Brave Highland Boy Guards Prince at Craighope Castle
Clinton Montague recounts a Highland boy Gilbert Roy who, aged 14, guards Charles Edward Stuart at Craighope Castle. He detects approaching Cumberland troops, defies officers with archery and wit, guides the prince to safety, and misleads pursuers through a daring ruse before retreating to Loch Roy and the Isle of Skye.
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Priver
Charls Edward Stuart
Culloden
Cumberland
Scotland
Dobbie
Gilbert
Donald Roy
Prince Edwin
Culloden Morr
Ftoy
Elginshire
Flying Prince
Donald Bay
Gobert Kay
Arma
Parruan Patheway
Golbert Roy
William Himelf
Craighope
Ain
Theo
Benny Young
Redcoat
Craigbh
Cas
Mer
Blux
Craig Hope
Thia Tower
Springold
Charles Edward
Loch Roy
Ais
Great Glen
Isle of Skye
Craighope Castle
Clinton Montague
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Health Returns
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as vital this season to prevent illness and restore vigor. It claims most people should take a course, promises health improvements, and notes Hood's Pills aid digestion and liver issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Best Bear Story From Minnesota Heroic EightYearOld
An eight year old Minnesota boy James Gregorson cared for his infant sister while parents were away. A brown bear seized the baby, and James fired his heavy gun, killing the bear with a vital shot. The baby was unharmed except for scratches. the family had bear meat for supper that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vod
Gregorson
James
Providence
Marvelous Results Reported for Dr King's New Discovery
A Dimondale Michigan pastor cites a letter from Rev J Gunderman praising Dr King's New Discovery for his wife during pneumonia after influenza. The extract claims rapid relief from severe coughing and illness. Trial bottles are offered free at 5S B Jiris drug store with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Gunderman
Dimondale
Mich
Dr. King
Baptist
Rives Junction
la Grippe
Night pilgrim and wanderer mute in heavenly light
A lyric meditation traces a traveler leaving home with pouch and staff. Night arrives as a wary, ancient pilgrim with starry breastplate and sun-gold secret. A glowing temple sheds radiance on the traveler, yet his brown hair turns white in pale light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stara
The Ghost in the Cab and Judas Withers
A midnight cabman ferries a spectral passenger to the ruin of Judas Withers. In the haunted house the dead man seeks light and diamonds, murders his wife for a glowing heart, then drags the cabbie to safety as dawn reveals a marble shaft bearing a fiery dedication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cabby No. 11
Judas Withers
Judas
Hell
Julie Closson Kenly
San Francisco
Argonaut
Odd Toda funeral rites on Nilgherries downs
A Pearson's Weekly description portrays a Toda village of 600 to 700 in the Nilgiris. It details their belief in a dangerous afterlife crossing by a thread, a peculiar funeral with red thread tied toes, offerings hidden in the toga, buffaloes slain, body parts kept for a later festival, and cremation with clarified butter before ashes scatterings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toda
Styx
Pearson’s Weekly
Women in Sussex Lily Farm Earns Success in Hard Times
A London Gentlewoman notes women in farming, including a violet farm and apple orchard, and a Lily farm begun last summer in a Sussex village. The woman, persevering despite age, now sells lilies and other produce, proving farming can be lucrative for women with pluck and skill.
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Sussex
London
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Theodore P. Cook
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Ome
Lost Tribes
Bateman
Godfrey
Samuel Pitcher
Patent Office Department of
United States
Pitcher
Ieem
Pitcher’s Castoria
Brewers Lung Restorer
Ses
Henry J. Lamar & Sons
Macon
Box J. T. Shuptrine
Savannah, Ga
Gordon ‘Institute
Barnesville
Georgia
Candler
Gordon Institute
Jerem
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