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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
5
Enoch Wentworth and Andrew Merry gamble a future asset after a poker night. Wentworth demands Merry’s original play as forfeit and a share of its fame, while Merry resists, sparks fly, and the manuscript risks destruction as the two men clash over authorship, ambition, and control.
In Wentworth’s library Englishman Grant Oswald hears a dramatic script read aloud a play thought to be by Andrew Merry reveals Dorcas and Enoch confront a past tied to Juniper Point. Dorcas learns Merry may be the true author while Wentworth faces a moral clash and a plan to find Merry and stage the work.
In a tense fiction excerpt, Merry vanishes prompting suspenseful pursuit. Grant Oswald advances a Broadway production with a strong cast as Enoch wrestles with guilt, ambition, and potential crime. The narrative contrasts conscience with the lure of fame. Firemen's Water-Jackets. In Berlin the firemen wear water jackets with a double skin, which they are able to fill with water from the hose. If the space between the layers becomes overfilled the water escapes through a valve at the top of the helmet and falls down over the fireman’s face, protecting him doubly.
From the Almirante's Kingston call, 19 German POWs taken ashore, two escape attempts thwarted, stowaways later. Miss Mabel Beecher in port tossed coppers to locals and soldiers, who dove from the wharf in red jackets to grab the coins, uniforms and all.
Harvey Fe Garman, private secretary to Representative Rucker and Denver legislator, recalls leaving journalism after a sensational elopement story was quashed when the girl's father arrived with a shotgun. He recounts the city editor’s reaction and his pivot from news to politics.
Lord Kitchener values Northumbrian miners as military assets after observing their field work by the Northumbrian fusiliers. He asked for more men, prompting Lord Grey to announce the plan in mining regions. Local committees form recruiting drives and many young miners, including athletes, enroll, possibly forming a special regiment for familiar troops to fight together.
At a Danville picnic Uncle Joe Cannon warned that certain finance will plunge the nation into trouble. Mrs Bill Smith and her husband spent two weeks in Atlantic City on an extravagant vacation that emptied their pockets. On the way home, sunburned and tired, they learned a ten dollar bill had been hidden earlier.
An American army man comments on Austria misreading Europe’s stance leading to war with Turkey. The anecdote contrasts a rich lady’s strained duty to sports with a cynical remark about marriage, illustrating social satire on priorities and judgment.
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