The Bounty Jumper and the Hunger of War
The narrator recalls the complete man and hunger's grip amid 1860s warfare, recounting a hunt for a famed bounty jumper Forbes. He describes war’s commissariat, army detectives tracking deserters, and a dawn pursuit where a wooden doll guarded Forbes as a patrol rode in.
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He Dambovem
South Africa
Mar
Khaliya
London
Paris
Monaco
New York Harbor
Commissariat
South Carole
Kirby Smith
Holy of Holies
Legion
Fez
Biglow
America
Forbes
Homer
Bounty Jumper Forbes Dead in Lone Frontier Raid
A veteran pursuer follows Forbes across a war ravaged plain to Stout City and finds the bounty jumper mortally wounded near Forbes's child. After a tense pursuit and a fatal shootout, the pursuer drags himself toward recovery and continues the hunt, only to discover Forbes’s child alone with the slain father.
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Dadder
Forbes
Stout
Desrate
Forhers
Love, Courtship and Marriage in a Victorian Tone
An essay style piece by Rev E J Hardy explores weddings and honeymoons with humorous anecdotes about bridal obedience, groom antics, and unusual customs from Scotland to Ireland. It covers the ritual of ring exchange, the word obey, and the evolution from noon to afternoon ceremonies, plus race of gifts, honeymoons, and origins of wedding customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev. E. J
Hardy
Scotland
Jeanie
Samson
F. D. Maurice
Canterbury
M. Pasteur
Ipswich
Iowa
United States
Johnson
Birmingham
Derby
Norway
Siberia
India
Ireland
Lashin
Lavin
Dr. Johnson
London
Punch
Algy Dear
Algy Darling
Walter Savage Landor
Landor
Europe
Herrick
Hesperides
and Pepys
Wellow
Nottinghamshire
Yorkshire
Mollie
Out of the Ordinary World Facts and Oddities Across Nations
A compilation of diverse curiosities from 19th or early 20th century sources. Topics include calendar years in Mohammedan and Persian systems, gold shipments from Dawson City totaling five million dollars, claims that sugar cane grows only cultivated, land yield comparisons, the Mississippi River near Lake Itasca, Murmon missionaries in the East, Siam’s female bodyguards, global government counts, convict sentences in Kansas, ages of European cities, wax industry imports from England, and a fragmented note on a theater or art topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson City
Lake Itasca
Caysel
Marseilles
Rome
England
Fragmented Prose on Global Facts and Inventions
A collage of figures and notes covers diverse topics from transportation and currency to natural history and public finance. It lists Japanese rail mileage and earnings, French wheat prospects, Tasmanian eucalyptus, state tax gaps, and global debt, interweaving quirky prices, population data, and automaker costs. The tone resembles a compendium of curiosities drawn from a late 19th or early 20th century periodical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Oklahoma
France
Tasmania
Federal Treasury
Internal Revenue
Mississippi
North Carolina
Germany
Hamburg
Notice to Contractors Delivers Pine Timbers in Indiana
Notice to contractors about stock of yellow pine timbers and forest in Indiana Timber and Lumber Co yard located at 22d St and Monon Rail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Timber and Lumber Co
Ana Yards
Monon
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Edwin Pugh
Br Elwin Pugh
Livain
Bronx City
Bill
Siont
Stour City
Delmonico's
Waldorf Astoria
Cain
F. Newnenr & Sons
Chem. Corp
Charterhouse Sq
B.C
Portes Dalles
Boston
U.S. A
Salvation Army
Australia
Perth
New Jersey
Barberton
St. Louis Transit Lnes
Hawaii
United Bites
Treasury
Chicago
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