Wonderful Horse of Jekyl Island Saga of a White Wild Stallion
Rome Georgia correspondent recounts the noble white stallion on Jekyl Island off Georgia coast. The chase by Capt Hunter and hunters across beach, woods, and marsh ends with the horse’s capture and legend forming a local memory. Superstitious locals speak of the white horse as a supernatural omen.
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Georgia
Jekyl
Sir Joseph Jekyl
Gen. Oglethorpe
Colony of
du Bignaus
Hugenot
New York
Hunter
Capt. Hunter
Meridan
Brunswick
St. Mary’s
Darien
Fernandina
Jekkle
de Lahn
Captain Hunter
Is Charity Worth While
Ruth Ashmore writes in May Ladies Home Journal that true charity fills lives with helpful acts and kind words. She argues charity is more than money, urging compassion, gentle deeds, and imitation of Christ’s care toward others in need, even if funds are small.
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Ruth Ashmore
May
Ladies’ Home Journal
Unfortunate Princess Elizabeth a Prisoner to Crown and War
A concise biographical sketch of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I, detailing her birth in 1635, royal upbringing, captivity during the English Civil War, letters to Parliament, guardians and shifts of custody, her betrothal attempts, illness, and death at Carisbrook Castle in 1650 at age fifteen, with a note on a monument in St. Thomas Isle of Wight.
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Elizabeth
England
Charles I
St. James Palace
Laud
United Provinces of
Holland
Charles
Henrietta
Jtan
Tintoretto
Mary
Countess of
Henrrietta
Great Palace
Henry
St.‘ James
Sion House
Hampton Court
Carisbrook Castle
Ople
France
Commons
Northumberland
Leicester
Charles II
Carisbrook
Countess of Leicester
Physicians Seize Artery in Court Room Fight in Georgia
In Wrightsville Georgia on May 9 five physicians held the ends of a severed jugular in the courtroom of Judge Flanders to keep the wounded P H Rogers alive until a surgeon arrived from a neighboring town by special train. Rogers and A O Kennedy clashed during a court case. Kennedy attacked Rogers with a knife, severing his neck. Rogers remains in dangerous condition as doctors work to save him. Kennedy escaped.
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Wrightsville
P.h.rogers
Judge Flanders
Rogers
A. O Kennedy
Kennedy
A Monkey Story from the Norman Arrival
Westminster Gazette reports a large South Africa bound monkey, under a passenger’s charge, survived an explosion at Johannesburg. The animal was found in a cottage room with two infant children, one dead, the other alive and nursing by the monkey. The living child was later adopted in Johannesburg, while the monkey was famed for its fondness for children aboard the Union Company mail steamer.
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Westminster Gazette
Southampton
Norman
South Africa
Johannesburg
See the Union Company
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Charles MacKay
Rome
New York Post
Globe-Democrat
House of Commons
Parliament
House of Lords
Earl of Pembroke
Evizapeth
Lords
Oxford
Countess of Dorset
Queen Elizabeth
William Greenhill
Rowley
Alexander
Millais
van Dyck
Chelsea
Whitehall
Earl of Northumberland
Naseby
Duke of York
Windsor
Cromwell
Bismarck
Dom Paul
Kruger
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