The Tramps Aided Then Entranced By A Stranger
In a grim trek toward a Cornish town a brutal man leads a woman and child while two companions drift into poverty. A chance benevolent stranger gifts the family a shilling and later meets the boy again, offering rare mercy and shelter. The tale climaxes with a wary house intrusion turned unexpected act of generosity by the young man who proves a protector rather than a thief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Saltash
Brunel
Tell
Charley
Out of the Ordinary: Global notes and curiosities
A collage of brief facts from around the world and U S regions. Boers in camps study professions. costs of rifles. Alabama farm stats split by race. China's post office transfer. Oklahoma banks and deposits. territorial population. Canada and British defense. Canary Islands banana lore. Kansas spirits law. Nile mud Egypt. Missouri river sediment. debtless states Iowa Nebraska Illinois. near debtless California Montana Nevada. Galicia salt reserve. gigantic salt seam 650 by 20 by 269 feet. U S census horses 21,216,888 and value 4 07. and farm numbers trend noted.
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China
Europe
Alabama
Marine Customs Service
Sir Robert Hart
Oklahoma
Canada
Canaries
Kansas
Nile
Egypt
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
California
Montana
Nevada
Galicia
Hungary
United States
Lockerbie Street and Mr Riley Should Be Left Undisturbed
The New York Sun notes Indianapolis plans to pave Lockerbie street and add sidewalks. It celebrates James Whitcomb Riley who found the street charming and warns urban modernization will harm its tranquil ambiance with trees, lawns, birds, and period character. The piece urges residents and city groups to resist changes.
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New York Sun
Board of Public Works
City Engineer of
Indianapolis
Lockerbie Street
James Whitcomb Riley
Mr. Riley
Indianapolis Journal
Call for aid Echoes Beyond Castle Walls
A page outside the fortress pleads for help as knights and squires, amidst siege tales and merriment, hear a cry of distress. The king responds, racing to a gate to aid a half dead man, lamenting that the call was a man’s plea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie M. L. Hewes
Enigmatic Knots of Odd and Ingenious Kind
A compact note invites readers to engage with奇 puzzles or lore as leisure reading. The item mentions SPHINX LORE and an address for correspondence to ER Chadbourn in Lewiston Maine, indicating a reader submission or department contact point.
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Ation
ER. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
Poetic Nonsense And Reading Contest Toasts
A playful piece recounts a diner scene and a poem about a spring bloom, followed by a literary contest update. It lists winners and participants from multiple towns, noting titles like The California and Oregon Trail and Parkman’s work.
A Literary Dinner and an Irish Poet in the Park
A guest recalls a literary dinner filled with shifting labels for writers from English hymn writers to American novelists. The host, a Boston writer, is described as Irish by trade and connected to a family of scholars. A long verse fragment about Dorothea and a businessman’s steady, exhausting toil concludes the piece, hinting at mortality and labor.
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Rhrubs
Rome
Boston
Ettrick Shepherd
Dorothea
Letter Clue List Sparks Historical Wordplay
A sequence of clues and terms appears as a letter style puzzle. It includes hints like cheating, scolds, and convent references, along with prompts such as roving or ameliorating and a note about withering. The puzzle ends with a final instruction about running and a concluding letter hint.
Industrial Pitfalls and Pin Lengths in a Vast Factory
A puzzle describes a large U S pin factory with 5 major stores receiving 1 case every 5 months, 108 dozen pins per case, and pins 0.75 to 1.5 inches long. 100 other stores get 5 cases every 3 months with identical case counts, pins half as long as the first lot. 210 smaller stores receive 11 cases yearly with pins 50 percent longer than the first lot. The yearly output spans enough end-to-end length to circle twice a globe of 2029 miles. Determine the average pin length for the 5 departmental stores.
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America
F. L
To a Late-blooming Apple Tree in Winter Sun
An evocative poem fragment contrasts a late blooming apple tree with fading summer life. It ponders absence and renewal as the season settles. The speaker notes graves of summer flowers and birds, contrasting warmth and decay against sunset colors.
Unclear OCR fragment with numbers and names
Fragmentary OCR listing numbered names and phrases, including biographical note about Mr Brown born February 2 and died before 24, with four birthdays and four children, plus scattered terms like cane and various surnames. Hard to extract a coherent news item or event.
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Ratang
Ratan
Rata
Rat
Wi—Robes
Sober
Norway
Holland
Cable, & Castle
Grant
King
Bachellor
Chambers
Pier
Merriman
Mason
Betts
Potter
Cook
Wolfe
Golden
Shaw
Sharp
Ford
Greene
Woods
Dunne
Mabie
Fowler
Hale
Brown
Mr. Brown
Annie Besant's Whereabouts in London and Home in India
Mrs. Annie Besant left India for England on April 1, intends an early autumn return. She has lived in Benares for seven years and spoke from a home with verandas and walls guarding a garden. She described her Hindu philosophical college at Benares, funded by donations, with hostel and three resident students and plans to expand to 155. The project aims to blend English education with Hindu religious and moral training based on the shastras, gaining cautious government recognition amid local concerns of political intent.
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London Mail
Annie Besant
India
England
Birs, Besant
Theosophical
Henares
Benares
Visible Pulse Beats Revealed by Physician Observation
A New Orleans physician notes that some individuals show visible pulse beating in the wrist or forearm without fever or illness. He recalls a striking case where the artery rose like a finger’s ball, turning purple with each beat, and could be seen clearly enough to count without touch.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
The Scot in London Laughs and Lessons
A London Daily News feature profiles a Scottish man famed for business skill and a grave, soul driven air. In a railway carriage he watches laughing colleagues, then privately remarks that those who laugh at feet may bear a keen sense of bump, revealing a hidden temperance of mind.
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London Daily News
London
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His Majesty's Mint
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Surley Jim
Berlin
Indiana
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Chicago
Chaux-de-Fonds
Morteau
Switzerland
Customs House
Island of
Capri
Tiberius
Commodus
Scotland
Black Watch
West Point
New York
Mount Etna
Sicily
Salt Lake City
Brigham Young
Barberto
Shere
MR. Riley's
Sphinx Lore
Robert
Justin Jest
Joe Friend
Wren
Robin
Mabel P
P. H. Chapin
Munhall
F. G. Hackieman
Rushville
Ind
April
Nina T. Graham
Emma L. Rogers
Leatha M. Paddock
G. H. Damon
Laura M. Weters
F. R. Croweley
Frances H. Durbin
Pearl Linscott
Joseph Fulton
California and
Oregon Trail
Parkman
Eale
Sisyphus
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