September 2026
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THE DOCTOR WHO STOPPED THE CHATEAUGAY RIVER
A doctor stops a duel, then faces an opponent that ignores medical orders entirely: a spring…
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The Chateaugay Home Trade Improvement Society
A newspaper maxim meant to encourage contentment becomes an ingenious retail system once local merchants decide…
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Show Us the Chain
False logs, missing records, autonomous agents, frightened officials: Calvin sees confusion. Cub sees a trail that…
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THE PANTHER’S SECRET
A childhood account from Lower Chateaugay Lake follows one hunter, one hidden mine, and a panther…
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The Office of Municipal Diminution
A seventeen-pound ledger records everything the town no longer does, while the machinery required to maintain…
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THE WET-WEATHER BILLIARD ASSOCIATION
The Wet-Weather Billiard Association promises to enliven dull trade. Its greatest achievement may be proving just…
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The Newspaper as Compositional Field
What happens when an 1884 newspaper becomes not merely evidence, but a bounded compositional field whose…
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The Natural Wonder Improvement Co.
At W Mountain, Hiram Bellows makes a cavern easier to study—and discovers that every improvement quietly…
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The Hotel That Lacked Nothing
A traveling show needs one best hotel. Chateaugay offers two, and the attempt to rank them…
