The Collapse at Reynolds Home Leads to Dark Resolve
In the denouement of Chapter XXII, Bob Reynolds faces ruin as Brand accuses him of felony and blackmail over cement funds. Jane Reynolds confronts threats, while Dick Meade restrains Bob and delivers comfort. A desperate scene ends with Bob fainting and a doctor ordering rest, leaving a cliffhanger on his fate.
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Brand
Eynolds
MBS
Bob
Dic
Mr. Brand
Jane
Reynolds
Crooks
Meade
Novel street lighting at Notre Dame approach
Paris city council trials new lighting on refuges before Notre Dame. To avoid spoiling the view of the ancient pile lamps will illuminate refuges from beneath through thick glass, addressing past crossing accidents with a subtle design.
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Cathedral of Notre Dame
Paris
A Millionaire Sneer and War Relic Fragments Unearthed
A poem laments crowd worship and moral leadership while Colonel Lawrence preserves a piece of the surrender table from Appomattox, with claims about Gen. Grant, Lee, Sheridan, and Beauregard. An anecdote tags Uncle Joe Cannon decrying education among millionaires who once sneered at schooling.
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Joe” Cannon
Pens From Appomattox Ended Civil War Ties In Missouri
A St Joseph dentist owns two battle pens used to sign the Lee surrender at Appomattox. They have rarely been ink touched since April 10, 1865, and remain in a secured box at his home with a fragment of the signing table. The collection traces to Colonel Lawrence of New York and links to the McLean house and Grant era.
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Lawrence
Robert B. Lee
U.S. Grant
McLean
P. H. Sheridan
Sheridan
Col
A. B. Lawrence
Manassas
Appomattox
Bull Run
Bull Run Ford
Blackburn Ford
McLean Ford
Beauregard
General Custer
Appomattox Courthouse
Grant
United States
Richmond
Missouri
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
E. P. Cronkite
St. Joseph
Doctor Cronkite
Francis Street
Warsaw
N. Y
Colonel Lawrence
First
New York Dragoons
R. E. Lee
Col. Wilmer McLean
McLean House
General Lee
General Grant
Wilmer McLean
William Daniel Hix
Hixburg
John Gibbons
Potter
Army Corps
New York City
Lincoln House of Worship Pulpit View from His Pew
A historic Washington church pulpit once attended by the great president is pictured from his pew on the right side. The image captures the sacred interior and the view associated with Lincoln, reflecting the era’s reverence for his leadership in the nation’s faith life.
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Washington
Lincoln as a master of plainspoken prose and care
A compact appraisal of Abraham Lincoln's homegrown written style in wartime communications. The author notes his tender appeals to Union troops after Fredericksburg and his considerate requests for East Tennessee to be treated with special care. Lincoln is praised as a great man of the first order based on his literary craft.
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Lincoln
Lincoln an Inventor in Patent Office Record
Washington reports Abraham Lincoln has an invention on file to help freight boats move over Mississippi sand bars. The device uses large bellows on each boat side inflated by a windlass to raise buoyancy and reduce draft when stuck on shoals. Lincoln conceived the idea during his Mississippi boatman days.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Mississippi River
Lincoln
Mississippi
Lincoln Photographs and the Brady Lilliputian Collection
The article notes Lincoln is regarded as the most photographed man of his era yet most portraits date from the last seven or eight years. It highlights Brady’s prolific work, surpassing all others, with over two hundred original negatives of Gen Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren in the collection.
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Lincoln
Brady
Gen
Tom Thumb
Lavinia Warren
Curtain Falls Prompting Alarming Exit in Play
In the stalls Mrs. Juniper asks where her husband is as he leaves after an act end. He reports hearing an alarm of fire and goes to check. Ten minutes later he returns saying it was neither fire nor water, she implies disapproval.
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Reyf
Jane
Brand
Bob
Staten Island
Mrs. Juniper
New York Skyscraper Density Highlighted in Report
A peculiar report notes New York has one skyscraper for every 100 buildings while a tobacco growing test unfolds in Southern California. The text references Marine Eye Remedy Co and old tobacco cultivation themes embedded in quirky historical OCR.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
California
New York
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South West St
Carbondale
Ill
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Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
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Curtis
N. 16Th St
Springfield
Charles Hyde
Prairie Ave
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Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Inc
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Philadelphia
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Young
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Gerksiay
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