Warwick to Stratford trip aboard the Nameless Barge continues
On the Warwick Arms voyage toward Stratford the party contemplates Arcadian evenings and a looming Severn crossing. Miss Peggy revels in letters from Mr A Beckett while Col Cameron arrives to join the crew and discuss plans as Mr Duncombe hints at leaving town.
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Threesenny
Ane
Pegg
Peggy
Oxford
Tita
Col. Cameron
Aldershot
Jie
Lochiel
Warwick
Avon
Stratford
Tewkesbury
Severn
Warwick and Birmingham
Columbus
Jack Duncombe
Warwick Arms
Mystery Visitor in Stratford Flight of Fancy
In a stage of preparations, the party awaits resuming their voyage and letters home. Peggy spots a guest who resembles Col Cameron in appearance and manners, and confusion over his true identity leads Mrs Threepenny-bit to declare him the colonel. Peggy reluctantly descends to greet the visitor.
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Col Cameron
St. James Street
Peggy
Tita
London
Ewen
Mrs. Threepenny-bit
Worcester
Aldershot
Captain Columbus
Murdoch
Inverfask
Canal
Stratford
Mrs. Spitfire
Col. Cameron
Miss Peggy
Queen Tita
Pall Mall
First Minnesota Books Highlight Bible Press Facts
Rev S W Dickinson notes the first book printed in Minnesota was a 1836 Ojibway Bible at Lake Pakegama Pine County under Rev Ayers. The piece links this to early education efforts and the region’s Christian-driven development prior to Minnesota statehood. It also mentions a Bible society’s long history and future plans.
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Minnesota
Pioneer Press
S. W. Dickinson
American Bible Society
St. Paul
Lake Pakegama
Pine County
Mr. Ayers
American Republic
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Carried Off the Bride in Canton Chair Tale
A Canton city bride is left waiting as a hired red sedan chair is abandoned by tired chair bearers who nap in an opium den. On awakening they rush home with the chair, assuming the bride entered the house, while the bridegroom and family stage a costly ceremony only to find no bride or chair. Suspicions of kidnapping arise as villagers search with pistols and dollars. The village judge later identifies a man with black whiskers.
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China
Canton
New York Press
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Times-Herald
Hampstead
Mayfair
Russia
Washington Star
Jimms
Miss Jimms
Indianapolis Journal
Chicago Post
Detroit Journal
Editor’s quick screening of manuscripts and man’s judgment
A veteran editor surveys a stack of essays stories and poems. He notes how a title or first pages often decide readers' fate in moments. He describes the varied quality and how promising pieces are set aside for later, with only a few surviving the brief skim.
Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County Virginia
The famous Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County Virginia spans the Cedar Creek chasm. The Cedar Creek bed lies over two hundred feet below the surrounding plain. The arch thickness is forty five feet at the middle and widens to sixty feet at the abutments.
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Virginia
Rockbridge County
Bride Found After Abduction Hidden in Loft
The groom rushed to the city to question the chair bearers who confessed their actions. They climbed to the loft and uncovered the bride, pale and starved yet in her wedding gown. She could not protest as brides do not speak until the ceremony. The custom sparked the uproar.
Self-Convicts in Georgia Gun Showdown at Court
A Georgia judge enforces a pistol ban by offering a $1 fine to violators who lay their guns on the stand. Nineteen pistols and nineteen dollars appear, but the target man remains unseen as two men approach to surrender.
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Georgia
Lester
Grand Jury
Rock with Washington figure carved. Piper adds name in 1818
A rock feature sixty feet wide and ninety feet long carries a public road along its top. Washington’s name was long prominent, but in 1818 student Piper from Washington College Virginia ascended the rock and placed his own name above Washington’s.
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Washington
Washington College
Virginia
Piper
Bismarck ventriloquizes court bluff in humorous exchange
A story recounts Bismarck as an official court reporter who loses temper with a witness. The emboldened remark prompts the judge to remind the court of its dignity. Bismarck retorts that the court will eject the witness if disrespect persists.
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Bismarck
Courts of Justice
Testing the purity of air with liquid samples
Prof. Dewar described a method to test air contamination at the Royal Institution. He showed two glass tubes containing liquids: a pale blue purified air condensate from washed air and an opaque blackish liquid from the lecture room air, resembling soup.
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Dewar
Royal Institution
Polly Con Economical Teaching Tale From Yale President
An elderly woman asks President Hadley what he taught at Yale and he replies Economics. She muses that in her youth students only learned economy after marriage, reflecting on changing social lessons.
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Polly Con
Hadley
Yale
The True Condition on Lending and Borrowing
The excerpt contrasts classes in debt and lending with a humorous exchange. Briggs mocks binary leaders and borrowers, Griggs notes prevalent groups who wish to borrow and those who refuse to lend, ending with a quip about Jersey lightning and distrust. The piece uses wry social observation to comment on trust and financial dealings.
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Briggs
Griggs
Pittsburg
Witty Quotations and Humorous Snippets Parade in Chicago Papers
A collage of light jests and quick retorts from several papers including Philadelphia Record Boston Courier Chicago Tribune and Washington Star features. Snappy lines cover marriage misfortune aviation manners and everyday irritations with a punchy period tone and sharp one liners.
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Pra Ars
William’ Black
Radfcerd Simele
Leamington
Ewen Cameron
Aldershot Camp
Hampshire
Dr. Cameron
United States
Denver
Great Britain
Jersey
Kathryn
Zaneta
Harlem
Waiton
Dalton
Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia Press
Mike
Feather
Solomon
McLubberty
Philadelphia
Maxim
Tweeter
Gatling
Boston Transcript
Fliegende Blaetter
Nippon
Clark
Tuck
Miss Cayenne
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