The Young Gambler and a Duellist on Long Wharf
A narrator recalls a dapper young gambler met at midday on a staircase in a cheap Italian cafe district near Long Wharf. The man, pale and stylish in a tight frock coat, greets with cordial calm then vanishes. Later he is found dead, shot through the heart in a duel behind Mission Dolores, an event linked to a fateful morning encounter.
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Pate
Falcow
Longwharf
Ib Diack
Mission Dolores
Household Hints and Odd Anecdotes Abbreviated
A mixed page of home cleaning tips notes lemon juice for grease, vinegar and turpentine for stains and paint, and general kitchen upkeep. The piece also shares a clergyman anecdote about scripture and comfort, ending with a humorous four word verse about help.
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Jett Jooss
The Conquest and Tales From Distant Lands
A collage of excerpts recounts a statue of a meeting with Wellington, a wary walk through battle fatigue detail, editor letters and a Cuban woman's meals, a note on walking as exercise, and a long historical tale of Korea’s conquest with courtly legends. It blends travel lore, old editorials, and curiosities with brief reflections on weight loss in fasting and Maran remarks on a distant land.
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Morrow Castle
Fra Cate
Trade Lesson From Two Boys Becomes Notable Tale
A story contrasts Jay Gould and John Burroughs, two boys who pursued very different paths. Gould grew up a multimillionaire while Burroughs saved pennies to buy books, trading books for money with Gould, and both later reflect on their early ambitions in a mix of anecdotes from Success and other papers.
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Laos
Eshaus
Jay Gould
Jobs Burroughs
Roxbury
N.Y
John
Jason
Gould
Burroughs
Women and Dreams Reevaluating Superstition in Modern Times
A Baltimore observer notes educated young women still rely on dreambooks beside their Bibles, seeking explanations for visions. Some deny superstition yet display nerves and fear after nightly dreams, praying anxiously and delaying actions until daytime.
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Spencer
Browning
Kierson
Eve
Baltimore
Electro Medical Institute of Fargo Promises Pain Free Treatments
Notices detail a public sale of real estate connected to the Electro Medical and Surgical Institute of Fargo North Dakota. The scrambled text references a medical facility offering electricity treatment for various ailments and mentions a mortgage sale process in North Dakota with names, dates, and county references amid garbled OCR.
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THE
Electro Medical and Surgical Institute of
Fargo, North Dakota
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