Sympathy and a dollar from a traveling Missouri man
A sympathetic traveler on a sleeper train recounts how a Missouri man with a mortgage on his farm begged for help as his wife telegraphed for fifty dollars. Tom Good, a shrewd mining expert, gives a dollar and the poetry of poverty, while other passengers toast the act in the dining car.
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Missouri
Woods
Tom Good
Nom
Wes Tale
London
Denver
St. Louis
Tom
St Louis
Leadville
Sid
Lie
Broken Hills
Australia
Washington
Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri Trickeries and a Charitable Gambler Tale
A Cripple Creek narrator recalls a train dinner with Tom who pretends generosity in a Missouri game misadventure. The meal ends with dice, inflated charity, a costly bill, and a brakeman’s cautious moral about the forty nine dollar roll and altered fortunes in darkest Missouri.
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Tom
Botties
Tor
Missouri
Ballarat
Cripple Creek
Confederats
Fom
Chicago
Hester's Cotton Report Shows Global Visible Supply Jump
Secretary Hesters statement places world visible cotton at 2,746,828 bales up from 1,422,797 last year and 2,846,662 last week. American cotton totals 1,181,985,828 bales with other kinds at 791,000 bales. Britain and Europe hold 1,700,000 bales, Egypt 34,000, India 621,000, and the United States 761,000 bales.
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New Orleans
Hester
Egypt
Brazil
India
Great Britain
Europe
United States
Cannibal Gulls Defend Sparrows In London Park
In St James Park London two gulls that eat sparrows attract attention as they dive on a cluster of tiny birds and carry off a live sparrow in their beak. The scene draws commentary from keepers and bystanders amid holiday crowds and stormy weather.
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London
London Mail
St. James Park
Westminster Gazette
Legal Record: Equity Court cases and probate filings
Supreme Court and Circuit Court hear multiple matters including Greene vs Palmer injunctions, Thompson vs Thompson alimony, Teceiver property sales, Deery vs Neumeyer sale ratified, Mattingly Middleton vs Verguson auditor's report, Huggins vs Hazard trustees permit offers, Bryan vs Curtis mandate decree. Probate items list wills and administrations for Fountain Wylie Dukehart Adams Mons Dorsey McGuinn Bartlett and others with dates and attorneys. Court adjourns in memory of William A. Meloy.
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Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Equity Court
Clabaugh
Greene Ve. Palmer
J. Athens Johnson
Defendent
Irving Williamson
Thomas Walker
H. Winship Wheatley
Deery
Dodge
Joseph H. Bradley
D. Bradley
Charles F. Willson
Huggins
Hazard
Eugene Cartiel
C. F. Cartisi
Bryan
C. A. Keigwin
C. Clinton James
William A. Meloy
Felix Fountain
Andrew Wylie
Horace Wylie
Worthington, Heald & Frailey
Heinrich W. F. Dukehart
Wolf & Cohen
Julia M. Adams
Herbert Glesy
E. Hilton Jackson
S. Herbert Gresy
Jack I. Mons, Jr
B. Hilton Jackson
Hannah L. Bartlett
Ise
Jenne
Dorsey
Catherine McGuinn
Real estate transfers across Washington area show multiple lot sales
Real estate transfers list numerous property moves in Whitehaven and northwest Washington. Transfers include lots on H Street Northwest, Second Street Southeast, and other blocks, with prices ranging from 6 500 to 10 dollars and several parcels in Columbia Heights and Buena Vista. Names include Ethel Clark, Frank Mn B Clark, Samuel A Coombe, Howard University, and Mary W Purman among others.
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Nancy Bf
Lottie M. Atwood
Park Place
Eleventh
Twelfth
John McC. Hicks
Mary F. Hicks
Seventh Street
Charlotte
Pretbert
Richard R. McMahon
Columbia Heights
Mary W. Purman
Air
James J
Glendle B. Young
M and Robinson
Charles C Savage
William HE. Pearson
Frederick L. Siddons
Simon Rube
Buena Vista
Rebecca P. Warner
Robert P. Sowerbutta
Mount Pleasant and
Pleasant Plains
Helen M. Twombly
H. H
Lewis H. Breuninger
Florence V. Creamer
James W. Doory
Andrew McGarraghy
Second Street
Myrtla A. Gillam
Frank
Harry L. Galladay
Eighth Street
Albert F. Marth
Vincenzo Marino
Liberty Street
Florida Avenue
Wolrest
John W. Pirling
Nathan Sickle
Achuetzen Park
George W. Ashton
Oscar Wilkinson
Oscar Wilkingon
Twelfth Street
Mary Warner
William L
Simon Potts
Myrtle Street
Nomh Capitol
Fliat Streets
Daniel H. Safford
Teresa O'Brien
James A. Cahill
Henry Bloxs
Visions of Llanthony Abbey Statue Unveiling Today
A statue honoring a vision will be unveiled at Llanthony Abbey today. The article recounts sightings beginning August 30, 1880, including a luminous mist and a 60 foot apparition that seemed to form a woman, witnessed during vespers with a circle of light over the abbey and surrounding landscape. Father Ignatius narrates the events and a festival to Our Lady of Llanthony is observed on August 30.
