The Master of Appleby Feud and Loyal Flight
Jack Ireton recalls his upbringing in Appleby Hundred and his sword from Roger Ireton. He witnesses Margery Stair with Sir Francis Falconnet and vows to seek justice, while London politics and Carolina rebellions cast long shadows over his loyalties. The tale sets up a duel and a tangled web of treachery and love amid war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard
Jack
Margery Stair
Jack Ireton
Appleby Hundred
Francis Falconnet
Francis
John Ireton
Roger Ireton
Stair
Tomas
Andrea Ferara
Coverdale
Tryon
Carolina
William Tryon
Blues
Continent
Germany
Charleston
Queenstown
Mr. Jefferson
North Carolina
Catawba
Gilbert Stair
Owen Pengarvin
Queensborough
Darius
Forest Lodge
Ireton
Andrea
Charlotte
Lord Cornwallis’ Main
Wateree
Rutherford
Richard Coverdale
Jennifer
Frank
Ensign's voyage to England and clash with Falconnet
In autumn 1764 the narrator sails to England to join the king's service. He becomes a Scots Blue ensign and befriends Cloverdale a brave pure soul. Falconnet a ruffian bully edges into the scene as a dangerous younger son with no army ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Episcopal Virginia
Nottingham Iretons
Oliver Cromwell
Lincolnshire
Scots Blues
Canadas
Richard Cloverdale
Francis Falconnet
Cloverdale
Falconnet
Trials in Porto Rico paint hardship behind tropical lure
Paul J. Brampton recalls moving to Porto Rico seven years ago for a $3,500 year salary with his bride. He says despite a superb climate and the promise of romance, white Americans feel out of place, insects and vermin are abundant, food scarce, and he longs to return to his old bank job in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Porto Rico
Paul J. Brampton
Ponce
P. R
Stafford Hotel
Baltimore American
New York
United States
Hugo
Baltimore
Groundhog Lesson Turns to Sausage Joke
A classroom scene from Everybody's Magazine shows a teacher asking what a groundhog is. A student volunteers with a humorous reply, clarifying the boy thought it was sausage, highlighting playful misunderstandings in a natural history lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl
Ma’ag
Everybody's Magazine
Birth of Jesus highlighted by Magi journey and prophecy
December 26 1900 Sunday School lesson centers on the birth of Christ from Matthew 2 1 12. It notes Bethlehem as the City of David the star guiding the Magi and Herod s unbelief the priests and scribes roles the meaning of gifts and the virgin birth as miraculous and providential.
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Bethlehem
Judea
David
Jerusalem
Herod
East
Jesus
Arabia
Persia
Chaldea
Abbott
Christ
Joseph
Mary
Egypt
Knowledge and language talent wasted without trade
A York reporter once fluent in German Russian Arabic and English failed to secure meaningful work. He faced poverty and poor health as he translated little or none of his gift into a trade. The piece argues one must pair language skill with a profession to find lasting employment.
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Dema
York
Metropolis
Chronology of Historic Dates and Events
A compact list of milestones from 1640 to 1968 includes Portugal’s independence, Penn and Venables voyage, Scottish Covenanters’ execution, St Pauls opening, North Carolina acts repeal, Fort Duquesne renamed Pittsburg, suppression of the Jesuit order, Arnold and Montgomery in Quebec, Washington’s army at Trenton, British evacuation of New York, Delaware yeast ratification, Savannah fire, Hohenlinden, Napoleon crowned, West Indies trade, Madrid surrender, Jackson’s martial law, gas lighting in Philadelphia, Illinois statehood, Savannah steamship, first Chicago newspaper, Nicholas I’s throne, Gregory XVI on slavery, Napoleon remains, John Brown execution, Jefferson Davis’ election, Grant’s Mississippi expedition, Longstreet siege lift, Johnson impeachment report, Diaz’s term, Stanley’s Africa reach, Central America accords, Modder River, Roosevelt at St Louis, Haïti’s leader flee, and a US-Japan Pacific agreement.
