Bearded Beacons on Beaver Island Aboard the Sloop Typ
Captain Plum lands secretly on Beaver Island to encounter Obadiah Price a Mormon spy. Price tests Plum with a letter and gold, powder, and rifles, revealing a ruse to judge Plum as honest. Plum insists he has arms and a plan, but Price exposes the test and departs with a sly joke about the ruse.
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Cevo Nathaniel Plum
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Beaver Teland
Lake
Michigan
Obadiah Price
Peco
Beavers Island Pact Sealed With Oath and Secret Package
Captain Plum agrees to deliver a sealed package after an intense exchange with Obadiah Price who seeks an oath before the mission. Price names Franklin Pierce as the U S president, while the two exchange a mysterious gold sum and a Bible and Book of Mormon oath.
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Nathaniel Plum
Beaver Island
St. James
Christ
Obadiah’ Price
The Seven Wives Toll at Distant Bell
Obadiah Price prays in a trance as Captain Plum and a companion tense in a dark room. A distant tolling bell grows louder, signaling a turning moment in the scene. The old man’s gaze is fixed, lips moving, arms spread in supplication as silence dominates.
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Obadiah Price
Captain Plum
Ghostly meeting at night ends with frightened encounter
A mysterious old man, Captain Plum, and Obadiah Price drive a tense scene in a cabin. The bag of gold stays hidden as a girl appears, stunning Plum with her white frightened face before she flees, leaving the encounter unresolved. TO BE CONTINUED.
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Vermont
Plum
Christ
Strang
Franklin Pierce
United States of America
St. James
Plim
Nathaniel Plum
Obadiah Price
Woman Opens School For Correct English Speech
A cultured woman begins a school to teach pure English speech, correcting provincialisms and mispronunciations. Her work helps educated women improve diction, addressing regional vowel and r sounds and aiming to spread nationwide.
Good Advice From the Old Rabbit
An old rabbit gives the advice to stay on the good side of a dog. The youngster asks which side is best and the elder replies the outside, as he munches cabbage and prepares the youth for the world.
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O. R
What They Did With Them An American Describes a Cockney Dog Dealer
An American in England recounts a Cockney seeking a dog described as a mix of greyhound traits but not one. He asks for such a dog and the dealer replies that they do not keep them, and that they drown them instead.
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England
Cure for eczema on hands and body with Cuticura products
A Virginia reader claims long term hand eczema and widespread skin disease were cured after using Cuticura Ointment and three Bottles of Cuticura Resolvent. She cites her daughter’s hands improving in two weeks and praises Cuticura for family use. Date: Oct. 19, 1909.
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M. E. Falin
Speers Ferry
Washington crossing Delaware lesson sparks playful answer
In a third grade exercise, forty students guessed at the Father of His Country’s life. A teacher’s question about why Washington crossed the Delaware stumped them all. Annie offered a punchline linking Atlantic City as the other shore.
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Delaware
Annie
Atlantic City
Philadelphia Times
Farmer and assessor bargain over acres in humorous exchange
An assessor asks about farm land, Reuben guesses 20 acres but the farmer insists the tract is much larger. The farmer jokes that the assessor cannot stretch the figures like rubber, referencing Harper's Monthly in the dialogue.
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Reuben
Mieike
Feller
Harper's Monthly
Diet Plan for Cooler Body Temperature and Comfort
A Victorian style dietary guide proposes avoiding meat for breakfast and favoring fruit, Grape-Nuta with cream, toast with little butter, and Postum. The diet, claimed to reduce bodily heat by ten to twenty degrees, aids digestion and energy, and is promoted via the book The Road to Wellville with the tagline There’s a Reason.
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Wellville
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