A Creepy Discretion Tale Of Robert De Gedres
In a moonlit Rouen summer, Colonel Robert de Gedres confesses a forbidden love to Mme de Lucenay. A door trap costs him a finger and nearly ruins all, forcing a drastic, fatal decision as his fate spirals toward a dangerous extract from memory.
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Marquise
Robert de Gedres
Rocheverte
Mme. de Logerolles
Rouen
Garde
Mme. de Lucenay
M. de Lucenay
Renard
Sallen-Manger
Mon Ami
Germainy
Stis
Jermaine
Roberts
Robert
Armand
M. de Gedres
de Gedres
Navy trials wire webbing for gunner protection on ships
The navy department tests a new protection system for exposed crew on warships. A flexible wire webbing of intertwining spirals resembles early chain armor and may shield gunners behind shields from shell fragments. Researchers claim its resisting quality matches an inch-thick steel plate.
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Navy Department
Just the Other Way Judge Quote
A veteran reflects on age and memory in a short dialog with a boy. The old man says he did not bear arms in 1812 because it was the other way around, arms bore him, as remarked by a judge.
Presence of Mind charade ends with choking note
Presence of Mind in the scene Miss Plumpleigh chokes asking Mr Dudekin for help. Dudekin responds with a grim line about a dead girl and swallowing flies, yielding a darkly comic, misheard dialogue moment.
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Miss Plumpleigh
Mr. Dudekin
Dudekin
Athletics and Brains at Bowdoin Highlight Body Mind Link
Bowdoin College President Hyde argues that physical development aids scholarship and that athletics and intellect are closely correlated. The Smyth prize winners over six classes show diverse talents from track to baseball to trapeze, with several athletes achieving top academic prizes and future roles on boat crews or football squads.
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Hyde
Bowdoin
Bowdoin College
Old Man Misses Seat At Athens Play
A public Athens event shows an old man unable to find a proper seat. Young men offer help, but crowding occurs. Athenians, moved by Spartan virtue, applaud. The old man then proclaims the Athenians understand virtue while Lacedemonians practice it.
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Athens
Nodise
Lawyer and Jew Face Brutal Public Punishment
A Vilna incident recounts a Jew son of Israel assaulted by guards for blocking a governor's wife in a city where Jews could reside. He is whipped 30 times and dies soon after. His attorney, also Jewish, seeks a copy of the judiciary act but receives equal blows instead. The governor orders the police chief to deliver the document, but the chief hands back the same punishment to the attorney.
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Chief of Police
Vilna Viestnik
Thiers Revisited by a Bootmaker’s Pity
M Thiers, former French president, returns to his native town and meets an old boot and shoe trade worker. The man boasts a flourishing business and asks Thiers what he has done since boyhood. Thiers replies that he was president, prompting the astonished reaction My poor friend, how I pity you.
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M. Thiers
French Republic
The
Republic
Thiers
The Florida Everglades Awe Inspiring Expedition Tale
A narrator with a small tourist party journeys into Florida’s Everglades aboard a tiny steam launch. Dense tangled vegetation, glaring birds, alligators, snakes, and oppressive gloom frame a perilous, almost unmapped wilderness.
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Tampa
Everglades
Florida
Peninsula of
Africa
Pink dress grief at school rediscovered
A shy girl named Louisa wears a shabby winter dress all year until spring reveals it is a remade garment from her deceased mother. Children mock her until the teacher intervenes, offering sympathy and promising to change how the pupils treat her.
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Louisa
Oh-H
Detroit Free Press
Verdant streamside passages inspire woodland cathedral visions
In a descriptive travel note from the Omaha Bee, a narrator describes how breaks in a leafy riverbank reveal verdant rooms and galleries formed by trees vines and shrubs. The journey up the stream is halted by a fallen tree, prompting return to civilization and human society.
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Society of Man
Omaha Bee
Daylight reflector brings sunlit rooms to life
A new abroad invention, the daylight reflector, promises to flood dark rooms, cellars, and stores with diffused daylight. It uses a polished fluted surface not mercury lined, resists rain, and can be adjusted at windows by a carpenter or smith to reflect sky light into any corner and extend usable daylight hours, cutting artificial lighting costs.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The First Postdiluvian Family Figures Grow Vast
An English divine computes that if Noah’s son lived to 500 and had children from age 80 to 470, with one new child every three years and all living to 450, he could sire at least 147 offspring. Grandchildren would number 10,000 to 12,000, with total descendants around 50,000. Polyamory would boost these numbers further.
