Master Nickel's adventures in town and river legends
A six cent piece named Master Nickel narrates its own quirky journey through pockets and hands. It passes from Freddie and Daisy to Sim and others, falls into a river, is found by Daisy, then returns to Freddie after a cliff of misadventures.
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Maud Walker
Mickel
Freddie
Daisy Peck
Daisy
Crass
Freddie Spinner
Daley
Preddie
Sim
Poe
Master Nickel
Nickel
Geel
Freddis
Benk
Plente
Tom
Granddaughter's Tribute to Alf the Deserting Hero
Grandma recalls great uncle Alf, a fifteen year old who deserting fear drove to leave the army. He hid at home with sister’s help, believing jungle of home danger, and later died of war era trauma. The family honors him as a hero for choosing life over battlefield fear.
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Helena Davis
Lulu
Tom
Gracie
Adams County
Adamaville
Helf
Tommy
Grandma
Alf
Granny
Beranny
Liberan Eranima
Thomas
Dan
Motha
Father
Bister
Great
Tam
Alt
Lfe
Alfim
Ling Loo and the Giant Ride Across the Ocean
A playful verse follows Ling Loo riding inside a giant shoe to cross the ocean and reach his celestial homeland. A second vignette features a student who is corrected about who wrote the dictionary, with a harsh retort about Noah’s ark.
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Little Ling Loo
Ling Loo
Annie James
Bevs
Bach Webster
Daniel
Noah
Curious cigar collection to be sold in Paris auction
A Detroit Free Press item notes an odd sale of a cigarette collection in Paris. The long display includes hundreds of cigar brands with prices from two cents to five dollars, sizes from tiny to dinner-table pieces, stored in airtight glass cases, valued in the thousands. The report cites other peculiar curio collections in The Gaulois, including tailor’s trousers and death notices, highlighting eccentric tastes and collecting habits.
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Detroit Free Preas
Paris
Curious miscellany of art, thievery, and elephants on tour
A collage of antiquarian interests, bizarre collections, and odd anecdotes. Notes on collectors of papers and pipes, a Paris executioner’s coats, French poet Georges Courielne’s tasteless art scavenging, and baron Oscar de Watteville’s graveyard pipes. Also reports from Houston about circus elephants roaming to a Taunton dispatch, plus a quip about optimism from the Houstonest.
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France
Deibler
Paris
George Courielne
Oscar de Watteville
Wreckers of the Rails Battle Weather and Time
Appleton's long profile chronicles railroad wreckers as they toil through night and blizzard to clear tangled wreckage. Wrecker crews, led by a wreckmaster, mobilize cranes, jacks, and chains to lift, splice, and haul wrecked cars and bridges. The piece praises their grit, speed, and relentless repair work across hours and miles.
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Flinders
Hke
Appleton
Queens of England Caroline Wilhelmina Queen Consort of George II
Caroline Wilhelmina of Anspach Holland was queen consort to George II. Her life as Princess of Wales and wife endured neglect and opposition from her husband and father in law. A biographer praised her integrity tact and patience as she supported the king while managing pain from gout. She died in 1737 after years of royal strain and sorrow.
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Caroline Wilhelmina
Anspach
Holland
George II
Great Britain and Ireland
George
Prince of Wales
George I
Caroline
Eorge H. Charles
Leopold I
Cwme
Charles
Aa Princess of Walesa
Carolne
Caroline Whs
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Washington Post
Aer Fer
Small Tim
Ehum
Nichel
Tim
Master No& T
Joe
Oliver, Eccore
Ling Loo and
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Bonny Isle
Ami
Merry Little Brooklet
Houston
New York
Matilda
Graff
Taunton
Mass
New York World
Central
Halleluia
Atlanta
Leslie
Push-me-ta-ha
Osages
Tulsa
Ind. T
Appleton’s Magazine
Queens OF England
Houston Post
Dchives
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