Make or Break Make or Break
Grace Harding and Captain Harding chase a mythic silver mine dream that reshapes their marriage and town status. He pursues wealth while she grapples with social expectations and fear of failure as the couple plots to restart life after a sudden windfall.
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Butterly
Captain Harding
Louisa
Grace
Colorado
Gence
Harting
Guy
Toigtlig Pied
Kisser
Louian
Grice
Hirh
Devk
Abe
Unlisted securities tempt Nashway investors with odd security
In a local exchange, Mrs Comp ton and Mr Compton discuss a dubious investment by Willie Dorwr who promises 2 percent return on a “cellent” security. The offer includes two dozen silver teaspoons a ladle a feather boa a seal plush coat and a wing machine as incentives amid skeptical chatter about past money losses.
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Mr. Compton
African Hospitality Described Across the Continent
An excerpt discusses African hospitality as a duty of citizens to shelter strangers. Travelers find open rent places, hosts wash guests and provide food. Garments are washed, rooms prepared, and guests may stay for months. Upon departure guests often offer small gifts to the host’s wife.
Ally Stoper’s Half Holiday Develops Fogranhie Glare
Fragmentary OCR text references Ally Stoper and a project or method tied to a fogranhie glare. The readable bits mention taking a deck root to develop it, but context and specifics are unclear. The item reads like a quirky local note or fictional snippet from a period piece.
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Ally Stoper
Fragmentary note on pig troughs and enclosure
A brief, garbled line discusses pig troughs and pig access, noting daily needs and desirability of locations. The text is incomplete with unclear specifics about predation or escape issues.
Fire Tax Burden Slides City Homes in Onward Blaze Loss
The article claims New York burned up $1,000,000,000 worth in six years as fire losses rise. It argues fire taxes ringed into $25 per year per family, covering many structures from theaters to hospitals, while noting the high value of property destroyed exceeds mere water or smoke damage. The piece labels the fire tax as misaligned and criticizes local thrift and intelligence.
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New York
Pollie Hall
China
Japan
Prince Von Bulow Made a Prince in One Moment
A World’s Work excerpt recounts Bülow’s dramatic rise to princeship after outmaneuvering Delcassé in the Moroccan dispute. The Kaiser, celebrating the victory, crowns him a prince as a token of gratitude for his services to the empire. The piece also notes business life in the East and West, and praises the sturdiness of the dory in American maritime lore.
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FitzGerald
von Bulow
Germany
M. Delenske
France
Delense
Europe
Theophile Delcase
Imperial
Posie
Prince von Bulow
Kaiser
Tobacco as Money Replaces Trade in New Guinea
The British administrator reports that tobacco remains the currency in British New Guinea and hampers labor. Natives trade weeks of work for pounds then live as gentlemen, buying food and luxuries, with no sign of improved labor. A Seattle-ported steamer Swan was sunk by a leak from muskrats. it was raised with a tug, and the muskrats were killed.
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Renee
Mat Ian Trace
Tate
Ernest
Ernest 10 Ity Jespeh Ant She Deen: the (Et *Stam From Iteder
George
Weil
Kayls
Virginia
British New Guinea
Portland Oregonian
Beavers Damaging North Fork Property Near Town
North Fork Times reports beavers on a dam across the North Fork above the river’s forks have caused thousands of dollars in damage to local property. On Metcalf property the dam backs water onto land, washes away land, and trees are felled. State warden allows a $1 permit to kill beavers if causing damage, with pelts sold to fund the effort and half the proceeds returned as compensation.
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Thauas Blackwell
Metcatt
Metcalf
Jewelry Without Owners in City Safes
A prominent jewelry tradesman in Malden reveals thousands of dollars in unclaimed jewelry stored in safes and vaults. He notes items left for repair forgotten after owners’ deaths or displaced by disasters, with estates failing to record transfers. He says he is eager to claim the cash value of repairs and clear “left overs.”
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Malden
Jane
New York
Presa
Maine farmer raises foxes to breed black pelts for profit
A Maine farmer claims to have bred black foxes by crossing an Ohio black fox with a Maine red fox. He now owns four black foxes valued around $1,000 and aims to replace red foxes on his farm. The foxes, kept inside a 16 foot high wire enclosure, are fed and allowed full farm access, yielding profit with minimal labor.
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Maine
Ohio
Isbor
Worcester Telegram
Irish Idiom and Irish speech in the Lommon Chronicle
The Lommon Chronicle argues that bedad is not truly Irish and mocks English views of Irish speech. It notes common Irish phrases and substitutions such as Is It destroyed that ye are and whisht for hush, with guidance on avoiding plain Yes in conversation.
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Bedad
Lommon Chronicle
Is a Tooth Property or Not in Law
A Pall Mall Gazette note reports a German court decision holding that a extracted tooth remains part of the person who owned it. Dentists argued the tooth becomes ownerless after removal, but the patient won, keeping possession of the tooth.
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Gera
Germany
Pall Mall Garete
Brigands of Italy Reach New Sicilian Tactic
A Sicilian brigand group reportedly abducted Signor di Martino near Palermo about a month ago. His family hired soldiers to search, and his corpse was later found buried beneath a pyramid of stones, underscoring the island’s melodramatic brigand tradition.
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Italy
Signor di Martino
Palermo
Mankon and the Mawkiness Sounds
A fragmentary piece notes how to pronounce Haakon and Olat ingh in a regional linguistic sketch. It mentions Hawkins families descending from Northmen crews and their travel by flat bottom boats, reflecting oral etymology and phonetic variation.
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Haakon
Olat
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Wall Street
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Grandma Gray
Tausies
Romie
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Myer
Lowise
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