Captain Jones of the Rose and the Seafaring Novelist Clark Russell
Clark Russell, born February 24 1844 in New York, forged a literary career after a naval youth. He wrote popular nautical novels such as John Holdsworth Chief Mate and The Wreck of the Grosvenor, later moved to London to work for the Daily Telegraph, then settled at Deal writing many works including A Life of Nelson and Helga.
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Clark Russell
Henry Russell
Clark
London
Mr. Russell
Carlton House
Broadway
New York
Coleridge
Lamb
Mr. B
Winchester
France
India
Australia
China
John Holdsworth
Samuel Plimsoll
Grosvenor
Ocean Free Lance
Mand
Russell
Newcastle Daily Chronicle
Joseph Cowen
London Daily Telegraph
Cowen
Jack
Daily Telegraph
Ramsgate
Kent
Deal
Louise
Nelson
Jenny Harlow
Helga
Drift in the Rose Forecastle Mutineers Bargain for Relief
Seaman Black Sam and fellow forecastle hands mutiny aboard the Rose, an undercrewed Liverpoo l vessel. With pumps manned and rations rotten, they threaten to abandon ship unless Captain Jones ships more hands and food. A chase ensues when Jones seeks aid from a pursuing bark, as mutineers threaten to seize control if demands are not met.
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Black Sam
Peter
Mr. Chips
Rose
Liverpool
England
Mr. Johnson
Brine
London
Capt'n Jones
N Jones
Sam
Capt. Jones
Chips
Tey
Jones
Union
Capt Jones
Sons of Liberty
North America
Landsmaap
Royal George
Pursuit and mutiny aboard the bark Rose chase
The Rose hounds a bark named Martha M. Stubbs Windsor, N.&., in a two hour chase with Capt. Jones aboard the Rose taking action. Only Mate and Mr Chips abandoned by the bark and later captured, Jones’s crew mutinies and Swansea magistrates imprison the men. The Rose sails from Swansea October 11, 1869 with a fresh crew.
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Jones
Martha M. Stubbs
Windsor, N
Mr. Chips
Capt. Jones
Huil
Rose
Windsor
Nova Scotia
Lisbon
England
The
Swansea
Chips
Justice
Swansea Bay
Acres of Human Dust in a Bangkok Grave Ground
Reporter visits Wat Sah Kate Bangkok Bangkok May 27 describes a disturbing burial ground where corpses lie exposed by dogs and scavengers while vultures feed on dead infants at Bombay towers of silence and bones line catacombs and cemeteries from Canton Genoa Naples Rome.
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Yanahuato
Wat Sah Kate
Bangkok
Siam
Bombay
White Cloud Mountains
Canton
Campo Santo
Genoa
Naples
Rome
The Haunted Guanajuato Cemetery of Skeleton Pigeon Holes
Reporter tours the Guanajuato cemetery perched on a hill above the city. He describes bone-filled pigeon holes, rent for five years at 25 dollars, perpetual plots for 100 dollars, or family vaults for 600, with mass graves below and a thousand mummies lining a long tunnel. The scene blends heat, dry air, and eerie stacks of skulls, limbs, and desiccated bodies, punctuated by costly hearses and lavish mourning customs in Mexico City.
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Egypt
Ganges
Mexico
Guanahuato
Museum of
Boulak
Cairo
Smike
Pqeeree
Dotheboys Hall
Zacatecas
Ceme
Mexico City
Srivess
Smith
Death tolls and health in Mexico City described
A visitor notes Mexico City’s high death rate and unsanitary conditions from swampy ground, poor drainage, and constant miasma. The city’s climate and sun are seen as both health risk and risk mitigator, while foreign cemeteries overflow and insurers report many deaths among lower classes.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Rank G
Carpenter
Rare metals and world wonders from a bygone era
The article surveys scarce metals such as palladium and iridium, notes their uses in timepieces and pens, and comments on their high value. It then shifts to curiosities about Pope Leo XIII, cod and herring fishery figures, high-altitude dwellings, bridal customs, a king’s finances, and a mosaic of odd facts from across the globe.
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Leo XIII
Newfoundland
Halne
Thibet
Galera
Peru
Milan
Bervia
Laender Bank of
Vienna
Austria
Paris
United States
Moscow
Serge
Clyde
Mich
Woodbury
N. J
Packer
Ingle
Evansville
Ind
Richard Jones
St. Louis
Albert Lea
Minn
Indianapolis
Gotthard
Reuss
Covingtoy
Tom
Detroit
Cedar Rapids
Nevada
California
Arizona
Pottstown
Penn
Beaver County
Portland
Lick
Sahara Desert
Sahara
Ameri
The Old Grudge
A long running feud between the Rood and Rudge families spans a century begun by pioneers. A union of a Rood and a Rudge son and daughter breaks the feud, yet the tale ends with the same old grudge still kept by the newlyweds.
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Chicago Tribune
Rood
Rudge
King Otto's Crazy Ways
London Figaro reports on King Otto of Bavaria showing stubborn appetite issues and vivid hallucinations. He believes carpets are glass and refuses to tread on them while imagining walls hung with newspapers, often reading aloud imaginary lines he envisions on them.
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London
Otto
Snubbed by Miss Lineage Miss Nouveau Clash
A humorous fragment depicts Hedging asking why he is snubbed by Miss Lineage and Miss Nouveau to spare her mortification, reflecting social theatre and wit in a bygone chat.
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Clife
Lineage
Nouveau
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