Counterfeit Bill Sparks Rescue and Transformation
A sweet faced woman tries to buy a gown with a counterfeit note at Huntley and Warner. The clerk exposes the deception but reveals a connection to Benjamin Locke, whose daughter Alice later finds help from a kind bank cashier. The banker offers a career and forgives the past, and Alice becomes his daughter in law after the clerk is dismissed.
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Tam
New York
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Ben Locke
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Mgr. Locke
Roze
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Mr. Locke
Huntley & Varney
Alice Louke
Something to Do and the Social Reform Urgency
I Fribane argues unemployment stems from social faults not politics. Industrial education and skilled manual labor are vital, urging citizens to farm or work in needed trades. He warns against city crowding and calls for organized industry and home economy to end street begging.
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Pacific Railroad
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Great Basin
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Jaboy
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America
West
Uncle Sam
I. Fribane
Maximilian death and theater anecdote mingle with science and modesty
The article reflects on Maximilian's fate as a tragic noble sacrifice, notes his attempts to restrain Mexican officers and fight honorably, and claims treachery led to empire collapse. It then recounts Booth's dramatic reading of the Lord's Prayer, an 1800s science note on life span, and brief vignettes on modesty, a Cuban wife, Kentucky politics, and Sheridan.
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P.O. Box
Hudson
Fatal Watch Tale Ties Four Brothers Across Time
A Lanting Michigan Democrat piece recounts a family saga centering on an old English timepiece linked to four brothers who died in succession. From Sylvania Ohio to New Orleans and Fair Oaks Virginia, the watch travels with the family as each son dies, sparking debate on fate and superstition.
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Artics
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Ohio
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New Orleans
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Sluary
Atlanta
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James
Virginia
Fair Oaks
Fine
Capt
Jedlers
Co. G
Albert
A Western conductor recalls a playful car acquaintance tale
A railroad conductor recounts meeting a pretty young woman on a up country trip to Cincinnati. She chats, shares peaches, and after boarding departs without a formal adieu, warning that they must not be recognized in public as car acquaintances leaving others to call the scene slyly witty and sharp.
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Anacdote of Jolson and Saheeph in Civil War Camp
From the Ojo State Journal, an anecdote recounts 1861 Wild Cat campaign tensions with President Johnson and General Thomas at Crab Orchard. Johnson argues for an East Tennessee push, Thomas resists, and General Schoepf confronts the citizen senator, then joins his own camp after learning Johnson’s identity.
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Schoepf
Senator Johnson
Fragmentary Southern Eloquence Excerpt From 1839 Nashville Oration
The text presents a dated Southern speech excerpt discussing national danger and power, with lines on democracy and politics. It includes critical remarks on ministers, rulers, and rogues, plus a Memphis Bulletin editor’s note on labor and slavery era issues.
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