Jim's Revenge and the Mule Meat Mystery Tale
A frontier tale recaps Jim's pursuit after being served mule meat at a desert stage house. A host misleads him about beef, Jim shoots the host, and declares mule meat a dead end for Los Palmas. The piece shifts to famed raven cunning with two fables on misdirection and talk.
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Mr. Jim
St. Louis Republic
Colorado Desert
Los Palmas
Salton
Arizona Stage Road
Asi
Sam
Favorin
Arigona
Jim
Reformers propose one stroke writing by omitting i dots
In England and America advocates urge continuous writing with no pen lifts and no i dots or cross strokes. They cite tests. oldest English manuscripts show i without a dot. A New England subplot retells a car conversation about writing and a fruit dealer mentions a preservative used on grapes. The Adirondack wilderness spans about 6,000 square miles.
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England
British Museum
Women Drummers Expand Field Across West Travel
A Denver Sun article notes women now combat men for sales in many trades. It highlights Miss Green of Mound City Paints visiting Denver, selling thousands in paints, and mentions female drummers selling banners, perfumes, lace, cigarettes, and toilet articles as they travel for various firms.
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Man Ag
Denver Sun
Denver
West
Miss Green
Mound City Paint Company
St. James
Mengo
Monumental rock portrait of George Washington in Cape Verde
A colossal natural sculpture on the harbor side of San Vicente Cape Verde shows a ridge of dark volcanic rock shaped as a lifelike portrait of George Washington. The monument rising against the tropical sky presents bold facial features hair line shoulders and shirt frill in gigantic relief and dominates the approach to the island.
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Washington
Cape Verde Islands
San Vicente
George
St. Lowis Repub
Midnight doorstep tale of a weary woman and a cautious donor
A man in New York, seeing a tired poor woman on brownstone steps at midnight, offers help after she refuses alms. He returns, gives her a dollar, doubts it was a ruse, and reflects that the scene could be a high craft of sympathetic street theatre rather than real need.
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Berzara
West Twenty-fourth
Leeri
Bernhardts
Biters Were Bitten by an Indian Prank on a Train
A Nebraska farmer recounts a practical joke on a Bostonian ridiculed as he feared an Indian massacre. Drummers staged the ruse aboard a train near Omaha. the man drew a pistol and fired at mock Indians. The jolt left the jokers scrambling to escape the bullets and soaked in rain. An egg white for burns is cited as soothing.
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William Lordan
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Laughing man haunted by mysterious disease on ferry
John French of Kansas suffers spasmodic laughing fits that shake his frame and force crowds to stare as he travels by ferry. Doctors blame convulsions while a spiritualist theory is dismissed. He fears dying from the bouts and seeks cure or work as a traveling freak.
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San Francisco Examiner
Piedmont
Tam
John French
Pye
Kansas
Skunet
Kansas City
Mr. French
Omaha
Market Street
Jie
Tommy and the strap in a domestic scene
In a Detroit Free Press vignette, Mr. Fosdick threatens with a strap after calling Tommy naughty. The exchange touches on tanning leather, cow skin, and names like Nicodemus as father and son discuss Bible origins and daily reading before Fusdick heads downtown.
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Tommy
Mr. Fosdick
Papa
Rats Robinson
Nicodemus
Fusdick
Detroit Free Press
Auctioneer’s Walnut Hills past, Mt. Auburn present
A renowned auctioneer once living on Walnut Hills and now in Mt. Auburn hosted New York friends lavishly, returning home early in a drunken state. His wife, in negligee, tossed the key from a window, he entered, and amid reproach he rocked a nursing bottle for three hours while singing to it instead of the baby.
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Walnut Hills
Mt. Auburn
New York
Cincinnati
Autocratic Valet Ends Beaumarchais Chess Feud
Beaumarchais clashed with his valet Antoine over a late chess game and a toppled board. The master laughed as Antoine, in quiet dignity, carried out duty and Beaumarchais died next morning, with doubt whether the quarrel hastened his death.
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Beaumarchais
Antoine
Monsieur
Boxtimarchais
Hhis Pare
Qebanméy
Cigarette Smoking in Europe and France in Focus
A brief survey notes declines in smoking across Europe except France where increases occur. It cites factory output in Paris and working conditions for girls, discusses health claims about tobacco dust, and contrasts machine production with hand work in Spain. It also lists seed counts for various plants.
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France
Spain
Germany
Paris
Ee Gil
Pall Mall
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