Stagecoach Peril in Indian Attack Continues Rescue Plan
Sergeant Hamlin guides Molly McDonald through a night escape from Indians after a stagecoach ambush near Fort Ripley. He plans to reach the river via a gully while keeping her unconscious but safe, facing hidden threats and nighttime danger as pursuit closes.
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Fort Dodge
Molly
Brick” Hamlin
Wiow
Atarte
Fort Ripley
Moylan
Gongales
Hamlin
Ripley
Amin
Ian
Gonzales
Joylana
Hamiin
Dodge
Mister Indian
Indiana
Chapter WIIS A Way to the River
A tense scene unfolds as a shooter measures distance then fires. The report blasts, powder fills the air, and a dark figure collapses while a crowd erupts in a bare, angry cry. The protagonist endures the flash and the chaos that follows.
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Henry
Shakespeare in London Hall Still Standing From Elizabethan Era
The Middle Temple hall, opened by Queen Elizabeth I in 1576, hosted Twelfth Night on Christmas Day 1601 and may have featured Shakespeare himself. The Inn at Court and Gray's Inn ballroom also hosted era plays like A Comedy of Errors in 1684, per a London Chronicle.
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Queen Elizabeth
Granville Barker
London
Middle Temple
Queen Hilzabeth
Shakespeare
Gray's Inn
Life and legacy urges readers to act kindly
A reflective piece argues most live and die unseen, urging readers to live for something and leave a monument of virtue through kindness. It recalls Thomas Chalmers and Aubrey Beardsley, then pivots to a joke about Nero and early Christian persecution.
Albanian Marksmen Hit Dime Sized Target at 100 Yards
Albanian riflemen famed for precision demonstrate uncanny marksmanship. Ten men firing in single file at a dime sized target from a hundred yards miss none. They shoot rings, stones, eggs, apples, and even water jugs with minimal hesitation amid crowd laughter.
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Mit
Scutari
Spartan Test for Boys Promotes Temperance Pact
New York New York schoolboys are urged to abstain for at least a month from cheap candies pies crisps and colorful sodas in a welf denial. The Public Schools Athletic League pledges that boys who keep the pledge will excel in sports at Central Park festival with 10 000 participants. The league also secures pledges not to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes.
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New York
Publi Schools Athletic League
Central Park
Expelled Students Run Penn Poker Room
Philadelphia reports Pat Cyrus Cummings Jones of Brooklyn and Jaffry Byron Davidson of Red Bank New Jersey were expelled as University of Pennsylvania dental students after authorities uncovered a poker room operated for fellow students. The game took place in an exclusive apartment house opposite the college.
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Philadelphia
Pat Cyrus Cummings Jones
Brooklyn
Jaffry Byron Davidson
Red Bank
N. J
Dental
University of Pennsylvania
Cindy Wool In Kitchen Mixup Sparks Family Confusion
A Chicago Record-Herald joke describes a woman accusing a man in her kitchen of being her beau, only to learn he is Cindy's nonrelative brother who is merely keeping company. The misinterpretation prompts polite explanations as the scene unfolds.
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Cindy
Lawe
Chicago Record-Herald
Valuable Beetle Escape Captivates Scientist
A Washington natural history student pinned a fine beetle with a diamond-tipped pin to a library table. On returning, he found the beetle had freed itself and flown away with the pin gleaming on its back. The creature vanished beyond sight, leaving only the escape story.
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Washington
Man
Bug
Saya Harper
Wigg-Oh Laments Life a Pistol Loan Asked
A quip from the Philadelphia Record shows a deadpan exchange where one asks for a pistol and the other offers a chafing dish instead. The humor relies on rapid, dark wit and a social slight.
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Philadelphia Record
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