Valley of Death unfolds in Afghan siege and rescue
In 1841 Kabul, Captain St Clair saves a sixteen year old Afghan girl from mob violence. Betrayed by Akbar Khan, the British endure massacre as St Clair's courage binds him to the doomed retreat. The tale traces the siege, heroism, and a perilous escape aided by Guleyas.
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Afghanistan
Cabul
Baber
Ameer
Mohammed
Peshawar
Shal Boojah
Morrissey
Noverly
St, Clair
Rergy Han
St. Clair
Captain St. Clair
Akbar Khan
Allah
Guleyaz
Ely
Guleysz
Herbert
Cabn
Allah Akbar
Barnes
London
Alexander Burnes
Herbert St. Clair
Aka Khan
Koord-Cabul
India
Jellalabad
Rohilound
Malig
Oan Eade
Plesso
Clair
Guleyas
Ingreex
Khan
Biss
St. Claires
Akbar
Guleyar
Gulevar
The Boy With Peach Ears Delivers a Dread Letter
A Clifford street resident receives a letter from a talking boy who claims to sweep offices. The boy demands a payment, and the woman secretly accepts money for the letter. She later discovers the note begins with a mortgage default clause and plans another interview at eight to ten in the morning.
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Clifford Street
Detroit Free Press
Somehow or Other We Bear Life’s Burden and Hope
A reflective verse on life’s burdens and resilience. It notes sorrow arriving unbidden, the fraying of love and friendship, yet insists workers endure daily toil as a blessing. Prayer steadies the weak back, and hope brightens the path toward an eventual end.
Geography Bees Challenge Minds With Tough Towns
A winter spelling contest shifts to geography bees featuring easy big cities then obscure towns like Toledo Pumpkinville Sourkraut and Cleveland. Final rounds test memory against tricky regional names as readers recall war dispatch era references.
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Detroit
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Toledo
Pumpkinville
Sourkraut
Cleveland
Cape
Murderous attack at Stringybark Creek stuns Melbourne readers
A Melbourne paper reports a dramatic confrontation near Mansfield where Constable Kennedy and officers Scanlan Lonigan McIntyre faced four armed men led by Edward Kelly. Lonigan was killed, McIntyre escaped armed, and Kennedy disappeared as a search party later found Scanlan and Lonigan’s bodies.
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Melbourne
Sof
Stringybark Creek
Mansfield
Fitape
Daniel Kelly
Greta
Kellys
King
Broken Rivers
Kennedy
Scanlan
Lonigan
McIntyre
Kelly
Edward Kelly
McIintyre
Regicide Mania Across Europe Seen by Charivari
The Charivari of Paris mocks European regicidal fears as Russia Germany Italy and Spain move security forces for royal or czarist returns. It notes France faced more regicidal plots historically and jokes that if Napoleon III ruled today he would face assassination threats.
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Charivari
Paris
Europe
Russia
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Germany
Berlin
Italy
Humbert
Rome
Alphonse XII
Madrid
MacMahon
Tuilleries
France
Austria
Spain
Fsar
New York Sun
Night of the Farm by Anna Boynton Averill
Night poem portrays dewfall on a lonely farm with flocks in the fold and a quiet farmyard. Describes stars, bells, birds, and the old house at bedtime as the speaker envisions sunrise and awakening songs.
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Mars
Anna Boynton Averill
Prodigal’s Return and Oddities in a Historic Roundup
A collage of quick items notes varied quirks and facts from 19th century life. Topics include a prodigal’s return, insurance, sleighing, baking powder, investments, an asylum farce, blood, inebriate songs, comet speed, Chinese New Year on February 6, and a shop door quip. Several snippets mention coins, Russia’s first printing office, punning jokes, and playful observations about life, health, and manners.
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Bayard
Taylor
K. K
New York
Venezuela
London
Russia
Jones
Baker
Dahkosh
Meriden Recorder
Rome
Charley
Jersey
English Channel
Spangler
York State
Boston Transcript
Value of Old Coins
A Philadelphia numismatist with twenty years in the business travels each summer to boost coin sales. Demand rises in England for old American coins, with many pieces gaining about 100 percent profit and scarce copper cents from 1798 sought after by collectors.
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England
United States
Franklin
Philadelphia
British Museum
Sean
Frealth
Henson Jen
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Herbert Bt. Clair
David Ker
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