Wealthy Heiress Bets on Millionaire in Summer Romance
In a fashionable coastal town a rich widow Lou Harding schemes to win Hugh Mansfield, a young millionaire, amid rival Fannie Remington and loyal Leslie Weir. A beach confrontation spurs Mansfield to reveal love and propose immediate marriage, altering social standings as Harding flees.
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Miss Remington
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Secrets and Social Lessons From a City Evening
Ex Assistant Secretary of the Treasury recounts a Joint High Commission scandal involving Scott Smith and Hamilton Fish. The tale includes shadowing, a threatened consulship, and a reporter’s defiant reply tied to earning from his pen. The page continues with social observations on youth, manners, and Chesterfield’s guidance.
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New York
Washington
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Mr. Smith
Back-Seat for Mustangs in Dust Cloud Tale
A Muogee County farmer recalls breaking a young mule as a negro man rides it in a lot while spectators watch from a fence. The mule bucks and dust rises. when it clears the rider is found unharmed, though a suspender is snagged on the mule’s leg.
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Muogee County
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Enquirer-Sun
A Blazing Monarch Coal Loses Crown In Pittsburgh
Natural gas dethrones coal as Pittsburgh’s fuel source in a dramatic energy shift. The poem speaks of old king coal as a costly ruler, now replaced by gas fired by magic wells and reason.
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Pittsburgh
Cole
Why They Had to Kill Another Chinaman
A mining engineer recalls a Virginia City tunnel where a foreman says two Chinese workers die after a rock fall and the belief that carrying two dead bodies out is easier than one. The tale ends noting the railroad across the continent neared completion seventeen years prior.
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