Ulla the Viking Sails Away in Unrequited Love
The narrator, a Norway jarl, recalls a royal wedding at Halfdan’s hall and his passion for Ragnhild, an English princess. After her abduction by a hill chieftain, Ulla pursues a long voyage along the English coast, seeking the white maid and learning she is gone.
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Ulla
Halfn the Black
Norway
Laersood
Fareyjar
Ljodhus
Thorp Tower
Ann
Thyri
Thorn
Ter
Halfdan
Ragnhild
Harold Idbeard
Isles
Frigga
Gunna
Stranere
Nidaros
The Sea King's Son Builds His Warship for Foray
A weary Danish rover returns to sea, vows revenge for a lost lover, and with Shaun the carpenter Vedrey of the brushes and a crew of villeins rebuilds a blue ship. The ship gains oars, a shielded prow, a bears grease coat mast, and a dragon head as the warlike crew prepare for a swift voyage.
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Shaun
Vedrey
Shaua
Odin
Kand
Viskerdal
Prayer and Promise at the Ash Tree Ends in Grief
A fragmented passage describes a speaker praying loudly by an ae tiler to three sisters under an ash Yggdrasil. The prayer seeks a return to a lover but ends with sorrow as the prayer is granted, leaving the situation open for continuation.
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Yggdrasil
Worms change earth’s surface with vast sand castings
Darwin introduced the public to worms and their earth shaping. O Davison measured lobworm castings on Holy Island sands. He found about 50 million castings per square mile, with annual sand moved totaling up to 901 tons per acre, up to 3,145 tons in some areas, creating an average 13 inch depth of moved sand.
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Mr. Darwin
Earth
O. Davison
Davison
Holy Island
Northumberland
Scotland
London Hospital
German Railways Expand to Vast Network and Workforce
German railways now aggregate 24 600 miles and employ 12 620 locomotive men 26 008 passenger cars 556 851 freight cars and 618 000 officials and other employees. In 1890 there were 3 088 accidents of all kinds.
Florida Health Official Imposes Quarantine Over Yellow Fever
State health officer J. Y. Porter orders quarantine on persons and baggage from Mississippi and Louisiana infection points due to yellow fever reports.
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J. Y. Porter
Florida
Mississippi
Louiaiana
Widow of Vet Donates 75000 for New Children's Hospital
Mrs Richard Milliken of New Orleans widow of a sugar planter presented the charity hospital with 75000 to establish a children’s building. The project will include a kindergarten and other improvements.
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Founds Hospital
Richard Milliken
New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Fire destroys Mendelssohn piano and organ works plant
A major fire in Mendelssohn park near McKeesport Pennsylvania leveled the Mendelssohn Piano works Barckoff Organ works and Dickson Wood works plant early Monday. Loss is placed at 65000 dollars and the blaze is believed to have been set. The organ factory had been idle for two weeks awaiting litigation settlement.
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Mendelssohn Park
Keesport
Mendelssohn Piano Works
Barckoff Organ Works
Dickson Wood Works
Andrews Holds Firm on Brown University Presidency Resignation
Unofficial word states Dr. Andrews will refuse to remain as Brown University president after a Monday conference with the advisory and executive committee of the corporation. HisCosmopolitan university duties are seen as too time consuming to allow simultaneous service. A faculty letter urged him to stay.
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Dr. Andrews
Brown University
Corporation
Cosmopolitan University
Texans impose iron clad quarantine over yellow fever areas
State Health Officer Swearingen at Austin announces an immediate indefinitely lasting quarantine against Ocean Springs Mississippi and all other points affected or likely to be affected by yellow fever. Gulf coast residents show fear as reports indicate spreading concerns.
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Swearingen
Austin
Tex
Ocean Springs
Miss
Gulf Coast
Ireland Faces Severe Crop Failure Threats Across Regions
Advices report failure of potato hay and corn crops in most Irish districts leading to a grim winter outlook. The Michaelstown guardians chairman warned of an agricultural crisis with many rate payers possibly needing workhouse relief.
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Ireland
Michael's
New Klondike finds loom as Ontario rival to Alaska
A Detroit Evening News dispatch from Wawa City Ont reports quartz ore assays over 30 dollars a ton and gold in pure form across several thousand acres. About 100 prospectors work the bill with 26 new arrivals. disputes over priority and patents cloud claims while locals note sparse Indian and Hudson Bay trader presence.
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Vancouver
B. C
Capitano
Powers
Juneau
Dyea
Skaguay
Bristol
Eugene
Victoria
Alert Bay
Klondike
Detroit Evening News
Wawa City
Lake Wawa
Lake Superior
French Cable Lands at Cape Cod Debate Over Landing
Washington officials from the state department and the attorney general's office discuss the French cable landing at Cape Cod. The 1879 authority via Secretary Evarts backs the line, while France replaces it with copper. Bills to restrict or defer landings did not pass. Work on the cable continues toward completion in mid ocean in about ten days.
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State Department
Washington
Attorney General’s Office
Cape Cod
Evarts
Frye
Congress
Nelson
Ocean
Bryan Addresses Immense Labor Day Crowd in St Louis
Hon. W. J. Bryan spoke at Concordia Park during the Labor Day celebration. He reviewed a parade of about 15,000 laboring men and addressed a massive crowd at the St. Louis event.
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St. Louis
W. J. Bryan
Concordia Park
Gro O
Ryan
Bud Fuller Indicted in Child's Death Case
Bud Fuller, a farmer, was indicted by the Fulton county grand jury in Atlanta on a charge of assault with intent to murder after witnesses from the Jackson hotel testified he carried his paralyzed child there and left it in the woods a day before its discovery. The grand jury also heard details on how the child was found and its condition.
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Bud Fuller
Fulton County Grand Jury
Atlanta
Jackson Hotel
Fuller
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