The Bahama Isles Dreamful Land of Shirk
Nassau travelogue paints the Bahama Islands as a trance like paradise where idle ease rules. It describes Grand Bahama to Caicos, wrecking as local sport, and the people as genial yet indolent, with English and Spanish speech and a lawless salvage culture.
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Neebody
Nassau’s Wreckers
Nassau
N.P
Cuba
Bahama Islands
Florida
West Indies
Bahama Banks
Emerald Shore
Blennerhasser
Grand Bahama
Great and Little Abaco
Eleutheria
New Providence
Andros
San Salvador
Exuma
Long and Crooked Islands
Inagua
Caicos
Bahama Channel
Gulf of Florida
Keys
Bahama
Islands
Spain
Tropics
Gas Boom in Indiana Sparks Theories on Its Origin
Special correspondence from New York notes Indiana congressman elect Joseph B. Cheedle discussing the natural gas excitement. He cites wells at Greensburg Noblesville Muncie Kokomo and Clinton and describes fires bubbles from gas in water and explosive pressures. Local towns race to bore tap pipe rights amid debates with Ohio geologist on swamp gas theory.
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Elect Cheedle
New York
Joseph B. Cheedle
Indiana
Washington
Cheadle
Greensburg
Indianapolis
Ohio Line
Kokomo
Dlesville
Wabash
Trenton
Noblesville
Muncie
Clinton
la Fontaine
Wabash County
Bloomington
Crawfordsville
Cizeus
Orton
Ohio
Vermilion County
Congress
D, H. Parke
The Romance of an Orphan in a London Home
A London Truth gossip piece notes an orphan girl in a home and her romantic notions of birth and identity. The authorities decide she cannot be taught practical tasks as such notions interfere with work. The article questions whether other orphans harbor similar fantasies about lineage and status.
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London
Mabel
Manel
FISHERS FOR COD How Seconsett Men Brave the Sea and Dory Craft
Special Correspondence from Seconsett Nantucket islands details the remote fishing village eight miles from Nantucket town. It describes twelve fishers at sea and the risky dory boats, shore sands with wrecks, and a growing summer population. The piece contrasts seaside life with inland news and notes a brush fire burning three miles from the village and local routines in daily life.
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Nassau
Pacific Slope
Enear L, Wakeman
Seconset
Nantucket
Seconsett
Seransett
Parra- Jone Islands
San Francisco
Bangor
Lond
Ocean
Sis
Levi Coffin
Sen
Seconsellers
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Water Street
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