Escape from Castle and Delia aids in escape
A prisoner recounts a daring night escape from a castle. After rigging a rope and sliding down a wall, he narrowly avoids guards, reaches the governor's house, steals keys and a letter, and escapes with the help of Delia Finch. He flees through the yard to a waiting coach and a hidden passage toward freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L Hind
Koye
Miy
Colmel
Golond
Mistress Finch
Delia
Jack
Solace in Nature in Quiet Twilight Reflections
A contemplative lyric explores solace found in nature during times of grief and disappointment. The poem invites readers to seek comfort on lonely beaches and hill moors, allowing sea breezes and birds to ease sorrow and renew hope within a tranquil, silent landscape.
Ghostly reunion stirs a tempest torn visit to home
Godfrey Barrett seeks shelter from a storm and finds a house where a pale beauty in white and a younger woman reveal a revived memory of Henry Allison. The elder aunt, Alice, suspects a lost relative has returned, and Barrett becomes entangled in a singular, haunting family affair.
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New Mexico
Rio Grande
Pecos
Amodore Thomas W. Lee
Anna
General Passens
Idaho
Godfrey Barrett
Tuxi
Barrett
Godfrey
Klin
Ray
Stortin
Alice
Bertha
Henry
Kertha
Nylas
Hhe
Nagain
Aleo
Henry Allison
Auice Alice
Hosa
Alice Ling
Jim
Jie
Jack
Jong
Bertha Craig
Ardor and confession in Utica Globe romance snippet
Fragment from a Utica Globe romance shows a couple exchanging cautious declarations of affection. She recalls kindness to Aunt Alice as the moment she began to care, while he admits growing feelings and love as he watches her anxious reflection in a mirror.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jong
Alice
Utica Globe
One Suit for Fifty Indians Votes in Trick
The Washington Star recalls a tale of voting manipulation where Indians voted by wearing clothes. Ward workers supposedly used a single suit to register multiple votes, transforming clothing into a clever method to obtain many ballots from the same individual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Adam Bere
Minnesota
Washlogton
Flamingos Incubate as Both Sexes Observed At Nest
In an account by Frank M. Chupman, observation of a Bahamas flamingo rookery shows both male and female incubate. The pair alternates shifts day and night, with the daytime incubator feeding at night and another bird taking the nest. Activity is constant, with many flamingos arriving and departing from the rookery as they feed and defend their nests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Chupman
Piamingo
Bahamas
Sir Henry Blake
Peter
Insurance drama in a London shop tale
An elderly reader recalls a glib tale about accident insurance then a woman enters a London shop. She asks for a plan for her daughter and chooses an upright piano on hire. The clerk quotes forty pounds with a monthly instalment and the buyer insists on insuring both piano and health against a threat from her husband.
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Smilth
London
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Meer
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Sara
Fiennes
Nat Fiennes
Ruben
Plymouth
Horthward
Parall
Bodmin
Earl of
Stamford
Aolf
Aurea
Ging
Aber
Yolea
Twee
Flamingo
Becaz
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