Smugglers and seaside secrets unfold at a summer
In a coastal tale three young women Elizabeth Gabrielle and Elise roam Canada bound summer. On a steamer a bizarre stranger and a bag lead to shared danger with Mr Gordon Bennett and Lord Wilfrid. A hidden jewel heist a sphinx button and a boatside serenade weave murder threats and romances as the group conceals a killer’s identity while planning a moonlit rock supper.
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Elizabeth
Gabrielle
Elise
Canada
Lise
Graham
Lord Wilfrid
Lady Woith
Mary Anne
Edith
Gordon Bennett
Lady Edith
Hillie
Ker
Wilfrid
Mary
Anne
Aith
Mr. Graham
Eaith
Campbells
Bennett
Blake
Grahams
Gabriella
A Penny Postage Vision Becomes Global Reality
A historical note recalls Lord Lichfield condemning Rowland Hill’s penny postage plan as extraordinary yet within three years it became law. Readers may now witness letters traveling worldwide for the same small fee, marking a triumph over early skepticism and a landmark in global communication.
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Lord Lichfield
England
Rowland Hill
United Kingdom
Cowboy’s Talk Fails To Do Justice To Loss Of Horse
A cowboy stood on a barrel before a gathered crowd and attempted to speak about his stolen horse. He sighed, saying he could not do justice to the matter. Friends supported him, hoping for a glimpse of insight from the gifted speaker.
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Hfe
Mr. Bennett
Lady Edith
Mr. Graham
Edith
Wireless telegraphy becomes navy training program norm
A Christian Herald article notes wireless telegraphy has moved from vision to practice as war and navy departments assign officers and drill recruits. At Brooklyn navy yard the wireless school trains sailors in Morse, ship systems, and aerial wiring to operate across oceans, with graduates ready for distant shipboard duty.
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War and Navy Departments
Lillian E. Zeh
Christian Herald
Navy Department
Washington
Navy
Republic
Marconi
Bureau of Equipment
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hancock
Williams
Electrical and Wireless School
Rice
Naval Work
Ghief Electrician
Navy Yard
Point Loma
California
Connecticuut
New Zealand
Strange Belief of Veddas in Death and Yaka Spirits
Dr. C G Stillman describes Vedda beliefs in the yaka spirits after death. Veddas leave death sites, honor the dead with offerings of rice and coconut milk, and a kapurale calls the yaka to possess the living to guide kin and hunting. Possession may involve relatives and the offering is shared after the spirit departs.
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C. G. Stillman
Ceylon
Kapurale
Dugganawa
Buite 2 Gillespie prettling Musson Phone Office
Fragmentary OCR text lists contact style lines with numbers and names, including office references and unclear phrases. The readable items hint at an internal or administrative notice but lack coherent facts, dates, or events to anchor a fuller summary.
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Buite
Gillespie Prettling- Musson
Lantie
Formerly Interne Hospital State Uni versity of Iowa
Honsaphone 461 Black, Office 263 Black. Atlanta.
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Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Atlanta
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Ray Welters
Origer
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
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General Law
Melcher's
Atlantic, Iowa
G. R. Miller
C. G. Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathia and Medical Physician
Opera
Ovrica
Atlantic
Iowa
T. B. Swan
C. L. Campbell
Gillespie Building
Musson
Res
U. Wood
Wood & Savery
John H. Wood
Chestnut
U. S. Mullins
Opera House
Telephone
E-Kay Laboratory
Charles D. Finley
Josephine Cook-Finley
Chestnut St
Butler
A. Giffen Suvcessor
Thurman’ Furniture
Cory Furniture
Atlantic, LA
D. ©. Herbert
East Fifth Street
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