The Golden Tortoise Mine Discovery and Loss
Beekman, moving to California to claim a mined fortune, discovers an abandoned King Midas site. After betting his savings on the Old Glory Hole misrepresented as the King Midas, he learns it yields nothing. A golden tortoise leads him to a hidden gold pocket, but a stake proves the claim is already taken, forcing him to reconsider his future in mining and art.
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Beekman
Dale
King Midas
Sierra Nevada mountains
California
ITe
Midas
Bill Treacker
mall
Beeman
Bill
Bill Heneker
James Hai
Mr. Beekman
Peter
Phi Beekman
Halete
Golconda
Glory Hole
Beckman
bool
Philip
Phil
Golden Tortoise Ledgers a New Mine Partnership
Phil Bechanan reveals a hidden gold ledge near the Glory Tale claim. John Lenton and his daughter Ethel arrive, recognizing the fortune and hint at a partnership to work both mines as they contemplate a future filled with love and wealth. The scene ends with a promise of supper and a hopeful new life.
Belasco Reveals Four Acts and Three Intermissions
A reporter inquires about a new play by David Belasco and Belasco confirms it will have four acts and three intermissions. He adds he has just finished the next intermission.
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David Belasco
Mr. Belasco
Belasco
New York American
The Thrift of Glasgow and Its Civic Ventures
The Thrift of Glasgow shows the city setting an example in thrift and enterprise. It collects waste paper and scrap iron to boost revenue, its cleansing department serves half of Scotland, and the city owns nearly 1,000 railroad cars. Its activities span bog reclaiming to market gardening and butcher's work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Great Britain
Scotland
London
Newtons Fearful Crime In Toast Controversy
Keats proposes a toast at Haydons house claiming dishoner to Newton for destroying the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism. Wordsworth seeks explanation as guests react with curious surprise and confusion toward the savant.
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Newton
Haydon
Keats
Wordsworth
Domestic Ethics and Truth in Marriage
A satirical aphorism contrasts deceit in married life with social hypocrisy. The New York Journal notes a man who lies to his wife and is unashamed because he is cheered on. It cites La Rochefoucauld on outwitting some but not all others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Journal
La Rochefoucalid
Lost explorers and their final journals amid Arctic and African ordeals
A survey of diaries from explorers Scott De Long Franklin and Livingstone, noting Oates heroic self sacrifice in the Antarctic blizzard, De Long’s grim midnight diary, Franklin’s missing diaries, and Livingstone’s published journals detailing hardship and exploration that shaped Africa’s map.
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Captain Scott
De Long
Livingstone
Franklin
Scott
Oates
Mylius Erichsen
Mikkelsen
Greenland
Erichsen
Jeannette
Siberia
Boyd
Gortz
Collns
Ambler
Erebus
Terror
Greenwich hospital
John Franklin
King William’s Island
Fitzjames
Sir John
Burke and Wills
Australia
David Livingstone
Tala
central Africa
Africa
London
Dead Sea Stillness Captures Desolate Shores
Describes the Dead Sea as a vast, tranquil lake near Jerusalem with imperceptible ripples. Salt content makes it buoyant and easy to swim, though the surrounding landscape is dreary and oppressive with no animal life or birdsong.
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Dead Sea
Jerusalem
Shelley and the Kins: The supreme laureate of the kiss
The excerpt asserts Shelley as supreme in verse, noting his frequent use of the kiss motif in short lyrics. It presents stanzas describing mountains, waves, sunlight, earth, and moonbeams as kissing, and asks what the kiss would be worth without a kiss from the beloved.
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Shelley
Kias
ayster
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Kut Rate Kormer
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Kut Rate
Korner Drug Store
Lexington and
Liberty Streets
The Peoples National Bank
DENTON, MD
ALBERT G. TOWERS
Prest
T. F. JOHNSON
The
Denton National Bank
Caroline Co
Maryland
Ohio
T. €. WEST
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
DENTON, MARYLAND
tee
Pennsylvania
Horsey, Roe & Co
TFIORSEHY, ROH & COMPANY
KER. H.MALOY
GRIUMSHORD STATION
J.B. COLGAIN
Denton
J. G. SMITH
Ridgely
L. M. JONES
Henderson
GOLDSBORO
Caroline county
J. KEMP STEVENS
TH. FAYHNITTE
AKER
Grand Union Tea Co
J. C. YOUNG
King St
Wilmington
Del
Hale
New York
Iale
Edith Lenton
Phil Beekman
tata
Cass
John Lenton
Ethel
Phil Bechanan
Othel
Lenton
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