Imperial treasure on the Grand Transasiatic train
The narrator learns Faraskiar and his Mongol allies plot to steal the imperial treasure as the Grand Transasiatic speeds toward a dangerous viaduct. The narrator resolves to warn and protect the passengers while unraveling the conspirators’ plan aboard the crowded train.
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Faraskiar
Son of Heaven
Grand Transasiatic
Pekin
Faruskiar
Ephrinell
Calla
Si-Ngan
Ho-Nan
Lou- Ngan
Tai-Youan
Popof
Ghangir
Nankin
Tjon
Noltitz
Ki- Tsang
Rascal
Death Valley gold rush marked by peril and thirst
A San Francisco inspired lament warns that the Death Valley gold rush mirrors ancient folly. Descriptions recount drastic thirst, blistering heat, desolate terrain, and skeletons along routes as prospectors chase the impossible pot of gold at the rainbow’s foot. The piece likens pursuit to a deadly perpetual hunt.
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San Francisco
Death Valley
Funeral Mountains
Des Moines Register
North America
Mojave
Colorado Desert
California
Chilkoot Pass
Siberia
South Africa
Jamie Sheds curls and learns to be a real boy
A mother reminisces as Jamie cuts his golden curls and adopts pants and a rugged boy persona. The transformation follows a birthday wish to fit manly norms, with Jamie practicing strength and bravado to appease expectations and peers.
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Jamie
Papa
Pop
Grand Collection of Broken China Souvenirs
Sharpe brings a display titled Grand Collection to show a china closet full of broken numbered pieces. Sharpe explains the items are souvenirs from four different cooks, while a Seneca line notes haste trips its own heels and fetters and stops itself.
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Sharpe
Whealton
Interesting Experiments and Bird Nest Tale
A wrens hair plunder tale follows an amused observer as a wren raids hair from a man's head for nesting. The article then offers simple experiments, including changing flower colors with ammonia and spinning a hard boiled egg on its side, noting it spins only on its large end.
Extravagant Habits of Ball Players Cite Wasted Years
A columnist argues that baseball salaries and celebrity temptations ruin players. He cites stars spending fortunes on clothes and diamonds, ending careers broke or unemployed. The piece notes former greats now laboring in manual jobs and fading from public memory.
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Jimmy Ryan
Indianapolis
Impossible Prank Tells Of Census Misreadings On Capitol Hill
A Tennessee representative recalls two young ladies asking a house bell ringers for residents during a District of Columbia religious census. The black bellboy from Tennessee answered the question of whether he is a Christian, revealing he is a congressman from Tennessee.
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District of Columbia
Tennessee
Capitol Hill
Doubtful remarks from governor on a Southern tale
A Massachusetts governor recalls Eph Friday a deceased Southern Black man whose burial lacked a clergy presence. An old uncle offered a final remark as the coffin sank: Epic Friday, we trusts you had gone to de place what we 'spects you ain't. A Philadelphia Ledger item and a Puck cartoon caption citizens share a different scene.
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Douglas
Massachusetts
Tennessee
Eph Friday
Eph
Philadelphia Ledger
Chicago Sequence Dialogue on Love and Matrimony
A fragment discusses love and marriage with the Maid and Bachelor exchanging lines about matrimony as the prelude. It notes a man around a mil weighs today and yesterday, implying loafing on scales. The text hints at trusts hogging resources as plenty becomes insufficient.
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Chicago
Presentiments Spark Harvest Gleaners Chat
Mr Shaw shares a tale of a presentiment that warned him to avoid trouble at his brother William's home. A nervous harvest group recalls kitchen commotion and a minister's wife quarrel as the vivid moment prompting belief in presentiments.
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Chumber
William
Mr. Shaw
Transformation of Jackson from clodhopper to gentleman
President James Buchanan recounts a White House visit with a British noblewoman. Jackson, unshaven in slippers, later appears polished in a formal suit, bowing to the guest and sharing small talk, prompting the visitor to call him the knightliest man she ever saw.
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James Buchanan
Andrew Jackson
Washington
Russia
White House
Jackson
Buchanan
Tennessee
President Jackson
Mr. Buchanan
Dining room girl interview tests honesty in boarding house
A Philadelphia woman answering a dining room girl ad faces a test. When asked what she would do if she dropped a steak on the floor she asks if boarders are present. The mistress confirms a boarding house and the candidate says to pick it up and replace it, securing the job.
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Kinko
Sou-Tcheon
Lan Tcheoun
Yanlu
Tcheng
Houlan-Sien
da- Wahing
Pekin
Cha-Cou
Zinca Klark
Monsieur Bombarnac
Sam
Mademoiselle Zince Klerk
Lun Tcheou
Major Noltitz
Pan Chao
Caterna
China
Popof
Lan Tcheon
Faraskiar
Ghangir
Ki- Tsang
Ephrnaell
Faruskiar
Jamie
Janie
Philadelphia
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Celestial Empire
Fuen- Choo
Kardek
Ghan
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St. Nicholas
Wren
Mistah Johnsing
Pokeville
Hen Lake
Moose Landing
Skeeter Mountain
Puck
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