Social climber's euchre boom ends in ruin in Euchre town
In Euchretown California Mrs Stoker hosts rival euchre parties driving social ambition. Prizes rise from a clock to a bedroom set as credit payments fuel a social betting spree. Mrs Hummel battles conscience while Stoker's debts mount and the town collapses into collective reckoning.
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Mr. Stoker
Hummel
Stoker
Jennie
Revimel
Stoner
Banker Wheelock
Mrs. Hummel
Birs. Hummel
Wheelock
Mrs. Wheelock
Mrs. Stoker
Natty Stoker
Pasadena Villa
Euchretown
Samuel Lethwait
California
San Diego
Caae
Irs
Mr. Hummel
Oregon
Hgi
Sheadry-Eyes
Amree Stoker
Mra. Himmel
Botts
Thieves and Fire Alarm Thieves Run a Citywide Scheme
An Eastern millionaire recalls a Chicago night when intruders posing as firemen and whistle‑stop thieves swarmed his home during a neighboring house fire. He describes multiple would‑be burglars, their ruses, and his quick responses that kept his family safe while firemen battled the blaze.
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New York
Chicago
Capt. Lantry
Desson
Lantry
Jife
Aiello
Bill
Tom
Fifth Avenue
Inter Ocean
Newlywed Couple Baited by Washington Pages in Capitol Hall
A newly married couple wandered Statua hall in the U S Capitol trying to look inconspicuous. Two pages spotted them and whispered a prank asking when they married, prompting the couple to flee in embarrassment as the pages laughed at their mischief.
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Capitol
Washington, D. C
Jimmy the Lift Faces Harbison Case Trap
Det Brannan and Captain confront Jimmy the Lift as the Bowery pickpocket is held for a Harbison slaying. Jimmy pleads innocence while detectives identify him. the captain orders further proceedings and Jim is bound over for court as suspense builds.
Jimmy the Lift Dodges Police and Flees Bowery
A pickpocket known as Jimmy the Lift escapes capture after slipping his cuff and sprinting from a police car through a Bowery doorway. Detectives in other cities ponder the clever thief. New York remembers him with Sgt Brannan and the captain.
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Cap
Brannan
Jimmy
Biddlesticks
Bowery
Baya
Digggust
New York
Royal Offshoots Dreaming of Other Lives
The article relays opinions from monarchs and leaders about how fame might have followed if their paths differed. Leopold of Belgium, Queen Alexandra, King Oscar, the shah of Persia, and others imagine careers in industry, acting, medicine, chemistry, numismatics, or the arts were it not for throne and state obligations.
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Leopold
Belgium
Levonold
Rougevelt
New York
Alexandrai
Enghind
Portugal
Lord Salisbury
Italy
Persia
Teheran
London
Paris
Palace
Grant's Humorous Pranks Revealed by Old Comrades
A New York Times piece recounts Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's dry humor. A tale places him at West Point smiling at a joke but never laughing aloud, and a Missouri episode shows him trading a pumpkin pie incident through a witty orders prank that ends with Lieut Wickfield eating the pie.
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Ulysses S. Grant ¢Vir
Grant
West Point
Academy
Fred
Ife
Missouri
Deant
Gen. Grant
Grant San
Cieut. Wickfeld
Selvidge
Trenton
Pocahontas
Brack River
Cape Giraffeau
Wickfield
Omier
Wickfeld
U.S. Grant
New York Times
Odd Dialogue on Loans and Trophies in Smart Set
A fragmented, humorous exchange features Bis Regnon and Smithkins debating a loan and a boast about riches. The passage then shifts to a ridicule of a man avoiding etiquette and a critique of ancestral pride, ending with a remark on assessors revealing character.
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Smithkins
Bilfkins
Tiffkins
Mysterious Climate Shift Drying Eastern Turkestan Past
Sven Hedin reported to the Royal Geographical Society from Lamdon on a vanished civilization in Eastern Turkestan near the Tumir basin. He cited lakes dried up, forests dead, and signs of a once flourishing people, with debates on a historic climate change tied to reduced rainfall and irrigation demands.
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Sven Hedin
Central
Asit
Royal Geographical Society
Lamdon
Les
Eastern
Turkestan
Lobenob
Fleila
Lob-nob
Hedlig
Greece
Go Bonney
Griffen
Tamil
Bonney
Europe
North America
Hedin
New York Tribune
Quaint London Legacies and Endowed Sermons of Rich Past
London charity records reveal varied bequests for sermons by city parishes. Donors set specific payments to ministers, wardens, and sextons for Sundays and special occasions, with sums ranging from a few pence to several shillings.
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London
Charity Commission
Thomas Brightwell
David Gittin
John Ireland
John Winn
St. Bennet, Pauls Wharf
St. John
James Woog
St. Nicholas Cole Abbey
Bowyers
Londyun
They Pay the Freight and School Teaching Decline
Two old pals recall a liquor parade and the roles of different social classes in a street scene. The article notes a steady drop in male teachers in public schools from 41 percent in 1874 to 29 percent later, blaming low pay for the shift. It also briefly mentions female circus performers charging for engagement rings.
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United States
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Mulberry Street
They
Central Office
Aga
Brannin
Harbison
Toiourt
Turkey
Paderewski
New Yorks Press
Mae—Cholly
Ethelen
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