A New Year in Rome A Tale of Exiles and Love
In Rome Tolanthe and American Saunderson meet among exiles at St Peter's Palazzo Rusticucci. A German neighbor plots to unite them while kindness from strangers grows into romance. The New Year brings startling twists as fate and friendship forge a shared future.
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Pax
Tolanihe
White Pigeon
St. Peter’s
Palazzo Rusticucci
Réne
Tolanthe
Esterday
Forder
Iolanthe
Joseph B. Saunderson
Sandusky
Saunderson
Joseph
Tedesca
Peter
Rome
Sixtus
Villa Daria
God
Love
Palazzo
Olanthe
Singer
Tolan
Signorina
Bacchus
Tolahtha
Fort Smith Grim Scaffold and the Tahlequah Pillar of Death
A New York Herald account contrasts the Fort Smith Arkansas scaffold famed for its long execution record with Tahlequah in Indian Territory where the beam becomes a playground for sheriff’s children. It recalls Jack Childers and the 1871 sunlit rainstorm when witnesses and fate collided.
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New York
Ft. Smith
Ark
Tahlequah
Cherokee Nation
Indian Territory
Criminal Court
George Maledan
Eternit
Maledan
Jack Childers
Childers
Italian engineer plans two mile tunnel linking Italy and Sicily
De Johannis presents a paraboloid spiral tunnel concept to cross the Messina Strait. The model shown at the University of Padua details two 10,000 foot shafts, a maximum grade of 32 feet per thousand, and a preferred form over a 4,500 foot bridge due to winds.
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Italy
Sicily
de Johannis
University of Padua
Strait of Messina
DeJohannis
San Giovanni di Santtello
Aspromonte
Degil Inglesi
Favorably Located Duzbey Divorce Case Noted
A brief item records that Mrs. Buzbuz has begun divorce proceedings in South Dakota. The dialogue between characters mentions a sung line about truth and a comment on a woman's reason. The exchange includes a line about Bidston’s pleading and judicial clarity.
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Duzbey
Buzbuz
Dooby
South Dakota
Roxburg Gazette
Conscientious Patient Mistakenly Takes Cockroaches
A London hospital prescribed malt extract with instructions for a patient to take a teaspoonful twice daily. After two weeks he reported back asking if he should continue, having mistakenly consumed cockroaches that had entered the jar at his home. The insects had not been dispensed by the hospital but entered during the first night of the jar’s stay.
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London
London Lancet
No Chimneys View Over Mexican Cathedral Spire
From the cathedral spire in Mexico the city spreads below with a striking absence of chimneys. There is not a chimney in all Mexico nor a stove or furnace as charcoal ovens and occasional gas odors shape daily life.
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Mexico
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Cuba
Uncle Sam
Louise V. Boyd
Indianapolis
Dublin
Ind
Maud Howe Elliott
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Ludovisi
Borgo Miego
Tiber
Iolanthe Merrydew
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Joseph Saunderson
Borgo
Aladdin
Pzl
Mall Gazette
Fort Smith’s
Minnie
Mannie
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