The Witch of Monte Garlo Invasion on a Yacht
Merrick storms a yacht to rescue Constance as Count Leon is foiled by a door collision. The intruder asserts himself, Sir Lionel is humiliated, and Merrick escorts Constance to her hotel before sharing a tale of a Monte Carlo scheme to break the bank.
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Count Leon
Merrick
Gams
Sirocco
Sahara
Villebois
Sir Lionel
Jones
Mark Merrick
Misa Dare
Lionel
Francé
Russia
John Lane
Jones and Merrick Plan a Monte Carlo Haul
Jones and Merrick edge toward a Monte Carlo raid as the crowd swirls around the green tables. Jones plays cool with a deadly plan at trente et quarante while the princess and wary rivals loom. The duo aims to strike at the casino bank, readiness and nerves in balance as the scene builds to a dramatic showdown.
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Social Europa
Monte Carlo
Jones
Marrick
Mer- Tick
Villebois
Merrick
Baden Baden
Monaco
Loya Ko Long
Constance
South Africa
Bengal
Tropics
David
Goliath
Trente Et Quarante
Quixote
Europe
Count von Zeppelin Faces Financial Ruin
Count von Zeppelin, builder of the largest airships, cannot fund new projects and plans to dismantle his prior airships to sell their aluminium. He is 67, once a German embassy military attache in the U S during the Civil War and led a notable cavalry raid in France in 1870 marking the Franco Prussian War onset.
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Count von Zeppelin
Zeppelin
United States
France
Cross Sahara Balloon Voyage Feasible Says Deburaux
French aeronaut M Deburaux believes a Tunis to Niger flight across the Sahara is practicable using regional winds. He offers to attempt the voyage but notes funds are lacking. Balloon construction and equipment would cost about $160000.
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Sahara
France
M. Deburaux
Tunis
Niger
Bishop Philanthropia Offers Gold Chariot for Sale
The bishop, Philanthropia Dr. Theodore Kohn of Olmutz Austria, known as the prince bishop, presents a gold chariot drawn by eight horses to raise funds for the Jhenet vot the or. He has held the bishopric for an agenda years.
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Philanthropia
Theodore Kohn
Olmutz
Austria
Gale
Miss Alice Hay Thrown From Carriage In Accident
Miss Alice Hay daughter of Secretary of State John Hay was thrown from her carriage last week after her spirited team bolted near a passing car. She suffered painful bruises. she is reportedly engaged to James W. Wadsworth Jr. of New York. The piece also notes a New York Post account of a casino-like scene at a hotel cafe where a $500 bill led to a dramatic exchange.
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Alice Hay
John Hay
Miss Hay
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
New York
John
New York Post
Miss Sickels of Chicago Rewarded for Courage
The French Society Le Sevateur awarded its medal to Miss Hmma Sickels of Chicago for displaying exceptional courage during the Sioux uprising of 1889-90. Absent at first, she hurried home at the War Department’s urging, visited the hostiles, calmed tensions, and helped prevent further conflict by correcting a misperception about the Wounded Knee fight.
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Miss Sickels
Chicago
le Sevateur
Hmma Sickels
Pine Ridge Agency
War Department
Ex Queen Isabella of Spain in Paris Circle
Ex Queen Isabella of Spain, aging yet stylish, enjoys dress and sociable life in Paris. She leads a lively circle of well known men and women who admire her hospitality and wit.
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Spain
Isabella
Ruth Hanna a Sportswoman Heroine of Ad Venture
Senator Hanna plans a summer trip to Melrose Plantation in Georgia after Congress. His daughter Ruth joins him, famed equestrienne and marksman, recently noted for a wildcat adventure from a prior coon hunt where she claimed the credit was only a joke.
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Hanna
Congress
Melrose Plantation
Georgia
Miss Ruth
Mutch
Farmer finds old shell near Stevensville Va
A farmer near Stevensville Virginia plowed up an old shell. Nervous, he piled combustibles over it and fled with his mule. The resulting explosion, though delayed, was heard for five miles by a local newspaper man reporting the incident.
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Stevensville
Miss Ethel Sigsbee Weds in Washington Ceremony
Miss Ethel Sigsbee, niece of Capt. Charles Dwight Sigsbee, married Robert Toombs Small at the Church of the New Jerusalem in Washington. The wedding was a notable social event of the Washington season. The bride, granddaughter of Gen. H. H. Lockwood, has a fine voice and once considered an operatic career.
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Washington
Ethel Sigsbes
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Robert Toombs Small
Church of the New Jerusalem
H. H. Lockwood
Weat Point
Annapolis Naval Academy
Mr. Small
Office seeker plows for votes in Kansas bogey scheme
In Butler county a candidate for office uses a farmer friendly plowman act. He travels in a bogey with a plow man, takes the farmer’s place at the implements while the farmer listens under a tree. The tactic appears successful.
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Butler County
Kansas
TWO RECENT DEATHS Dr. Palmer Dies in New Orleans
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Morgan Palmer a renowned Presbyterian minister died at his New Orleans home following paralysis after a streetcar accident. He was 84, and doctors say his injuries, though not serious alone, worsened by his frail condition.
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Palmer
New Orleans
Benjamin Morgan Palmer
New Or
Eighty Year Fox Hunter Perry Brubaker of Cedar Lane
A Lancaster County resident praises Perry Brubaker aged eighty six for top form and fox hunting zeal. He recently replastered a two story house with only a seventeen year old helper and recalls his first capture over seventy years ago when snow was deep. Brubaker still hunts on foot and even when inactive listens to the pack atop the Welsh mountains, awaiting Reynard’s earth retreat.
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Lancaster County
Perry Brubaker
Cedar Lane
Reynard
Philadelphia
Lieut. Olaf H. Rask Dies in Philippines
Secretary Moody received a cable from Rear Admiral Wildes at Cavite stating Lieut. Olaf H. Rask of the Marine Corps died at Bacoor of cholera on the 29th mat and was buried there. A Minnesota native, he entered the Marine Corps in October 1899 and had served on the Asiatic Station since December.
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Marine Corps
Philippines
Moody
Creek Nation faces racial citizenship and land quotas
Fourteen thousand Creek Nation citizens are entitled to tribal land quotas, with five thousand being Negro. The Creeks, like other civilized tribes, owned enslaved people. After the war ex slaves were granted full citizenship rights, and extensive racial mixing has produced many people of mixed Indian and Negro heritage.
Queen Alexandra Owns Rare Opera Glasses Made in Vienna
One of the world's costliest opera glasses belongs to Queen Alexandra. Specially made in Vienna, the barrel is platinum set with diamonds sapphires and rubies. An expert fixed the value of the lorgnette at about $26,000 with various estimates noted.
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Queen Alexandra
Vienna
Mynateries of Sleep Physician Faint Dream Rage Note
A physician notes a dream like episode and rage from a man during sleep study. The fragment suggests medical observations on sleep disturbances and a potential behavioral response. Further context needed for full assessment.
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Mark
Nice
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C. H. Rask
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