Smuggler's Treasure Puzzle of Gunner's Island
A recovered tale ties Maine smugglers to a treasure on Gunner's Island Eastern Island and a deserter named Gil Barker. The narrator recounts Lenoir the pirate and two accomplices, a ghostly pursuit, a water-stealing murder, and a final dig uncovering about 25000 dollars in gold coins from a sea chest.
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Penobscot Bay
Maine
Les Trois Freres
Lesa
Jacques Lenoir
Trois Freres
Gunner's Island
Castine
Dory
Lenoir
South Point
White Ledge
New Brunswick
Gunner’s Island
Gilbert Barker
Gil
Lenoir's Anchorage
Gunner's
Gunner’s
Nut
Sam
Iis
Jere
Pye
Eastern Island
Gil Barker
White Rock
Barker
SEARCHLIGHT RAYS AND FOG SURFACE ILLUMINATION
A New York Tribune note explains why a searchlight beam ends abruptly at fog edges. Visibility arises from air particles reflecting light. fog density governs beam brightness and distance. Sailors use beam behavior to gauge fog thickness and patchiness, and to distinguish universal fog from clear areas.
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New York Tribune
Peter Pindar’s Rule and a Loyal Annuity Bargain
The 19th century author Peter Pindar struck a bargain with publishers Robinson and Walker for an annual £250, trading a lump sum for ongoing payments. After illness delayed him, the author recovered, prompting the couple to fear his survival would end the annuity. The physician’s patient endured, and Pindar outlived the pair.
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Peter Pindar
John Wolcott
Robinson & Walker
Cornwall
London
Mr. Walker
Wogott
Parson Recalls Canvasback Shotgun Triumph at Crazy Inlet
In a vignette from Outing the parson tells how a biting northeaster off Crazy Inlet brought a flock of canvasbacks within range. He describes dropping twenty-two birds at dark, each dead on the first bounce, while a skeptic named Curley quips about capturing wounded birds.
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Crazy Inlet
Curley
Tibet Name Origins Through T'ubar And Tubat Lineage
The Tibet name evolved from Chinese T'ubar in the fifth century to variations like Tuebet Thibet Tebet and finally Tibet by 1780. Historian Hodgson notes the root Tubat used as a chief title among Tartars, while Tibetans call themselves Bod-pa and their land Bod-gul, reflecting Buddhist influence and ancient Tartar prestige.
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Tibet
Hodgson
Bod-gul
London Spectator
Kean and Macready at Drury Lane in a witty exchange
An anecdote recalls Edmund Kean and Macready, rivals who refused to reveal their lines to the prompter. Kean and the prompter sparred over knowing what the other would perform, each denying the other’s knowledge. The passage shifts to a satire on astrology and fate, citing Henry VII and the Duke of Milan.
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Kean
Macready
Edmund Kean
Drury Lane
Mr. Macready
Mr. Kean
Mrr. Kean
Henry VII
John Galeazzo
Milan
Duce
Killing One Fly
Youth's Companion describes the fly life cycle from egg to mature insect. It notes eggs laid in filth, hatching into maggots within hours, becoming flies in about ten days, and first egg batch after fourteen days, with 120 to 150 eggs per female, implying killing one may prevent nearly a thousand hatchings.
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Ibly
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Baltimore
F. S. Royster Guano” Company
Calvert Building
Tarboro
N.C. Macon
Baltimore, MD
Hortolk, VA
Spartanburg, 3. C
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Columbus, GA
Omery, Ala
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C. H. Pritchett
Undertaker
Greensboro
Pritchett
Hillsboro
Mullin's
Wilmington
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Sturmer
Sturmer Jeweler
Easton, MD
School Board
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St. Mary’s Female Seminary
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Frostburg
Maryland Institute of Art and Design
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Denton High School
U.S
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American Press Association
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