The Little Tin God and Madge Collingwood
In a Texas frontier tale, Madge Collingwood lures the Western youth Jack Placer from prairie bravado toward culture and romance. He courts danger and desire in a city life, debating fate with Madge as a runaway carriage threat erupts, testing loyalties and dreams against rugged Western myth.
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Texas
Ward Learet
Rospord
Tiwan
Bezan
Ben
Madge Collingwood
Madge
Central Park
Amie
Austin
Cult
Shia
Jack Placer
Rio Granda
Pari
Jack
Texas Hero Clears Runaway Horses For Madge
In a dramatic park scene in Texas, Jack tames runaway horses with reins torn from their driver, carries Madge inside the Collingwood home, and wins her heart. The pair’s affair grows amid family chatter, a reception, and a wedding-likely future as Jack reveals his bold courage and shifts in affection.
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Texas
Jack
Madge
Sioux Threat to Hunter on Sierra Canyon Trail
A lone hunter recalls a dawn encounter with two Sioux on a canyon rim. A middle aged warrior and his boy fired arrows from long distance, missing the target, while the hunter stood still. After a tense standoff the pair retreated, leaving the hunter unharmed but wary.
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Minott
Marshfield
Oregon
Snalk Apieca
Humptulips Pete
S Ridge
Mr. Foss
Pete
San Francisco Examiner
Detroit Tribune
Fli
Geoyote
Chicago Times
Wealth in the South Then and Now From Civil War to 1880s
A collage of humorous quips and a long statistical feature recounts the postwar wealth shift. It tracks South Carolina and Georgia declines, Massachusetts and New York gains, and the vast rise of northern wealth while the South stagnates despite railroad building and agricultural growth.
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Boston
Carrie
Chicago News
Mra Waldron
Vogue
Youkse Blade
Johnnie
Detroit
Briggs
Indianapolis Journal
Hicks
Boston Transcript
Mra. J
John
Mra J
Harper
Prim the South
Massachusetts
South
New York
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Kentucky
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Maryland
Florida
Texas
American girl reshapes beauty through common sense
The column argues that American women now embrace appetite and strength, shedding corsets to support digestion and robust figures. It lauds feet, footwear, and exercise as signs of modern health and beauty, contrasts with English norms, and notes historical shifts in dress and posture.
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The
Treasury
Foster
Republican Club
Delmonico’s
George Charlie
Wall Street
Charlie
Gioney
N. S. Times
Martha
Arthur
Mr. Crawford
Irena
Chicago Journal
Americas
Gantes
Samael
Fannie Kemele
Chicago
Studenta
University
Mum
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Eded
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Rascal
Tod Aisa
Doad Fee Deka
Philiatia
J. Percival Pollard
Harper's Weekly
Gamed Bureh
Kensington
Buckingham Palace
Devon
Graham
South Australia
Australia
Spectator
Cromwell
Thad
Barbara Frietchie
Lee
Detroit Free Press
Zealand
Sauermann
Gazette de Francfort
Canaries
Viens
K. L. Schretch
Tabasco
Cathmate
Zul
Europe
Mexico
United Kingdom
Sebenee Sayeao
Justus Liebig
Ees
Solomon
St Louis Republic
Saya
Mr. Keeley
Miz. Kemble
Juliet
Catia
Bo Ee
Tris
Mmo
Carnok
Lal
Bes
Blake
Laughter
Losdos Moreite
Eliot
Elliot
Harvard
Bardem
Boston Artists Who Are Still Known Is “Hunt
Mic Helen K. Knowlton
A Knowlton
Johnston
William Hunt
Rimmer
Puvis de Chavannes
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