Night Express Heist Ends In Clever Disguise
In a shadowy rail-car tale from The Argosy a deaf blind old lady delays the night express demanding a luncheon basket. A director threatens a five pound penalty as the train halts and thieves slip away using a tarpaulin covered lamp and a hidden exit, leaving investigators to chase a masterful trio of British con artists.
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Nao
Shama
Rugby
the Express
Chalk Farm
Oll
Davis
Warwickshire
Banby
Easton
Avis
Britain
Aunt Sally’s failed flight in Millerite Durham 1843
In 1843 Durham during Millerite fervor Aunt Sally proclaimed she would fly to meet the Lord. Encouraged by the minister she leaped from the pew top, but gravity prevailed, delivering a noisy crash. Afterward she explained the failed attempt with the simple line couldn’t get the right flop.
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Durham
Sally
Grammatical dialogues spark amusement in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts a young magazine writer and an elderly man debate English grammar. The man asks about houses being built, she says a new house for Mr Smith is being built by carpenters. The exchange escalates as the man laments delays and confusing tenses amid a sunstroke incident in New York.
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Massachusetts
Mr. Smith
British and French diplomacy spans multiple nations
Foreign news items report on Britain Canada and the United States disputes over arbitration claims the Wash- ington treaty and indirect claims while Paris Madrid and Berlin dispatch further government movements including cabinets resignations and military reorganizations in Europe and a London fire that damages the Custom House and Exchange.
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Gladston
Stafford Northcote
High Joint Commission
Jonere
Corrance
Dorrance
Wicver Esants
Ladstone
Board of Arbitration
Viscount Buriss
Gladstone
Miss Rye
Peckham
Canada
Bagdad
Royal Mail
Bassarah
Arguerite Dixblanc
Paris
Thiers
Grévy
United States
Washburne
France
Washington
M. Guizot
M. Coquerel
Germany
Geneva
Meteoric bodies and comets linked as falling stars
Lagseell of the London Astronomical Society argues meteors aerolites and falling stars belong to the solar system and mirror Earth in composition. He cites spectroscope findings and compares their abundance to asteroids, noting size varies but material remains alike. Meanwhile a furnace disaster in West Conshoctocken buries fourteen, kills six, and injures three from flying cinders near an arc.
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Lagseell
The
London Astronomical Society
Sollar
Mr. Lansell
J. B. Moorhead & Co
West Conshoectocken
Amen
Jas. Kelly
Nathan
J.jeanse
Freemas
Unconscious Sleeper and Home Scenes in New Imprints
A detailed description presents two domestic art scenes. The first shows a tired child asleep in a chair with a Newfoundland dog and a cat, a boudoir view through a window of landscape and mountains, and a scene labeled Confidence. The second depicts a mother knitting in an old kitchen, a child playing hides with a plump legged figure on the floor, all rendered as a warm home vignette. The piece promotes subscriptions to The St Star Publishing Company with a subscription price and postage details.
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Puss
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Madrid
Gen. Cordoba
Senor Zorilla
Don Ruiz Zorilla
F. Fernandes de Cordova
Senor
J.M. Boyanzer
Senor Gomez
Senor Echégaray
Senor Gasset
Senor Martos
Interior
Don Baldonero Esere
Zorilla
Ministry of the Interior
London
Custom House and Exchange
Queen City Paint Store
W. CO. Phale & Bro
Winder
West Third Street
Undertaker
John F. Wiltsee
West Sixth Street
Cincinnati
John P. Epply
Ninth Street
Cor
Plum
Nering Co
Walnut Street
W H. Dderley
Sixth
Mound Streets
Justice OF the Peace
HH. Rowekamp
Stice OF the Peace
Main Eerenss
Grotane Co
Marri
D. H. Bal
West Fourth Street
Decker Bros
Chickering
Cincinnati Type Foundry Co
C. Wells
Winf Street
Ran
Oe Foundry
Kennedy
Capat
John B
Ohio
Railroads
Old Reliable
Little Miami
Grunk
Iba
Xenia
Colummbus Fae
Ae Grown
Broadway
Vine
Burnet Street
Burnet House
Front Street
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Cincin
Ti, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
Plains
Barton
Wayne
Toledo
Detroit
Peoria
St Louis
Cleveland
Arly
Hows
Weekly Star
Family Journal
Home Circle
Star Publishing Co
Seas
Substeri Laceune
St Star Publishing Company Cor
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Ged Eeetereer
Pullman
New
Cincinna
Minnees
Pearl St
Bet
Plum Bee
Columbua
Baltimore
Shore
N.Y
Davies
Fas_ Line
Ieee
Indianapolis
Cin
Pin Lanna
Indienapolis
Lafasteee
Lawrenceburg
Valley Junction
M. Dessy
Indianafolie
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