The Convict’s Return and Elise’s Dilemma
After prison, Harry Lawson seeks a new life with Elise the wife of Pastor John Mannering. Elise urges restraint as Lawson wrestles with crime and his lingering love, while Mannering counsels reform. The pair confront past sins and a possible path to redemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Lawson
State Pententiary
Lawson
John Mannering
Mannering
Elise
Crook
Harry
Mr. Mannering
W. G. Chapman
Maternal Discipline in a Hummingbird Nest
A Youth's Companion excerpt describes an Anna hummingbird tending twin nestlings. The mother feeds them by predigested nectar every fifteen minutes, differentiates the hungry chick, and disciplinarily corrects the greedy one by softly pinning it with her tiny foot to enforce sharing rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna
Inventions and Fortunes Across Time
A discussion of money made by inventors shows roller skates earning nearly 5 million while boot laces brought about 500000. The safety pin yielded 10000000, but telephony pioneer Charles Bourseul died poor. Michaux the bicycle inventor ended in penury, and Sauvage the screw propeller inventor died bankrupt and insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Bourseul
Michaux
Frederick Sauvage
Fragmentary Regional Market Interview Speech
A settlement worker consoles a distressed woman and asks if she can sing. The woman hesitantly replies she can sing a little and mentions longing for new ragtime songs, noting she and her husband have not attended a cabaret in two years.
Glorious American Sailors Heroic in Pacific and Atlantic Storms
A historical account honors U S Navy crews for rescue and endurance across reefs and wrecks from Oceania to Samoa. It recalls the Oneida sinking after collision with Bombay and the Saginaw disaster under Sicard, detailing bold volunteers, perilous longboat journeys, and orchestral courage aboard the Vandalia and Trenton during a savage 1889 hurricane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea
Mediterranean
United States
Constitution
Constellation
Kearsarge
Hartford
Navy Department
Washington
Uncle Sam
Porter
Bainbridge
Decatur
Maine
Bay of Vedda
Bombay
Oneida
B. P. Williams
Sicard
Ocean Island
South Pacific
Saginaw
Ocean
Hoata
Honolulu
Talbot
William Halford
Beamen
Peter Francis
James Muir
John Andrews
Coral
Lieutenant Talbot
Coxswain
Halford
Coxawain Halford
Hawaiian
Sande
Samoa
Trenton
Vandalia
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Harold Carter
Olga
Adler
Eber
Calliope
Nipsic
Farquhar
Jackson
Schoonmaker
Ines
Pnd
Y Edward B.clark
Western Newspaper Union
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