The Lola Escape and Harbor Mystery Unfolds
In Leghorn harbor the yacht Lola narrowly escapes wreck. Gordon Gregr locum tenens for the British consul meets Hornby the owner and Hylton Chater aboard. A room of arms is discovered and a torn photo found aboard. The consul’s safe is robbed and the Lola departs as two suspects land and vanish. The consul suspects frauds and police search for the pair.
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Lola
Leghorn Harbor
Gordon Gregr
Hornby
Hylton Chater
Lea
Nornby
Lord
Gordon
Chater
London
Hutcheson
Lola Mystery On Italian Coasts Aboard The Lola
In Leghorn detectives probe a yacht named the Lola as thefts and concealed papers unfold. The narrator recalls a complex sea affair with Captain Mackintosh and Philip Hornby while a gray mustached man and a dark haired woman vanish ashore, hinting at a deeper motive linked to a wounded wife.
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Hagland
Wve
Spezia
Questara
Leghorn
Francesco
Colle Salvetti
Rome
Mediterranean
Marseilles
Naples
Smyrna
Scotland Yard
Hornby
Chater
Mackintosh
Malta
Britain
Carl
Jack Durnford
Royal Marines
Portsmouth
Apennines
Durnford
Jove
Jack
Philip Hornby
Gordon
Frank Hutcheson
Jack Durford
Europe
Lola
House Over the Water Chapter in Italian Reunion
In London I meet Clinto, my former Leghorn servant now in Oxford Street’s Restaurant Milona, as August heat lingers. We chat briefly near Pall Mall before parting at the National Gallery after asking about Armida.
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Boston
London
St. James’ Square
Pall Mall
Signore
Leghorn
Clinto
Milona
Oxford Street
Lambeth
National Gallery
Armida
Imperial tastes and fireproof cloth headline the era
A Tokyo paper outlines Meiji and Taisho dining habits with contrasts between Japanese and Western foods and living comforts. It notes the emperor’s preference for mixed meals, a billiard room, an imperial bathtub, electric lighting, and a crested kimono. Fireproof cotton cloth, developed by Dr. William S. Perkin, resists gas flames and washing, promising applications for clothing and children’s wear.
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Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Yoshihito
Lake
Chuzenji
Nikko
William S. Perkin
Keep Me From the Snare A Psalm 141 Lesson
A devotional study attributes Psalm 141 to David, tracing its prayerful structure from distress to deliverance. It emphasizes urging God with persistent prayer, heart purity, acceptance of reproof, and reliance on Jehovah for protection against sin and temptation.
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David
Jehovah
Tabernacle
R. V
Jonathan
Church of Christ
God
Ancient War Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Conflicts
The article recalls how dogs, especially sheep-dogs and bloodhounds, were used to seek wounded or unwounded fighters in Scottish clan feuds and English campaigns. It notes Wallace and Bruce’s encounters with hounds, Belgian tactics, and Elizabeth I’s 500 hounds in Ireland.
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Scotland
Wallace
Bruce
Elizabeth
Ireland
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