Love and Stock Manipulation on Wall Street Romance
In a late century tale James Rigdon dominates Wall Street as he boosts prices by booms and dumps. Miss Martindale and her family chase gains on Onarora Copper while Rigdon profits, then offers a new deal promising love and wealth tied to his schemes.
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James Rigdon
Wall Street
Rigdon
New York
Martindale
Onarora
Miss Martindale
Mr. Rigdon
Mr Rigdon
Curious Herm Island Rules Rival a Dream South Seas
A New York Sun report describes Herm island near Guernsey as a feudal enclave with strict regulations. Prince Blucher leases the island from Britain and presides from a summit residence while visitors may land only in summer after paying a fee and presenting a reason. The island hosts a sizable kangaroo herd and a small stone prison, with a chief bailiff enforcing laws.
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Herm
Guernsey
South Seas
Prince Blucher
Waterloo Blucher
Australia
London
New York Sun
Connie Mack critiques young pitcher in exhibition game
Connie Mack, famed for developing pitchers, scolds a young slab artist after he fails to throw over the plate. Mack insists the pitcher is peevishly told that every time he starts the ball over, it is knocked back.
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Connie Mack
Connie
Mack
Natural food of man favors fruit and nuts in Carrington view
Hereward Carrington argues in The Natural Food of Man that fruit and nuts constitute the natural diet rather than meat or vegetables. He warns vegetarians often fail by misbalancing protein intake and overeating to compensate for assumed meat nutritive value.
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Hereward Carrington
Astrological Terms in English Roots and Bird Names
A compact linguistic note traces how disaster and other words entered English from astrology and how petrel derives from rock and Saint Peter. It highlights the influence of heavenly bodies on language and explains etymology linking petrel to petr a and St Peter.
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Petra
St. Peter
Sedate groom falters at wedding in village tale
John Budd, a precise and exemplary young man, wins Susan Smiley and marries with modest ceremony. At the moment the clergyman asks for the vows he blushes and blurts out, Yes please, shocking onlookers with a comic breach of decorum.
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John Budd
Susan Smiley
John
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John M. Graves
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North American Accident Insurance Co
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C. Justice
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