Leila Marsden’s Race Night Choice and Revealed Love
In Sizirabad, Leila Marsden contemplates marriage to Major Arburton while secretly loving Charlie Willoughby. At a race ball, Willoughby warns against Leila riding a dangerous horse, then proposes a dramatic wager. Leila finally tells him to ride to win, and Mazeppa crashes the hedge leaving Willoughby and Leila bound by fate and marriage.
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Mrs. Anstruther
Leila Marsden
Temple
Miss Marsden
Rose
Major Temple Arburton
The
Hussars
Sizirabad
Leila
Willoughby
Major Arburton
Campbell
Mr. Willoughby
India
Arburton
Bedle
Charlie Willoughby
Cail
Croesus
Arburtons
Fanny Hope
Nell
Mazeppa
Blue
Yellow
Meldon
Jove
London
Solomon in Philadelphia Judge Smith Bets on Justice Over Law
A Philadelphia magistrate known as Bob Smith dispenses stark justice with blunt talk and harsh lessons. He advocates harsh punishments for wife beaters, but also rules that a wife may sass her husband, reflecting a controversial mix of common sense and old‑world severity. The piece sketches his rough tenure at Fifth and Chestnut and his reputation beyond city lines.
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Solomon
Big Smith
Bob Name
Philadelphia
Robert R. Smith
Bob
Common Pleas
Supreme Court
Enders
Ord
Justice Smith
Herusband
Moses
Smith
Ata
Alprit
North Penn Railroad
Hun
Judge Ears
North Wales
Aire
Librarian of Congress
Patent Office
Spofford
Massachusetts
Cincinnati
aged spins ter Catharina Dominic m arried by young tram conductor
A Zagreb dispatch reports Catharina Dominic aged eighty three from Warasdin in Croatia wed a tramway conductor thirty seven years younger. Her mother aged one hundred seventeen accompanied her to church and rejoiced at seeing the marriage.
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Warasdin
Croatia
Catharina Dominic
Mar
Not a Rabbit When Holding a Government Position
A Western Nebraska tale recalls Jim White bragging about defending a post office stake with a six gun. He vows to block a rival, claiming he can tie up the eastern mail and guard the general delivery. The anecdote frames Thurston’s Nebraska campaign trip amid frontier bravado.
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John M. Thurston
Nebraska
New York Tribune
Sidney
Post-Office
Thurston
Jess
Holt
Jedge
Old Jim White
Jim White
Feminine Vanity and a Toe Amputation Tale
A dramatic account from 1886 recounts a Brockville girl who suffered a foot injury in a carriage crash. Doctors debate removing a toe to restore symmetry, with the patient enduring extreme pain and numb resolve to repeat the ordeal for cosmetic sake. A second anecdote follows a stolen mocking bird resolved by a whistle test before a magistrate, confirming ownership and sparing a northern visitor a $1,000 claim.
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New York World
Robert Taylor
Brockville
Tyler
Savannah
Recent Inventions and Patent Craze Across the States
The Globe Democrat surveys patent filings showing vast regional variation with Connecticut leading and North Carolina near the bottom. It highlights milking instruments, pocket and boot innovations, mechanical stages for plays, and a range of fire fighting devices, shoes with springs, and movable furniture patents, all underscoring a nationwide craze for protection of ideas.
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Globe Democrat
Connecticut
North Carolina
District of Columbia
Old Bay State
South Carolina
Mississippi
Missouri
New York
Abbreviated States Riddle of U S Map Names
Puzzle lists states by nicknames and abbreviations like Me Masa Ind Pa Ark Me Town La O Md Conn and Wap. It parodies state traits with playful quotes and mixed spellings for a humorous geography teaser.
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United States
Ark
Tug Wabldy
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Apollo
Pan
Daphnis
Theocritus
Sicily
Greece
Frank Dempster Sherman
Fannie Fern
Brooklyn
Tooth-Carpenters’ Trust
Binco
Ed R. Pritchard
Arkansaw Traveler
Standard Oil Company
Claus Spreckles
Indiana
Cathaer
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