Zoe Wins a Night of Daring at Wentworths
Major Milner questions Zoe Wentworth’s nerve but is impressed by her courage when masked burglars invade the Wentworth house. She calmly bargains with them, feigns harmlessness, frees the servants, lures the robbers to supper, then quietly locks them in and aids their capture. Milner admires her and they marry three months later.
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Major Milner
Zoe Wentworth
Miss Wentworth
Gerald
Amotous
Misa Wentworth
Gerald Wentworth
Zoe
Abe
Major Miller
USA
Mrs. Wentworth
Soan
Hiller
Colonel Wentworth
Wen— Zoe
Major Mulner
Lampe
Milner
Laurel and bay wreathe roles through ancient to modern times
The article traces laurel or bay crowns from ancient Olympic victors and victorious generals to modern symbols like medals and poet laureates. It notes the bay tree Laurus nobilis as source, mentions an ancient belief in Myrrh or bay as antidotes and protective charms, and highlights laurel in education and achievement from bachelorhood to doctorates.
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Themy
London Gardeners Magazine
A Dish for an Epicure and the Goose Liver Craft
A large business in Shasburg produces pate de foie gras from goose livers, up to two pounds each, with seven to eight hundred livers daily in season. Freshness and careful sorting are essential as livers arrive pinkish yellow at the factory. The 1783 discovery by Chef Jean Pierre Clause of cald goose liver in Madeira jelly, crusted with truffe de Perigard, became the epicure’s revered dish, a secret recipe kept by his master for dignitaries.
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Shasburg
Jean Pierre Clause
Marshal de Contades
Alsace
Clause
Somnambulist Writes Love Letters Prompting Suit
A Washington Post quip features a lawyer discussing somnambulism and the improbable image of a somnambulist composing 250 Jovetters in a year, all urging a girl to marry under threat. The exchange ends with a joke about settling a breach of promise suit on good terms. A man concedes in a domestic dispute that he is right but outtalked by his wife.
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Washington
Seymour Safe Relief For Admiral Seymour Relieved
Advices from Chefno via Shanghai report Admiral Seymour’s expedition relieved and safe, his force returning to Tien-Tsin after protecting foreign legations. The relief column faced Chinese mobs but suffered light casualties. foreign quarters denied mass executions, while dispatches minimize massacres among natives. United States court in Chicago upholds stock yards excess charge ruling.
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Chefno
Shanghai
Admiral Seymour
Nvith Pekio
Tien-Tsie
Pekin
Tien-Tsin
London
China
Tien Tsin
Shangha
Sod Chefoon
Tien- Tsin
Seymour
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Northwestern to open line between Mankato Junction and New Ulm
Northwestern plans a new rail line linking Mankato Junction to New Ulm Minnesota amid broader talks on passenger and freight tariffs. Erie withdrawal from a joint committee may strain agreements and trigger wider conflict affecting lines nationwide. Western Passenger Association groups in St Paul discuss all year tourist tariffs and fall wholesale rates. Illinois Central considers pension plans for long serving employees. Crow Indians grant to grade a roadbed near their reserve. Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad reincorporated with 15 million capital. includes Illinois Central and branches. Southwestern Association rejects merchant rate reductions for New York auto meet. Canadian bids to Winnipeg Duluth rail with government rate control.
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Northwestern
Mankato Junction
New Ulm
Minn
Erie
Western Passenger Association
Eastern Committee
St. Paul
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Red Men’s Reservation
Dubuque
Sioux City
Illinois Central
Southwestern Passenger Association
New York
German Officer Warns of Bloody Boxer Conflict
General Stahl reports from Vancouver that the Boxer uprising will trigger a long bloody conflict. He notes the movement spreading, with heavy casualties likely, as the south also prepares to take up arms and the rebellion grows in scope.
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Stahl
Imperial German Army
Orient
Vancouver
B. C
British legation entrance and fanatics menace rises
The report notes the risk of invasion by fanatics tied to a vast network smuggling arms across a large region. General Stahl warns that Japan and Russia conflict worsens the crisis and harms needed unanimity. Also reported are a suicide by Rev. Thomas B. Cheney, loss of bronze howitzers at Chickamauga Park, and Lord Huntley earning income from sports novels.
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Ers
Gen. Stahl
Japan
Russia
Commodity prices slip as July dullness lingers
Reports from New York warn of continued declines in commodity prices and slack business, while Washington notes exports may reach 1.4 billion dollars, up 173 million from last year. Chicago shows wheat futures volatile yet pressured by potential scarcity and the need for higher prices. Corn also balanced between old reserves and a growing crop.
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R Free
New York
Washington State
Chicago
Europe
Filipinos Resist Despite Heavy Losses in Northern Luzon
A week of scouting in northern Luzon left fifty rebels dead and forty wounded, with one American killed. American troops burned six Gen. Tino barracks, captured Tino's correspondence, and forced his retreat with 200 men. In Angles and Pampaneo reliefs the insurgents faced setbacks while captives and reports surfaced on officers and troops. The American Philippines commission considers civil service exams in the Philippines and a Philippine civil service board.
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Luzon
Ilocos
Tino
Manguiris
Angeles
Aquino
Grant
Tarlac
Pamponeo
Aiken
Charles D. Roberts
Thirty
Bengued
American Philippines Commission
Washington
Philippines
United States
Philippine Civil Service Board
Missouri professor tasked with entomology collection in southern Mexico
Prof J M Stedman of Missouri University appointed by the board of curators to assemble entomological and related specimens for the university museum in southern Mexico. In Kentucky Cook Cox of Gray's Village killed John Engle following a dispute over a horse trade. Patrick Owens of Crescent Springs, Kentucky was shot from ambush and fatally injured.
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J. M. Stedman
Missouri University
University Museum
Mexico
Cook Cox
Gray's Village
John Engle
Patrick Owens
Crescent Springs
Kay
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