Mystery Carney Croft Sequel Prompts Key Revelations
The narrator suspects mischief at Carney Croft and follows frost tracks to a hill near Bruce cottage. He witnesses Jenks and Mrs. Bruce in talk, then discovers fresh graves and uncovers a wrapped bundle in a shallow grave, hinting at darker plots to be continued.
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MacArdel
Jenks
Carney- Croft
Trail Found Chapter XIX Reveals Sleepless Night Reflections
Fragmentary excerpt shows a narrator named Colonel Vt assessing himself after a sleepless night. The voice notes dissatisfaction with self opinion and hints at deliberate thought and action, suggesting internal conflict in the narrative. The text reads as a diary like reflection from early in Chapter XIX.
Woman Saves Stranger From Dire Fate With Small Gift
A compassionate woman in a Harper's Weekly vignette assists a hungry man who fears desperation. He admits poverty would force him to resort to crime, but after receiving five dollars he reveals the dreadful act he avoids: to work.
Western Men in New York and the Rise of Western Power
The article notes a continual influx of western and southern leaders to New York's finance and industry. It highlights Theodore P. Shonts addressing transit solutions, Thomas F. Ryan’s shift of Equitable Life control to policyholders, and Paul Morton’s restructuring success. It also cites E. H. Gary, John W. Gates, Henry C. Frick, Norman B. Ream, William H. Moore, and Daniel G. Reid as influential western figures in the city’s rise.
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D. O. Mills
J. B. Haggin
James R. Keene
California
New York
Theodore P. Shonts
Thos. F. Ryan
Virginia
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Jas. H. Hyde
Paul Morton
South
West
Morton
Equitable
E. H. Gary
U. S. Steel O
John W. Gates
Henry C. Frick
Norman B. Ream
Wm. H. Moore
Daniel G. Reid
Virginia truck farmer recalls dog attack on Sam Moore
A Virginia truck farm owner recounts the tale of Sam Moore, his employee, savagely attacked by a neighbor’s dog. Sam dodged and fought the dog as it clamped onto his calf. His wife Mandy rushed to help, and Sam shouted for her to throw the stone at him, not at the dog.
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Mr. Ware
Jack
Annie
London
Paris
Carney Croft
John Carney
Miss Carney
Miss Weston
Virginia
Sam Moore
Sam
Mandy
His Name for It Judge's Library
A rural physiology class recalls alternate names for the skull. A girl answers skull, then cranium, and a boy cheerfully offers noggin as the second term.
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Lucy
Henry
Noggin
Judge’s Library
Secret to Postum Coffee Turns Grocer to Believer
A grocer recounts trying Postum Food Coffee to compare it with coffee. After a customer explains longer boiling yields a rich Java like beverage, he tests and discovers health benefits and relief from stomach and kidney troubles. Postum is a pure liquid food not a medicine. There's a Reason. Read The Road to Wellville in pks3.
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Postum
Wellville
Disobeyed Orders on Picket Duty at Chickamauga
A Twenty second Indiana keeper recalls disobeying orders during picket duty at Chickamauga. He would not shoot a Union courier and instead halted him, later turning the man over to Col. Post. He reflects that killing the courier could have doomed McCook’s train and artillery, and credits their action with saving the retreat to Chattanooga.
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The
National Tribune
Twenty-second
Indiana
Chickamauga
Col. Post
L. S. Mayfield
Mayfield
Miller
Gen. McCook
McCook
Mitchell
Crawfish Springs
Dry Valley
Chattanooga
The Sandusky Expedition Defied Orders and Triumph
Col Crawford recounts an unauthorized battle where a civilian teamster was pressed into service when transport failed. A young recruit named Morgan stepped forward to fight the teamster, proved his prowess, and won quickly. Morgan later rose to prominence as a major general.
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Col
Crawford
Sandusky
Washington
Morgan
Statue for Stanton at Steubenville
Admirers plan a bronze statue of Edwin M. Stanton in Steubenville Ohio with support from Gen. Thomas T. Eckert of New York City who donated generously. The statue honors Stanton, who served as attorney general in Buchanan's cabinet and secretary of war under Lincoln.
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Stanton
Edwin M. Stanton
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Steubenville
Thomas T. Eckert
New York City
Custer’s mule howitzer tale from Indian Wigwams
Rev. Egerton R Young quotes Gen Custer telling a tale of a night march and a mule mounted howitzer. Custer fires from the mule down a bluff scattering foes who hide in underbrush. A warlike chief jokes that surrender came when the mule crashed below.
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Egerton R. Young
Gen. Custer
Custer
Red Man
Fighting Blood in Her Family Describes Long Line of Service
Mrs Eliza Fish a 94 year old Bev erly New Jersey resident is described as having fighting blood in her family. Her grandfathers fought in the Revolutionary War her father and two brothers served in the War of 1812 her husband served in Mexico three of her sons fought in the Civil War and her grandson went to the front when Spain declared trouble with the United States.
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Eliza Fish
Beverly, N. J
Mexico
McKinley
Spain
Aristocratic Cattle Breeder Dominates Jersey Sale
Lord Rosebery, noted for politics and literature, draws interest as 44 Jersey cows and heifers from Dairy Farm Meatmhore fetch top price of 210 dollars paid by Lord Rothschild. The event marks his prominence in stock breeding alongside other pursuits.
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Lord Rosebery
Jersey
Meatmhore
Lord Rothschild
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