Mate in six moves and a dangerous chess night
A narrative recounts a chess game in which a seemingly ordinary match spirals into danger. The narrator observes a rival's cunning plan, fears a fatal trap, and narrowly escapes as a doctor and staff intervene. The tense account ends with the narrator pledging to avoid late chess sessions after this unsettling experience.
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Perenne Alter
Turing
Eppenert
Tate
Nindiian
Bert de Mane
Alice
Jeneth
Lin
Ralne
Kachango
Vocabulary of elphirs for telegraph wires unveiled
A Swiss telegraph note describes a new vocabulary system with 40 words in a book limited to two letters per word and three digit signs at page tops. Words are numbered from 000000, aiming to ease cross language telegraph translation and reduce alphabetic ambiguity for international conferences.
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Switzerland
Europe
Behemoth and the Giant Killer Gone from the World
A surreal excerpt contrasts a vanished era of monsters with modern fears. It muses on extinct beasts like cave bears and behemoths, noting microbes prevail and the giant killer is gone. The piece laments pride and disconnection while invoking whimsical names and a Punch-like tone.
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Givbon
Opic Elorion
Arth
A Wonderful Motor and Odd 19th Century Inventions
A dated fragment describes an electro-magnetic engine claim in Newark by Mer Pulno, a failed perpetual motion test observed by Me. Paine, plus scattered travel vignettes in San Francisco and Chicago. The piece mentions a noisy park ride, cross monuments, a flower seller anecdote, and reflections on books and pianos as civilizing forces.
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Mer Pulno
Newark
Haines
Paine
Plecea
Palpe
Palos
Mr. Paine
Aira
Avelock
Casstor's
Preacher Stories of Immersion and Laughter
A Connecticut rector relates comic trials in immersion baptism and church life. An overweight Baptist-wary parishioner, a baptism mishap, a sleeping elder teased by a cork and string, and a mud stained minister's failed sermon exchange unfold as light clerical anecdotes from early American religious life.
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Connecticut
Jim
Episcopal Church
Baptist Church
Nm Methodist
Parson Martlett
Salem
Marchiehead
Nornihe Jusi
Parson Bartlett
Boston Glob
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Trent
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Phils
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Paton
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England
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New York World
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Oliver
Business College
Bay City
Mich
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Consis Flamer
Wright House
DR. W. Kelly
Citizens OF
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Willard
Jay Alverson
Jim Parker
Will Oi
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Sao
Dr. Ponts
Sant anyWoUr A. Modine Co
Cleveland
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Michigan
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Ithaca
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Rey
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Webb
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Giteber
Lewde
Whatiot
Thitiae M. Graneer
Whatward
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Weeltoman
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Grasiat
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Thao
Piace
Younter
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O. Wanntman
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Eld
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Don M. Kenney
Pronecy
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Deut
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Jobn M. _ Bewrden
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Miter
Nevi
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Galion
Nolien
Red Elon
Stevens
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