The Telegraph Detective Tale of a Frisco Robbery and Love
A former New Jersey telegraph operator recounts a stagedcoach plot aboard a westbound journey. He overhears would‑be killers intently plotting murder and robbery, thwarts them with a newspaper coded warning, and later aids banker Mr Stamford in Sacramento. He marries Blanche Stamford after a perilous struggle.
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New Jersey
San Francisco
Villians
Harding
Reid
Villianous Emile
Hin
Bronette
Rose Hill
Blanche
Blanche Stanford
Potomac
Not Mine to Bear in Service for The Lord
Poem fragment praises humility and willingness to serve. The speaker declines grand deeds yet wishes to brighten one short hour for the Lord by small acts of kindness. He offers a single quiet word or song to uplift a weary heart and steer a soul toward heaven.
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Severy
Deep Sea Soundings and Grant Finances Across Ages
Deep sea soundings by the Challenger reached record depths off New Guinea showing the sea’s maximum depth matching major elevations above sea level. The piece notes breakthroughs in detaching soundings at the bottom and the evolving method. It also discusses General Grant and Mrs. Grant’s finances, noting their annual income and young Grant’s early earnings for his father, mainly in mining ventures and Chrysolite.
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Sgandia
Heaby-Ses
Ganea
Faone
Asia
Australasian
Gev. Grant
Forrest
Ger. Grant
Grant
Young Grant
New York
Grant, Jr
A Picture of Hell Recited by an English Divine to Youth
The Rev J S Jarnie describes hell in vivid terms for instruction of the young. He details a four thousand mile infernal prison with ceaseless torments, roaring voices, waters pouring as oceans of tears, and a 16 year old girl trapped on a red hot floor begging for a moment of relief before endless punishment.
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J. S. Jarnie
Hell
Red Lot
Touching Incident of a Nightingale in Jacksonville
A Jacksonville girl feeds a nightingale that visits daily. After the girl falls ill and dies, the bird enters the room and sings at the coffin, then dies of grief. A parallel tale from Chicago involves a cat mourning a man’s death and dying after a gunshot wound to its head.
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Jacksonville
Florida
WV. Y
Chicago
Go Tribune
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Edgar
Ah Lee
Yunker
Frisco
Charles
Hampton
Steubenville
Pennsylvania
Barrow Guage
Democratic Organization
Democratic Party
N. C
Raeien
Democratic Party of
North Carolina
Court House
General Assembly
Octayius Coxe
J.J. Lirgurory
Gle Ginston Sentinel
Geo. M. Mathes
N.C
Gaston House
New Berne
Street & Son Proprietors
the National Hotel
State House Square
Raleigh
Street & Sow
Owners and Proprietors
Preston Roan
Winston
Surrownering
I. W. Durham
Practical Marble Worker
Winstor
T. Vogler
Winston, N. C
Main Street
Merchant's Hotel
KK Sers
Senpary
Crutchfield & Stedman
Beck & Moore
T J.brown
J.B. Vaughe
Brown's
Vaughn & Prather Mew Hardware
Rown & Vaughn
James D. Patton
Cary Street
Richmond, Ve
Wenry
Foy
Harvestields
Laskin
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