The Lad with the Silver Button Through Mull Coast
The lad with the silver button arrives at Torosay in Mull after a long Highland trek. He recalls the old man who sheltered him, a rogue guide, a blind catechist, and a boozy Maclean of Duart, while noting Highland customs and poverty and ending with the departure of an emigrant ship bound for America.
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The
Isle OF Mull
Ross of
Mull
Ber
Alan
Torosay
Rapine
Brotherhood of
Gars
Hector Maclean
Maclean
Mr. Maclean
Isle of
Eening
Teel
Highlands
Frenel
Ardshiel
Duncan Mackeigh
Maclean of Duart
Barraid
Across Morven Ferry in Maclean Country
In Chapter Sixteen Button Across Morven the narrator travels by a slow ferry from Toro say to Kinlochaline, meeting Macleans and the boat skipper Neil Roy Macrob. The crowded boat limits private talk as they cross the Sound under a windless, poorly equipped craft.
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Torosay
Kinlochaline
Neil Roy Macrob
Macrob
Alan
Neil Roy
A Dear Old Lady and the Train Looting Incident
In Harper's Magazine a tale follows Aunt Mary who scolds city life and helps reveal a cheeky incident on a train. She notices a newlywed couple leave a pasteboard box with laundry items. She tosses it, the box bursts open, and the couple’s belongings spill onto the platform. The man rebukes her as the train pulls away.
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Harper's Magazine
New York
Mary
Aunt Mary
Buffal
Mutiny on the Herbert Fuller Ends in Massacres At Sea
Halifax special reports the barkentine Herbert Fuller from Boston to Rosario arrived with a murder and mutiny on board. Captain Nash his wife Laura and second officer Bramburg killed in their cabins with an axe. Mate Bram and wheelman Lahe ironed. passenger Frank Monks aided in reporting. Bodies dumped at sea. US consul in contact. secrecy enforced.
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Halifax
N. S
Barkentine
Herbert Fuller
Nash
Boston
Rosario
Fuller
Laura
Bramburg
Jonathan Sheere
Thomas Dramn
Brama Irons
Tme
Frank Monks
Wrest
United States
Washington
Thos
Bram
Aso
Ol the Fuller
Harrington
F. H. Monks
Harvard
South America
Monks
Lahe
Seaman Brown
Murde
Where Was He Longmans Magazine Old Dundee Mystery
Forfarshire lairds travel to Dundee for a meal then ride home. One slips on a grassy slope into shallow Firth water and disappears. A search echoes the cry Balnawiggin as a distant voice proclaims I am not in hell for there is water nearby.
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Longman’s Magazine
Forfarshire
Great Dundee
Firth
Balnawiggin
The Earth's Population Growth Rate Calculations
A statistician estimates world deaths at 32,214,000 annually and 98,540 daily, 4,020 hourly, and 67 per minute. Births are about 36,792,000 yearly, 100,800 daily, 4,200 hourly, and 70 per minute, yielding a net gain of roughly three people each minute.
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Th Earth
Relief from Ovarian Womb Pain After Pinkham Remedy
Mrs James Parrish of Minneapolis testifies to long lasting relief from ovarian and womb pains and kidney troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes daily fatigue vanishes and urges other sufferers to try the medicine.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
James Parrish
Marshall St
N. E
Minneapolis
Minn
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Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour
Alan Breck Stewart
Ebenezer Balfour
Shaws
Will
Loch Aline
American Colonies
Morven
Mupiny
New York Central
Great West
Seonia Fig & Co
Soldornia Grup Co
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Tego
Pond’s Extract CO
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