Men scarce in Bhaker communities and Easter Island tale
The article notes two world regions where men are scarce the Bhaker communities in the United States and Easter Island described as an Adamless Eden. It recounts shipwrecks, marriage prospects, and a colonial era tale of sailors invited to settle, with historical remarks on the island’s Cyclopean masonry and population balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easter Island
Pacific
Nonantum
Panama
State Department
Washington
Uafe
Atlanta Journal
The Mirror of Life Reflection Poem Fragment
A reflective piece on kindness and truth turning back to the speaker. It urges choosing love over hate, noting that life mirrors one’s actions, and each act forms part of one’s fate in the chain of personal consequences.
River of July dreams in a prairie homestead
A young eighteen year old, Bessie, pursues a Cosgrove homestead beside Aunt Mirandy, after learning her claim near Hammerville is gone to John Watson by a day. She befriends neighbors, faces rivals who jump his land, and with help from Daddy Dolan and her aunt, guards his claim. She learns forgiveness and dignity as Watson and his mother regain hope.
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Daaty
Hammerville
Daddy Dolan
Old Daddy
Cosgrove
Russ
Daddy
Bessie
Miranda
Watson
Sissy
Mirandy
Old
Christian
John Watson
Watson Boy
Beusie
Jobn Watson
Tam
Beane
Beasie
Miss Simpson
Aunt Miranda
Miss King
King
Miranda King
Aunt Mirands
Joh Watson
John
Watsons
Watson's
Newbbor
Bexsie
Talways
Elann
Vogue
Auteuil
Woman Runs Ranch Near San Diego A Pioneer Widow In California
Mrs Fannie M McKoon owns a vast 10000 acre ranch fifteen miles from San Diego and since her husband’s death three years ago has run it with remarkable success. The piece highlights her leadership and the ranch’s status as a major local operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie M. McKoon
California
San Diego
Fields of Adventure and Daring Deeds Chronicle
A wild mix of perilous travels and bold feats. An unnamed journalist recalls a near deadly tunnel passage in West Virginia with a coal train roaring behind him. A fierce bear fight at the Chicago Zoological Garden tests keeper Cy DeVry’s resolve and stamina. Roosevelt’s Roll of Honor notes a brave NYPD promotion for a daring burglary pursuit. A Tasmania shipwreck episode highlights courage aboard and ashore during a rock strike in heavy seas.
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Chicago Zoological Garden
Washington
The
Star
West Virginia
Charleston
Clifton Forge
Kanawha
Thera
Telimbad
Cy DeVry
Billy
DeVry
Auch
Mau
Lam
Washington Items and Domestic News Notes
Washington posts show September gains over last year. The Monetary Commission met to review prelim reports while Secretary Sherman proposed a conference with exports of the United States Great Britain and Canada. Appointments include McGrew Salt Lake City register Spriggs Nevada Indian agency Goldburg Quapaw Agency. Gage reports prosperity. Klondike spelling decisions. police recover a pistol linked to a presidential shooting. Domestic items cover Texas yellow fever disruptions, Victor Hugo barred in Philadelphia schools, a Seattle miners’ arrival with claims valued at millions, and a San Antonio cattle deal. Also noted are a fatal quarrel on Stazen Island, a New Bedford glass factory celebration, a broken water main, crop losses, anti horse-thief society, Liliuokalani offered Wichita carnival role, labor clashes in Lynn, a 103-year-old woman, a Philadelphia broker jailed for estate issues, Yukon hunger fears, Detroit opera house fire, a fake-payments case, a new pneumatic mail tube, and General William Thompson's death.
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Washington
Monetary Commission
Sherman
Lord Salisbury
United States
Great Britain
Canada
H. N. McGrew
Phosaic
Arizona
Salt Lake City
Utah
Fred D. Spriggs
New York
Nevada Agency
Nevada
Edward Goldburg
Wichita
Kan
Quapaw Agency
Indian Territory
Gage
Board of Geographic Names
Klondike
Dyca
Guitenau
Garfeld
Pecaldent
W. W. Ashby
Norfolk
Colon
Edward Hze
Danville
Hankow
China
Rufan Fleming
Ohio
Edinburgh
Scotland
Samuel A. MacAllister
Delaware
Barbadoca
West Indies
Texas
Philadelphia
Victor Hugo
Western Carolina Bank of
Asheville
Topeka
Seattle
Wash
Tondike
Conrad Holzelberg
Thomas MaSorley
Castleton
Winfield Scott
Fort Worth
Boles
Iowa
Chicago
Treasury
Atfatra
Board of Education
William Moore
New York City
Fitzpatrick
Aiusg
New Bedford Glass
Publc
Forty-eighth Street
Madison Avenue
Navy Saver
Lake Keuka
Benton County
Arkansas
Frank Hoverton
Bloomfield
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Pr. Martin
Honolulu
Lynn
Minas
Lattimer
Penna
Charlotte Leclair
Westerly
BR. I
George H. North
Snowden
Yukon River
Alaska
Dawson City
Detroit
Mich
Emmet C. Gibson
General Post Office
Product Exchange
William Thompson
Tacoma
Seventh Cavalry
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England
France
Germany
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Kansas Board of Agriculture
Paris
Berlin
London
Greater
Qenaus Ryreau
Robertson
Cornell University
Wisconsin
Chicago Times-Herald
New York State
Cornel
India
the Mirror OF Life
the Lord
Gunset
Louisiana
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
Northern Colleges
East
Carla
Wellesley
Boston Herald
New Orleans Picayune
Ireland
Ignatia Teeney
Chicago Sisters of Mercy
Hulda BR. Grasser
Cnstome and
Cincinnati
Misa Grasser
Hulda
Pie Tréntia
Princes Bismarck
Benin
Princs Bismarck
Otto Ammon
Herr Amnon
Shaffer
Cuvier
Byron
Kent
Schiller
Dante
Fields OF Adventure
Hetween Man
Grizzly
de Fry
Dea Vry
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Park Avenue
New York Central Railroad
Boog
Tasmania
Sydney
Auckland
Porter
Bis
South-West
Vulcan
Ifer Raison D’etre
Noah Bay
Port Garland
Mont Durable
Japan
Dreyfus
Lyons
Weyler
Ahumado
Tinores
Madrid
National Council
Switzerland
Amorican
A Gorman
Chalons
Manchester
Wayler
Franco
Bizerta
Tunis
Ajaccio
Cuba
Spain
Ofolala
Tokyo
Korea
Charles Pollock
English
Baltimores
Bostona
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