Lone Wolf Scores a Just Revenge in Western Tale
In a rough frontier tale Lone Wolf, an Indian chief in rags, protects Eva Barclay and her baby from gambler Mort Dwyer. Dwyer schemes to seize Eva’s wealth with lawyer Luke Worden, but Lone Wolf outsmarts rivals, capturing the deed and fleeing toward safety as justice is served.
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Mort Dwyer
Lone Wolf
Dwyer
Remingtons
Bowies
Monte Pete
Miss Barclay
Luke Worden
Blackleg
Eva Barclay
Rolfe Preston
Worden
John Barclay
Eva
Rocky Gap
Knave
Barclay
Rock County
Barclay Place
Werden
Preston
Lone Wolfwell
Barclays
Lumley Castle as England's oldest residence claim
Historical notes link Lumley Castle to the Lumley family since its erection, with licenses to embattle from Richard II and Bishop Skirlaw. Earldom of Scarborough ownership and early mentions date to 978 1015. The pedigree recalls Saxon Liulph and Bishop Walcher, tying local lore to national events.
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Lumley
Earl of Scarborough
England
Styr
Ulf
St. Cuthbert
Kithelred
Ralph de Lumley
Cirencester
Henry IV
Richard II
Skirlaw
James I
Walcher
Gateshead
Liulph
Trade Trick In Life And Photography Victorian Banter
A young man and woman muse on life and soulfulness and joke about photography. He notes a photographer sent word that portraits are ready and that they are all mounted. The exchange Playfully critiques the craft and its modern pretensions.
Minority Presidents by Popular Vote Deficits Across Elections
The text lists several presidents elected without the largest share of votes, noting Hayes in 1876 and Harrison in 1888 with sizable gaps. It traces a sequence from Polk 1844 through Wilson 1912, highlighting elections where winners faced significant opposition vote totals.
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Hayes
Tilden
Harrison
Cleveland
Polk
Taylor
Buchanan
Lincoln
Garfield
Wilson
Ad About Heaven News Draws Child’s Quiet Reaction
A six year old Dorothy, raised amid advertising chatter, brings home a Sunday school text. When asked what she held, she says with a shrug it is “an ad about heaven,” reflecting a child's literal view of a religious concept as everyday publicity.
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Dorothy
Heaven
Panama Canal Revenue Reaches New High in 1924
The Panama Canal posted its most prosperous year yet with net revenue of 17 208 672 dollars and combined canal and railroad earnings of 18 254 459 dollars. Tolls and receipts totaled 10 307 984 dollars, while 5 230 ships passed through with 26 148 878 tons of cargo. US intercoastal trade led all routes at 50 percent of total cargo.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Pa- Dama
Jay J. Morrow
Secretary of War
War Department
Morrow
California
Great Britain
Japan
Germany
Norway
Peru
Canal
Free City of
Danzig
Ecuador
Finland
Jugo-Slavia
United States
Europe
Pacific
North America
South America
Far East
Eaast
West
London Girl’s Bomb Find At Daly’s Theatre Mystery
A stylish young woman checked a parcel at Daly’s cloakroom and asked an usher to send it to her seat. A detector opened the package and found a live bomb of a trench variety. The bomb had already been turned over to police. the woman departed unseen during the show.
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London
Daly's
Heroes of World War Now Completely Out of Picture
Washington report notes thirty years after World War One that many famed returnees have faded from public memory. Maj Charles W Whittlesey and Maj Gen William Haan are cited as fallen from notice. Sergt Alvin York and Sergt Willie Sandlin are living quiet lives in Tennessee and Kentucky respectively. Capt Eddie Rickenbacker has retired to business in Detroit while several other aces remain in service.
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Washington
France
War Department
Charlies W. Whittlesey
Whittlesey
Argonne Forest
William Haan
National Guard
Alvin York
Tennessee
Kentucky
Devil’s Jump Branch
Breathitt County
Willie Sandlin
Bola de Forges
Lexington
Samuel Woodill
Eddie V. Rickenbacker
Receiver Holds Church Paris In Legal Dispute
The famous Russian church in Rue Daru is under receivership amid ownership dispute between the Russian Soviet government and the parish council. The council received the church last year from M Maklakoff, former Russian ambassador under the Kerensky regime.
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Paris
Rue Daru
M Maklakoff
Kerensky
Equal Rights Case Details in Cedar Rapids Alimony Suit
Hortense Melser of Cedar Rapids Iowa won a court decree ordering her husband to pay alimony of 200 dollars, plus 300 dollars for attorney fees 850 dollars for hospital and doctor bills and 168 dollars for court costs. She also must support three minor children. The couple formerly ran a fashionable hotel in Cedar Rapids until Mrs Melser expelled her husband.
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Hortense Melser
Cedar Rapida
Iowa
Matchmaking by Aunt Tilda Sparks a ruse of love
Reginald Brown has failed to propose due to finances and pride. Aunt Tilda engineers a scheme with Matilda Hawkins and her widowed lawyer friend Deighton to push Reggie toward a bold move. Reggie lands a job with Deighton and hopes for a future partnership, while Matty contemplates the risk and timing of marriage.
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Eginald Brown
Matilda Hawkins
Reginald
Matilda
Reggie
Matty
Watters
Tilda
Ralph Rigstone
Percy Deighton
Deighton
Aunt Tilda
Old Deighton
Tildath
Reggie Wauy
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Edouard de Max
Comedie Francalis
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Kipling
Frank Hunter
Arthur D. Brooks
Martinus E. Stenseth
Arthur E. Easterbrook
H. Irving King
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