Vagabond Bob and a perilous carriage of fate
A dramatic tale blends a vagabond dog named Bob with a Victorian carriage scene. A mariner rescues a babe from wreckage as Death hovers, while a nameless woman, posing as Mrs Abercrombie, schemes to rise by adopting a noble persona aboard a train. She encounters the Honorable Wilfred Percy, a man of world travel, and a startling name coincidence erupts.
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Tennessee Mountains
Abbscrombie
Georgia
Wilfred Percy
Thomas Abercrombie
Clee
Mre
Percy
Bristol Board
Predatory Fibe land site tale on river overflow
A Louisville and Nashville express with locomotive, passenger coach, and empty flatcar halted on a damaged track while awaiting a flatboat transfer across Tennessee river floods. The train carried Mrs. Thomas Abercombie, a three month bride bound for Thomasville Georgia to join her husband, who had preceded her.
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Louisville & Nashville Express
Thomas Abercombie
Wisconsin
Thomasville
Hat Drama Aboard Flatboat As Gentlemen Assist
Mrs Aber crombie considers the social dilemma as a personable man and a cultivated English gentleman offer aid while the hat, lost from the window into the water, is fished out by the umbrella carrier. The scene unfolds with polite thanks and freezing resolve aboard the flatboat.
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Tom
Language of Their Own Among Swiss Peoples
A Chicago Chronicle report notes Switzerland lacks a single language of its own. A visitor says about three fourths speak German while the rest use four other languages, mainly French and Italian, varying by proximity to neighbors.
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The
Chicago Chronicle
Switzerland
Swiss President Adolf Deucher Among Bilingual Leaders
A compact note explains Switzerland uses French and German in public documents and debates. Members speak either language, with official translations provided to newspapers. The article notes the president’s name, Adolf Deucher, as a less familiar figure to some readers.
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Macaulay
M. Adolf Deucher
Science and industry glimpses from world markets
A mixed roundup of global production facts and tech notes: England's limited paint and color plants, cork consumption, tobacco manufactories, timber imports, compressed leather for cogwheels, and New York tunnel prep using two million dollars of timber. A Paris engineer’s electric sprinkler waters ten miles of streets hourly, costing three thousand dollars. Siberia’s Telezkost lake yields reindeer south of its usual range. A French writer on dwarf trees and nature, plus Colorado’s vast irrigated lands and compared energy use in incandescents and steam engines. Also a dialect quip from Uncle Reuben about wisdom and a hot horse hoof.
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England
Great Britain
New York Rapid
Paris
Telezkost
Siberia
Colorado
Power
Pungent Paragraphs Aims at Quick Wits and Wedded Banter
A collage of quips and vignettes from multiple papers features snappy exchanges about weddings, cooking, and social foibles. Jests touch on proposals, cakes, and comic gaffes as readers glimpse breezy humor from era newspapers.
Dooley Arrah Man’s Rainy Day Regret After Death
A judge recalls Kerrigan as a miser who saved for a rainy day and laments he died before spending his hoarded dollars. Mrs Dooley-Yis notes the irony that he wished for savings but died without using them.
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Kerrigan
The Boy Who Goes to Church and Its Lessons
A reflective essay on youth, reverence, and moral formation. It contrasts three boys: a rich man, a politician, and a famed American preacher Bishop Phillips Brooks, noting the enduring value of honesty and enthusiasm in church life and daily conduct.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
America
Phillips Brooks
Our National Responsibility by Rev Thomas F Gailor
The speech argues national self consciousness and responsibility as the United States evolves from states to Union. It cites Washington Hamilton Jackson Lincoln and Lincoln as examples, praising the common people as the true basis of government and noting critics over history. It emphasizes trust in the will of the people and the resilience of the republic.
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United States
George Washington
States
Union
Elliott
Alexander Hamilton
Washington
Marshall
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
How Detectives Are Aided In Spotting Thieves
A New York detective with 15 years at police headquarters explains that thieves show habits such as glancing over their shoulder to avoid detection. He notes identification can rely on eyes, cheekbones, ears, and eyebrows, which remain distinctive despite disguises.
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New York
Police
New York Times
Sing Sing
Clever criminals seek disguises for pranks and crimes
A fragment notes clever criminals chase disguises after planning a rich haul, with claims that social artists in New York City fetch high payments for convincing makeups. The passage emphasizes identity alteration and the value of disguises in criminal schemes.
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New York City
Miscellaneous items from a bygone era headline
A roundup of odd facts and editorials notes long ago. Records cover sugar beets grown in California, Eskimo dogs racing across ice, a huge English ant nest, savings bank totals, Native American population shifts, electric streetcar fatalities, world language shares, and a Texas judge’s commented prelude to a hanging.
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California
England
Bracknell
Berkshire
Great Britain
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Cherry Dumplings with Lemon Sauce Instructions
A Home Magazine excerpt describes making cherry dumplings. It details preparing a flour and sugar dough with butter and eggs, adding pitted cherries, folding, cutting into five inch squares, sealing, scoring, and baking quickly. Serve with lemon sauce.
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Home Magazine
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Bob
Anahea
Hs Brother
Walla
Alfred J. Waterhour
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Science and Industry
Reuben
Detroit Free Press
Nell
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Gunner
Wilierman
Chicago Daily News
Railroad
Providential
Atlanta Constitution
Aunt Grace
Jimmy
Auntie Grace
Boston Transcript
Philadelphia Press
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Cora
Thomas F. Gailor
Germany
Bailey
Texas
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