Ragging of Tom Hazlewood in a Hong Kong Regiment
The tale follows Tom Hazlewood's clash with regimental authority in Hong Kong. He refuses to pay a trimmed mess bill and threatens to stay in the Southdown Fusiliers, provoking fellow officers including Muriel Gaston’s flirtations. A planned ragging ends when Hazlewood confronts his peers with calm decisiveness, sparing him further action. Hazlewood stays, later marries Muriel Gaston, and eyes advancement to command the regiment.
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Muriel Gaston
Tom Hazlewood
Miss Gaston
Tom
Hong Kong
Southdown Fusiliers
England
War Office
Tropics
Hazlewood
Southdowns
Esprit de Corps
Horace Jardine
Jardine
Jardin
Jack Forest
Fletcher
Birch
Sandhurst
Forest
Pearl recovered after mollusk grab on New Jersey trip
Miss Evelyn Dayton and John Howard Benton of New York City found a pearl valued at least $1000 after a copperhead incident near Hanover Neck. The pearl, believed to be within a shell snatched by a large freshwater mollusk, was examined by a New York jeweler and is to be set into a belt made from the copperhead snake skin Benton killed.
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Passaic
Evelyn Dayton
Miss Dayton
Mr. Benton
Twain
Passaic River
New York
Dayton
Benton
New Jersey
Essex Falls
N. J
The
New York Tribune
Adair Describes Duluth Faker of Old Masters
Western detective H K Adair recounts the Duluth capture of a faker of Old Masters. He notes the offender convicting himself by his own statements and recalls a young job seeker who claimed strong schooling and the ability to write telegrams and take messages.
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H. K. Adair
Duluth
Mr. Adair
Washington
Novel amphibious car boat by Jacques Boyer tested in France
French inventor J Ravaillier demonstrated a self propelling amphibious vehicle that travels on water like a motor boat and overland like a car. Tests before M Barthou and others showed smooth water entry and exit, steering by a single wheel, multiple drive modes, and a 35 km h top speed on land. The craft, built with steel hull plates, a G time naval design, was purchased by an American buyer. The page also notes Scientific American and National Druggist comments on soda fountain drink safety.
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J. Ravaillier
M. Barthou
Scientific American
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Charles Gleig
Jacques Boyer
M. Gustave Pitre
Maisons Laffitte
Gontallier
Vincennes
Dr. Wiley
Queen Tii
Egypt
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