Doctor and Bride Find Courage in a Mine Gully
In a New Zealand mining tale, Dr Erskine confronts John Bradbury’s homicidal impulse born of past revenge. A chance encounter on a cyanide plant led to a life changing rescue, confession, and a promise to bury the past for love. Erskine helps Bradbury and Bessie Forester build a future, gifting them a wedding windfall.
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Erskine
Bradbury
John Bradbury
Dr. Erskine
Bessie Forester
Miss Forester
Lynns
John
Lynn
Ford
Bessie
Rutherford
New Zealand
Lynn's
Trisha
Prskine
Res
Devil
Angel
J. R. Erskine
Bessie Bradbury
Kairanga Gully
P. F. Miller
Courage of Fighting Billy and the Confederate charge
A dramatic Civil War tale recounts Fighting Billy facing a court martial after a fatal battlefield temptation. He leads a desperate assault at Chickamauga, turns back from glory, and pledges valiant duty. The piece moves to broader Southern hardship, quinine fever, and a major’s clever morale boost amid Arkansas skirmishing.
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Arkansas
Confederacy
Ile
Federal Army
Witty Exchange Snippets from Various Newspapers
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from papers like Town and Country Philadelphia Inquirer Life Puck Boston Transcript Chicago Daily News and more. The items poke at marriage finances weddings speeches and social foibles with light irony and old timey charm.
Subscriber’s disguise spurs editor’s caution in western tale
The Fourth Estate recounts a Munsey’s editor Bob Davis story from a rough western town. A shabby stranger came in asking for old clothes and paid eight dollars for a year’s subscription after staff contributions. He left wearing donated clothes, and the sheriff later sought a horse thief matching his description, but the foreman refused to contradict a subscriber.
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Bob” Davis
The
Call
Munsey’s
Davis
San Francisco
Sheep or Goat Novel Lesson for Nan
Nan fears being a goat after hearing the parable of the sheep and the goats. Her clergyman grandfather comforts her by urging a godly life. The next night she worries again not for herself but that her mother may also become a goat, prompting maternal insistence on a repeat warning.
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Nan
Mamma
One Point in His Favor a Witty Priest Tale
A visiting witty priest visits a self made millionaire who shows his library as his best friends. The priest replies that he is glad the owner does not cut the leaves, delivering a sharp humorous remark about books. This Pick Me Up item conveys light humor in a brief anecdote.
Growing a New Eye at Old Bailey Case
Extraordinary statements were made at the Old Bailey before Commissioner Lam ys in a case of Pam Wallis Ro aged a magnet healer of Gray's Inn road indicted for stealing £14 15s from Emma Ling a domestic servant. The pretense alleged was she could grow a new eye in the socket where Miss Ling's right eye had been removed.
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Old Bailey
Lamys
Pam Wallis Ro
Gray
Inn Road
Emma Ling
Smith
Miss Ling
Pall Mall Gazette
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Jonah
Boston Transcript
Caustique
Milwaukee News
Weary Walker
Puck
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Willie
Trotter
Maud
Charlie
Homer
Shomer
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Sor
Obie
Sorghum
Washington Star
Weill
Philadelphia Press
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