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Fort Duquesne
Pittsburg
France
Louis XV
Arnold and
Montgomery
Quebec
Washington
Trenton
N. J
New York
Delaware
Savannah
Hohenlinden
Gen. Grant
Mississippi
Longstreet
Knoxville
Tenn
House
Pesident Johnson
Diaz
Mexico
Kenry M. Stanley
Africa
Bagamoyo
Church Reform Moves After Cairo Lynchings
A fifty-member business committee is formed to strengthen law enforcement after Cairo Illinois lynchings. Mayor Parsons closes all gambling houses. A Baptist leader questions Rockefeller’s tainted money. Chicago ministers consider pensions. Grover Cleveland, William J Bryan, and Roosevelt back the plan. Annuities proposed for retired ministers with 500 dollars at 76 or 100 dollars at 70 plus 19 per year of service.
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Cairo
Parsons
Rockefeller
H. M. Wharton
South
Atlante
Chicago
Grover Cleveland
William J. Bryan
Roosevelt
Treasure of the Zuyder loads hope and iron resolve
The London Globe reports Dutch interest in recovering the 1799 Latin wreck off the Zuyder Zee. A storm buried the ship in sand after it carried 30 million worth of gold and silver to Hamburg. A new recovery effort uses a floating bridge with diving chambers and 24 hour sand pumping capacity to retrieve more treasure.
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Zuyder Zee
Hamburg
France
Holland
Company of
Lloyd
Lake
London Globe
Footwear Swap Ends In Comedy of Laces Lesson
A Harvard man with a talent for borrowing and a faulty memory returns to his hometown with new russet shoes. Years later at a Seattle Exhibition the owner of the shoes confronts him, but the borrower calmly admits the need for new laces, ending the incident with a humorous quip.
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Harvard
Old Town
Seattle
Mere Nature Faking Seeps Through Time
A cryptic reflection questions whether vice and crime follow predictable progress, likening moral decay to a rattlesnake shedding its skin each year. The piece probes cycles of corruption and the illusion of steady improvement.
Sorgery Rendered Painters in Greenwich Operation
Prof Iannescu of the University of Bucharest demonstrated a new anesthesia use at Sea man's Hospital Greenwich. By mixing strychnine with stovane the heart depressant effect is removed enabling a neck gland removal while the patient stays conscious and can talk. The man walked to the next room after bandages were applied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaman’s Hospital
Greenwich
England
Iannescu
University of Bucharest
Textile Race Drives New England Mills to Lead Markets
In New England cotton and wool compete for global markets. New Bedford spends 10 million dollars on new cotton mills to outrun Lowell and Fall River. Concurrently over 12 million dollars go to new woolen mills in Lawrence for worsted yarns, with the woolen trust backing this push.
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New England
New Bedford
Lowell
Fall River
Lawrence
Woolen Trust
Life Tell on Railroads General Superintendent Park Report
General Superintendent Park of the Union Pacific Railroad told the New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons at their recent annual meeting that one person is killed every hour and another injured every ten minutes on American railways. He based this on casualty reports from large railroads, noting that modern equipment construction was improving but employee negligence caused about 80 percent of accidents.
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Park
Union Pacific Railroad
New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons
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Francis Lynde
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Bowen-Merrill Company
Richard Jennifer
Council of Trent
Portugal
Penn and Venables
America
Edinburgh
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Colonial Assembly of
Napoleon I
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Paris
West Indies
Madrid
Bonaparte
Gen. Jackson
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Illinois
Asys
Chica
Nicholas I
Russia
Gregory XVI
Cherbourg
John Brown
Jefferson Davis
Confedette States of America
John C. Breckinridge
United States Senate
Asion
Nicaragua
Honduras
Salvador
Modder River
St. Louis
Lord Alexis
Hayti
Port Au Prince
Japan
Pacific Ocean
Church and Reform
the Zuyder
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