Gold brick selling tale and smoky kitchen notes
A rambling account from a Canadian trip recounts a scam involving a fake gold brick tied to a prince and a wary old man in Sherbrooke, with a humorous New York angle. The piece also mentions kitchen smoking bans and a San Francisco Oriental Dairy Show showing two hundred oriental babies with styled hair and bead decorations.
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Cincinnati
Tve
Canada
Montreal
New Yorke
West
Gamula
Sherbrooke
Sane
Pha Townens
Abe
Wiel Coma
Tahithata
Wales
Halifax
Hig Royal Highness
Old Min
Jim
Oriental Dairy Show
San Francisco
Sea Sickness Tales Aboard A Troubled Vessel
A shipboard tale describes rich men amid sea sickness and a passenger who stares at a photo to ward off illness. A thief steals a captain’s uniform, sparking a comic investigation. A doctor enlists a hypnotist to tranquilize frightened passengers for a trip to India.
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Lyliaer
Muldomer
Auahtio
Sone
Aue
Ory
Lin
Bal
India
Trenchman
Guinea
Tive Brothers at the Front, Boston Banker’s Family in Newport
A fragmented 19th century war tale chronicles five brothers from a Newport resident family, sons of a Boston banker, who join American forces. George, Norman, Lachan, Reginald, and Ward all pursue military service, with several in the Navy and others in volunteer units. Their ranks range from ensign to lieutenant as they head toward Spain or the Canal zones.
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Washington
Boston
Newport
George
Norman
Jand
Nha
Rough Riders
Idasel
Guy
Santiago
Reginald
Gov
Trugh
Watson
Spain
Causines
Representative Bull
N. Y
Railroad Time Tables and Schedules Summary
Railroad time table snippet lists arrivals and departures from various routes including Mexico to California and Texas connections. It records times such as 7:00 p.m. arrivals from New Orleans and Galveston, 11:00 a.m. departures to El Paso, and nightly services to Houston, Galveston, and Cuero with several intermediate stops. Also mentions a medical claim touting DeWitt's Little Early Risers as reliable laxative pills.
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New Orleran
Galveston
Houston
Wagle Paso
Mexico
Dl Paso
California
Galvéston
New Orlana
Noah versus Dewey arks in Tenderloin theology clash
A New York soapbox debate ends in a police roundup as two men confront a preacher over comparing Admiral Dewey to Noah. The crowd scatters, a soap box is toppled, and Magistrate Deuel dismisses the quarrel with a reprimand. A London Sketch anecdote about a cycling courtship adds a humorous postscript.
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Alf Presther
Adaird Dewey
Broadway
Siventy-seventy Street
New York
Benjamin Keefe
Weston
Fred Williams
John Dine
Keefe
Williams
Santiago
Dewey
Noahy
Esiuve
Ann Freur Besson
Willhama
Noah
Shean
Tan
Japhet
Corp
Henrera
Noal
Adaniral Dewey
Fred
Boston
Boston Common
Willams
Willam
Leptenber
Bears Disrupt Telegraph Work With Insulators Ate
In a peculiar report from Sheriday Plantation Maine bears and northern Multis show a fondness for crab apples and insulators along the Ashland Fort Ment telegraph line. Bears attack poles and insulators, halting transmission for three hours at a stretch. Despite detectives and rewards, the bears continue to vandalize equipment, delaying service until the line is cleared and the bears move on.
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Sheriday Plantation
New York
Multis Comebine
Ashland
Fort Ment
Ashfal
Iyale
Aragstook Cuwaty
SITS IN HIS GRAVE WILLIAM ALDRICH DIES IN MISHNAYAKA
William Aldrich a bachelor known for eccentric habits died at Mishnayaka. He had his coffin built in advance and ordered it shaped as a 1 inch perpendicularly angled figure. He lived in Ter tien county Michigan and ran a health food business.
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William Aldrich
Mishnayaka
Mlederth
Alfinch
Tertien County
Mich
Guita
Eccentric Maine Soldier Buried With Coffin In Vault
Reports describe a Maine soldier buried with a peculiar coffin and casket, carried to a vault with a glass front and devotional inscriptions. Pallbearers struggled to fit the coffin into a funeral car as hundreds observed the eccentric funeral, with valuables, a revolver, and a lamp interred with him.
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Wan Butte
Tess Ra
New World
Jim
Tsundreds
Penoan An & Scientualist
Cing
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St. Louis
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W. G. Wagner
Corner Leaf
San Marcos
Ana
U.B
Devesio
U.S
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Magic
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