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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1891
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text references a Newark event with numbers 7.40 and 5m 6m. Corral mentions Rail Road of New Jersey and infield context. Content is unclear but indicates a Newark location and numeric data without a clear outcome or participants.
An English worker stranded in St Petersburg seeks money after his shop closes. A Russian woman, Elise, offers a temporary apprenticeship fixing weaving machines. She teaches him a practical lesson and hints at future help, while noting the value of discretion and patience.
A narrator recalls meeting a mysterious woman, Sister Mary, who aids her through hardship in Russia. The two form a bond as Mary arranges food, funds, and a passport while hinting at danger from Nihilist forces. Mary warns of risk, slips a ring, and departs after arranging the narrator’s escape to England.
Charles J. Cummings a West Philadelphia grocer and father of four exhibits a remarkable gastronomic freak mixing ordinary foods in unheard of ways. He says a perverse impulse started in childhood and now his family shares the strange palate as physicians fail to explain the hereditary twist.
Daniel Webster relates a boyhood incident from Selbury New Hampshire where a harsh master challenged him to show a dirtier hand than one cleaned with saliva and sleeve. Webster reports he offered the other hand, and the master relented. The tale comes to the Times via a listener who heard it told by Webster long ago.
A shabby man approached a well dressed businessman on Montague Street asking for ten cents. The man, claim ing never to have worked and never been poor, is asked about romance or hardship and replies he has never held a steady job, then departs toward a saloon.
A King Charles II incident in a cottage during a hunt ends with a cobbler testing the monarch. The cobbler, hiding behind a boast, tells the King to mount behind him to be identified by the crowd’s recognition. He finally taps the royal shoulder and declares a choice between the cobbler and the King.
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