Blessed Mortgage Brings Almira and Tom Together
Almira Pollers, a skilled cook, takes a low wage job and reveals a family mortgage crisis. Tom Birney, her generous but spendthrift brother, finances the mortgage, battles alcohol, seeks recovery, and marries Almira after she helps him turn his life around. The mortgage is paid off in ashes, revealing a new union.
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Almira
Pollers
Peter Pollers
Cropa
Tom Birney
Tom
Patth
New York
Ske
Eleanor
Elmira
Mr. Tom
Mrs. Munroe
Om Birney
Almn
Toledo Blade
Fatal Shears and a Was of Getting Even
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote tells how John Warwick seizes revenge over his wife wearing bloomers. He locks them in his trunk, expects praise, but returns home to a locked house. After a fruitless search, he discovers his wife cut off his prideful retaliation and mourns the ruined day.
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John Warwick
Warwick
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Perpetual Motion Dreams Across Time
The piece discusses perpetual motion as a longtime inventor's quest noting many claimants and hundreds of devices in offices like Washington. It explains friction inertia and gravity prevent true perpetual motion and that durable material remains unattainable. It ends with a childlike exchange about candy and questions to Socrates and calculus.
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Pliny
Washington
Cattle Pestilence in Africa and Wind Gait of Falkland Inhabitants
Reports from Gaberones Bechuanaland describe a cattle pestilence spreading to wild species including buffalo giraffe and antelope with thousands of oxen dying and wagons stranded between Gaberones and Bulawayo. A visitor notes Falkland Islanders walk with a distinctive gait due to constant bracing against strong winds, earning them the name helpers. Camphor supplies grow scarcer as demand rises driven by celluloid use. Japan and Formosa supply most, camphor trees reach 115 feet in height with trunks over 14 feet in diameter. Borneo camphor comes from gum deposits on a local tree and is costly.
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Africa
Captain Lugard
Gaberones
Bechuanaland
Bulawayo
Falkland Islands
Falklands
Japan
Formana
China
Borneo
Island
Sumatra
Sea fight between whale and colossal squid observed at sea
The Prince of Monaco plans a whale expedition and Frank T. Bullen recalls a moonlit encounter in the Strait of Malacca. A sperm whale battles a giant squid as tentacles coil around the whale. other creatures circle the scene as the combat unfolds.
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Prince of Monaco
Frank T. Bullen
Strait of Malacca
Mr. Bullen
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Tommy
Mollie
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Socrates
Sence
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