The Sidney Case and Burton Conspiracy Tale Revealed
A December Atlantic Monthly sketch purports to narrate the exploits of a lawyer who aided Sidney, a man linked to a vast conspiracy of arson forgery and murder. The tale identifies this Sidney with Sidney C. Burton, a local resident who pursued conspirators tied to the steamer Martha Washington disaster and related insurance fraud, facing multiple attempts on his life before his death from poison.
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Sidney
Sidney C. Burton
Martha Washington
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Island No. 65
Burton
Cincinnati Consignees
L. L. Filley
William Kissane
Lebanon
Ohio
Walnut Street House
Jeffersonville
Ind
Helena
Ark
United States
Chemical Bank of New York
No Bussing Humor Brings Illness to Omnibus Agent
An omnibus agent passing through the ladies car asked a pretty young lady if she needed a ride to the hotel. She replied with a smile that she was not in a bussing humor. The agent dropped his memorandum book, hurried to the baggage car, and said he felt unwell.
Haunted Inn at Antwerp Story of a Somnambulist Spectre
A long tale describes the Crow Inn in Antwerp famed as the Haunted Inn. A landlord sought proof by sleeping there with a witness, and a spectre appeared. The room’s ghost turned out to be the host’s somnambulant daughter, clarifying the haunting as a sleepwalking incident and ending the legend. A second brief note mentions a Boston widow obtaining a box claimed to hold her husband’s body, which proved to contain a stranger’s hair, a clergyman's joke about the resurrection and a Steuben Courier note on a man seeking draft exemption after walking forty miles.
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Bing
Clark
New York
Sir Burton
Columbus
West Side
Burton
Kissane
Mr. Sidney
Sidney C. Burton
River Street
Sidney
Antwerp
Boston
Steuben
Valley Forge Winter Quarters and Hardships Recounted
A historical account describes Washington’s winter encampment at Valley Forge beginning December 19 1777. It details hut construction, harsh cold, scarcity of meat and flour, the deliverance of order by Congress, and Mrs. Washington’s aid to soldiers during the siege.
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Valley Forge
Wallington
Congress
Fort Kennedy
Washington
Sons of Liberty
Asx
Angels in the House I hear a child’s prayer
A man recounts a Mason father who prays with his three children after tucking them in. His young daughter Nobie whispered “Pa, pray loud,” prompting a lasting reflection on faith and morality sparked by a single bedtime moment. An old proverb closes the piece: an egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.
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Nobie
A Brave Boy and Other Tales from New Haven
A Vermont boy and his bear and wolf encounter is recounted as the brave boy defends a pork piece from a hungry wolf with a club and stones, then returns home with the meat. The page also notes New Haven park flooding attempts for skating, a quip about a friend who fell into a lady’s lap, a jokey moral about Satan, and a lawyer joke about glass and a pint.
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Green Mountains
Vermont
Wisconsin
Silver Lake
New Haven
Conn
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LEGAL
Joseph A. ‘Neill
Warren
Barnett W. Lacy
Warren Pa
Jerome Davis
Scofield
Brown & M
Kelvy
Liberty Street
Warren, Pa
G. W. Scofield
WM. PD. Brown
D. M/RELVY
JAMIF
Wetmore & Clark
Second Street
Johnson
Brown’s
L. D
Wetmore
Junius R. Clark
Hotels
Hackney
Second
Liberty Streets
Warren Co
John Russell
Carver House
Hall
Water Street
Warren County
George Gailor
Tanner
Morrison
Market
Johnson’s
M OW. Het
Reed Houe
Brie
A. M. Quild
Eemappeter
Pittsfield
L. C. Pendleton
Tidioute
J. M. Hamlin
Es Brown
Medical
D. V. Stranahan
Front Street
Brown & Phillips
Physicians and Surgeons
Farmington Centre
W. Brown
Phillips
B. G. Keyes
Hickory and
Third Streets
Hazeltine & CO
Variety Hall
Johnson’s Exchange
Wazeltine
Serre Cpst
M. Shaeffer & CO
Yankee Nations
Moffat’s Ale
Bonnell Block
State Street
Erie
M. Caughey
N. J. Clark
EE Beecher & Colman
Coreway
Dunkirk
N. M
Brown Brothers
Tarren
A. W. Brown
Jon Brown
Nesmith & Keller
Exchange
R. Bennett
BIG Bend Chain Ferry
William Siggins
Youngsville
Youngeville
Ef Smith & Messner
Greenland Brothers
Taland
Sash
Dean Ihanis Bisowmaak
A. Kirberger
George Ball
News Depot
Warren Wa
P. Johnson
David Derickson Menziville
Hec
Lewis Arnett
W.V. N. Yates
Reneeence
H. P. Kinnear
Isaac H. Hiller
R. K. Russell
George H. Ames
Alden Marsh
Arthur McGill
Edward A. Wilson
Williamsburgh
Kings County
la Belle
Wheeling
Beecher & Colman
Jobn G. Sax
Sonny
Atlantic Monthly
Monthly
Supreme Courts
Satan
Far
Down East
Gar Flavel
Gar
Richmond Whig
Nash
Union
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