Moonlit River Mystery Ends in Forgiveness and Love
Muriel Warner, entangled with her sink into dissipation husband Fred Warner, encounters a lone boatman Ralph Resseguie who confesses murder then drops a packet. The revelation links past and present as Muriel and Resseguie rescue a wounded pair and later marry after facing death and reconciliation.
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Rocky Hill
Muriel Warner
Fred Warner
Muriel
Muse
Ralph Resseguie
Resseguie
Ralph Rue
N.xt
Bahama Islands
Sone Aoe Ener
Tonrgotten
Pekan
Raph Besseyguie
van Ness
Mabel Resseguie
Hog Guesser Hiram Sibley’s Remarkable Weight Trick
The Rochester millionaire Hiram Sibley famous for benevolence to Cornell is featured in a tale of hog guessing. On a farm near Rochester a well dressed hog was weighed after Sibley predicted 206 1 4 pounds. The scale showed 261 3 4 pounds, then a hidden plug in the hog’s mouth yielded exactly a half pound, proving his keen eye.
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Anthony Comstock
Rochester Union
Hiram Sibley
Cornell University
New York
Rochester
Sibley
A Glympse of Royalty From Olive Logans Vienna Exposition
Olive Logan recalls her first glimpse of Queen Isabella of Spain at the Vienna Exposition. She describes the ex-queen as a coarse, elderly woman in plain clothes with a youth beside her, and notes the queen’s attempts to bargain for Turkish rugs despite royalty. Logan later saw her at the opera in a striking fall outfit and deems the sight revolting.
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Olive Logan
Isabella
Spain
Desert Trek and Lemon Ice Bain: Flaubert and Damiens Meet Thirst
During an Eastern tour, Gustave Flaubert and a companion cross the Nubian desert after a camel wrecks their water vessel. With 70 hours to a distant well, they endure heat and thirst, briefly comforted by memories of lemon ices before a quarrel ends with reconciliation at a distant well.
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Tellege
Souvenirs Litteraires
Gustave Flaubert
Damiens
Flaubert
Tortoni’s
Hlubert
Gustave
Reminiscences of Dueling by Old Colonel McCarthy
A Washington gathering of southern men recalls antebellum dueling. Col. Jack McCarthy is praised for fearless daring from challenges to violence. Tales recount his deadly duel with Mason and other bold exploits across Georgia Kentucky Texas and Arkansas.
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Metropolitan
Washington
Georgia
Kentucky
Texas
Col
Jack McCarthy
Mason
McCarthys
McCarthy
Mac
Jack
Capitol
Arkansas
Bully Confronted by Calm Defiance in Sauber Tie
A tense scene shows a bully pressing a man outside the Sauber team’s reach. The man retorts with dry humor, saying he has had enough and refuses to be dragged further into trouble.
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Diag
First Impressions of England From a Car Ride
Excerpted reflections by O. W. Holmes on England seen from carriage and cars. Describes lush hedges, slim trees, and rosy-cheeked children, comparing English landscapes to New England scenes and noting differences from Boston and Liverpool impressions.
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England
Birket Foster
New England
Saxton
Rome
Gregory
Dickens
Boston
Liverpool
London
O. W. Holmes
Atlantic
Beecher's Faith Letter Distills Core Doctrines
A dated 1885 letter from Henry Ward Beecher outlines his personal creed. He affirms a personal Creator, universal sin, conversion, and divine agency, rejects Calvinistic atonement, and supports revival preaching and church education as paths to salvation through Jesus Christ.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn
Jesus Christ
Demption
Christ
Adam
Warp Bencarr
Distinguished Oakland writer in court over vagabancy charge
A literary man from Oakland stands in police court facing a vagabondage accusation. He argues the case as persecution of authors, while the judge condemns his associates and orders hard labor after brief remarks. The scene echoes celebrated writers and past vagrants.
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Oakland
Cal
San Francisco
Richard Savage
Dick Steele
Byron
Sam
Johnson
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