Ghostly return spares Jimmy at Rathcoolan race
Jimmy Bellew recounts sightings of a dead woman claiming him from the grave. The phantom returns at Simla and Rathcoolan after earlier suicidally persuasive threats. On a public day, his fiancée Miss St John appears, then is vanished as Brutus crashes at a ditch, breaking Jimmy’s neck.
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Glyn
Jimmy Bellew
John James Christopher Benjamin Binns
Jimmy
Simla
Featherly
Kipling
D. T
Weatherly
Burmeh
Rathcoolap
Rathcoolan
Miss Rourke
Waterham
Kate St. John
Miz
Relef
Molly Malone
Miss St. John
Timothy
Jim
Brutus
Devil
Fabulous Ivory Mat Among World’s Rarest Pieces
An exceptionally rare ivory mat, one of only three in the world, measures eight by four feet and was made in northern India. It features a Greek border design and was used on estate occasions for important document alignment. Its original cost was six thousand four hundred pounds, crafted from tusks with flexible woven-like strips.
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Aamahill
India
Largest sponge sent to market from the Mediterranean
A report notes the largest sponge ever sent to market originated in the Mediterranean. It measured ten feet in circumference and three feet in diameter. The passage adds a proverb about fools and disputes, implying a man arguing with a beast mirrors such folly.
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Mediterranean
The Senator's Blunder Clerks an Appointment Error
A Western job seeker visits Senator Blank in Washington and earns a hidden clerkship via a misdirected letter. Chandler offers a $1,000 Interior Department post after a secretary’s misread note. Years later the clerk jokes he kept the senator's personal letter in his vest. The tale ends with the senator’s decline from public life and the clerk living on $1,800 a year.
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Zach Chandler
Interior Department
Washington
Saya
Washington Star
Senate
Senator Blank
Senaor
Senator Lank
Chandler
Blank
Ufe
Changing Maine School Life Spares Youth From Calf Sight
Miss Young, a teacher in district Seven Maine, endures loneliness and disquiet as she adapts to a rural school. She grows pale and confesses homesickness after witnessing a calf slaughter shared by neighbors. The sight and restraint over meat supplies prompt her to request leave and seek a vacation from her demanding post.
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Miss Young
Maine
Fayette
Susan
Nathan Ash
Smiths
The Mortgage as a Picture of Debt and Duty
A quotation from Truth likens a mortgage to many powerful forces. It is a symbol of industry, fate, and Providence, described as a bosom friend to adversity and a relentless force that drives action and keeps a family tethered to debt across time. It emphasizes it benefits only when in another’s family.
Tie Corean Hat
A circular Corean hat is a round straw mat worn by a mourner. The hat binds down at the sides to conceal the head and face. He carries a screen or fan and raises it to hide behind the hat when approached.
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