Fifty Year Old Man Seeks Return to Lost Love in New York
Leopold Bentel, a German immigrant now prosperous in America, declares his past love for Hilda Rehr who wed Baron Borgencit and bore Rosina. After Borgencit’s death poverty struck, Bentel sent funds to the family, and upon the widow’s death he offered marriage to Rosina Borgencit, who travels to join him.
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New York
Leopold Bentel
Germany
Hilda Rehr
Baron Borgencit
Rosina Borgencit
Bentel
Rosina
Investment decision leads to cloak purchase
Prepared for TJ Husband notes he plans to buy a cloak after realizing an investment. The wife expresses happiness as he sits and accepts the bill.
Deep Sea Diving and the Lambert Treasure Rescue
A London naval exhibit showcases diver Mr Lambert in a diving suit performing feats and demonstrations. Lucidly recounted is his pivotal salvage of treasure from the Alphonso XII wreck near Grand Canary, where £70,000 was recovered after a perilous descent to 264 fathoms.
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London
Pall Mall Gazette
Camperdown
the Gazette
Lambert
Mr. Lambert
Point Gando
Grand Canary
Huays
Annals of England 1602 to 1688 Timeline Highlights
A compact chronology lists events from 1602 to 1688 including the first wooden tramways, Union of crowns under James I, Jamestown founding, Shakspeare’s death, Cromwell's protectorate, Jamaica and New Brunswick settlements, Civil War beginnings, Drogheda massacre, Royal Society charter, Public Intelligencer start, Great Plague, Newmarket races, Popish Plot, habeas corpus act, and William and Mary from 1688.
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England
Scotland
Jamestown
Smith
First Baptist Church
London
Shakspeare
Stratford-on-Avon
Charles I
Drogheda
Ireland
Jamaica
Charles II
Royal Society
Public Intelligencer
Newmarket
South Africa
Titus Oates
James II
Illiam and
Mary
Battle of the Boyne
Four Plant Selections For Grand Garden Effects
An experienced florist states if limited to four plant species he would choose hardy roses, lilies, rhododendrons and clematis. He ranks lilies second for beauty but first for labor and cost efficiency, and insists these four should predominate in every garden for striking visual impact.
Rudyard Kipling etymology questioned by soldier
An old British soldier in India asserts Rudyard Kipling’s real name as John Trader and says Kipling’s father was a sutler and contractor. The remark implies disillusionment with literary idols and cites Kipling’s contempt for trade and traders in his letters.
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India
Rudyard Kipling
John Trader
Rudyard
To Lake Maxinkuckee by Nickel Plate Each Saturday
An itinerary notes travel by the Nickel Plate road to Lake Maxinkuckee every Saturday through September 28. Enquire via agents for details.
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Lake Maxinkuckee
Nickel Plate Road
Eccentricities of Famous Figures and Their Odd Habits
A humorous catalog of quirks from historical notables. Sheridan improvises repartees in company, Suwarrow carries a bag of unset diamonds, David the artist scrapes an old fiddle while claiming he should have been a violinist, Byron’s household allegedly includes many animals, Turner hides away with a five pound note for a night of revelry, Emmanuel Back plays organ at church until stopped, Beethoven bathes and groans loudly causing neighbors and lodgings to change.
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Sheridan
Suwarrow
David
Byron
Shelley
Turner
Emmanuel Back
World’s Largest Vine at Hampton Court Explained
The vine at Hampton Court is leveled to claim Europe’s largest size with branches spanning 2,800 feet. Planted from a slip in 1768, it typically yields about 2,000 bunches of Hampbro’ black grapes.
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Hampton Courts
Europe
Razzi Scholarly Painter Keeps House Busy With Animals
The great painter Razzi filled his home with many animals and taught his raven to cry Come in when there is a knock at the door. The tale presents a whimsical scene reflecting Razzi's unusual household and inventive pets.
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Razzi
Mneyee
Burglars Joke About Small Revolvers Owned by Women
A cryptic crime note imagines a burglar treating the women’s small revolvers as a joke. The line suggests a daring, perhaps satirical take on personal defense. No suspects named.
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