Babooma challenged as Croft to balance tribal rite
In a tense confrontation with the chief Babooma, Croft and Barbara witness a ritual sacrifice to Balhuaka. The ceremony ends with communal feast and a dramatic display as Croft leads the flames, signaling belief approval. Later the pair retreat to a hut as the revelers disperse and fear and desire mingle.
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Barbara
Croft
Chimabahol
Babooma
Wupon
Roowa
Roona
Meaman
Chimabaho
Balhuaka
Island Wreck Sparks Forbidden Island Romance
Barbara Stockley of Darbury plans marriage to Hugh Rochdale and aAustralia trip with aviator Major Alan Croft. After a plane wreck in a Pacific storm, Barbara and Croft reach an uninhabited island where cannibal danger and native encounters test their bond and survival.
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Darbury
Barbara Stockley
Hugh Rochdale
Barbara
Australia
Alan Croft
Croft Barbara
Croft
Pacific Ocean
Fear and coercion in ceremonial meeting with native chiefs
Croft asserts overbearing control during a tense gathering as natives fear punishment for dissent. He threatens burning, enslavement, and shark-throwing unless cooperation continues, while Barbara observes humanity in the crowd and a local child seeks comfort.
Rescue over the reef sparks hope and fear on the island
Barbara and Alan face strengthened rifts as a shark sighting and a beacon fire atop the hill signal possible rescue. She recalls dangers of their isolation while the rising smoke casts a chilling foreboding over their precarious pact and future.
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Barbara
Alan
Croft
Pacific Ocean
Sky
Poem by Charles Mackay Dimensions and Form
A brief note describes the poem Clean an 1 by Charles Mackay the Scotch poet and journalist. It notes four stanzas of four lines each with endings in I or a rhyming syllable.
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Charles Mackay
Writer Laughs at Law to Regulate the Sexes
This satirical piece contrasts law and custom with gender stereotypes. It argues that statutes cannot erase centuries of difference as it highlights enduring splits in behavior, perception, and emotion between men and women.
Hypnotic influence and crime according to Delboeuf
Doctor Delboeuf, a French physician, argues hypnotized subjects will not perform acts forbidden by their moral code. He cites an experiment where a hypnotized subject would shoot a mock weapon but would not fire a real loaded revolver, suggesting crime may arise only in those with criminal tendencies.
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Croft
Barbara
Chimabahol
Tabu
Roowa
Meamaa
Doctor Delboeuf
Superb Horsemanship Rift Riders Rival World
The Rift horsemen, famed for wartime feats against Spain, perform daring jumping and toss catching maneuvers while in full gallop. Cossacks at gymkhanas practice similar shows. A war correspondent once saw a Rift rider thread a needle at full speed across sand.
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Spain
Great Northwest
Parrot Refuses Questions in California Boardroom
A parrot flew into a Sacramento state board of control room and perched on a chair. It did not answer questions even after a cracker was offered. Greek restaurant owner George Kelaydis claimed the bird and revealed it speaks Greek.
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California State Board of Control
Sacramento
George Kelaydis
Capitol
Bishop Swint Foretells Golf's Extinction in Millennium
On an autumn Sunday en route to Wheeling the bishop waved at crowded golf courses and predicted that in the millennium every day will be Sunday and mankind will tire of golf, causing the game to become extinct.
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Bishop Swint
Wheeling
Montreal Curler Gifts 180 Pairs of Curling Stones to Canada
One hundred eighty pairs of Scottish curling stones are en route to Canada as a gift from Montreal curler T. Howard Stewart to fellow Montreal curlers. The donation marks the largest single order for curling stones in the game's history.
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Canada
Montreal
T. Howard Stewart
Famous Forts in U. S. History
Jefferson Barracks Missouri grew into a historic military hub. It housed officers who shaped the Civil War era including Jefferson Davis era regiments led by Albert Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee. Generals from both Union and Confederacy trained there and the post produced famed leaders like Ulysses S. Grant, William Sherman, George Thomas and many others. Established in 1826 as Cantonment Adams the site served in wars from Mexican to World War I.
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United States
Jefferson Barracks
Jefferson Davis
Second Cavalry
Jeff Davis
Albert Sidney Johnston
Robert E. Lee
Davis
Edwin Sumner
Joseph E. Johnston
Bull Run
John Sedgwick
W. J. Hardee
W. H. Emory
George Stoneman
E. D. Baker
Jeb” Stuart
George H. Thomas Wesley Merritt
Earl van Dorn
Kirby Smith
Henry Leavenworth
Henry Atkinson
Stephen W. Kearney
John C. Fremont
Braxton Bragg
James Longstreet
Ulysses S. Grant
St. Louis
General Gentry
John W. Price
Florida
Cantonment
Adams
John Quincy Adams
Uncle Sam
Fort Madison and the Scrap of Paper Promise
A historical account recounts the 1813 fall of Fort Madison on the Mississippi near Iowa after Thomas Hamilton led a night retreat to safety. Built on a disputed treaty, the fort faced sieges by Winnebago and Black Hawk, burned as the garrison escaped, leaving only a chimney later restored as a monument.
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Leutenant
Thomas Hamilton
Fort Madison
Iowa
Mississippi River
Hamilton
Mississippi
St. Louis
James Wilkinson
Lieut
Zebulon Pike
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Pike
Des Moines River
Alpha Kingsley
First Infantry
James Madison
Black Hawk
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Clive Arden
Baltimore Sun
Bird
U. S
Western Newspaper Union
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