Tales of the Derby Plot and Phantom Derby Tales
London Tit-Bits recounts famed Derby conspiracies and dreams guiding winners. Sir Joseph Hawley moved Teddington to thwart alleged betting plots. Leander’s head vanished after a 1844 alleged poisoning. Running Rein’s impostor horse Macgregor. dream tips favor Kingcraft in 1870. 1862 Caractacus dream tipped by a blind daughter.
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Teddington
Leander
Joseph Hawley
York
Sir Joseph
Alec Taylor
Ratan
Bolus
Running Rein
Maccabeus
Osborne
Orlando
McGregor
Macgregor
Rascal
Swift
Kingcraft
Caractacus
Parsons
Jim Goater
London
A Hindoo's Toilet Morning Scene in East Indian Compound
Mary Anabel Chamberlain describes a Hindu morning routine in an East Indian compound. Males undress at the well, bathe with charcoal toothpaste and teeth polishing, gargle, and drink from a water chatty, then dress and depart as the sun rises. The piece blends ethnographic detail with exoticized tone.
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Bryant
Mary Anabel Chamberlain
Atlantic
Not the Suitor's Fault Bond Father Contends
A dramatic exchange unfolds as a father berates a suitor for unsettling his only daughter. The suitor pleads innocence, urging the father not to blame him, while the father trembles with emotion and defensiveness.
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Bond
Fortune From a Promissory Note to millions
The story follows John M. Bixby, a starving New York lawyer who received a note for a farm valued at $200 after a fellow lawyer offered to renew his debt. He held the farm through canal and gas era growth, and by death his estate was valued at $7,000,000 rising to over $13,000,000 today.
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New York
John M. Bixby
Bixby
National Magazine
Lincoln’s Brevity Through Public Addresses
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch note reflects on Abraham Lincoln’s concise speeches and letters, noting word counts for a Springfield notification committee speech 189 words, a formal acceptance letter 134 words, a 1864 Washington address 196 words, and a 200 word acceptance letter. It points out there were no typewriters or phonographs then.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Washington
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Honest Resolve Speech Sparks Applause in Ledger Quotation
The Philadelphia Ledger quotes an orator who rejects a 100000 dollar bribe and declares honesty a duty. He notes the demanded services were worth double the money and urges steadfast integrity. The piece ends with a proverb about steering straight while others dodge.
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Philadelphia Ledger
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Wood & Evans
Hamburg
Riverside
DeWitts
Tom Sparks
Sandersville, Ga
Tales OF the Derby
Langs
Sandersville
Georgia
G. C. Toole
Tennille
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