Straddle Rock Cove Saga On North Atlantic Yacht
Annette and Captain Reed push a yacht toward a dangerous Newfoundland harbor seeking a homeland visit for Boggles the pilot who longs to return. A storm and an acetylene mishap threaten all aboard but Boggles saves the voyage guiding the ship through Straddle Rocks into a sheltered cove.
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Bogsids
Halifax
Mr. Pierce
Annette
Newfoundland
Straddle Rock Cove
romatile
St. John’s
States
Boggles
Ainette
Aimette
Br. Lap don
Pierre
Reed
SBorgles
Langdon
Bogeles
WMorce
suyfine
Burrles
Borles
Annuette
Mr. Pierceé
Bopeles
Annnette
nme
noth coast
Labrador
Bosley
Pierce
Dr Langdon
Boveles
Captain Reed
piunette
Jed
Western Ranch Heir Romance Ends in Marriage
A Texas ranch tale follows Helen MacAlister, daughter of a Scotch Highlander pair, raised among cowboys, who after years of western life is brought east to schooling. Millbank, the ranch partner, arranges her education and care, and, after shaping the estate, proposes. She accepts, and they marry after navigating social boundaries and guardianship concerns.
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MacAlster
Helen MacAlister
Miss MacAlister
howe litt
Mr. Millbank
Miss MacAuster
Helen
ete
Ailis AnacAllster
pard
academy
Potato's Global Journey From Indigenous Roots to Global Crop
The potato likely native to tropical American mountains from Chile to Colorado. Spaniards may have brought it to Europe in the 16th century, spreading to Spain, Burgundy, Italy, Ireland, and beyond. Early crops were for cattle and curiosity. later for famine relief, with royal encouragement in England by 1663. The first North American cultivation age crop remains poorly documented.
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America
Chile
Mexico
Colorado
Europe
Peru
Spain
Burgundy
Italy
Royal Society of London
England
Ireland
North America
New York
Hoaxed Naturalist and the Lithographia Wireeburgensis
A Wurzburg naturalist Behringer published in 1720 a famed book on artificial fossils found by jokers who lured him to a quarry. He copied and described the grotesque fossils, then the prank was revealed and he tried to suppress the work.
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Wurzburg
Behringer
Debringer
The Evolution of Advertising Through Ancient to Modern Times
The article surveys early advertising from ancient Egypt Greece and Rome, noting the first written copy the use of colors and signs, the town criers, and inns symbol marks. It traces the rise of posters printing Caxton’s press in 1471 and the first real newspapers and magazines carrying ads in the following centuries.
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British museum
Pompeii
Herculaneum
France
England
Wilam Caxton
Westminster abbey
Germany
Hungary
Bohemia
Nathaniel Butler
Godey
Peterzon
Philadelphia Press
Promises on a Farm and Fading Fame
The Baltimore American quotes Uncle Bill promising a rousing time on his farm with a note that it may come around 5 in the morning. References to mortality and antiquity mix with a wry modern verse about deathbed contentment and a Kansas City Journal remark on military figures and feminine troops.
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Bill
Baltimore American
Porie
Kansas City Journal
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