Love versus Law on Laurel Cove Mountain Love and betrayal test a mountaineer town
A romance unfolds between Arthur Griggs a Harvard botanist and Tilda Goodman daughter of Abe Goodman in Laurel Cove. Griggs recruited as a revenue spy faces a moral clash between duty and love as mountaineers surveil him and Tilda pleads for his loyalty. In a dramatic choice he reveals his love and contemplates marriage, while the village elder consoles the broken heart with hardy frontier wisdom.
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Cumberland Mountains
Laurel Cove
Abe Goodman
Saul Markham
Tilda
Nashville
Arthur Griggs
Suila
Harvard
Griges
Barel
Griggs
Grigga
Beé
Revenue Force
Hit
Beaver Cove
Halfway Cove
Salpin
Av Revenue
Amooth Waters
A Little Indefinite
A prominent New York lawyer recalls his early practice of bill collecting for slender income. He encounters a debtor who later achieves success, while the man sits with feet on the desk and a pipe in hand. The debtor promises payment after awaiting a publisher’s offer for a future novel.
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New York
Eoon
Harper's
Soft Tommy in a Poker Plot Ends in Cheyenne
A two year spree of drinking gambling and debt ends for Thomas Appleby Jr known as Soft Tommy as ex chorus girl Wild Rose disarms card sharks on a sleeping car train. She recovers his stolen money and leaves him to his wife in Cheyenne declaring farewell.
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Thomas Appleby, Jr
Tommy
New York
Colorado Midland
Denver
The
West
Wall Street
Ashley
Chicago
Abe
Bis
Hia
Blacklegs
Promber
Lis
Ned
Cheyenne
Atateroom
Chéyenne
Death by own action in tribal customs described
A De Nieve Courant correspondent reports on a practice called poopootan in which rulers and followers prefer suicide over surrender. The Prince of Badoeng and his supporters chose death, as did Lombok’s royal family after a failed settlement. Some died in battle, others killed themselves afterward.
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Mairy
CO. Thieme
de Nieve Courant
The
Hague
Badoeng
As Good as a Knot in a Needle Toy
A north side boy plays with needles and thread while his mother sews. The thread knots, the needle slips, and the boy offers the thread to his mother asking her to fix it and add another lump of thread. The story appears in the Colughun Dispatch.
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North Side
Pease
Pean
Colughun
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Jamer Hepebet Cashier
Estherville State Bank
Pirbotors Inc
Barker K
Sandrel A
Root A
Lough James Hopesot
Howard Traves
Preatchett
Webb Vino
View Provident
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Estherville, Iowa
J.P. Kirby
Usahier
First National Bank
Estherville
Iowa
Board OF Directors
Montequiry
KE. B. Helper Wabb
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Whelan O
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Emmet County Land and Abstract Co
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W. Fullam
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