Word of Honor in a Turbulent Love Triangle
In this serialized tale, Florence pleads with William Roland as he prepares to wed Florence's fiancé against Edward's scheming. William battles duty and desire while Florence fears her father’s control. A dangerous choice looms as a storm of honor, love, and threats advances toward tomorrow.
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Plorence
Edward
Roland
Florence
William
Howard
Heaward
Colonel Burney
Harrison
Mr. Harrison
Earth
Springfield
Tommorrow
Atust
Forbidden Threshold and a Soldier's Promise
In a tense scene Florence pleads to William as a rival suitor presses for a forced betrothal. William, torn, offers Florence a choice and vows to marry if fate allows, while Florence worries for her dying father and clings to William’s protection amid a looming conflict.
Paying Stones and Revolutions in a Modern Paris
The Chicago Times-Herald notes that a reign of terror failed to start in Paris because paving stones are gone replaced by asphalt. Rioters lack munition and the street violence is quelled by modern city paving. The piece mocks how progress stops mobs from killing, claiming asphalt preserves the Republic and robs history of bloody chapters.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Parlfs
Clel
Republic
Friction Suspected in Massachusetts Fire Loss Claim
An insurance adjuster in Massachusetts investigated a burned building. He noted uncertainty about the fire’s start while suggesting the blaze could have been caused to claim a larger policy. He warned that friction may arise from attempting to collect ten thousand dollars on a five thousand dollar building.
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Massachusetts
Warrior Women in The Gordon Riots Tale of Christian Cavenagh
A study of women who dressed as men and fought or served in war. Christian Cavenagh, taken in by an aunt after her father’s fall, enlisted to find her husband. She endured wounds at Ramillies, was captured, survived repeated regiments moves, and gained a pension from the queen before dying in 1729.
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Sir Walter Besant
Samuel Bundy
Christian Cavenagh
Waiker
Halland
Christian
Landen
St. Germai-ce-Leve
Chelsea Hospital
The Deliverer of Ladysmith
Captain Percy Scott of the British battleship Powerful gains fame for inventing land carriages to move heavy naval guns. His innovation rushed big lyddite thunderers from Durban to Ladysmith, aiding the South African campaign and elevating his reputation as a skilled fighter and inventive engineer.
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Percy Scott
Powerful
Scott
Durban
Ladysmith
Costly Pipes of Oriental Rulers Describe Opulent Narghila
The Shah of Persia owns the world's costliest pipe, the kallan state pipe, valued at 400000 dollars and inlaid with diamonds rubies and emeralds. It is used on special occasions. The sultan of Turkey also has valuable pipes, and in 1862 the prince of Wales was invited to smoke a narghila during a visit.
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Shah-in-Shah
Persia
Turkey
Prince of Wales
The Last of the Cannibals
A fragmentary 19th century account describes Kanacs of New Caledonia as dark skinned and armed men who practice cannibalism, noting coastal tribes adopting civility under missionaries while inland groups persist in human flesh eating and hospitality to visiting outsiders.
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Kango
Molasses for Cavalry Horses in the Philippines
Gen Otis urged the War Department to supply horses for Col Kennethn’s Thirty-fourth Infantry in the Philippines. He stated that cavalrymen had learned molasses sprinkled on native hay kept horses fed as well as hay grown in the United States, despite earlier objections to using Philippine forage.
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Philippines
Gen. Otis
War Department
Department
Otis
Col
Ken
Nen
Thirty-fourth Infantry
Root
Gen
United States
Diamond studded oriental pipe gifted to princess in Constantinople
A diamond studded oriental pipe valued at 15000 dollars, given to the princess as a memento of a visit to Constantinople. Another meerschaum and amber pipe belonging to Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is reported to cost 3000 dollars.
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Constantinople
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Professional Pawners and the New Trade in Deception
A Philadelphia Inquirer report explains a rise of professional pawners mostly women who buy jewelry watches and instruments then age and damage them to fool lenders. They doctor items to look old and worn using mud water scratches and other covert tricks to hide true value.
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Saunterer
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Ring Fraud Scheme Exposed in Pledge Trade
The article describes a ring of counterfeit or worn jewelry used to feign wear in rings and other items. It notes that tickets are torn up and destroyed after goods are pledged, with hundreds of watches rings and brooches handled yearly, making the venture highly profitable and easy.
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Lairy Gamp
Friendly Islanders to be first to hail new century
A 1900-era note by John Ritchie Jr. forecasts the Friendly Islands as the first people to enter the twentieth century. It contrasts global clocks and daybreak as the world spins from Sunday night into Monday, detailing time zones from Melbourne to London and Boston to San Francisco.
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Ita
Ceegie
Pacific Ocean
John Ritchie, Jr
Melbourne
Manila
Calcutta
London
Tower of
House of Commons
Boston
New York
Washington
Chicago
San Francisco
Pacific
Midway
Brooks Island
Ladies’ Home Journal
He Is Tamed Now In Fancy Park Parade
A once bold bachelor known for mockery of fatherhood now ambles a perambulator through Lafayette Park. He calmly escorts a large baby in the stroller while two young girls, wearing homemade bonnets, walk beside him, signaling a changed stance on paternity.
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Lafayette Park
Washington Post
Drawing 4 Vine Distinetion by Laurence Gronlunda Dies in New York
Socialistic writer Laurence Gronlunda, who condemned modern industry in savage terms, died in New York a few weeks ago. The discussion noted that while his critique echoed Russian despotism, it was judged the worst conceivable in one remark.
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Laurence Gronlunda
New York
Iire
Tilea by Old Methods The Soil of Egypt
Fragmentary note asserts Egyptian soil is tilled by the same plow used 6,000 years ago and mud is gathered in old fashion, reflecting continuity in ancient agricultural practices.
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Egypt
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