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London Mouide
Llanthony Abbey
Ignatius
Rufus
Hugh de Lacl
Walter Savage Landor
Father Ignatius
Marys
Deeds of Trust Listings Across District Blocks
A long list of deeds of trust from multiple wards and squares including Owanwood Heights and Mount Pleasant. Names include Setah Gray, Thomas L. Jones, James R. Cousins, Marmaduke H. Dent, Caroline Rothet, Elisabeth A. Douglas, Mary Lynham, John M. Henderson, David Belasco, S. Shubert Amusement Co., and others. Properties secured amount to thousands with terms from one to nine years and interest rates from four to eight percent. Also noted are Equity Suits and several civil cases including interpleader and damages actions.
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Owanwood Heights
Setah Gray
Thomas L. Jones
James R. Cousins
Robert W. Gilliam
Squarh
Alfréd B. Dent
Marmaduke
H. Dent
Charles W. Brown
Laula H. Dent
Lillie C. Mueller
Frank T. Rawlings
William DB. Odmonston
Elisabeth A. Douglas
Floyd Davis
Clarence J. Gesaford
Adrian H. ‘Cox
Serais
Mary & Lynham
Floyd J
Walter G. Davis
Clarence J. Geasford
John M. Henderson
Joh J. Hamilton
Charles
Hillyer
Lanlee F. Dyer
David Belasco
Shubert Amusement Company
Henry C. Bryan
James FR. Ash
Lafayette Square Opera
Rouse
Dennis Fogarty
Jemea M. Burns
James W. Hoany
Thomas Heany
Gibsboro Manor
Charles G. Taylor
Charles F. Diggs
Reginald W. Beall
Henry ©. Hatley
Effingham
Samuel
Thomas Et al
Ramuel A. Drury
Whitfield McHinlay
Edward FP. Caverly
Mount Pleasant
Pleasant Plains
Russell Burton
John Taylor Arms
James B. Nicholson
Samuel A. Drury
Mary F. Bicka
Benjamin
Roger T. Mitchell
Alexander Marshall
Walter R. Ijcox
George F. Hane
Annie Reich
Benjamin F
James K. Forrest
Joseph H. Bradley
Harry W. Blunt, Jr
William Clabaugh
Columbia Hrighte
Glendie B. Younget
Louisa Swasey
Arthur T Brice
William J. Flather
William A. Greaching
Ghorghtown
M._E. Church
Joeph H. Stewart
Thomas Walker
Edward W. Lampton
Vincenzo Marino
Wharton E. Lester
Michael J. Colbert
National Permanent Building Association
Harry L. Galladay
Henry Bergmany
German-American Building Association
Thomas T. Hersperger
J. Clinton
Tribby
Paul N. Mitchell
Charles E. Trit
George W. Ashton
Thomas W. Stubblefield
Garfield A. Street
Oscar Wilkinson
John D. Sullivan
John Mc Kenney
Roosevelt as a Boy in Germany
Louis Viereck recounts Theodore Roosevelt as a child adapting to life in Germany in 1873 with the Minkwitz family. The narrative highlights his rapid language grasp, humorous episode with a university joke, and early fascination with natural science including collecting and skinning small animals, culminating in odd youthful experiments.
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Louis Viereck
Succes
Roosevelt
Minkwitz
Germany
Theodore
Miss Minkwitz
University of Leipzig
Teddy
Fraulein Minkwitz
Frau Rat
Brehm
Thierleben
Frau Minkwitz
Fragmented quotes from Philadelphia papers on eggs and politics
A collage of jokes and clippings notes a mock egg shop buyer seeking fresh eggs, a dealer claiming no other kind due to an Uncle Tom's Cabin show nearby, and a Philadelphia newspaper remark about insurance syndicates and Bryan's prospects abroad.
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Philadelphia Press
Make the Right Investment The Post’s ad driven merchants
A collage of local notices touts The Post as the right advertising vehicle for Washington merchants. Promoters urge inquiries to C. D. Morris, printer, and quote several residents returning from travels speaking to commerce, transport, and household goods offers.
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Post
Washington
Not a Good Entertainer and Other Cartoon Snippets
A collage of humorous lines and exchanges from multiple papers. A pelican dinner frustrates a flamingo, an egret questions, and a pouch served feast. A Columbus Dispatch quip jokes about marriage inducements while Philadelphia Inquirer notes Bryan unease with Col. Watterson taking charge.
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Washington and
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