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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
5
The Namur's deck lights reveal a pursuing boat as Manuel Estada and crew abduct Dorothy Fairfax. Aboard, LeVere orders and torments, while Gates, a captured Englishman, endures a brutal beating. A Briton named Tom Watkins, recently freed from suspicion, tries to ally with Gates amid the mutinous crew.
Carlyle, a taster of sailing ships, is sentenced to twenty years for the Monmouth rebellion. He engages with Dorothy Fairfax and Spaniard Sanches a rival who plots to steal Fairfax gold. After a brutal clash, Carlyle fights to save Dorothy and hatches a daring ruse aboard the Namur to reach safety.
I awaken in the fore castle bunk aboard a bark as Estada’s kick haunts my body. The ship rolls hard, wind screams, and I survey a grim, crowded rack where an Englishman greets me with rough cordiality as I recover from bruises and bloodied flesh.
Carlyle encounters further attention from Estada in a different form raising questions about possible outcomes. The scene hints at either a worsening danger or a potential for escape for Carlyle and Dorothy dependent on evolving events and choices ahead.
Story recalls the Armenia steamboat on Hudson in its early days selling daylight trips to view river scenery aided by a steam calliope. The engine demand for steam to drive the whistles proved costly, leading a Catskill woodsman to mythically report seeing the devil and hell aboard as the ship passed before dawn.
Anecdotes tell of Rev Dr Somerville while assisting Bonar at Larbert He walked over three miles to Dunipace to preach Then he knocked on cottage doors for early risers and urged them to church One morning a quarryman balked saying his boots were not fit Somerville lent his own shoes saying his feet were fit for preaching and the quarryman could hear him in English style.
A woman explains she delayed in replying to a letter due to illness from a dog bite, blaming a dog living with a sawmill owner. The editor notes the excuse mirrors a schoolboy’s attempt to explain water in ears, with a humorous aside about a swimmer and a jog.
A Michigan inventor received a patent for a wagon mounted crane allowing a single person to lift and empty ashes or garbage from a can into a wagon. The device attaches to any wagon and operates by a handheld control.
Poetic fragment notes a humorous face and a remark on lofty thinking. It cites mild satire about applause fueling noble winds and contrasts deep thinkers with weaker minds in a joking mood.
Private William J. Proctor of Boston recalls Salvation Army workers who served with the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion in France. He says they kept supplying hot doughnuts and coffee under shellfire, boosted morale, and inspired a nationwide fundraising drive of 13 million dollars set for May 19. Proctor was wounded in October and later recovered at Fort McHenry, where doctors noted a fractured spine from a prior wound.
Salvation Army opened the Victory Loan Campaign with a ceremony at the Statue of Victory in Philadelphia. Colonel Holt and Commandant Howard Hinkle presented the German flag from Metz to the Victory Loan Committees amid large crowds on Broad Street near City Hall. The Stef! Band escorted the officials as the band played America and Onward Christian Soldiers before the flag passed to General Grant for the government committee.
A Tribune feature honors a selfless group whose work prioritized service over profit. They minimized financial aims, gave freely, and maintained pure motives in their methods, with generous gestures like free doughnuts and the Salvation lassie symbolizing their spirit.
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