Art of Vengeance Ends in Hanging in the Philippines
Matias Bunigan, once a peaceful rice cutter of El Poro, faces execution by hanging after killing Pascual de la Cruz in a long standing family feud. He imagines the crowd, the priest, and the gallows as American soldiers prepare to execute him at noon. A mysterious caller offers a chance of escape with a bolo hidden within the prison wall.
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Atlas
Matius Bunigan
el Poro
Philippines
United States
Matias
Pascual de la Cruz
Philppines
Matlas
Bunagan
de la Cruz
Cavite
Pascual
Alatlas
Nipa
Manila Bay
Juan de la Cruz
Manila
Juan
Mattias
Iray
Mating
Escape Under Gallows Ends in Hanging
Matias breaks a bamboo through a guardhouse wall and flees into a cave with a stranger guiding him. The unknown rescuer later betrays him to brother Juan de la Cruz, who plans vengeance for Pascual’s death. An American colonel offers five hundred pesos for capture. Matias is recaptured, tried, and hanged as the rope sways in the breeze.
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Palm Grove
Dead Palm
Mutias
Muttag
Matias
Manila
Juan de la Cruz
Pascual
A de la Cruz
Matins
Uan
London Journal History Highlighted By Morning Post
The London Morning Post marks 158 years with famed contributors including Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth Southey and Charles Lamb paid for smart paragraphs at 12 cents each The paper long aligned with conservatism and aristocratic voice features writers Mackworth Praed Benjamin Disraeli Lang Kipling and others through the years.
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London Morning Post
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Wordsworth
Southey
Charles Lamb
New York Times
Morning Post
Mackworth Praed
Praed
Benjamin Daruell
Andrew Lang
Rudyard Kipling
The Young Lady Across The Way Says Socrates Tops Quotes
The young lady across the way believes Socrates is the most quoted Old Testament character by McClure News Service, asserting a surprising crosswise link in a playful note.
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Young Lady
Socrates
McClure Nawepaper Syndicate
Doctrines of Signatures in Early Folk Medicine
A summary of the doctrine of signatures anciently linking plant shapes and markings to their cures. The piece traces heartssease and rattlesnake masters to sympathetic magic, notes Pliny’s critique, and explains how Dr John Ray’s 1694 challenge led to the doctrine’s decline as medical science advanced.
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United States
Philoy
Pliny
Ray
John Ray
McClure
What's in a Name? by Mildred Marshall
A brief feature by Mildred Marshall explores name origins and meanings. It surveys derivation, significance, and personal connotations of names, suggesting how a name can reflect identity and luck.
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Mildred Marshall
Viola the timeless feminine name of violet origin
The text traces Viola as a Latin word meaning violet, a stable feminine name through centuries. It notes Violet in England and Scotland, Yolande in France, Violetta in Italy, and contends Shakespeare did not originate the name. Viola’s association with amethyst, love, and Friday as a lucky day are mentioned.
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England
Scotland
France
Italy
Qorsino
Viola
Raining Fish and Frogs Tells a Strange Rain Story
A traveler in the East recounts a remarkable rain of fish tadpoles and frogs amid ash. He describes an electric shock from a lively frog, and offers an explanation involving whirlwinds lifting sea and river life from the Ganges Brahmaputra mouths, deposit in the jungle, with many creatures still alive.
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Ganges
Brahmaputra
Understanding Clouds and Rain From a Weather Lesson
A simplified explanation describes clouds as large vapor masses with heavy moisture near the ground, containing dust that darkens clouds and triggers rain when they become heavy. Higher clouds lack dust specks, moisture drops form crystals, light waves create color, and vast ice crystals reflect all waves to appear white.
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Heral
Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava
The order directed rapid advance to halt enemy from carrying guns as French cavalry stood on the left. The Light Brigade charged and faced fire from guns on both flanks, with only two units returning. Of 678 engaged, 247 men and 497 horses were lost in about twenty minutes.
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Balaclava
Raglan
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