Boys Return From Mozambique Seas While Sailors Face Typhoon
Two young sailors Bob Allen and Tom Dean escape a wrecked Portuguese brig Coimbra, are rescued by Captain Tillinghast aboard the Ann and Hope, and undergo further peril crossing the Indian Ocean to Canton and home. They witness Hornet's victory over Peacock, near Cape Good Hope, and reunite with families joyfully at last.
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Manuel
Nantucket
Canton
Manila
Mary Ann
Shields
Mozambique
Bob
Tom
Africa
Robert
Coimbra
Lisbon
Zanzibar
Almarante
Eroes
Tagus
Iberian Peninsula
Wen
Almaranthe
Anzibar
de Coumbra
Strait of Sunda
China Sea
Ruvuma
Ouany
Java
Sunda
Bongong
Eptune
Imarante
Senor Acasta
Edo
Cape of Good Hope
Ganges
Ceylon
Indus
Bob Allen
Tom Dean
Tillinghast
Manilla
Providence
Hope
Ann
Hong Kong
Whampoa
Stranded Seafarers Face Uncertain Fate At Sea
Two boys adrift after a wreck endure worsening hardship as they rely on occasional provisions from wreckage and the whims of a harsh sea. They fear home will never learn of their fate and cling to hope amid dwindling supplies and a puzzling speck on the horizon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Bob
Passage Home Amid War Rumors Aboard American Ships
Sailors aboard an American vessel clash with English crews as war between Britain and the United States looms. News of Napoleon’s Russia expedition spreads, fueling bravado and Admiralty fears. Captain Tillinghast hopes for a safe return, trusting luck, a stout ship, and a long voyage to outpace British dangers at sea.
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Great Britain
United States
Napoleon
Russia
Canton
England
America
Tillinghast
Indian Names as Fraud in Nomenclature Claims
Charleston News and Courier reports a Georgia family named a daughter Wet Dog, challenging the idea of noble Indigenous names. The piece mocks poetic Indian stereotypes, debates on Native names of rivers and places, and argues many endonyms translate to unflattering or literal meanings, noting towns like Eufaula and Choctahoochee.
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Charleston
Knaula
Cooper
Crook
Sitting Bull
Standing Bear
Howling Welf
Charlie
Jim
Chattahoochee
Mississippi
Cahaba
Alabama
Rouge
Gelatine film revolutionizes landscape photography
A new gelatine film system allows a continuous landscape image by winding a long gelatine sheet through the camera. The sheet can be stored undeveloped, with joined sections trimmed after printing. It offers clearer overall effects and sharper skyline than common methods and reduces gear for expeditions.
Making a Man of Himself in the Adirondacks
In a rain soaked Adirondack shack Clipper Graves and guide Stilt Buckram shelter from a storm. They discover a pocketbook filled with bills and papers belonging to Almon Gaybreon, debate returning it, then meet Clipper's mother who reveals a family secret. A flood perilously sweeps away their home as Clifton faces danger and questions about his father’s past.
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Clipper
Stilt Buckram
Stilt
Adirondack
Clipper Graves
Chiper
Cal
Buckram
Anly
Clippy
Cop R
Pol Smith
Clipes
Adirondacks
David Crafts
Ulipper
Nipper
Hunter
Nather
Almon Gaybroon
Smoker Pond
Seale
Wickford
Gaybreon
Smoke Pond
Almon Gaybreon
Dav
Clifton
Mrs. Graves
Clifon
Hingeelf
Chapter Is the Treasure from the Shanty
Still Buckram questions the source of a found pocketbook while Clipper holds it aloft in the shanty. The telltale pocketbook lies among twigs under a comforter as the pair debate its origin and contents.
