The Imperial Dragon and the Dragon Heroine Reveal
Lawrence, a Western novelist, falls for Miss Vincent known as The Imperial Dragon. A California ball meeting leads to romance and a wager on love. He returns home with a new prose project and is surprised to learn Damon’s bright press identity lingers in his work.
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Chicago Tribune
Damon
The
Dispatch
George Lawrence
Lawrence
Miss Damon
California
Arple
Pike's Eak
Manitou
Springs
Sahara
Vincent
Miss Vincent
Denver
Pegasus
St. George
Morocco
Harrison
Dead Letter Office and Museum Impress Washington Visitors
Washington correspondence notes the Dead Letter Office attracts many visitors for its busy work. Over 15 000 letters are opened daily, with valuables sorted for return or filed if unrecoverable. The museum displays a vast array of objects, from jewelry to postcards, illustrating the postal service’s reach and history.
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Washington Correspondence
Boston Transcript
Washington
Postal Service
United States
Mormon Sorrows Over Importation to Utah Cause
A columnist notes that if a Senate bill blocks immigrant women bound for Mormon harems, it would halt a troubling flow. The piece recounts stories of women driven from homes, coerced by Mormon missionaries, and sent to Utah to become polygamous wives, often losing contact with their families.
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Utah
Senate
Brigham Young
Great Basin
Deseret
Zion
America
Man buys multiple insurance against every peril
A Detroit man recounts how he insured his house against fire lightning cyclones waterspouts and explosions while living in Kansas. When a freshet carried away his property he found the agent for freshets arrived too late, leaving him with a ruined home and belongings.
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Kansas
Detroit
Lunch at Gettysburg Amid Battle Remnants
A Gettysburg anecdote recalls General Meade inviting Hancock and others to a field lunch before action began. As shells erupted the table was hit, spraying sandwiches and cheese while officers rode to stations, narrowly missing greater losses to the Army of the Potomac.
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Gettysburg
Hancock
General Meade
Army of the Potomac
Philadelphia Press
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