Lafitte Ties Echoed Tension In New Orleans Home
Rose de Cazeneau hosts Captain Jean Lafitte at Gen. La Roche’s New Orleans residence. Tensions simmer as Lavalle eyes Rose and Lafitte’s past fuels rumors among Zeney and the household. Lazalle warns secrecy while Rose struggles with unsettling stories of Lafitte and Lara.
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Rose de Cazeneau
Jean
Lavelle
Gen. la Roche
Rose
Lasalle
Cal
Thomas Stewart
Kentucky
Haro
New Orleans
la Roche
Lafitte
Brivis
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Dnafutte
Iavallo
Stewart
Punt
Tommy Stewart
Col
Jack Ross
Tafite
Mademoiselle de Cazeneau
Mademoiselle de Caseneau
Brigida
Lazalle
Kanaubana
Capt. Jean
Lavalle
Albert
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Harold Stewart
Senorita Lazalle
Mademoiselle Rose
Mandenabelle de Cazeneau
Kanauhana
Barbe
Zeney
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Strilly
Missy
Lazalie
Capt. Lafitte
La-la
Zenoy
Capt
Joan
Mamman Zillah
Mademoiselle de Cageneau
Contrabant Paveu
Madenal
Zillah
Lara
Louisiana
Laro
Boss
Primitive incubators aid Gibraltar siege relief
During the siege of Gibraltar Admiral Rodney returned with twenty one ships of the line and supplies. In April 1781 Admiral Darby and the British grand fleet also supplied the rock. A Naples ship delivered 6000 bushels of barley and vegetables and even chickens were incubated in tin cans heated by water to hatch. The method reduced hunger amid the bombardment.
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Gibraltar
Rodney
Rock
Admiral Darby
Aiseo
Naples
Wheels used as alarm bell in New Jersey towns
Locomotive drive wheels once worn for travel are repurposed as fire alarm bells in small New Jersey towns. The wheels, framed and hung, can alarm a wide area when struck, a common practice throughout many smaller New Jersey communities.
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New Jersey
Dear John Letters on Bridge Whist and Dept Store Gags
A humorous Philadelphia letter from This Week features Gladys Jones asking how to play bridge whist and a narrator recounting comic department store misadventures. The piece weaves letters and responses, with eccentric shop staff, quirky shoppers, and a tongue in cheek tour of a department store frenzy.
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Philadelphia
John
Teddy
Gladys
New York
Ro Jentvensky
Andrew Carnegie
Jefferson as Young Man and Early public life
The article recalls Thomas Jefferson as a standout Virginia scholar and athlete at college. It notes his early income in 1757, his height, and skills as a dancer and violinist. It contrasts Washington era tensions over state sovereignty versus centralization and recalls Jefferson’s modest inauguration ride without pomp.
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Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Jefferson
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Gentiowa & Lambkia
Kitchen Jiu Jitsu in London Night Schools
In a London home a quarrel erupts over a schoolyard topic as a young boy Buttons claims to have taught a playful Jiu Jitsu to the butler, who lies injured under a dresser after the incident. The mistress queries the meaning of the scene as the house hosts a comic domestic disturbance.
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London
Buttons
Advice for Change in a Lawyer Farmer Deal
A young lawyer advises a farmer on a legal matter after reading the statute. The farmer asks for cost. the lawyer quotes three dollars and accepts a five. He then pockets the extra two and offers two dollars more value in services to complete the fee.
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Afitte
Mary Devereux
Don C. Wilson
Canaan
Jove
Captain Jeanna
John Henry
By Hugh McHugh
Igeorge Y. Hobart
Gladys Jones
Geome
Hyde
Freddie
Tam
Younes
Lody
G. W. Dillingham
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