A Nabob’s Final Vow and Death on the Field
In this continued chapter the Dread Rider and a dying general reflect on love, betrayal, and destiny. Jack mourns a comrade as the general asks to be moved to San Jose cemetery, while Overton recalls past humiliations and vows to honor the request. The scene blends war’s end, memory, and a vow to lay weary bones to rest.
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Senor Jack
London
Barrajo
Jack
San Jose
Overton
Ork
The Marquis of Montezuma in London’s Jubilee Night
In June London eyes fix on a mystic Spanish American magnate known as Don Juan de Overton. Aboard the Jubilee crowds, he seeks a hidden tie to a life of luxury, only to confront stark poverty in a shabby attic where a filled heartrending scene unfolds with a narrator who overhears a desperate plea for mercy and deathly despair.
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Marquis of
Montezuma
London
Victoria
Maurice Livermore
Don Juan
Barney Barnato
Dumas’ Monteristo
Croesus
Idas
Turning of the Tide in a London Attic Rescue
The marquis acts swiftly to save two women from lethal charcoal fumes. He breaches a door, airs the room, douses the fire, and carries the younger woman to fresh air. He returns to find the older woman reviving, while the other man expresses relief with a quiet thanks.
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London
Irish Burial Places and Ancestral Grounds Faithfully Kept
Rev C O Mahony notes that Irish families insist on burial in consecrated ground and with their ancestors. When possible, funerals move along varied churchyards to the traditional family burying place, honoring generations of forebears.
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Uessea
C. O'Mahony
Donahos
Funny Escape W J Arkell Bemoans Wires Crossed
W J Arkell complains about funny happenings beyond comic papers. In a telephone office moment he struggles to hear and exclaims service is getting worse. A pause is followed by a joke that the other end stutters, highlighting communication woes.
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W. J. Arkell
New York Times
Shot by Order of Kitchener War Crimes Trial Report
Lord Kitchener's dispatch outlines court martial to five officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers for murder and other crimes in the Transvaal. Hancock Morant Witton were sentenced to death. Morant's sentence later upheld by commutation for life. Pieton guilty of manslaughter. Major Lennehan charged with neglect, sent to Australia. British losses at Hart's River fought by Canadian Rifles with heavy action and Boer reinforcements.
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London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
Transvaal
Pietersburg
P. J. Hancock
H. H. Morant
C. A. D. Hesse
G. R. Witton
Lfe
H. Pieton
Bushveldt
South Africa
Hesse
Hancock
R. W. Lennehan
Bushveldt Carbineers
Australia
Kitchener
Ketr Am Cook- Son
Vrnekuil
Western Transvaal
Canadian Rifles
Bruce Carruthers
Senate tightens on swindling coop ventures in Iowa
Des Moines reports that the senate passed a sweeping bill targeting unincorporated cooperative mortgage schemes. It defines such groups as building and loan entities and requires $50,000 securities deposits with the state auditor. The measure names several named operators and tightens regulatory oversight. It reflects concerns raised by Senator Griswold and followed committee findings. Also Des Moines notes the Hubbard bill allowing Iowa railroads to control nonadjacent lines in other states passed 27 to 5.
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Des Moines
Senate
Towa
Griswold
Building
Logan
American Home Investment Company of
National Tontine Savings Association of
The
Mutual Cooperative Home Company of
Provident Home Co-operative Company of
Kansas City
Tontine Savings Association of
Minneapolis
Home Building Company of
Chicago
Executive Council
Hubbard
Motsberry
Iowa
United States
Unite States
Washington
Appropriations
St. Louis Exposition
Grand Old Iowa Man Gone Francis Varga dies at 85
Francis Varga, famed Hungarian patriot and judge advocate general in the 1848 provisional Hungarian government, died at his home after a long public career. He and Ladislaus Madarasz helped lead the 1849 provisional government before emigrating to the United States, where Varga remained active in politics and attended every Republican state convention in Iowa. Mayor-elect Henry Clay Beard, a 24 year old attorney and University of Iowa law graduate, was noted as the youngest mayor in the state.
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Francis Varga
Louis Kossuth
Hungary
Ladislaus Madarasz
Kossuth
United States
Madarasz
Varga
Tawa
Hungaria
Biala
Henry Clay Beard
Mt. Ayr
Jaws
Elect Beard
Law Department
University of Iowa
Germany
Carter
Sean
Pennsylvania Avenue
Genatay
Iowa game laws and tax levies shape state funding
Des Moines notes report new game fish rules restricting certain species and methods, plus a 2.9 mill general state levy for 1901 with $1.508 million to counties. Legislative progress praises millage for state educational institutions, with division of mine inspection districts set by Governor Cummins and named inspectors for three districts. Includes burglary at Burlington saloon and a comic jailhouse exchange.
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Merriam
Twenty-Eighth General Assembly
Executive Council
General Assembly
Auditor's Office
General Revenue
Iowa State College
State College
Cummins
Appanoose
Monroa
Wayne
Lucas
Decatur
Clarke
Ringgold
Union
Taylor
Adams
Page
Montgomery
Fremont
Mills
John Verner
Muscatine
Louisa
Des Moines
Tee
Henry
Jefferson
Van
David Almendinger
Burlington
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ST. George Rathborne
Peefeee
Stnert & Susu
New York
Monte Cristo
Marquis
Langford
Lombard Street
Land of Death
Kitcherer
Gavere
Harte’ River
Transvant
Kagape
Cincinnati
Willliam Burns
Covington
Que
W. M. Beardshear
Ames
State University
State Agricultural College
State Normal School
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