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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
5
Geoffry Carlyle, posing as Gates, plots aboard the Namur after a brutal Caribbean pirate raid. Sanchez’s injury and Estada’s scheming create a tense web as Carlyle seeks a rescue for a woman aboard and looks for a chance to disable the ship.
Synonsia-Geoffry Carlyle a ship taster is sentenced to twenty years' servitude for Monmouth rebellion. He joins Dorothy Fairfax and others in a sea chase against Sanchez the pirate Black Sanchez who plans to seize Fairfax gold. Carlyle fights, is cast overboard, and makes a perilous bid to retake the Namur.
A historical note recounts the emperess who faced a palace scandal over large feet. The tale describes the foot binding process begun at six, with toes bent under the sole, big toe over others, bandages tight for weeks, yielding a lifelong deformity. The practice ended by royal edict years later.
A fragment quotes James Russell Lowell wondering what a schoolhouse could be like if wit were not diverted into warfare and confusion. The remark hints at education ideals and social critique through a compact literary line.
Carlyle envisions a risky rescue scheme for Dorothy and himself, facing many pitfalls. The text hints at a desperate chance and asks whether he will seize it, with Carlyle certain only of one answer.
The article explains American soldiers wear hats made from imported rabbit skins. Australia supplies most skins as American rabbits lack felt properties. Since the war began 86,000,000 rabbit skins have been used for 6,000,000 hats. Each hat costs $1,765 wholesale. retail is $4. Materials also come from abroad including China, Japan, and India.
The article describes broom making from brooma and hemlock branches tied around sticks, noting their fair service despite leaf loss. It also introduces pine needles as a modern substitute for bristles, with methods using tying around a stick or inserting needle bundles into holes bored in wood and sealed with hot pitch.
New York City is crowded with soldiers and sailors and lodging remains insufficient. Hotels and boarding houses are full and some provide floor sleeping spaces. The Salvation Army Shelter on Bowery and a Hast Forty-first Street hostel turn away hundreds nightly, with more facilities planned to house 800 to 1,000 men and ongoing efforts to ensure care for veterans in New York.
The Salvation Army operates 10 981 beds nationwide offering free lodging to workers soldiers agitators and marines until they find work. In El Paso a hostel for soldiers sailors and veterans was dedicated with Lieut Harry Welsch Jr praising Salvation Army aid overseas and detailing front line hut relief including 360 pies and 15 000 cups of coffee daily. The speaker noted soldiers and marines deeply value the organization.
An editorial reviews the Salvation Army as both a modern wonder and a principles grounded organization. It notes its public street presence and its quiet, humble rescue work in wartime and peacetime, highlighting its reach to every need and its emphasis on selfless labor.
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