Chateaugay Lake
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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 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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MINIMUM SAFE WITHDRAWAL
Any fool can scare a raccoon once; trouble begins when the raccoon starts taking notes and…
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THE HAIR PREMIUM
A travelling photographer promises victory with two pills, but the resulting portrait wins something stranger than…
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FULL STRENGTH TEMPERANCE
East Bellmont discovers that temperance grows complicated when full-strength medicine, evening ailments, and moral arithmetic all…
