Cherokee Hall the Longhorn Gambler of Arizona
In a Western yarn from Arizona, Cherokee Hall, a slim sharp-eyed longhorn, is praised for wit and nerve. A stagecoach robbery near Tuscon escalates when a black coat evangelist and a wary woman threaten the riders, but Cherokee guides a dangerous escape, fends off Apaches, and saves a family, earning gratitude from the young mother for his steadfast courage.
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Cherokes Hall
Arizona
Uinhorn
Speshul
Cherokee Hall
Dan Boggs
Tuscon
Jones
Boges
Wolfville
Ain
Abyas
Boggs
An Ironclad Canal Boat of the Dutch Navy
The article describes Holland's ironclad canal boat a compact warship for inland waters about forty by fifteen feet with armored rails two turrets masts and machine guns. It notes canals provide high water levels and close quarters combat advantages and places the vessel among roughly 150 Dutch warships including about twenty one ironclads.
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Holland
Gans
Beelde
Ancient Chinese socialism failed in practice centuries ago
Leon Daubert discusses Ouang Ngam Che’s ancient experiment in socialism under Emperor Chenu Tsong. Land was nationalized and allocated, forests and cattle managed communally, but after one generation greed and indolence returned, fields lay fallow, and the system collapsed.
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Leon Daubert
French Academy
China
Clovis
France
Europe
Ouang Ngam Che
Auang Ngam Che
Chenu Tsong
Commonwealth
M. Caubert
Adam
Fantasies of Invalides in Food Serving
A collection of eccentric patient eating fancies from the Invalides era. A woman demands bread cut as diamonds with her beef tea, another insists on blue basins for nourishment, and a scarlet fever patient accepts feeding only from a silver teapot spout. An Africa-hunting gentleman longs for elephant foot while a clergyman dreams of stilts and a mutilated man regrets his amputation due to a skating impulse.
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Boggs
Dan
Enright
Wolfville
Akin
Jack Moore
Moore
Farewell
San Francisco Examiner
Invalides
Africa
Nimrod
Asiant Laundry Signs Puzzle Newcomers
A ruddy faced man and his smiling wife study Chinese characters on a laundry door. The wife asks if the symbols are notes while the man explains they are a sign, sparking mild misunderstanding as they gaze at the hanging hieroglyphics.
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America
Hestre
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Ond
Brintlin
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Shorely
Gota
Victoria
Tucson
Monte
Rocka
Olla
Lapland
Eide
Musical Sige
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