Shipwrecked Heiress and Survivors In Leopard Camp Tale
An American heiress Miss Genevieve Alle and Englishman Winthrope with Tom Blake survive a steamer wreck. They lash to shore then trek inland finding a camp among cliffs, leopards, and roughs. Blake recovers gear and food as they endure thirst and peril while awaiting rescue and shelter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Alle
Lord Winethrope
Tom Blake
Blake
Per
Egge
Leslie
Climbing Tree Escapes and Tense Desert Plot
Miss Genevieve in a perilous escape climbs a tree to avoid discovery as Blake and Winthrope clash over a plan. Blake vows to protect and plot a barricade while Winthrope debates self defense and possible murder, with Miss Genevieve fearing discovery and the fever.
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Blake
Jenny
Fever Night Awakening in a Winthrope Bed
Chapter XIV presents Winthrope tossing on a bed of leaves beneath a canopy, stirring with feverish unrest. Mise Lesiie hovers nearby in a tense scene of pain, temper, and concern as night falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrope
Mise Lesiie
Lord Avebury Traces London Streets A History Explanation
Lord Avebury spoke at a London history address about how ancient field strips between London and Westminster shaped today’s crooked streets. He noted oxen plowing caused curved boundaries, citing Longacre, Hyde Park borders, Park Lane line, the Dip in Piccadilly, and the Serpentine’s old watercourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Avebury
London
Westminster
Longacre
Hyde Park
Park Lane
Water Tracing Device Claimed By French Inventor Dien ert
A French inventor named Dien ert proposes a device to locate underground water currents. Building on Daguin's acoustele, a hornlike instrument is lowered into a shallow hole and worn as ears tubes. When water runs underground the sound is audible like wind in a forest, though still water cannot be detected. Experiments near known streams show success, but no hidden streams have yet been found.
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Mr. Blake
Benneath
Miss Leelie
Winthrope
Blake
Azvain Winthrope
Misa Leslie
Win
Jenny
Mias Lesiie
Elrl
Dienert
Daguin
Edwin Hawley eyed to run Denver & Rio Grande line
Northwest notes report rumors that Edwin Hawley may take over the Denver & Rio Grande Fall road. Meanwhile in Wameaster Wyoming Julius Are not of Rock Springs is injured after a westbound passenger train strike. Other items include a jail birth in Denver county, Taft’s tunnel project nearing completion, and various western incidents.
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Denver
Edwin Hawley
Denver & Rio Grande Fall Road
Wameaster
Wyo
Julius Arenot
Rock Springs
Emma Jet
Great Gunnison Tunnel
Taft
Sisters’ Hospital
Reno
Nevada
Mia
Alice Bk, Koch
Pueblo
Martinique
Josephine
W. H. Moore
Oregon Trust and Savings Company
Portland
Moore
Burlington
Tolosa
Mont
Brakelian Patterson
Jackson
Oregon Short Line
Granger
Southern Pacific
Lordsburg
Atlas
Idaho
Spokane
H. L. Peake
I. C. Brewer
Sandusky. O
Everett, Wash
Curtis Brewer
Brewer
Northwest States
Inland Empire
Lovelock
Brown's
Dillon
Matthew Matson
Cumberland
Salt Lake City
Eureka & Palisade Railroad
M. L. Requa
Wells
Nev
G. Washburn
Ogden
Sacramento
Hane
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Robert Ames Bennet
Ray Walters
Nin
Genevieve
Miss Genevieve
Thrope
Miss Leste
Northwest
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