Christmas Eve at Granite and a Love That Proves Worth
In Granite on Christmas Eve a railway agent awaits a return of the Thompsons, whose wealth has faded after a mine strike proves fleeting. Hugh’s love for Martha endures as he imagines a future away from the desert town, while neighbor Fleener’s gossip and the couple’s delayed reunion test faith and patience before Martha confronts Hugh with a revealed past.
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Thomp
Thompson
Cheyenne
Morocco
Thompson's Whittaker
Rock Creek
Idaho
Whittaker
Fleener
Old Thompson
Andrews
J. J. Thompson
Martha
Dalton's Experiment Proves Water Conducts Heat
English chemist Dalton, a schoolteacher with no lab, used a conical ale glass and crude apparatus to show water conducts heat. He heated water with a red hot poker half an inch deep for half a minute and recorded a rise to 180 degrees, then water temperatures rose from 47 to 52 degrees over time, challenging Rumford's views.
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Dalton
Rumford
The Invention of the Panorama by Scottish Robert Barker
The panorama concept emerged with Robert Barker who, after securing a London license in 1787, built a Leicester Square rotunda. Associated with Robert Fulton, he helped bring panoramas to Paris in 1787, aiding Thayer’s later Boulevards project. Bonaparte planned eight panoramas to display conquests but never realized the schemes.
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Robert Barker
London
Leicester Square
Robert Fulton
Paris
Thayer
Boulevard Montmartre
Bonaparte
Needle and Thread Tree Of Mexico Describes Its Use
The needle and thread tree grows on Mexican plains and bears thick fleshy leaves. Needles line the leaf edges and can be pushed back to release fibers. When drawn, 100 or more fine fibers cling like spider webs and air hardens them, yielding a thread that can bear five pounds.
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Mexico
New Zealand Gum Mines Offer Odd Labor Amber Trade
New Zealand gum digging provides a rare labor form with easy access and broad government lands to explore. Dated kauri gum, preserved through ages, yields fortunes for the digger who pays five shillings yearly to roam and toil with spear spade and bag under pleasant skies.
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New Zealand
Nordh Island
Pearson's
Rainbow monkey in Africa described as mandril
The rainbow monkey named mandril reportedly lives in Africa's hills. Its snout is scarlet with purple blue grooves on the face and violet hind legs. Eyes glow like sparks. ears are stubby and tail is a sawed-off stump. People may exclaim there ain't no such animal.
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Africa
Ruskin on Traveling Quiet walk as travel ideal
Ruskin argues that a calm daily walk of ten to twelve miles is the true form of travel and that rail journeys are not travel at all but mere being sent to a place like a parcel. He emphasizes savoring the journey over speed and accumulation.
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John
Martha
Andrews
Thompson
Chicago
London
New York
Ruskin
Remote origin of alcohol traced to ancient times
The article notes uncertainty about alcohol’s first creation and disputes the common narrative of Arab distillation in the tenth century. It cites Paul Richter’s Berlin Klinische Wochenschrift claiming knowledge of aqua ardens dating to the second century AD, linked to the Christian teacher Hippolytus and early recipes.
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Paul Richter
Cat of Ancient Mexico Nine Lives Belief Describes Feline
A historical note describes the Mexican cat in myth and fact, detailing the belief in nine stages of heaven and hell and the creature’s nearly extinct status. It notes the cat as peculiar and repulsive, nearly naked with sparse hairs along the tail ridge and back at winter’s start.
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Heaven
Hell
Mexico
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Ulti
Shortstory Publishing Company
Great Britain
Overland Express
Granite
Hugh
Blivens
Homer J. Blivens
India
Mr. Fleener
Mose Brothers
Hailey
Thompson Pre
Reliable
Minneapolis Costume Co
Marquette Ave
Minneapolis
Mine
OO Postala
H. Gonigisky
Optometrist
Rainbow Monkey
Cat of Ancient
J. C. Beard
Decorah
Iowa
Waukon
Postville
Ossian—Calmar— Ridgeway
Cresco
Canton
Mabey
Spring Grove
West Water Street
N. H. Adams
Pleasant Ridge
John Harter
Locust, Iowa
N. Rickert
Rt. 1
Prosper, Minn
Decorah, Iowa
California
Europe
San Diego
San Francisco
Rock Island
Golden State Limited
L. A. Schrempf
Phoebe Lincoln Chemical CO
Mott & Co
E. J Parman
A. J. Sorenson
Imogen Lincoln
Phoebe Lincoln
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