fragmented reminiscence shows Jim Swearing Ha Lungs Empty raving during a delay with a train crew. He curses his engine and vents about the rain, rolling stock, and future state, while a passenger recalls a quarrel earlier that morning involving Molly and Melty, hinting at mounting tension.
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Jim
Molly
Tom Watson
Old Jim
Frey
Melty
What Mustaches Tell An Odd System Of Character Reading
The Northwest Magazine notes mustache shapes reveal personality traits. Straight orderly lips signal self control, ragged edges imply lack of discipline, upturned ends show genial vanity, downward tips hint at sour mood. Good natured people tend to lift their mustaches, while morose types pull them down.
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Hireste Adorsmert
Northwest Magazine
A Wicked Prayer Book Named Wicked Bible 1631 Lost Word
New York Senator notes the 1631 Authorized Bible printed in London by Robert Barber and Martin Lucas was dubbed the Wicked Bible for omitting the word not in the Seventh Commandment. The error changes Galatians 5 16 to imply those who do such things shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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London
Robert Barber
Martin Lucas
Equal to the Emergency How Shorty Smith Recovered His Mule
Shorty Smith, Bradshaw Mountains packer, faced a daring rescue when a mule train on a steep Arizona trail toppled a timber load and dangled between oaks. He used powder from another pack to blast a tree hollow, freeing Old Tom and saving the rest of the convoy with no injuries.
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Shorty Smith
Arizona
Shorty” Smith
Bradshaw Mountains
del Pasco Hill
Shorty
Old Tom
Slight Error in the Dispatch Priors a City Editorial Exchange
The managing editor jokes about Fobbs seeking a charity concert posting to praise his girl and again to cover the Argentine Republic. The exchange hints at a mock motive and a legend of a tender romance in the boss’s past, ending early in his career. POLE SWAIRS.
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Fobbs
Argentine Republic
Pole Swairs
Substitute for Batter. A promising African bush fat substitute
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal reports M Heckel and Schlac henbarfferidentify a west African broom like bush Malonkang or Ankalaki of the Polygala family. Seeds yield 17.5 percent of a yellow butter like fat with nutty flavor suitable as butter substitute. Fat melts around 33 35 degrees, solidifies at 52 , and remains fluid long after cooling. It saponifies easily and contains 31.5 percent plein 4.8 percent free palmitic acid 57.54 percent palmitin and 6.16 percent myristin with trace formic and acetic acids and little rancidity risk.
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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
M. Heckel
Schlachenbarffer
Africa
A Scale for Drinkers Shows Alcohol Content Across Beverages
Berlin analyses rank drinks by alcohol percentage from Weiss beer at 2.18 to hard liquors. Russian whisky tops at 62.00 percent, with American and other whiskies around 49 to 50 percent. Brandy and strong spirits follow, while wines and beers stay much lower.
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Berlin
Europe
California
Aunt Susy Parker Beats the Politicians in Tale
A mountain diary describes Aunt Susy Parker a fearless New England pioneer woman whose pluck and humor dominate local affairs from plowing to defending a political speaker. A tale recounts moonshiner encounters in the mountains ending with a jovial meal and a warning to reform the traveler’s disguise after a near-miss with a gunman.
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Chilicothe
Marietta
Ohio
Wisconsin
Gulf
North Carolina
Mexico
Susy Parker
Billy
New England
South
Entangled Betunes and Maishe at Lord Musselburgh
Synopsis recalls Piccadilly meeting of George Bethune and granddaughter Maishe with Lord Musselburgh. Plot threads include defrauded rights, poetry volumes, Vin Harris’s political ambitions and romance with Maishe, Mrs Ellison’s schemes, an American wife dowry plan, a Henley Regatta link, and Bethune’s forthcoming Scottish ballad letters, amid a web of social class tensions and potential fraud allegations.
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Piccadilly
George Bethuné
Maisris
Lord Musselburgh
Maishe
Lord Musselbare
Bethune
Balloray
Vin. Harris
Lord Musselburg
Vin
Ellison
Tair
Henley Regatta
Bethunes
Maisha
Mrs. Ellison
Mr. Bethune
George Bethune
Bilison
Carmichael
Edinburgh Chronicle
Vincent
Interposition Chapter XII The Unscrupulousness of Wealth
A man struggles with uncertain love and moral questions after a hinted confession. He plans a lecture on wealth while pondering Maishe Bethune’s hidden identity, recalling Omaha memories, and watching a house across the street for a sign of his beloved. The long night of anxiety gives way to a hopeful, restless morning in London.
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Grosvenor Place
Mendover Free Library Association
Maishe Bethune
United States
Omsha
Maishe
Council Bluffs
Missouri
Nebraska
London
Omaha
Maisie
Mayfair
Loundon
Vision and pursuit unfold across parks and streets
A vivid sequence shifts from a sunlit mansion terrace to a Toronto street as Vincent Harris obsesses over Maishe. He shadows Mr Bethune and Maishe, watching her from a distance while wrestling with imagined confessions and a bold, uncertain claim. The day lengthens with unspoken feelings and looming risk.
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Etee
Ashe
Toronto
Vincent Harris
Mendover Free Library Association
Maishe
Scotland
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Rat
Jam
Canroe McLean
New York
Sen
South America
Alice MacGowan
Torsche RH
Mica
Phebe
Susy
Bud
Polk
Zeb Buchanan
Jim Bales
Amin
Eph
No. 1
Bob
Buay Parker
Ley
Connecticut
Congress
Craig Roysson
Dispatch
William Black
Thule
Park Street
Vin Harris
Hyde Park
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