Complex schemes unfold as Hastings plots over Dora Deane
Howard Hastings grapples with love and obligation after Dora Deane's misfortune. He plans to foster her safety by removing her from Eugenia and Mrs Deane, while Eugenia schemes to win him back. Hastings travels to New York then returns to Dunwood wary of looming scenes at Locust Grove.
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Locust Grove
Dora Deane
Howard Astings
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Ella
Anow
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Dora Deanemae
Mr. Hastings
Mrs. Deane
New York
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Mrs. Elliott
India
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Abe
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Half-Pac
Aeual
Lece
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Rose Hil
Alice
Mr Hastings
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Mrs. Leah
Rose Hill
Dame Leah
Fugenia
Mr. Leah
Hat Dilemma and Anticipated Meeting with Hastings
In a tense scene Eugenia anxiously awaits Mr Hastings at a city concert. She frets over a new bonnet bought secretly for fifteen dollars and fears the social exposure if Hastings does not arrive by eight. A rumor places him in the ladies' parlor, heightening her unease as she waits.
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Eugenia
Mr. Hastings
Mattiookiels
Finger Print Pioneer Retires After 25 Years in CID
Inspector C Stedman recently retired after a quarter century in the Criminal Investigation Department. He helped introduce and expand the anthropometric and fingerprint systems, trained warders and police abroad, and aided Scotland Yard’s photographic branch. His work linked to the Deptford murder and other high profile cases, earning recognition across nations.
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C. Stedman
Criminal Investigation Department
Stoke Newington
Kentish Town
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Stedman
England
Wales
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Deptford
Stratton
Thomas
Ann Farrow
High Street
Old Bailey
Collins
London
South Africa
Smith
Nowhere
Eastbourne
Ferraria
New York
Lord Barrington
Leavenswo Penitentiary
Kansas
Malta
Unruly Spirits Reported In Italian House Haunting
Ancona sources describe a string of eerie events at a family home including knocking, moving furniture, ringing bells, and jets of water appearing from walls. Milk and wine flowed from surfaces and a pear vanished from a locked sideboard as a spiritualist-suspected force allegedly targets a sister, with a bookshelf tome acting oddly near two spiritualism volumes.
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Italy
Rarna
Ancona
Signor
Marracin
Chicago News
Penalizing Night Buyers Under Night Tax Order
A special order from the interior ministry requires anyone ringing the chemist’s night bell between 10 pm and 6 am to pay a tax of 50 hellers in addition to medicine or goods. The aim is to push purchases to daytime hours 7 am to 7 pm, with urgent prescriptions exempted and doctors marking EN for Expeditis nocturna. Chemists will let night staff keep the tax as compensation for extra work.
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Ministry of the Interior
Vieona
Pall Mall Gazette
Costly Royal Funerals Across Centuries
Foreign papers discuss royal funeral costs from ancient times to 1852. Figures cited include Alexander the Great spending 5 million, William II 125000, Grand Duke Nicholas 200000, Carnot flowers 35000, and the Duke of Wellington 350000, highlighting lavish expenses and pomp.
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Carlos
Portugal
Alexander the Great
Rujter
William
Germany
Nicholas
Carnot
Duke of Wellington
New Flags And The Union's Stars And Stripes
A New York Press remark discusses what happens to old flags when a new state joins the union. It notes cheap flags are discarded, while expensive ones are redesigned with the new star, keeping the stripes unchanged and proposing a reform of the national emblem with the eagle surrounded by stars.
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Congress
War Department
Union
New York Press
A New Spelling Flap Says Nu Spelin Leag Adds Words
A Glasgow Herald piece mocks a so called Nu Spelin Leag amer spelling push adding seventy five words to English. Odd spellings like tisis tung and eg spelt with one g provoke humorous faux fear and outrage among readers.
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Amurrika
Glasgow Herald
Tecumseh and Bear Fire Tale From Mount Baker Slopes
Tecumseh, a Yakima Indian hunter, recounts a bear encounter while camping with companions on Mount Baker. A large bear approached the fire, got burned by embers, fell into a comical retreat, and later the pair tracked the bruin to a stream where it sat tail-first in the water.
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Fecumseh
Mount Saker
Tecumseh
Jim Jeffries
Carlisle
Bruin
Animas Trapped by Frost and Wildlife Anecdotes
The Ottawa Naturalist cites Ernest Thompson Seton describing a healthy ruffed grouse found with its tail frozen to ice under a bush. He likens the phenomenon to foxes trapped by wet ice, noting seasonal patterns of snow, sun heat, and accidental freezing observed in wildlife.
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Ernest Thompson-Seton
Ottawa
Alaska
Not Quite Sir Toby And Sir John Duel Transcript
The dialogue presents a joking exchange about drawing a sword and stabbing. Sir Toby asks if a line was drawn and run through, while Sir John says he did all but the last two words, hinting at a playful misstatement.
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Toby
John
Forsooth
The Daring Colonel Blood and His Tower Jewel Plot
A vivid portrait of Colonel Thomas Blood, famed 17th century desperado, from his early Parliamentary ties to justice of the peace, his Dublin castle seizure plot, the 1670 attempted kidnapping of the Duke of Ormonde, the 1671 Tower jewels theft, and his dramatic acquittal and later life.
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England
Thomas Blow
Henry Cromwell
Holland
Blood
Fifty Monarchy
Prince of Orange
London
Duke of Ormonde
St. James Street
Indan
Tyburn
Brood
Tower
Edwards
Parrot
Hunt
Holloway
Edwardes
Flanders
Colonel Blood
Buckingham
Ale
Tothill Fields
London Globe
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