The Highwaymen Steal A Viscount’s Horse At Bath Inn
Two well dressed men hire a night’s stay near Bath and plot a theft of a grand horse and silver harness. They switch the prized animal with a stolen hack, only to discover they have seized their own horse when the moonlight reveals the crest on the harness. The inn ostler had swapped the animals, foiling the robbery.
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Bath
Vantifere
Jim
Ostler
Wade
Tie
Tim
Lim
Viscount Dare
Queer Insurance Tales From the Railway Line
An anthology of curious railway insurance anecdotes describes a betting man who buys tickets on travel, a man who loses life claims when a ticket arrives home, and a Tay bridge disaster tale. It recounts a widow’s £1000 plus seven shillings estate, a man fatally crushed by a thin hat and arch, and a policy holder who lived six weeks after skull fracture before dying.
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Straighway
Railway Magazine
Men of Butter and Eggs in an Elusive Siege
In a tale from 1591 Sir Francis Vere used disguised soldiers posing as Gelderland egg women and beer sellers to seize Zutphen forts. The ruse created distraction at dawn while cavalry advanced, leading to a successful fort capture and foreshadowing Sidney’s later fatal rashness.
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Philip II
Duke of
Alva
Spain
Francis Vere
Zutphen
Gelderland
Vere
Sir Philip Sidney
Slarper
The Viagraph A New Road Surface Measuring Machine
The viagraph is a newly invented device resembling a sledge that records road surface irregularities. One pencil marks a fixed line while the other rises with the road undulations, transmitting data to a serrated wheel and lever system. Used in England to document repairs, it can attach a numerical index in feet to indicate unevenness.
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England
St. Louis Republic
Constitution fixes title United States of America in law
A Chirage Record notes that the constitution names the government United States of America and that territory size does not alter the name, which remains politically significant unless amended.
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United States of America
Chirage Record
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