Captain Blood saga ends with daring voyage plan
An excerpt from Captain Blood recounts Peter Blood’s raid on a Spanish galleon, capture of Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez, and a council on fate of Spanish prisoners. Blood presses for sending captives toward Tortuga while tensions rise aboard the Cinco Lingas.
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Peter Bloot
Barbadoes
James
Arabella Bishop
Bishop
Don Diego de Espinosa Y Valdez
Mary Trail
Arabella
Don Diego
Colonel Bishop
Blood
Curacao
Blood Accepts French Buccaneer Levasseur as Partner
Don Pedro Sangre known as Peter Blood leads pirate brethren at Tortuga as Levasseur proposes alliance with Blood. Levasseur offers his ship and crew plus a privateer force to joint ventures, with articles granting each vessel three-fifths of prize value and two-fifths to the other. The plan is discussed among Hagthorpe Wolverstone and Blood, and formalized within a week.
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Blood
France
Holland
Tortuga
Peter Blood
Arabella Bishop
Arabella
M. d’Ogeron
Peter
Barbadoes
Great Brotherhood
Ogeron
Caribbean
Hagthorpe and
Wolverstone
Rufian
Pedro Sangre
le Sang
Levasseur
Bay
Hispaniola
Mademoiselle d’Ogeron
M. d'‘Ogeron
Captain Blood
Brood
Hagthorpe
Biood
Pinkham Vegetable Compound praised by Port Greville mother
A Port Greville Nova Scotia mother testifies her severe side pain weakness and headaches improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during and after pregnancy The letter promotes the product as safe for nursing mothers and benefits extend to the child, noting strong testimonials and a lack of harmful drugs.
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Port Greville
Nova Scotia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Rupert McCulley
Californian Harry Pidgeon Aims World Voyage Reach
Baltimore Evening Sun reports Harry Pidgeon, a Californian, sailing solo around the world in a fourteen yacht. He left Los Angeles in November 1923, crossed the Pacific and Indian Oceans, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and finished a 35 day jump from Ascension Island to Trinidad. He still must reach the Panama Canal and Los Angeles, hoping to arrive by September.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Venezuela
Harry Pidgeon
Pidgeon
Los Angeles
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Cape of Good Hope
Ascension Island
South Atlantic
Panama Canal
Canal
Joshua Slocum
Globe
Slocum
Cape Horn
Baltimore Evening Sun
The Magazine Menace in Canadian Reading Markets
Major Baxter urged Canada to counter the flood of American magazines by boosting Canadian publishing. The Montreal Star notes the dominance of American periodicals with extensive advertising for American products and argues for establishing and supporting Canadian magazines to create fair competition.
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Major Baxter
Canada
Montreal
Baxter
Montreal Star
Road In Devonshire Hidden With Rich Metals
A road into Nidecombe, Devonshire, is found to yield silver and gold within its peculiar granite pavement. A ton of rock may contain three to thirty shillings of gold and up to two-thirds of an ounce of silver, worth under two shillings. Large quantities of this rock line walls and moor edges, with the gold vein still undiscovered.
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Nidecombe
Devonshire
Fireworks Origins and a Drought Claim
A note surveys fireworks origins in China and Florence around 1360 and 1588, cites Lord Macaulay’s claim that English fireworks cost £12,000 after the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, and mentions a geological survey denying knowledge of dry springs starting before a drought end.
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Florence
Italy
Lord Macaulay
Eingland
France
Ryswick
England
The
Geological Survey
Lipton and Lauder Exchange Jest on Pins Thrift Tale
The two comedians, Lipton and Lauder, share a humorous story about a Pin package scam in Piccadilly. Lauder jokes about Caledonian thrift as Lipton buys a packet labeled with one thousand pins for threepence and returns to complain three pins were missing.
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Thomas Lipton
Harry Lauder
Harry
New York
Piccadilly
Lauder
Glasgow
London
British Capital For Canada In the Dominion
F. W. Field senior British trade commissioner in Canada said in Montreal that Britain should establish branch factories in Canada. He urged larger British capital investment in the near future to boost Anglo Canadian trade and provide general benefit.
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Canada
F. W. Field
British Trade Commission
Montreal
Field
Canadian Club in London Faces Fund Dwindle
The Canadian Club in London fading as life membership funds dwindle. three more Anglo-Canadians join while an investigation into its financial position is underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
F. C. Wade
Wings and Hope in a Holiness Message
A devotional excerpt extols spiritual ascent through faith and benevolence. Quoting Isaias and Victor Hugo, it links wings to freedom of the soul, urging an ardent, selfless heart guided by the Holy Spirit to elevate Christian duties and eternal awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio N. Powers
Success At Last Mrs Hall
Mrs Hall confronts John after 15 years of suspicion as she declares belief in deception. Mr Hal acknowledges the long struggle with a cautious reply. The exchange centers on a confession or revelation tied to a long running personal grievance.
Man Made Earthquakes from Coal Excavations in England
Reported Midlands tremors may result from human activity while mining for coal and iron. Large dumps of waste rock destabilized ground near Carnarvonshire in July 1913, triggering a landslide that echoed seismic effects over miles.
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Midlands
England
Carnarvonshire
Granite Quarries
King Shows Interest in Beet Industry at Sandringham
The King accepts a contract to grow beets at Sandringham for the new Spalding sugar factory in Lincolnshire where contracts are being taken up freely. He already grows beets for the Cantley factory in Norfolk.
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Sandringham
Spalding
Lincolnshire
Cantley
Norfolk
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