A Successful Liar and the Cork Leg Factory Tale
Wilken, a health falterer, travels to an orchard region where he meets a resourceful girl seeking cork legs for her injured father and brother. He falls into a web of deceit selling fake parts, then seeks redemption by finding a real factory and returning to make amends.
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Asthor
Kentucky
Calmel
Wiver
Daily Story Hut. Co
Wilken
Bo Wilson
Fie
Wilkon
Wilson
Kither
Door
Aephe
Mother
Weciy
Ten Hills
Anne
Matt
Watabs Cork Leg
South Africa
Sulphur and molasses spring medicine tale
A comic tale follows Mr Jobson who plans to cure ailments with a daily mix of powdered sulphur and blackstrap molasses for a month. He and wife Mrs Jobson sample the gruel, endure grimaces, and resist the regimen while the plan sparks bickering and doubt about the health scheme. Washington Star note appears with a brief doctor reference and a separate Youth’s Companion line.
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Mr. Jobon
Mra. Jobson
Mr Johan
Jobson
Mr. Jobson
Mr. Doheen
Mr. Jobean
Mrs. Jobson
Hirin
bin Pia
A Quest for Truth in Life and Death
A weary seeker wanders through old and new philosophy in a long quest to answer the universe’s why. Death finally claims him as he eyeing the eternal puzzle, a man who sought to probe why life exists and ends.
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N.Y. Sun
The Colonel and the Bullfighter Gerald Flad Tale
In a fireside tale a veteran recounts Gerald Flad a daring Canadian Irishman admired for swordcraft and bravado. Flad fakes a bullfighting duel in Mexico wins adulation then abruptly departs leaving a mystified colonel with only memories and the note of a vanished reputation.
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Sunderston
McCart McCarthy
Mra. McCarthy
Death
John H. Raftery
Capt
Crews
Gerald Pinch
Col. Hutchinson
Trish
Roger Flad
Gerald
Cutinas
Rapier
Heidelberg
Coppinger
California
Tve
Phil Sheridan
Sierras
Asa King
Wimaelf
Ana
Old Mexico
Chow
Rio Grande
el Paso
Arroyo
Dien
Chihuahua
Ringilar
Benilion Fran Madrid
Republic
Mexico
Prople
Trent
Cafferty
Rangers
Liver
Ramon Tonas Felipe del Agar
Flad
del Agar
Ramon del Agar
Hutchinson
Andal
Finch
Toro
Mio
Fad
New York
Dean
Chicago
Merald
England
Wool & Pelts
McMillan Ra & Wool CO
Minneapolis, Minn
al Tahoe
Durham
Blackwells Bull Durham
Smoking Tobacco
Blackwell's Durham
Silberman
PROS
Jura
Nimi
Scortine
Permbuiot
Metropolitan National Bank
Continental National Bank
Chicesa
Wseret National Bank
Salt
Utah
DPLE
S National, Bank
Rock Islend
Hit
National, Bank
Ottumwa
Ofntgomery Wards& CO
Ison Morris& CO
Hoel and Pork
Reer Chica
Toenbaun Bros
Pion
Clay, Robinson & CO
Silberman Brothers
Michigan St
ARM and Hammer Soda
Church & CO
PASO
Winchester
Westy
Cornish & GO
Ebingt
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