The Lost Photograph and the Eastbound Love Heiress
A lone traveler wakes on a train to find a beloved photo missing. He and a charming stranger discuss a letter from Charley about a wealthy Southern heiress in Boston. The heiress later reappears as the traveling companion who picked up the photo, revealing she kept it, and he marries her, adding the cherished cabinet portrait to his library.
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Ned
Boston
Gilad
Charley
Zea
Brookline
Vendettas of the Present Across Regions and Time
A New York World reflection notes vendetta persists in Sicily Sardinia Corsica Kentucky and Western regions as well as England Ireland France Italy and the East. It cites an Albanian incident Talion blood feud in Arabia and traces origins to an unescapable assassin and retaliation by the victim’s kin with death for a death.
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Sicily
Sardinian
Corsica
Kentucky
England
Ireland
France
Italy
Arabia
New York World
Heroes of Two Wars Roberts and Kitchener Head English Forces
English forces will be led in South Africa by Field Marshal Lord Roberts and Maj. Gen. Lord Kitchener, famed commanders of Kandahar and Omdurman. Roberts, born 1832, has a long record from the Afghan campaigns to Kabul and Kandahar, destined to command in Ireland and now South Africa. Kitchener, born 1851 in Kerry, rose from Egyptian service to Nile expeditions and the Soudan victory at Omdurman, earning peerage and high standing in Britain.
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South Africa
England
Lord Roberts
Lord Kitchener
Kandahar
Asia
Omdurman
Africa
Bobs
Europe
Ameer
Afghanistan
Great Britain
Roberts
Peiwar Kotal
Louis Cavagnari
Kabul
Ayoob Khan
Ireland
Lord Frederick S. Roberts
Royal Military College
Sandhurst
India
Bengal Artillery
Delhi
Leutenant
Lucknow
Sir Colin Campbell
Colin
Outram
Lieut
Roberta
Khodaguaoge
Umebyla
Frontier
Lushal
Kitchener
Egypt
Evelyn Wood
Soudan
Dongola
Lord Wolseley
Nile
Suakim
Gemarrah
Toski
Khalifa
Vast celestial facts and future telescope plans in science notes
A summary of scientific curiosities including Sir Robert Ball on proving stellar existence among 30 million suns, the earth's elliptical orbit, Batignolles tunnel lighting by train wheels, a French electric barber's comb, Harvard’s long telescope project funded for 12 inch aperture and 100 foot length, and grand scales used in quotes by an English physicist and Lord Kelvin about water molecules and earth sized drops.
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Robert Ball
Batignolles
Paris
L’hteetricien
E. C. Pickering
Harvard Observatory
Friends of Science
Cambridge
Lord Kelvin
Oceans
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Jane
Heroes OF
Gen. Roberts
Phineas T. Lounsbury
Connecticut
Merchantee’ Exchange National Bank
New York
Lounsbury
Coltere
Harlem
Field Marshal Roberts
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