Orphan Barton Bayses Encounters Town Folk at Lickitysplit Farm
In 1826 Barton Baynes, an orphan, comes to live with relatives on a Rattleroad farm in Lickitysplit. He befriends Sally Dunkelberg and the mysterious Roving Kate. Amos Grimshaw visits, as Kate prophesies a bright future for Barton and a gallows fate for Amos.
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Syhopsis
Barton Baynes
Peabody Baynes
Deel
Rattleroad
Lickitysplit
Sally Dunkelberg
Barton
Kate
Amos Grimshaw
Baynes
Amos
Boy in distress seeks friendship in Dunkelberg village
A boy called Bart Baynes faces punishment at home for mischief and honey mishaps. Aunt Deel condemns him while Uncle Peabody struggles to control the situation. Bart runs away toward the Dunkelberg home and is found by Dog Draper, then safely cared for by a kind lawyer who helps him start anew in Canton with Sally Dunkelberg as a hopeful friend.
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Deel
Amos
Gome
Aunt Deel
Uncle Peabody
Shep
Ingi
Dunkelbergs
Dug Draper
Sally Dunkelberg
Kate
Draper
Canton
Barton Baynes
Lickitysplit
Horace Dunkelberg
Mrs
Sally
Bart
Peabody
March
Barton Encounters Sally Dunkelberg in Troubled Town Visit
Barton visits town and meets Sally Dunkelberg again but finds this encounter less pleasant than their first. His friendship with Silas Wright continues to improve with a more favorable tone and progress.
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Barton
Sally Dunkelberg
Silas Wright
When Meat Was Cheap and Cigar Boxes Factoids
The proprietor of Sweets, a Riverside New York restaurant now in bankruptcy, recalls offering steaks after the Civil War for 6 cents and profiting. The article notes cigar boxes are largely made from red cedar from Central America, Mexico and the West Indies.
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Sweets
New York
Riverside
Central America
Mexico
West Indies
Optimistic Thought The King Cannot Always Rule
An old fragment notes that a monarch cannot always govern as he desires. The reflection hints at limits of royal power and the need for prudent restraint in leadership.
Bomb plotters hunted as internal machines traced to New York plant
Police and federal agents continued the hunt for anarchists who mailed more than twenty bombs to prominent figures. Internal timing devices were said to be manufactured in New York City, with paper covering the bombs produced at a local plant. No arrests yet, but a suspect list includes prominent socialist and I W W figures. Explosives were also found at a drug institute on West Forty fifth Street. Charles R Baldwin denies knowledge of the bottles.
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New York
Department of Justice
Post Office
Faurot
Maila
Swand
West Forty-fifth Street
Charles R. Baldwin
Baldwin
Not to Sink German Ships in Peace Treaty
Paris reports the naval terms of the peace treaty with Germany omit sinking the larger German warships. Disposition of vessels is left to allied powers, not the treaty. Individual powers will decide their quotas, with France and Italy likely keeping ships, while Britain and America favor destruction of theirs.
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Paris
Germany
Townley and Gilbert to Face Trial on Disloyalty Charges
Minnesota Supreme Court upholds Jackson county district court ruling overruling demurrers by A C Townley president of the national nonpartisan league and Joseph Gilbert organizer. Court says conspiracy can be committed without the act being completed.
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Townley
St. Paul
Minn
A. C. Townley
National Nonpartisan League
Joseph Gilbert
State Supreme Court
Jackson County District Court
Gilbert
Rumanians to Enter Budapest with Ferdinand at Head
A Budapest dispatch reports King Ferdinand of Romania, accompanied by French generals, is about to lead Romanian troops into Budapest, capital of Hungary, in a major diplomatic military move. The report notes the entry is imminent from Vienna via the Neue Freie Presse.
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Vienna
Ferdinand
Rumania
Hungary
Neue Freio Presaa Saya
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