Captain Blood Chapter XXVII Rescue at Sea
Vitagraph drama Captain Blood shows Captain Blood rescuing Hagthorpe and his men as the Medusa and Elizabeth fall away. Blood endures heavy losses, battles on the quarter deck, and a dramatic last sight of the doomed ship while masking wounds with blood and grit.
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Blood
Elizabeth
Hagthrope
Pitt
Ogle
Lord Willoughby
Admiral
Victorious
Hagthorpe
Captain Blood
Misery and Pain Relief Promoted by Vegetable Compound
Port Greville Nova Scotia mother testifies to relief from pain weakness and headaches after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before and after childbirth. She praises its safety for nursing mothers and notes many letters corroborate similar benefits.
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Port Greville
Nova Scotia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Robert McCulley
Blood Accepts Command Amid Port Royal Tensions
Lord Willoughby presses Blood to helm the Port Royal defense as van der Kuylen refits six ships and the Dutch and English officers weigh the admiral's true verdict. Blood resists departure, dreaming of home while the Governor-General faces rising West Indian duties and rival inspections.
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van der Kuylen
Port Royal
Lord Willoughby
Antilles
Barbadoes
Bedder
Damme
Willoughby
England
Somerset
Blood Named Governor of Jamaica in Plot to Arrest Bishop
Blood is appointed governor after Lord Willoughby sanctions punishing Captain Bishop. Blood orders Major Mallard to arrest Bishop on arrival while plans to keep Miss Bishop in the house loom. Blood questions mercy and drafts a letter for him.
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Brood
Somerset
Ireland
Jamaica
Miss Bishop
Willoughby
Blood
Mallard
Bishop
Lord Willoughby
William
Jeremy Pitt
Ogle
Deke
James
Old Wolverstone
Cartargena
Barbadoes
Cinco Lingas
van der Kuinen
Peter Blood
Lard
Letter From Charles Walter In Toronto
A reader from 51 Brunswick Avenue Toronto signs a personal message hoping for improved health and happiness for readers. The brief note expresses sincere regards from the author.
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Charles Walter
Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
Canada
Chas. Walter
Alee
Ontario
Gift That Is Invaluable
The British Government honors a member of an ambulance corps with a decoration for donating blood to London hospital patients. Over five years he gave 44 pints, never seeking payment, saying he did it to help the hospital. The piece urges others to donate blood as a life saving act beyond money or food gifts.
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Ilence
Alfred W. McCann
George Herbert
London
Red Hot July Days Hard on the Baby
Summer heat endangers infants with diarrhoea dysentery and cholera infantum. Mothers are urged to use Baby's Own Tablets to regulate bowels and stomach. One occasional dose helps well children and the medicine is sold by dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont
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Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Hamburger steak price joke at the butcher shop
A shopper asks a butcher the price of hamburger steak. The butcher quotes twenty five cents per pound. The customer notes a lower price at a corner store, which lacks stock. The butcher replies he would sell for ten cents when he does not have it.
Asthma Remedy and Ancient Alphabet Find Highlight News
The article promotes Dr J D Kelloggs Asthma Remedy as a natural treatment that clears airways and promises quick relief. It also reports two French archaeologists discovering an alphabet dating to 1200 B C. A UK rule requires licenses to import dogs from abroad via the board of agriculture in London.
Holloway’s Corn Remover Relieves Painful Corns
A lighthearted note praises Holloway’s Corn Remover as a certain relief for painful corns. The piece then wittily contrasts a bald father who is a hairdresser with the mother’s lovely hair. It also observes British tea drinking habits, noting half of all tea production is consumed by Britain.
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Helen
Holloway
Empire's Finest Baby Captures Wembley Prize
Mrs. MacDonald of Calgary West Alberta and her child won the empire’s mother and baby competition at the British Empire Exhibition Wembley. The first prize includes an endowment policy of £100 and £20 in cash as announced at Wembley.
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Wembley
MacDonald
Brightesnth Ave
West
Calgary
Alta
John Duncan Claude MacDonald
International Entente Against the Third Internationale
A petition from the International Entente against the Third Internationale asks for global action against communism. Headquartered in Geneva the organization unites anti Bolshevik groups in twenty one nations.
Royal Marriage Rule Requires Consent for Under Twenty Five
The law states that princes and princesses under 25 must obtain the King's consent to marry. Those over 25 may wed by giving 12 months notice to the privy council, unless Parliament disapproves the match.
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Privy Council
Minard's Liniment for Rheumatism Claim
A fictional ad copy asserts Minard's Liniment cures rheumatism. It also makes an unrelated assertion comparing Sahara Desert area to the United States, stating the desert is larger by about 500000 square miles.
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Sahara Desert
United States
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Warren Kerrigag
Rivarol
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Mal
Minard's Liniment
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Great Britain
Board of Agriculture
Herbert
Charles Walter Price
Brunswick Ave
Empire’s Finest
Borden Co. Limited
Montreal
Minard
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