Miss Lackland Surprises Solomons With Bold Moves
In the Solomons tale, Miss Lackland, partner of Berande, buys a schooner Martha at auction for 55 sovereigns and sails off. She disrupts Gurutu and Tulagi power, recruits crew, and seizes control of vessels including the Filibberty Gibbet, while navigating wrecks and threats with brisk command.
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Sheldon
Auckland
Gurutu
Tulagi
The
Solomons
Berande
Sydney
Mt. Guyutu
Martha
Kipper
Pognga-Poona
Lively Sea
Lackland
Fed
J Regident
Morgan
Raff
Wenky
Burnett
Namie
Digdie
Fbf
Patter
Poonga-Poonga
Malaita
Munster
Craige
Ania
Emily
Sheldon Coni
Pou Poonga
Guvutu
Jessie
Bheldon
Lackladd
Welsmeré
Oleson
Welshmere
Guadalcanal
Winburt
Tahiti
Gammon
Adamu Adam
Adama
Carlyle's shifting view of Disraeli and others in private
The essay recalls Carlyle's harsh judgments of figures like Disraeli and Herbert Spencer, calling them fools or unending asses yet softening these takedowns when favors or private interactions occurred. It notes his later magnanimity in offering and refusing a baronetcy and his private praise.
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Disraeli
Carlyle
Herbert Spencer
Christendom
Darwin
Ruskin
John Bull
The World’s Largest Flying Bird in London Zoo
A London Mail note describes the lammergeier or bearded vulture as the world’s largest flying bird. The giant from India has wings over fourteen feet long, may prey on carrion and even strike goats over precipices, with climactic consequences for mountaineers reported.
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London Zoo
India
Europe
Asia
North Africa
London Mail
A Duchess in Waiting Questions Her Title at the Tuileries
A dignified duchess, newly titled Duchess of Dantzic, visits the Empress Josephine at the Tuileries. An usher refers to her as La Marechale, prompting the duchess to remark to the usher and enter with a knowing glance, challenging the misapplied title.
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Marshal Lefebvre
Dantzic
Sardou
Mme. Sans-Gene
la Marechale
Belvidere Bicycle Question Sparks Shopper Conversation
A young woman browses a store bicycle selection asking price and quality questions. The clerk identifies a wheel as Belvidere, and the shopper asks if the Belva is recommended, prompting a brief exchange.
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Young
Two Queens of England Partly Descend From Westminster Barmaid
London Tit-Bits recounts a line of descent from a Westminster barmaid who married a publican then remarried lawyer Mr Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon. Their daughter wed the Duke of York and became mother to Mary and Anne, queens of England.
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Queens of England
Westminster
Mr. Hyde
Lori Chancellor
Earl of
Clarendon
Duke of York
Mary
Anne
England
London
Our Lumbering Language
By Jove, Dobbs questions Tommy Rocks as he seems to pine away. Wiggies notes he did not look spry last night, prompting a judge to comment on the scene and mood.
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Jove
Dobbs
Tommy Rocks
Wiggies
Engagement Tangles Prompted by Harsh Accusation
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt shows Ty calling his partner a riddle and fickle while the fiancé retorts that he should give her up. The exchange reveals tension and doubts about their future together.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Naturally 80 amid fat parts in Greek told play
A Baltimore American note states that the play’s many roles are fat because the work itself is told in a Greek framework. The remark links the size of the parts to the narrative style and setting.
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Greece
Baltimore American
Rockefeller Fund Grants for Colleges Reach Sixty Million
The John D Rockefeller fund for education approves major gifts to Bucknell University $35,000 toward 160,000. Furman University $25,000 toward 100,000. Grinnell College $100,000 toward 500,000. Smith College $200,000 toward 1,000,000. Southern Methodist University $200,000 toward 1,000,000. Since 1905 gifts total 7,625,000 to 91 institutions. overall campaigns could add 36,000,000 to endowments and equipment. funds support secondary education salaries at twelve southern state universities and 600,000–700,000 toward forty-one schools for Negroes.
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Smith College
Northampton
Mass
Southern
New Use for Aeroplanes in Forest Fire Prevention
The Selway forest supervisor predicts aeroplanes and wireless telegraphy will greatly aid fire prevention on 1 600 000 acre Selway Nez Perce reserve. A man in an aeroplane could survey forests quickly during blazes, surpassing the work of twenty rangers in a week. Wireless stations on danger peaks could speed assembly of men and gear to check flames and stop spread.
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Selway Forest
Nez Perce Reserve
Idaho
Pacific Slope
Bel Neves
Ancient tongue on stepmothers and tragic seacoasts
In London Chronicle notes the ancients treated stepmothers with sharp metaphor. Roman terms like noverca and neverene framed complaints and rough lands. Greek terms metryix and Hesiods lucky and unlucky days link mothers and stepmothers to fate and danger at sea.
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Hesiod
Aeschylus
London Chronicle
Daughter's Marriage Sparks Household Misplacement
A caller questions the barren house as the hostess explains that her daughter, married last week, has simply moved belongings she believes belong to her. The note appears in the Daetroit Free Press.
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Daetroit' Free Press
Mosquito Netting and Early Advertising
Report notes mosquito netting as an ancient invention with Greek or Egyptian roots. A hustling canvasser urges advertising to boost sales, while the merchant acknowledges truth as the business’s core.
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