One Eetend Country One Sh Ee Eee Train
The text disputes a belief that many such machines exist locally. Automobiles are scarce and inexpensive. Only one or two machines locally are worth $500, most $175 to $225. The piece debunks a popular fallacy about local ownership. A younger man and city girl dynamic is described with a sisterly intervention.
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Amessment
Talkative Irish Women Take A Ride In New Auto
A man who bought a car refused two chatterbox Irish women at first. They pled to ride in silence, and he agreed. After a high speed stretch, they whispered that Mrs Flannigan is no longer with us. Treasury reports 1912 fiscal year totals reach 4.84 billion dollars. The figure marks a record high in government income and expenditures.
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Ile
Sorney
Uncle Sam
Treasury Department
Ss Amanitiae
The Laundry Man and the Handkerchief Shapes
A narrator recalls John the Chinese laundryman who folds handkerchiefs in two styles. One stack is cornered and holey, the other square and intact. The narrator struggles to remember which shape stands for which condition, calling John a kind but forgetful helper.
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Roning
Holey
Old John
Mei
Heley
The Light of Dawn and the Hour of Dawn
A reflective meditation on dawn describing twilight’s failure and the eastern sky pale with gray as night fades. It asserts dawn as a moment of perfect peace when stars vanish and the world prepares for day.
Premature Burial Lectures by a Paris Professor
Professor M. Thornot of the Paris Academy of Medicine spoke on premature burial and the many avoidant devices like a breathing tube in the corpse. He argued no precaution fully eliminates the risk of being buried alive.
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M. _Thornot
Paris
Academie de Medicine
Edgar Poe
Homesicknes Spoils Photographs
Aunt Maria and relatives recall a photographer who refused three days to take her picture in the city. On the fourth day he explained the reason about home town familiarity and comfort affecting the photo. The tale hints at hometown bias and the difficulty of flattering portraits away from familiar surroundings.
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Maesher
Maria
Big City
Aunt Maria
Hesa-An
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