Short Stories Before the Leave Taking
In Washington during Cabinet Day two men discuss fate and memory in a library. Editor Harvey Johnston urges Richard Stacy to visit the Warrens and pursue Jean Prentiss, whom Stacy recalls from Gray farm days. Their reunion confirms a lifelong connection and a talisman poem from the war.
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Z. A. Howry
Daily Story Pub, Co
K. Street
Richard Stacy
Harvey Johnston
Johnston
Stacy
Minerva
Harvey
Washington
Warrens
Miss Prentiss
Col Stacy
Jean Prentiss
Gray Farm
Jean
Youthful audacity inspires wedding plans across circles
The letter reveals a young woman declaring she will marry and bring loved ones into the new life. She writes to Lucy Gray Claire of returning home for the ceremony and notes that Isabel Clarke should be among the wedding guests per Coll. Stacy.
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Lucy Gray Claire
Stacy
Isabel Clarke
Young Van Sant Heard Stephen A. Douglas in Youth
Forrest Crissey recalls Minnesota governor Van Sant hearing Stephen A. Douglas in Rock Island as a teen. Douglas claimed he made Abraham Lincoln, and a boy shouted back that Douglas had made a president.
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Stephen Douglas
van Sant
Minnesota
Saturday Evening Post
Forrest Crissey
Rock Island
Stephen A. Douglas
United States Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Tramps Refuse Work After Offer at Evanston Station
Police in Evanston Illinois report that of fifty two tramps staying at the Chicago to Milwaukee stopping place only one agreed to work when offered employment at 2.16 dollars a day. Four went to mills but left to seek boarding places and only one returned.
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Evanston
Ill
Chicago
Milwaukee
Mark Manufacturing Company
There Was a Mistake Somewhere Why the Colonel Stopped His Score
The colonel recounts a China canal incident in which boatmen refused aid after he fell overboard. After fending off multiple attackers, a fellow traveler notes the lesson that if one saves oneself, one may still seek revenge. He ends his score at five and changes clothes.
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China
Bank Officials Under Suspicion Amid Goudieism Peppered Mail
In Liverpool a bank theft by Goudie spurred espionage against staff. A manager questioned a recovering official about private funds and champagne with meals, then shadowed him for weeks as the case simmered.
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Goudie
Liverpool
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