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Buckram
Clipper
The Havoc of the Waters at Smoker Lake
In Adirondack terrain near Smoker river and Smoker lake, David Graves shelters widow Graves with Stilt Buckram aiding, after Graves dies of long fever. Buckram chronicles a life of hunter guides and supplies, while the region remains wild and scarcely visited by summer visitors or roads. Clipper’s rise as a hunter and guide shapes the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainbridge
Smoker
Graves
Buckram
David Graves
Buckrain
David
Clipper
Story of a Wampum Belt and Ellicott’s turkey trick
In Columbia Pennsylvania on April 16 the wampum belt of Colonel Andrew Ellicott, famed surveyor, is cited as a lifesaving memento. Facing Blackfeet captors, Ellicott used a mechanical bluff to shoot a turkey at 150 yards to prove his power, securing liberty for him and his accompanying engineers and troops.
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New York Times
Columbia
Penn
Andrew Ellicott
Louisiana
Ellicott
United States
Bepys
Ini
Eiliott
Hats and Cocoa on Nicobar Islands Trade Tale
Traders from Calcutta visit the Nicobars to swap headgear for coconuts, with a peculiar fondness for old hats among islanders. The commerce yields high prices for striking hats, followed by rum-fueled revelry as the haul is celebrated.
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Nicobars
Andamans
Calcutta
Barrios Death Seen As Targeted Assassination
Advices from Guatemala describe General Barrios dying after a rear-area ambush as his troops fought. His bodyguard reportedly killed twenty Salvadorians to defend him and his son fell defending the body. A belief links the murder to political intrigue by Zaldivar of San Salvador. Also lists various nostrums and patent medicines in a single line.
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Washington
Guatemala
Barrios
Zaldivar
San Salvador
Fay
Weekly Globe Club List Vorschriften
A long list of magazines and periodicals offered by the Weekly Globe club. It names numerous titles including American Agricultur, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Godey’s Lady's Book, Ladies Home Journal, and many others with varied pricing. The notice states no mailings beyond one magazine per address and instructs readers to specify the issue to begin subscriptions. It ends with an instruction to provide an address for orders.
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Arthur's Home
American Dairyman
Magazin
American Poultry Journa
Atlantic Monthly
American Art
American Garden
American Naturalist
American Agricultur
Manuels
Art Amateur
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly
Revie Blackwood
Brainerd
We Beadle
Burlington Hawkey Boys
New York
Ballou'’s
Bee-keeper’s Maga
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical
Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Cottage Hearth
Connecticut
Chicago Advance
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Donahoe’s
Detroit Free Press
Eclectic
Edinburgh Review
Germantown
Telegri
Gardner
Godey
Home Circle
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Harper’s Young People Herald of Health
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Independent
International Review
Iowa Homestead
Journal of Microscopy Journal of Chemistry
Lippincott's
London
Lancet
Edinburgh
Revie
London Quarterly Review
Methodist
Magazine
American His Mining Record
Enue
Mother's Magazine
North American Review
N. Y. Medical Journal
N. Y
Fashion Bazar Nurser
N.Y Weekly
N. Y. Sportsman
Ohio Farmer
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Prem
Princeton Review
Reesress
Peterson's
Lady
Magaziz Saseees
Popular Science Monthly
Produce Exchange
Bulleti
Philadelphia Medical Time
Practical Farmer
Rideout
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Sunny South St. Nicholas
Sanitarian
Ceeee
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
the Republic
Amer
Vick’s
Westminster Review
Wide Awake
Waverley
Watchman
Western Stoc Journal
GLOBE
Spe
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Cape Aguhas
John Bull
Brazil
Old England
Hornet
Lawrence
Peacock
Peake
Home
Windward Islands
West Indies
Leeward Islands
Bermuda
New England
Anna
Gulf Stream
Dee
Ever
Anon
Corn Road
Jack Bruce
Davy Dorn
Jack
Howland
Davy
Jac
Oliver Optic
Boat Club
Yacht Club
Colonel Ellicott
Flale
Glenn
Hill
Pike
Dean
THE
Weekly Globe Club
Isan
Orecesese
Neenene
Ston
Wilh
Suis
Boston
Alass
Teen Wees
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