Lost in Stepusy home holds a midnight mercy
A woman recounts how Captain Elijah Croly hid five hundred pounds at home in a bureau, a masked robber enters the room seeking the money, but recognizes the captain’s portrait and reveals he once saved a sailor, leading to mercy not robbery. the robber spares her and departs with Emily, who aided the plot, and the couple later reveal their changed plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiijab Croly
Stepusy
Elijah
Tor
Emily Sonoda
Emily
Trent
Missus
Marm
Staney
Misana
Elijah Croly
Captain Croly
Calvert
Liverpool
England
Captain Crol
Jane
Emily Sands
Sulien
Crely
Hatteras
Croly
Jeint
Hin
Silver in Massachusetts and oddities reported
Towns Newburyport Attleboro and Dr Thaddeus Phelps are linked to a silver discovery with hopes of major wealth. A Kalamazoo Michigan farm yields a mysterious well collapse with vanished bricks and rising mud. A Detroit wife uses a seance to reveal a handwriting prank and a Havana potato rush sparks gold price rumors. Moon inhabitation claims emerge from Russian observers and a lunar mirror mystery.
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Massachusetts
Newburyport
New Bedford
Attleboro
Thaddeus Phelps
Joseph Skinner
Cooper Center
Kalamazoo County
I Mich
Skinner
Buried Missouri River Treasure Claim Recalled
W L Scott recalls July 1819 steamboat snag and sinking near Hardman’s Island between Boonville and Arrow Rock. He says boat carried government stores and 200000 in silver coins plus Monongahels whisky bound for Council Bluffs. Officials reported the cargo unrecoverable but Scott believes the wreck site can be located. He notes government action could reclaim funds or private parties may seek release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musenum River
Booneville Eagie
W. L. Scott
Missouri River
Hardman’s Island
Boonville
Arrow Rock
Council Bluffs
Scott
Why She Stopped Her Paper in a Sanctum Outburst
A distraught reader storms the sanctum demanding her paper be stopped, railing at bias for reporting on rich families while ignoring poor mothers. She insists on action, scratches a name from the list, and exits. A letter from Ax Inneham to Norah jokes about death and marriage as a final quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Gray
Mary
Jake
Weat
Chester
Union Meat Market
Peter Heuvoli
Rex Me
Peter Heugli
Ravenna
Hera
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Osids
Zeaeos
Clark
Jones
Anson W. Beman Seno
Fark Betiaing
B. Fromas
Hutchins & Thomas
Lew, Havenas
Ohio
Oficoin
Hutchins
Worms of the Common Pleas
Peter Flath
Peraphuing
Mais Street
Karcane
Ono
Wortor
Peelre
Horton & Phelps
Walt ‘Sore
Derry
J. Sea
Apne Sn Oeried
Son's Dee
Matt
M. Stuart
Rhealx
E. P. Hatfield
St Law
Odies
First National Bank
Ravenss
Rockwell & Norris
Denilioe Oble
J. Waggoner, M. D. Mesaet Sementi
Crafts
M.D
Sounx
Cxarra
Crafts & Son, and Surgeons
Crafts’ Eck
Mantua Station
Oringe ‘County
Obi
Geo Senyard
Giinard
J.C. Prentice
William ‘D. Harris
P.t-Snay
Brencil
Chestnut Street
Wit
D. Lindsay & Son
Boots & Shoes
Ne Wm
David
Empire Corner
Soil Am
Sieta
Petts
Lindsay & Som
B. Little
Mavenes
Fruripane Keatty
J. Goucher
M. D
Broadway
Sioenier
Old School A
Houmepath
Hospital
Mee
Teasion
Hels
Portage County
Cleaveland
Irmijee
Allis
Great Western
Cleveland
Citizens Hall
Tavessa
H. C. Mueting Ane
The
Ntnae
Ould
Maronat Adity
Garmonn
Stuart
Sycamore Street
Smith
King St.eaar Maine
Coolman
G. Fenton
Insurance Agency
Dayton
Hamilton
Jefferson
Steubenville
Lycoming
Muncy
Wilsom
Palmyra
Ceneral Merchandise
Palmtea
Pons
Anvin's Sorceress
West Mato Beret
Bayenna
Waetz No
Bevner
Labere
Prizomer
Thea
Amd
Nowongau Rt.a
Io Fellmouth
West Va
Menongahela
Monongatels
Morgantown
Fairmouth
North America
Pittsburgh
Mississippi
Devonport
Chicago
Detroit
Free Press
Havana
New York
Havans
Akron
Alliance
Garrettsville
Werren-end
Bicheniz
North Side
Main Street
Deming’s
Empire Building
Ravenne
Ant
Portage Co
Omar
Pali Socal
Calle Fron
Ied Penioes
Kone
Gary Re Tate
Tocovuno
Emmons
Ax Inehman
Norah
Jerry O'Rourke
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