The Night of the New Year Train Crash
An old engineer recalls a brutal New Year’s Eve accident in 1845 when a stationmaster died crushed between buffers. He narrowly escaped death as a moving freight train and a lucky slip saved him, leaving him with two regal buttons as tokens of survival.
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Car
Julis
Franz
Louise
Rudrich's
Artesthal
Tanser
Sind
Sylvester
Satan
Zimmermann
Bed” Ifere
Porgeslings
Asia
Hornig
Wittekind
Tiermann
Sirius
Mie
Anxious plan to monument wife suggests grave idea
Mr. Robinson visits the cemetery after his wife’s interment and asks the superintendent about monument rules. He proposes a 50 foot heavy red white and blue memorial with Columbian imagery and a brass eagle to attract attention, even joking about keeping his wife down with the weight of the stone.
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Mr. Robinson
Arriet
Columbia
Gen. Washington
Vault Alarm Brings Grim Plot to Light in Philadelphia Tale
In a macabre turn from the Philadelphia Bulletin, a scheme to delay a revived patient ends with Mrs. Robinson permanently entombed and Mrs. Jones now married to Robinson. A vault alarm connected to the office triggers when a revived person stirs, prompting a drastic exit plan.
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Widder Jones
Mrs. Jones
Bill Robinson
Robinson
Jones
Philadelphia Bulletin
A Light in the Window and the Lonely Rock Story
A coastal folk tale told as if by JEAN McELow and linked to Emerson. A fisherman's daughter tends a candle in a cottage for fifty years to guide boats into harbor after her father dies at sea. The tale celebrates quiet charity, contrasting gratitude with indifference.
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Jean McElow
Orkney Islands
Exer
Sherman
Miss Ingelow
Candice
Engineering Triumph in Caliente Hills and San Fernando Tunnel
The article celebrates Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles line begun with an excursion from San Francisco and Sacramento. It highlights Caliente Hills engineering feats with tunnels and steep grades, and details the San Fernando tunnel through the mountains, its dimension, methods, and challenges including water inflow and cave-ins during excavation.
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Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Sacramento
Central Pacific
San Francisco Chronicle
Merced
San Joaquin
Caliente
Sierra Nevada Ranges
Caliente Hills
Teluchapi Station
Mohave Desert
San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Mountains
California
San Fernando
San Fernando Range
San Fernando Station
Lost Ten Cents Echoed in a Political Moment
A burlington Hawk-Hye note recalls a Roman emperor who muttered Perdicht diem when wrong in the pool or mislaid shinplasters. The scene shifts to a sudden political address where even the vast Latin vocabulary fails to fit the forcefulness required as his wife uses his manuscript for curl papers.
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Burlington Hawk- Hye
Immigrant Finds Brothers at Boiler Works in New York
An Irish immigrant, seeking two brothers who left Ireland, spots a boiler marked Patented 1870 near a locomotive works. He exclaims with relief that he has found them, noting the phrase Patan Ted 1870 as a clue to their coming year and trade as boiler makers.
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New York
Old Country
Patan' Ted
Umbrella and String Tale Prompts Front-Row Encounter
The Danbury News notes that how you hold an umbrella matters little as the line containing the string appears to dangle before the observer, drawing attention to the visual prompt at the front of the scene.
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Danbury News
New York Free Baths Serve Over Seven Hundred Thousand Weekly
Free bath facilities in New York attract 718,037 users weekly according to recent figures, reflecting high public utilization of municipal bathing services.
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New York
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Arthur Locker
Delgraria
Zim
Appletons’ Journal
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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