Two Love Stories in a Sahara Adventure
Julia Redmond and Madame de la Maine recount intertwined tales amid desert nights and a hunt for Sabron. Pitchoune the terrier, Tremont, and a marquise figure in Africa frame a romance of duty, memory, and longing.
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le Comte de Babron
Marquise d'Esclignac
Mins
Julia Redmond
Algiers
Miss Redmond
Pitehoune
Julia
Babron
de Tremont
Sabron
Tremont
Marquise
Hammet Abou
Marwise
Jehoune
Fatou Anni
Monaleur de Sabron
Madame de la Maine
Therese
Azrael
Sahara
Mise Redmond
Comtesse
Monsieur de Sabron
Tara
Africa
Julian
Eld
Comtesse de la Malne
Therese de la Maine
Pola
Robert de Tremont
Assumption
Mary
Monsieur de la Maine
Comte
Robert
Desert
Bob
Self reliance saves more than a thousand guineas
A Victorian tone extols frugality and self discipline. The piece argues shaving daily, cutting tobacco, and avoiding excess save money and time. It suggests newspapers mailed to one’s home waste money if overused and warns that a single cocktail costs more than daily bread for two people.
Unclear Quote on Earning a Dollar for a Year
A fragment states the way he knew to earn the income of a dollar for a whole year was to walk to his office once, offering no further context or identifiable subjects.
New Bedford Rain Records Challenge Climate View
One hundred years of rainfall data in New Bedford Mass show fewer dry periods in the last fifty years than the previous half century. Initiated by Samuel Rodman in 1814 and continued by his son to 1906, the record now extends to a century. Average annual rainfall is 46.46 inches with notable dry spells three years long in early years and only two in the later fifty years.
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New Bedford
Mass
Samuel Rodman
Bie
State Health Department
Rodman Place
Saturday Evening Post
Scandinavian housekeeping and peasant cooking methods
In Scandinavia peasant women long used simple cooking methods. While cooking bread and stew, the pot was placed in a second pot and kept warm under feather beds. Some households used a loavened hearth stone and a hole beneath to retain heat.
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Scandinavia
Better Paying Crop
A brief aphorism from the Chicago Daily News urges young men who have sown wild oats to sow tame wheat, framing frugal reform as a path to making good their leases. The note uses a farm metaphor to advise responsibility and repayment.
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Chicago Daily News
Tremont and Sabron Trek Toward North in Desert Sojourn
Tremont rides a camel and endures heat and melancholy as Sabron travels slowly in a litter. Hammet Abou repeats that “What will be, will be” while the sick Sabron drifts between coma and delirium. Tremont ponders if Charles will reach Algiers before Sabron's fate. To be continued.
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Tremont
Sahara
Hammet Abou
Charles
Algiers
Sabron
Lost Motion and Waste in Daily Habits
A Philadelphia mathematician estimates telephone firms waste 125 hours daily due to the word please by operators and customers. Another discovers beer froth pays the freight. The Newark News notes no estimate for horsepower wasted by inhaling cigarette smoke through the nose.
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Philadelphia
Newark News
Wrong Treatment and a Preacher Not a Doctor
A Peoria Journal item argues that the mentally ill often fail to get proper care as they seek doctors instead of spiritual guidance, urging that a preacher may be more suitable for some patients.
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Insande
Food faddists and the hunt for dietary bans
A satirical note on dietary reform and bans lists a long history of food preachers and ascetic campaigns. Henry Labouchere is cited mocking the zeal for giving up meats, tobacco, alcohol, bread potatoes and more as excessive diet reform.
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Henry Labouchere
One Cause of Matrimony Highlighted in Odd Tale
A humorous note suggests marriage stems from many motives including companionship and the desire for a watchful partner in old age. The speaker jests that a bachelor marries to have someone around when the clock ticks loud at home.
A Smile Gets a Mile in a Grouchy Town
A playful proverb about mood and distance highlights how joy travels farther than grumpiness in daily life. The quip suggests a cheerful disposition spreads quickly, while negativity diminishes quickly.
Cripple Creek District Posts Heaviest October Ore Tonnage
October mining activity in the Cripple Creek district reaches a record 92 175 tons with an average value of 13 80 per ton and bullion output of 1 272 416 across mills and smelters. Portland Gold Mining, Vindicator, and Golden Cycle pay dividends totaling 165 000. Golden Cycle reports 43 450 tons processed and 738 650 bullion value.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Portland Company
Battlemountain
Victorville
Golden Cycle
Colorado Springs
Portland Gold Mining Company
Vindicator Consolidated
City
Denver
Pueblo
Portland
Arizona Mining Reports and Discoveries
Iron Gap reports profits over 18000 for September at Globe as Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co increases weekly output with some days reaching 8000 tons. USGS Bulletin G20 H details Kofa mountains reconnaissance including King of Armine with 4500000 in gold and silver and North Star ore body yielding over 1000000.
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Iron Gap
Globe
Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company
Kofa Mountains
Arizona
United States Geological Survey
King of Armine
North Star
New Mexico Mining Activity Reports Steady Output and Prospects
The Socorro Mining and Milling Co continues steady production while the Ernestine mine adds a new machine shop and centrifugal pump. The Pacific mine ships 100 tons weekly to Socorro, ore about 25 dollars per ton. Charles A. Siringo claims a gold find near Glorieta cafton, Santa Fe area, with rock value around 30 thousand dollars per ton. Chino Copper Co in Grant county reports last quarter earnings of 2,000,548 versus 1,102,104 a year earlier.
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Ernestine
Pacific
Socorro
New Mexico
New Mexico Petroleum & Gas Development Company
Charles A. Siringo
Glorieta Cafton
Santa Fe
Chino Copper Company
Grant County
Oil and Mineral Developments in Western Mines
A large mica deposit is found south of Manville. Seminoe mines near Rawlina show strong results. Oklahoma buyers take over Wyoming oil lands. Moeeteetsee Oil Co files incorporation. Mid-West Oil Co of Casper buys the Greybull field gusher opened by C. B. Stubbs. Swastika Oil Co forms to develop Big Horn county field with Basin offices. Vanadium mill at Vanadium operates at full capacity 126 to 160 tons daily. Nichols and Adams, lessees on Last Dollar mine Cripple Creek, show favorable prospect at 600-foot level.
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Manville
Rawlina
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Moeeteetsee Oil Company
Mid-West Ol Company
Casper Je
Greybull
C. B. Stubbs
Swastika Ol
Big Horn County
Wale
Basin
Vanadium
Newmire
San Miguel County
Nichols
Guy Adama
Cripple Creek
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Boobs Herr LL Company
Comntense
Bala de Boulogne
Madame de
Maine
Madame de A Maine
Comtesse de la Maine
France
South America
England
Western Mining and Oil News
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Spelter
St. Louis
N.Y
Socorro Mining and Milling Company
Colorado
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