Boy Blue's blue stripes and busy little Wares tale
A lively childhood vignette follows Boy Blue, a industrious boy with four sisters and many chores. He paints blue stripes on a tool-house and a pig, earns scolding, bath, and reconciliation, then pursues an organ-man monkey as a new friend.
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Blue
John Allison Ware
Little Boy Blue
Sue
Boy Blue
Jotham
Jothan
Elsie
Jtham
Lill
Dora
Blue Boy
Piggy White
Roy Blue
Piggy
Land of Liberty
Marina
Lad
Boy Bee
Nora
Norah
Paris Merchant’s Wife Gambles, Husband Hedges Losses
A Paris merchant tricks his gambling wife by hiring a confidential clerk to hedge bets at Monaco casinos. The wife loses 60,000 francs while the clerk wins 60,000, then informs the husband and reveals a hotel bill and remaining funds. The clerk plans marriage in Montguyon with a bank check returned for 11,341 francs 20 centimes.
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Paris
Monaco
Armand
M. Armand
Madame
Montguyon
Prevention of Sea Sickness Through Synchronized Breathing
A letter in an English scientific paper shares a method to prevent sea sickness. The author describes aligning breathing with the ship’s heave and fall, inhaling on the rise and exhaling on the fall, which reportedly eliminates sickness and allows a rough voyage to be completed with comfort. The inference is that sea-sickness stems from diaphragm movement affecting the upper stomach and liver.
Evils of Early Rising Alarm Rural Dyspepsia Trend
The piece attacks nocturnal eating disguised as breakfast as a national ill. Hawkeye Bur dette notes early risers in rural areas and cities incite dyspepsia, recounting a boarding house tale of 4:30 am meals and a string of unlucky misfortunes tied to the habit. The narrator recalls leaving that country and never returning.
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Republic
Hawkeye Burdette
Waiting for Thee Moonlit Serenade Ends in Sleep
A Sixth District youth with a fine tenor sings under a moonlit garden. He serenades a maid and is told by an unseen voice that she has gone to bed, ending the quiet awakening scene. The tale unfolds with a light humorous twist.
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Mariar
N. O. Republi-Con
Mighty hunter chased bear around Hinckley woods
A stout bear disturbed Hinckley Minnesota residents who called a famed bear hunter. He pursued the animal along the railroad tracks with dogs and gear. The hunter fled the bear in darkness, returned exhausted, and reached the town with torn gear while his dog limped home injured.
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Hinckly
Minn
Hinckleyites
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boon
Hear-Slayer
Brain
Hinckley
St. Paul
From Old Vaults to Modern Sewers and Lottery Laws
An essay contrasts colonial waste disposal with modern sewers noting health risks from faulty vaults and pipes. It cites Stiggins on rum, reports on lottery laws tightening mail circulation, and shares quirky anecdotes about a wood-cutting bet and a child’s compliment about eyes.
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Stiggins
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Main Street
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