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3 stories matching nell
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- The Price of Urban Ambition
A farming family leaves their land for the allure of city life, only to find themselves penniless and humbled by tragedy.
- The Real Story of the Slums
A young playwright captures the grim reality of life in city tenements, challenging the comfortable assumptions of the press.
- The Bachelor's Rebuttal
A young suitor gets an earful from a skeptical woman who prefers independence to the reality of 1880s marriage.
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- A Thief Pulled From the I.W.N. Train
A sleeping guest is robbed at the Newport Hotel; Marshal Bennett catches one suspect aboard an outgoing train while two alleged accomplices head toward Spirit Lake.
- A Landlady Shot From the Shadows at Elk’s Montgomery Hotel
Mrs. North was passing between rooms when a bullet struck her temple; no one was ever caught.
- A Mother, a Revolver, and Nux Vomica: Spokane’s Poisoning Trial
Helen Grier stands trial for her sixth husband’s murder, while her daughter testifies that Grier first handed her a gun and then bought the poison herself.
- The Sudden Loss of a Young Mother
A community mourns a young woman taken by appendicitis just as she was building a new life in Kennewick.
- Fatal Slip at Orillia
A railroad brakeman was crushed to death while performing routine switching operations at the Orillia rail yard.
- Public Disorder at Third and Main
A local man, fueled by liquor, faced municipal court after an aggressive display of affection toward women returning from a Salvation Army meeting.
- A Free Vaudeville Show Was Meant to Fill the Madison Street Cars
Stockholders in the Madison Street cable road hired a company of performers for nightly free shows at the lake pavilion, hoping the crowds would ride the line.
- Thrown to the Four Winds: A Green Lake Car, a Strawberry Wagon and a Dead Horse
Clinton Little is hurrying his berries to market when a Green Lake streetcar comes down the grade and strikes his rig — leaving him with a stitched scalp and his load scattered across the street.