Veteran Railroad Man Recalls Queer Trainsanity Days
A veteran railroad man recalls rough early days on New York and Long Island lines. He recalls crossing strange scenes including women near tracks, a couple of near misses with cattle guards, and curious passenger incidents. He recounts long shifts, humor, danger, and oddities from railroading history.
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Washington
New York
Nes
Wreok
Bosted
Albany
Troy N
York
Long Island
Aly
Mineola
Queena
Jacky
Citve
Sur Drain
Chicago and Northwastern
Chicago-Omaha
Omaha
Pallman
Sanara
Abe
Chicago
John Gordam
Foo
Ale
John Gaudam
Gaudam
Gaiam
Bod
Flo
Novelties in Metal Work and Silverware Displays
A long, vivid account details new metal work items and silverware innovations. Items include a silver card holder with jeweled slides, vanities and cigarette cases, sugar tongs, a percolator shaped tea brewer, openwork crystal dishes with silver rims, a tall flower jug with a heavy base, and brass fittings repurposed as coffee sets. Cartr idge shell novelties become coffee apps and a compact breakfast tray concept appears. The prose blends product descriptions with social chatter and anecdotal remarks from a Philadelphia press showcase.
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Jong Alender Hines
Nto Coffee
Mator
The Lady of the Dogs Ouida’s Animal Companions in Lucca
In Lucca the writer Ouida was famed as The Lady of the Dogs keeping forty horses and many dogs once. Now she has three dogs as inseparable companions. She starved herself to feed them and ordered meals of milk bread and meat for every dog in Lucca while accruing heavy debts.
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Luccs
Jove Zor Aulinall
Lucca
Ouida
Flanders
Marentine
Europe
Dorea
Cat
Ouldo
Aosordanas
Maxily
Har
Olla
Ouida The once celebrated author in extreme poverty
The article recounts Ouida Louise de la Ramée once earning vast sums from her writings, living in Florence and Italy, then later dying in poverty cared for by a milkman's mother. It notes her independence, abandonment of comforts, and decline including a villa, paintings, and dogs, with a late public interest in her dire state.
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Louise DE LA Ramee
England
Florence
Italy
Maesaroms
Oulda
Oulde
Soma Dorvone
Yienes
Bris
Oulu
Ouida
Haw Teun
Ake
Eitrathmore
Castlemaine
Brooklyn Collector Shows Off Hazardous Den of Weapons
A Franklin Avenue resident named Phraner hosts a sensational den filled with knives, pistols, and exotic trophies attracting a reporter. The room features skulls, animal hides, a python belt, and weapons from Congo to Civil War era, with a dramatic execution knife and many rare items on display.
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Hrooklin
Hoc Phraner
Franklin Avenue
Daniel
Dan
Hons Ie Phraner
Breas
Ehtor
Phraner
Tenafasl
Ohio
Sven
San Antonio
Tex
Lake
Mahons
Congo
Africa
Analea
Lost His Only Fighting Editor and a Wife in Lame Crow
In a humorous tale from Lame Crow Barren, Roxianna Shotpunk and Artemesia Bing clash over ed ucation and pride as the town’s lack of a fighting editor fuels satire. The narrator recalls a visitor who sought chunks of information about a fighting editor and ends with Roxianna’s elopement and a bid to lure the narrator to Lame Crow to assume the role.
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Genville
Brant of Freedom
Syar
Lame Crow Barren
Ty Vieltor
Thete
Sen
Ala
Shotpunk
Roxlanny
Wide Ridge
Ted
Tobias
Tobiaso
Gondor
Sim Heris
Artemesy
Horlanny
Roxy
Reston
Colvin
Nee
Lame Crow
Rosa
Crow Barren
Crow Baron
Roxianna
Tme Craw
Bimon Dippy
Artemesia Bing
Singing to the cows funny farm tale of music in milking
A Washington woman recalls a Connecticut farm where a farmer sang while milking cows. He jokes about his musical skills, a wife recounts a tale of a religious cow, and a former owner explains a hymn tune that calmed the herd. The piece charms with rustic humor and rural quirks.
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Cerr
Wells
Washington
Connecticut
Tims
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Palmer
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Supt
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Thomas Keefe
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Mio
George Rand
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Ouldis
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Oulin
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Italien
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Tienda
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Heta
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John C. Sullivan
New York City
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George Washington
James ‘Monroe
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Beck Furder
Mabel
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