Widow Allen’s scheme to ruin George French in Fergus
After widow Allen’s failed suit, she pressures young George French to marry and run his store. Facing bankruptcy he contemplates arson for insurance, but Jennie Warder confesses she helped him resist crime and offers a path to partnership. Conscience saves the store and a future with Jennie.
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Allen
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George French
George French & Co
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Jennie Warder
Miss Warder
Mr. French
Sawyer
Rachel in Racine's Vhedre Stuns with Majestic Presence
Carl Schurz in McClure's recalls Rachel stepping onto the stage with regal dignity in a classic robe. The description highlights her statuesque figure full of restrained power and luminous eyes that captivated the audience.
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Rachel
Racine
Aphidias
Carl Schurz
McClure’s
From Fancy Farming Fantasies To Sheriff’s Move?
A speaker laments the old place and its tatty aesthetic, envies magazine styled farming homes, vows to sell and buy a dream farm, then hints at a run in with the law as he embraces a magazine plan of farming.
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Denver Republican
The Editor and the Tramp origin tale
Bret Harte early stories appeared in the Overland Monthly and he became editor in 1860. In that period several weekly papers struggled for existence. An office boy asked to admit a tramp who claimed six days of hunger, and the editor invited him in hoping to learn how he eats to keep the paper going another week.
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Bret Harte
San Francisco Overland Monthly
Soaring Eagle
Morning exchange hints at district changes
A brief dialogue shows Jim Smith greeting a congressman and offering a cigar, while noting someone named Pd moved out of the district. The exchanged lines suggest a request for influence but the congressman declines and moves on.
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Jim Smith
Jim
Mr. Smith
Smith
Puck
Mi ona stomach tablets marketed as cure for indigestion
A pharmacy advertises Mi ona stomach tablets as a physician recommended cure for stomach trouble. It claims the tablets strengthen digestive organs, allow eating any food, and come with a 50 cent guarantee of refund if unsatisfied. Many customers praise it as the only cure found for stomach weaknesses.
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Columbia
Starving Woman Claims Cure by Electric Bitters
Mrs. Mary H. Walters of St Clair Ohio writes she could not eat or sleep due to stomach weakness from useless drugs. After taking electric Bitters she notes immediate improvement and complete cure, praising the tonic as the best health remedy. Stewart druggist guarantees the 50 cent bottle.
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Mary H. Walters
St. Clair &I
Columbus
Stewart
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