Soldier of Fortune on the Sea Gull
Lieutenant Henley plans a daring board and escape on the Bea Gull but Gordon Craig, the narrator, overpowers him during a combat aboard. Bluejackets storm the deck, Broussard and Healey are freed, and Henley is captured as the crew is subdued and secured below. The girl is hidden below as order is restored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peters
Henley
Mystera
Chart House
Broussard
Leutenant
Contes
Healey
Hutton
Otill
Language lesson about keeping promises in English humor
A perplex Frenchman asks why an honest man must keep his word. The instructor explains that giving and keeping a promise are linked, and the joke hinges on language tricks and the idea that if a man keeps his word he has not given it. The exchange ends with playful confusion over English phrasing.
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Leesten
Night Rescue on the Sea Gull Bonded by Threats
In Chapter Eighteen the narrator helps a captive woman and girl, forced onto a vessel as Captain Henley menaces them with a revolver. The crew aids in hauling the captives aboard, while the speaker insists the blame lies with him and narrates a tense attempt to keep the women safe.
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Peters
Physiognomy and the Earliest Thinkers
The piece notes Lavater did not pioneer physiognomy. It credits Aristotle, the ancient Greek, with early systematic work on reading character from the face. Aristotle’s six chapters on the subject are highlighted as still of interest.
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Lavater
Aristotle
New York American
Fragmented ad text and quotes from a bygone paper
A scrambled OCR page fragment features laundry service mention Sanitary Home Laundry with phone 177, a list of businesses including Watch Repairing Day 8 Park & Company and The Sherman Co. It also contains quips attributed to Houston Most and James T. Pields, plus Marcus Aurelius and Marcus Aurelius style quotes about benevolence and reading. The readable parts resemble an ad-page collage with miscellaneous notices and literary snippets.
Pageant and Masque Celebrate St Louis Founding
St Louis marked its 150th anniversary with the Pageant and Masque, a two part production in Forest Park detailing mound building, De Soto, LaSalle, and the city’s growth under French, Spanish, and American flags. A 7500 cast, 600 chorus, and 100 piece band performed before 42 thousand seats, with 60,000 viewing from the hill as the program traced St Louis history to its American era.
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ST. Louis
Thomas Wood Stevens
School of Drama
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
Percy MacKaye
Mississippi River
Illinois
de Soto
Father Marquette
LaSalle
Pierre Laclede
Chouteau
United States
Missouri
West
General LaFayette
Cahokia
Missisippi
Straassee
Nature
Sieild
Cane
Thore
Federick
Converse
Forest Park
City Art Museum
Camp Stocle
B. EB. C
Faye Letter Recounts Awkward Restaurant Moment
London Lancet publishes a letter about a Holborn restaurant scene where the writer, without spectacles, is not sure what happened as a patron boxed his ears after accusing him of glaring. He recalls mistaken identity, eye trouble, and a lesson to wear glasses in public settings.
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Faye
Fiasic
London Lancet
Holborn
Bounder
Seave
Moslems of the World Show Rising Global Presence
The British empire holds 6,000,000 more Muslims than Christians as Islam grows yearly. India has 60,000,000 Muslims with a 0 growth in the last decade while its population rose 2 percent. Java has 24,000,000 Muslims. Persia is dominated by Islam. many biblical sites lie under Muslim rule, highlighting the sweep of Islam, per the Christian Herald.
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British Empire
India
Java
Persia
Iwan
Christian Herald
Count de Lisle and the Wine Cask Escape
A noble youth, Count de Lisle, richily endowed yet kind to the poor, faces execution during the French Revolution. Betrayed by a tenant turned judge, he is saved by a daring escape aided by a wine merchant, his wife’s cipher, and a plan to flee Paris with two wine casks to reach the Belgian border.
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France
Count de Lisle
Maine
Paris
Beir
Palais Royal
Mme. Roland
Julie de Lisle
de Lisle
Henri Denier
Denler
Denller
Patel
Beng
Mme
Henri Denler
Denier
Mme. Denier
Paria
Francois
Conciergerie
Citizen de Lisle
Suoriae
Francola
Vrancola
Bellum
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Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune———py Randell Parrish
Mia Leutenant
Sea Ap
Craig
Bea Gull
Bee
Henfey
Maraton
Simms
George
Hroussard
Louis
Honduras
Masters
Brian
Somers
Galveston
A. C. McClurg & Co
Park & Company
Windowshades
The
Sherman Co
Browses
the Sherman Co
Lhlouston
Todoleave
James T. Pields
Marcus Aurelius
Elso
East End
Paul
Cleveland Plaio Denier
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