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In a stormy Channel passage the ship Grosvenor battles heavy seas and shifting sails. The cook’s rotten pork prompts complaints as crew cope with high winds, near-capsize danger, and urgent reefing to endure a gale and a fast drift toward catastrophe.
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Nebber
Conan
Bostewain
Eherisning
Snow
Royal Halliards
Grosvenor
The Daredevil on a Nickel Bicycle
Soler Sam narrates a comic mishap on a sparkling nickel bicycle on a public road. He falls repeatedly as the machine mishandles his balance, wobbling left and right, until the bicycle collapses and he lands in a ditch, joking about roads taxes and the absurd ride.
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Hell Gate
Thad
Mme
R Will Borine
Wason
Sunikay-school
Soler Sam
Toad Lore and Curious Origins of Beliefs
The article surveys old lore about toads including their anatomy and prowess. It notes their tongue speed, wall climbing, and eating habits, plus uses in folk magic such as cures for bleeding and rheumatism. It cites Devonshire cures, German superstitions, and Tibetan tales from Abbe Hue.
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England
Devonshire
Abbe Hue
Vallayse
Poplar Jeienca
Struggles With a Wolf Ended in Lethal Victory
A hunter recounts chasing a wolf in a canyon, dog helping, trap failing, and the author ultimately choking the animal to death after a brutal struggle. He describes the chase, close calls, and the moment the wolf goes limp, ending with the capture in camp.
Half a Century of Inventions and Advancing Machinery
A retrospective look at fifty years of rapid invention and labor saving devices. The piece highlights locomotives, steamships, telegraph and telephone, photography, printing, threshing and reaping machines, ether anesthesia, and steam heating. It notes emerging uses of coal gas petroleum heat and potential electric propulsion, with reflections on photography and skin grafts illustrating medical advances.
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Aline
Envcutor
The Lonely City Dream of a Selfish Boy
A young boy Philip deserts friends for a city outing then finds the town empty and senses loneliness without sharing joys. After a night with his aunt and a dawn awakening, he returns home reconciled, learning true happiness comes from sharing with others. His mother adds a moral about selfish living and shared joy.
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Beth
Philip Way
White House
Old Prince
Philip
Prince
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Prust
Vain
Roger
Joe
Christ
Leura Ek. Wilkins
Paper Tree of Tonkin Produces Vast Paper Stock
The article explains Tonkin's primary paper source the paper tree. Bark is dried macerated and pulped then mixed with gomao shavings infusion to create paste. Operators dip bamboo screens to form sheets press dry and sun or heat cure. One worker makes about a thousand sheets daily with some mills producing up to eighty thousand sheets per day.
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Isle of Woght
Alain
Duckling
Tonkin
Sontay
N. Y. Sun
Grandma's School Rhyme Remembers Old Grammar Rules
A nostalgic piece recounts a childhood rhyme about parts of speech as taught in grandma’s school. It contrasts old classroom methods with modern grammar and muses on how that playful memory helped recall troublesome facts.
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Xnonia
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T. Carstine Breges
Ai Ordi O
Chrestian Craton
Love and War Over a Zanzibar Marriage Scandal
In April a Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar faced a diplomatic clash after Lieutenant Sale, son of a Portuguese Count, married an Arab merchant’s daughter who would not convert. Sale renounced and later reembraced Catholicism, deserting his wife. The Sultan jailed him, the Consul-General claimed authority, and Portugal pressed for indemnity. Sale left jail with indemnity as the flag was lowered and raised again.
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Zanzibar
Hich Dudgeon
Jenas
Sale
Portugal
Zazibar
Mohammed
Bargasy
Barwash
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