Yellow Moon Sleep and the Gobi Map Quest
John Lavington and Mary Martin wed in Michigan then part as tragedy drives their family. Con, son of doomed love, grows into danger chasing a Chinese map to the Gobi desert. Andrew March funds the voyage, hoping to reclaim a lost wife and child while Con is drawn into the underworld and mystery.
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Bynopels
John Lavington
Mary Martin
Michigan
John
Martina
Mary
Cornelius
Koresh
Con
Con Io
Andrew March
Chee Ming
Gobi Desert
Andrew Marth
Gobi
Maren
Desperate chase across Asia Into Shan-sung map loss
Levington the shipboard captain pursues a hidden map after Chee Ming infiltrates his cabin stealing the chart and envelope. The pair exchange threats as Levington escapes Tong-hu, travels by river to Peking, then joins a harsh camel caravan toward Kalgan and the Great Wall. Winter frost deepens the peril as they press toward Shan-sung.
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Levington
Con
Great Wall
Con's
Kalgan
King Lakes
Shan-sung
Astronomical Mystery and Distant Nebulae Unearthed
An old astronomy snippet discusses a pearly white background in the stellar sky, faint telescope luminosity, and questions whether the shimmer is trillions of suns or nebulous matter. It notes dark space wells in constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio, with Antares at an immense distance and vastly larger luminosity than the Sun.
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Sagtarius
Scorpio
Antares
Earth
Lost Minutes and Time's Power in Greatness
Orison Swett Marden tells Chicago Daily News readers that two traits shape greatness power and promptitude. He argues time value drives effort and effort leaves a lasting mark of strength, urging readers to make every minute count.
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Orison Swett Marden
Chivago Dally Newa
Quaker Minister Credits Tanlac for Health Restoraion
Reverend Parker Moon of Missouri, longtime Quaker organizer known as Uncle Parker, describes a five year health decline marked by nervous indigestion, headaches, insomnia, and back pain. After trying Tanlac, he reports improved appetite, sleep, and digestion, urging others to use it. Tanlac is sold by leading druggists.
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Missouri
Parker Moon
Society of Friends
Quakers
Parker
Tanlac
Texas
Taniac
Youngest Vice President Query and Breckenridge’s Path
The text notes Franklin D Roosevelt as a 36 year old vice presidential candidate who was unsure if he would be the youngest. It then details John C Breckinridge becoming vice president at age 36 in 1857, later pursuing the presidency, serving in the Senate, joining the Confederacy, serving as secretary of war under Jeff Davis, and dying in Lexington Kentucky on May 17, 1875.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
John Cabell Breckenridge
James Buchanan
Breckenridge
Woodman, spare that tree plea stings poetic jibe
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a poem line urging sparing a tree with the witty reply to stop wood pulp and paper production. The exchange frames a joke about ending poetry in favor of environmental restraint.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
States Debt and Revenue Surpluses in 1919 Census Report
The 48 states show 31 with revenue above expenditures by 50,192,314 dollars or 7.4 cents per person, 17 below by 15,378,246 dollars or 43.8 cents per person, and five of these underperforming states also lacking current revenue to cover interest. Overall excess revenue over expenditures is 84,814,008 dollars or 33.1 cents per capita, per the Financial Statistics of States 1019 by Sam L. Rogers, Census Bureau.
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Sam L. Rogers
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
Not Willing to See Delegation of Lady Lobbyists
A Birmingham Age-Herald note recalls a scene with a senator and a secretary as lady lobbyists insist on meetings. The piece shifts to a Hebrew comedian line and then reports that canals totaling over a billion miles are in use in England, a misprint likely suggesting miles of canals or a misquoted figure.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
England
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