A Quiet Wedding Near Sudden Front Line Duty
Ada and Mary, lifelong friends, travel to Broadmere for a hasty wedding as Jack departs for service in South Africa. Ada celebrates by burning a box of love letters, revealing her prior suitors and a dramatic, but unspoken, engagement. Mary confronts the scene, then quietly admits no engagement exists.
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W. St. Hearst
Ada Sutton
Williams
Miss Freseltine
Mary Heseltine
Jack
Qetive Gervice
South Africa
Broadmere
Mary Hagelline
Ffistisler
Mary
Highlands
Mount Nevis
Ben Nevis
St. Fursey’s
Tom Ashe
Tom
India
Afghanistan
Delhi
Mary Hegeltine
Mary Hearstine
Bealdes
Ada
Cas~ually
London
Jove
Engagement Talks And Hidden Memories On Eve Of Wedding
Two friends in a reflective countryside carriage reminisce about love letters, broken memories, and a pending wedding. Mary Heseltine teases about engagement while weighing Bertie Crowhall’s civilian status and the scar of a past curate’s note in a silver ivory prayerbook.
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Mary
Liam
Rynight
St. Fursey’s
Bulaway
Mary Heseltine
South Africa
Bertie Crowhall
Comanche the survivor horse of Custer battle
A tribute recalling Comanche, the buckskin survivor of the Little Bighorn massacre, and the Seventh Cavalry’s care for him. The account notes vivid memories of the horse’s courage, its role in parade ceremonies, and the affection of soldiers and a former army wife.
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Custer
Houston Post
Houston
Tilly MacGee
Col. Reno
Little Big Horn
Keough
United States Army
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Meate
Comanche
War Department
Cavalry
Sturgus
Practical Girl Retorts On Beauty And Minds
An old fashioned woman questions why a practical girl spends hours beautifying devlegs. The modern damsel replies with a witty retort that her beau is not a mind reader, dismissing the implied judgment.
Needed First Term Ends With Hazing Remark
The Washington Star quotes Palmer Corn suggesting sending his son to college for one term to test him. He says the boy is too big to handle and implies a light hazing might help. The remark reflects a casual, controversial attitude toward hazing in college culture.
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Palmer
Wgahington Star
Japan Anticipates Plan to Shift Blame on Peace Talks
Portsmouth and Washington dispatches detail stalled peace negotiations between Russia and Japan over indemnity and Sakhalin. Witte’s Russian reply rejected discussion of indemnity and cession, while Tokyo pressed for concessions. Officials fear a breakdown, though some hope for negotiated terms if positions soften amid mounting tension.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Vieree
Dona Suade
Sakhalin
Russia
Washington
Tunssia
Japan
Baron Komura
Witte
Kormura
Sakhylin
Write
Tokio
Navy Yard
Boonevelt
M. Witte
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Binetung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Dalny
Manchuria
China
Harbin
Vldivostok
Korea
Vladivostok
Beltring Sea
Far East
Wreck Kills Twelve Near Kishbmin Ohio
A passenger train on the Nikkel Phite road collided with a westbound freight near Ver millon Kishbmin Ohio, killing twelve and injuring at least twenty five. Most victims were foreign laborers. engineer Poole died at his post while attempting to reach the air brake. The crash followed orders misunderstanding or neglect, and the wreck trapped many passengers in the smoker car before help arrived from Lorain Ohio.
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Teyvelsid O
Nikkel Phite
Kishbmin
Vermillon
Vna
Crusade
Aon
Hefner
Lorain
Yellow Fever Cases Rise as Deaths Grow in New Orleans
New Orleans reports 16 new yellow fever cases and 5 deaths since 6 a.m. Friday. No overall improvement in the fever situation, and officials warn the rise in new cases and delayed deaths may continue. State health measures expand with district screening and house to house canvasses to curb spread.
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New Orleans
Laula Cuculla
Johnson Street
Maurice Kenney
Kenney
Canal Street
White
Gessner
Corpus
Algiers
Mississippi River
Corupl
Patterson
Ben Ami
Calcaseia Parish
Tallulah
Madison Parish
Kansas Launched as Navy's Largest Battleship
Philadelphia dispatch reports the battleship Kansas launched at Camden New Jersey yard of the New York Shipbuilding Company. Governor Hoch of Kansas witnessed and his 16 year old daughter Miss Anna Hoch served as sponsor amid ceremonies using water. The ship, described as the largest battleship in the American navy, draws high praise from officials and naval officers in attendance.
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Hoch
Philadelphia
Kansas
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Kansis
Anta
Anna Hoch
North River
United States
Roosevelt
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Crowhall
Lady Grandtown
Wentworth Hotel
Olivek
Bu- Yon Komura
Komura
Russiang
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Portmouth
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