Bloodthirsty Captain and the Ethics of Hump on the Ghost
On the Ghost bound for Japan, Humphrey Van Weyden, knocked unconscious by a foggy ferry, awakens as cabin boy. Wolf Larsen barks orders, Mugridge steals money, and Hump debates altruism with the captain amid brutal shipboard life. Luther-like dialogue covers ethics, ego, and survival as tensions rise aboard the sealing schooner.
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Y Humphrey van Weyden
Erutle
Dilattante
San Francisco Bay
Wolfreen
Japan
Rumphrey
Mugridge
Walt
Conwy
Wolf
Hig
Wolf Larsen
Johnson
Mr. Mugridge
Oaquiz Ateal
Nfe
Spencer
West
Rest, Rage, and a Duel on the Ghost
The narrator endures three tense days aboard with Wolf Larsen and Thomas Mugridge on the Ghost. Mugridge grows paranoid and violent, sharpening a knife while Mugridge’s crew mates taunt him, and the narrator plans to strike back using Mugridge’s own blade after a staged standoff.
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Bia
Thomas Mugridge
Blaist
George Leach
Leach
Telegraph Hill Billings
Mugridge
Walt Larsen
Wolf Larsen
Johansen
Louis
Thomas Musridge
Jock Harner
Curi
Find Goodness in Pleasure Says Philadelphia Bulletin
The Philadelphia Bulletin argues fatigue from overwork corrupts virtue and demands shorter hours and graded work. It asserts leisure fosters sweetness of soul and that labor without rest breeds crime or desperation, urging workers to share sunshine and air as partners in life.
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Aepop
Philadelphia Bulletin
Value of Cape Cod canal shown by ship traffic
The Cape Cod canal has proven its worth to shipping with over two thousand five hundred vessels passing since its 1914 opening. Each vessel travels about seventy miles less by using the canal, avoiding the Cape Cod route.
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Cape Cod Canal
Cape Cod
John Nowles
Oskaloosa
Knokville
Nowles
Marion County
Charles Edison
Edison
Orange
N. J
Dubuque
Jack Eldridge
Iowa
Eldridge
Rock Islands
Dows
Julius Morgan
Cluir
C. H. Stange
Veterinnary Division
Iowa State College
H. EB. Bemis
Wilde
Ralph Ellis
Charles Thomas
Thomas
Ellis
Waukon
Jefferson
Bonde Wera
Idwa
State Highway Commission
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Nile
Sahara Desert
Demarca C. Hossa
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Agssiut
Upper Egypt
Otto Mull
Muscatine
War Department
Sparta
Wis
Davenport
Clineton
Mary Ann Deering dies in Dubuque mystery treasure
Dubuque woman of mystery Mary Ann Deering dies leaving a life of quiet decline. Her home held priceless furniture cut glass art works and silverware including 250 year old pieces bearing a royal crest. The death was not discovered promptly and the house revealed many valuables and books.
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Mary Ann Deering
Dubuque
England
Alf Grinnell
Billy” ‘Robinson
Grinnell
Elka
Aero Clubs
Ovar
United States
First Presbyterian
Oskalooda
John MacVicar
Des Moines
Wberal
Iowa Independent Telephone Association
Iowa Falls
River Street
Ellsworth Zoo
Chautauqua Park
Six Mile
Givin
Earlham
Iowa
Davenport
Edward Henderson
J. H. Henderson
Commerce
Towa
Marengo
Henderson
Muscatine
Iowa City
Rock Island Railroad
What Cheer
Montezuma
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Bondon
Caliban
Browning
Bo Tresome
Rupper
Wolf Larson
Chapter
Mugridga
Larsen
Thomas Mugridga
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