Kidnapped Adventures Enduring the Clash at Sea
David Balfour recounts a brutal skirmish aboard a brig led by Alan Breck Stewart. Amid gunfire and hand to hand combat, they fend off attackers, with Balfour reflecting on fear, duty, and the Highland bravado guiding their perilous escape toward Skye and Rum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Balfour
Alan Breck Stewart
Ebenezer Balfour
Shaws
Robert Louis Stevenson
David
Alan
Allen
Mr. Shuan
Alan Breck
The Captain Knuckles Under Breakfast on a Bloodied Deck
Alan and I breakfast amid a shattered cabin, spilled blood, and stolen shipboard provisions. The two thirsty men from Scotland remain confined forward, promising more trouble ahead as we revel in our victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan
Scotland
Mr. Shuan
Food Supply of the Future Review
The discussion notes that vegetable growth could feed even dense populations and that artificial food manufacture offers future abundance. Analogy links future food to other commodities. nitrogen and energy are abundant. Human consumption limits food use, while production potential remains nearly limitless.
London Chronicle notes a fair Empress and a thin Emperor
A London Chronicle reporter in Moscow observes the Empress appears stout and healthy shortly after marriage while the Emperor looks thin. Also mentioned are notable figures: Professor Garner and Labouchere on the outs, Labby the simian, and claims about James Lafitte Smith of the Washington post office as the first stamp and stamped envelope seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Chronicle
Moscow
Garner
Labouchere
London Truth
James Lafitte Smith
Washington Post Office
Postoffice
United States
Ince
Postmaster’s Wife Near Death Restored by Pink Pills
A Lewiston Maine couple tell how Mrs. W. L. Francis, postmaster’s wife in Leeds Center, recovered from nervous prostration and heart pains after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She says she can now walk, work, and was accepted by endowment life insurance. Resident Station Agent C H Foster also reports improvement after two months on the remedy, joining a local Pink Pills Club. The pills cost 50 cents a box or six for $2.50, available from J Williams Med Co Schenectady NY.
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Journal
Lewiston
Rosy
Fred
Leeds Center
W. L. Francis
Francis
Dr. Williams
Endowment Life Insurance
M. A. Blossom
Dixfield
P. O
C. H. Foster
Foster
Mr. Foster
Swindler Bell Swartz Arrested After Three Year Chase
Kansas City special reports J R Bell alias James Swartz a noted swindler arrested in Neosha Missouri by Deputy Marshal Pearman. He claimed to be a secret agent for President Cleveland and a Treasury program to stockpile greenbacks for campaign use. Accomplices N A Maginnis and Thomas Robbins named as dupes longtime citizens of Nevada.
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Kansas City
Neosha
Pearman
Treasury Department
J. R. Bell
James Swartz
Ete
N A. Maginnis
Thomas Robbins
Nevada
Bell
Cleveland
W. A. Gresham
Treasury
Texas
Missouri
Tennessee
Washington
Swartz
Striking a Woodpile and a Youth’s Sympathetic Slip
A New York Recorder fragment depicts a youth on a social strike over chores, insisting he is sympathetic with himself as he labors at a sawbuck while his old father scolds the unpiled wood. A girl in a mirror routine comments on tumbles, a French doctor reports milk dressings for burns, and a list of upcoming world shows spans thirteen places worldwide.
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Alan
David
New York Recorder
Odessa
Geneva
Berlin
Kiel
Cannes
Mons
Rouen
Johannesburg
Brisbane
Para
Namurg
Paris
City of
Mexico
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Shaan
Aden
King
Appin
Breadalbane
Mr. Riach
Hebrides
Skye
Isle of
Rum
Duncan Stewart
Charlemagne
Duke of
Magenta
Marguerite d’Orleans
Marguerite
Duc de Chartres
Duchesse de Chartres
Princess de Joinville
Princess de Joiville
Peter I
Brazil
Duc d’Aumille
Chauncy M.depew
Prince of Wales
Deaien Victoria
Bismarck
Mr. Depew
Jeffersonville
Indianapolis
Charlestown
Yankee Run
Henryville
Kentucky
Peter Egan
William McMillen
Leeds
Philadelphia
Loomis & Nyman
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