The Girl from Tim's Place in the Maine Woods
Chip McGuire, a 16 year old girl sold by her father to Pete Bolduc, escapes to the Frisbie camp in the Maine woods. Angie and the Frisbie household care for her as she recounts a supernatural tale of spectres and hardship.
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Chip McGuire
Tim's
Maine Woods
Pete Bolduc
Martin Frisble
Martin
Raymond Stetgen
Mrs Frisbie
Angie
McGuire
Tim
Ray
Levi
Ned
Jim
Tomblgbee
Nellie Grey
Kentucky
Chip
Waif’s Fate and Angie’s indecision in a quiet moment
The scene centers on a calm animal gesture between a mistress and her waif, noting a settled fate and Angie’s lingering indecision. The tone hints at a fragile, intimate event shaping future choices without explicit outcome.
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Angie
Wilderness Wedding Quest and a Hidden Hermit Mystery
In Greenvale a long-lost hermit Amzi Curtis is tracked by Martin Frisbie and companions to a wilderness lake. With his daughter Angeline and niece Ray, they plan a future cabin life, while Levi warns of a pursuer named Bolduc as Chip recalls a harsh childhood and Old Tomah’s care.
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Levi
Ray
Martin
Angie
Chip
Greenvale
Davi
Amzi Curtis
Amzi
Angeline
Aunt Comfort
Martin Frisbie
McGuire
Old Cy Walker
Old Cy
Angle
Civilization
Amazi
His High Estimation of Steam
An editor muses on steam navigation and Carlyle’s shock value noting steam as the world’s greatest civilizer. He argues literature art religion and nearly all we value would be sacrificed before steam, a force he calls essential to civilization.
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Carlyle
India
the Ryder
Pen Economy Tale From a Merchant’s Ink Well
A merchant drops two or three old pens into his ink well and pours writing fluid over them. He claims this pen economy prolongs the life of his pens by allowing the ink’s corrosive power to attack the old pens rather than the one in use.
Peruna Endorsements From Families Across Cities
Letters from Edward M Burtt of St Louis and Charles Levy of New York praise Peruna for catarrh and related ailments in head nose throat and ears. Customers report cures in multiple family members after using Peruna fluids or tablets. Free Peruna Almanac for 1908 offered at drugstores.
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Edward M. Burtt
N. Jefferson Ave
St. Louis
Charles Levy
Alien St
New York
N. Y
Barber Chooses One Path in Cafe Encounter
A young American barber in a men’s cafe clashes with an Englishman who criticizes Yankee business. The next day the Englishman enters for a shave, but the barber remains reading and tells him to go up the street for his share, noting they only lather here.
Eczema Healed After Cuticura Trio Trial
A Piermont New Hampshire mother recalls her son now twenty two who at four months old developed severe eczema that covered most of his body. After trying many medicines she used Cuticura Remedies and within six months he was fully well. October 24 1905.
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R. L. Risley
Piermont, N. H
Heads or tails prompt from Boston man on coin flip
A Boston man asks in a coin flip whether to read obverse or reverse. He balances the coin and asks Eh and That is to say, heads or tails.
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Boston
Bromo Quinine Laxative Ad Claims One Day Cold Cure
Advertisement promotes Bromo Quinine laxative with the slogan Be W Grove and the promise World over to cure a cold in one day for 2 cents.
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BE W.grove
Roads to the grave phrase from Cicero
An epigraphic note cites Cicero stating that many roads lead toward the grave, illustrating a reflection on mortality and fate.
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Cicero
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Charles Clark Munn
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Bolduc
Old Tomah
Dad
Tomah
Eczema
Wee Pen Ea
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