Abduction Plot Unfolds In English Domestic Drama
In a tense scene Nugent Leathwood masquerades as guardian and seeks to spirit Olive away from Mrs Reeks after warning of her husband's supposed crime. Olive, awakening, recalls Gilbert’s name and agrees to go to him, as Nugent weighs how to persuade her to accompany him.
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Mr. Nugent Teathwood
George Neeks
Mrs. Reeks
Maarm
Mr. Reeks
Mrs. R. Find
Guardia
Nugent
Mrs. Recks
Nugent Leathwood
Trlle
Olive
Gilbert
Tme
Disclosures Trap Reeks in a Night of Flight
Nugent Leathwood presses for the papers as Mrs Reeks frets over a dangerous scheme. George Reeks and Gilbert Rickerby plot to safeguard a young girl and trace a perilous abduction while Jemima and a traveling act help move Olive to a Crown and Cushion stop in Barnet.
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Mrs. Reeks
Olive
Nugent Leathwood
Aes
George Reeks
Mrs. Meeks
Mr. Meeks
Mr. Reeks
Mr. Theeks
George
Gilbert
Taggett
Jemima
Barnet
the Crown and Cushion
Rascal
Mr. Beaks
Gilbert Rickerby
Cornelius Aids in Recapturing Missing Girl at Night
Nugent Leathwood and Cornelius search the grounds for Olive Mallory who vanished after being taken to Rickerbys Folly. Jemima reports the girl’s disappearance, and Leathwood urges swift, silent action to prevent further exposure of his plan.
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Mr. Cornelius
Weevers
Nugent Leathwood
Leathwood
Olive Mallory
Nugent
Rickerbey
Cornelius
Olive
Jemima
Gilbert Mickerby
Gilbert Rickerby
Ursula
Rascal
Reeks
Dodderer
Treachery Surrounds Missing Woman in Grim Garden
Deathwood Cornelius Leathwood and Wesep face a tense moment as they search for the missing woman. They sense treachery and conspirators plotting to take her away, while a growing shadow outside the window hints at unseen danger.
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Deathwood
Cornelius
Leathwood
Tenthwood
Cornelius Weevers
Enise
Cornelias
The Poet’s Punished Left Hand Counts Syllables
A king tasks a poet with counting syllables on his fingers. The poet reveals his left hand is mutilated, while the right lacks a forefinger. The king laments the poet’s disability and humorously assigns writing for magazines.
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Wr Peel
San Francisco Examiner
Miss Wilkins Greatest Success The Portion of Labor
The Portion of Labor by Miss Wilkins has brought unprecedented demand since its Nov 8 publication. The heroine Ellen is a bold inspiring American girl whose youthful ideals are tempered by courage and a humane spirit, a Martyr-like character but not allowed to suffer prolonged torment.
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Miss Wilkins
New England
Ellen
Dox a Gon Hunters Mistakenly Load Goat for Dog
Thele Wanting: Charles Hileman and William Cartwright, wire nail workers, set out before dawn for a hunt. Hileman, picking up what he thought was his live dog, instead grabbed a goat named Billy and loaded it into the wagon. The goat slept in the barn while the dog stayed inside, prompting a humorous mistaken loading two miles from town.
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Charles Hileman
William Cartwright
Hileman
Indianapolis News
Laughing Jackass Bird Tale in London Spare Moments
A man shows a sea captain’s gift, a laughing jackass specimen, as he walks home. An Irish navvy stops him and asks the bird’s kind, mishearing the trainer’s explanation. The exchange ends with the blunt pun that the burrd is the bird, not the self.
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Yerzelf
London
The Archduke Salvator Aboard Yacht Nymph
Archduke Salvator cruised the Greek islands and stayed at Ithaca to photograph scenery. Prisoners on Ithaca prison swam to his yacht seeking protection but were returned to the Greek authorities after being fed and clothed in the machinery room.
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Archduke Salvator
Tthaca
Thaca
Armnaduke
Gweek
London Telegraph
When the Women Vote in Humorous Exchange
A Browning King’s Monthly quip captures voters joking about election hats and turnout. Mrs Gotterhight explains her new election hat kept her from voting while Mrs Lifted up chides her, highlighting light hearted thoughts on the franchise.
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Gotterhight
Women Give Mellions to Charity and Education in 1901
The Indianapolis News notes that women donated about 18.9 million dollars to charity education and related causes in 1901. Gifts included 706000 endowment for a Virginia girls school from Mrs Indiana Williams, and large sums to Vassar New York University Yale College libraries and Y M C A projects. Grace Church and Easter basins in New York raised substantial funds.
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Virginia
Indiana Williams
McCormick
Chicago
Helen Gould
Vassar College
New York University
Yale College
New York
Grace Church
Episcopal Church
San Francisco
China
Collig P. Huntington
Indianapolis News
PRINCELY CADETS JOIN NEW IMPERIAL CADET CORPS
Seventeen young chiefs and nobles join the Imperial cadet corps formed in India. Cadets come from Rajputana central states Bombay Punjab and Hyderabad with four ruling chiefs. Meerut hosts a winter camp as cadets receive chargers and strict camp discipline emphasizing caste rules. The program blends drill riding and indoor work to prepare cadets for future British officer roles while preserving Indian gentlemanly character. The viceroy may inspect them ahead of the Qurban ceremony on January 1 1903.
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Imperial Cadet Corps
India
Rajputana
Central States
Bombay Presidency
Punjab
Hyderabad
Meerut
Dell
New York Post
Foreign-born population grows in Boston report
Boston’s Board of Health reports 287 deaths in the week, up from 202 a year ago. Of the deceased 223 were white four were colored. 146 born in the United States while eighty-five were foreign born and six of unknown nationality. forty-seven had American parentage. Foreign growth comes mainly from Ireland Canada and Russia.
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Boston
United States
Boston Board of Health
Ireland
Canada
Russia
New York
Amateur translation twist from Tolstoi preface
In a preface to a new English translation of Tolstoi Sevastupo an amusing tale explains how a German translator rendered the inscription Vengeance is mine will repay Tolstoi wrote it in ecclesiastical Slavonic and the translator produced Res venge is sweet I will play the ace
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Tolstoi
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Rickerby’s Folly
Tom Gallon
Mrs. Sheeks
Mr Reeks
Gury
Lily
Mr. Neeks
Necks
Wormer Hereader
Bath
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