The Harpooner ends in a hero's selfless sacrifice at sea
Nat Meyers, a fearless American harpooner aboard the Arctic, saves George Betts during a brutal Pacific storm. He binds the boy to a board as the ship sails away, sacrifices his life to protect the nephew, and dies content that he has kept a promise to his family. The Arctic later returns, finding only the empty sea where he perished.
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North Pacific
Arctic
Iber Claes
Old
North Seas
Yetha
Nat Merery
Rand King
Pacific
Nat
George Betts
Jacobs
Nat Meyers
George
Georgie
Sandwich Islands
Tookee
Georgie Betts
Georgia Betts
Ned
Baar
Georgie Botts
Sonny
Georgis Betis
Warner’s.Lot Cabin
Christendom
E.S. Hall
Lowell
Mass
William H. Burnhiser
Harrisburg
Carthage
North Africa
Berlin
Paris
Mountana
Joel Smith
Leominster
St. Louis
Eldora
Harrison
Cleveland
Shiloh
Columbus
Walt Whitman
Boston
Willard Perkins
Waterbury
Conn
Fat Men’s Association
de Lo
Philadelphia
Wry Clippings Show Farce and Folly Across Towns
A collage of odd anecdotes and quips from various papers notes a baptist deacon, secretive beliefs, lavish emoluments for doctors, and a wedding of ladies only. Jests on organists, elections, and a New Haven warning mix with curiosities about electricity in meat markets, wedding attire in France, and a pistol-toting editor.
Clipper Trade May Reinvent Watchmaking Process
The piece outlines a revolutionary clipper trade potential, noting an average watch uses 175 parts with over 2,400 manufacturing operations. It records 18,000 vibrations per hour and vast yearly travel distances, while inviting job seekers to place free ten word advertisements in THE SUN for three days.
National Surgical Institute advertised cure for afflictions
The appeal urges parents to bring afflicted children to the National Surgical Institute in Indianapolis for treatment of spinal deformities, tumors, ulcers, and chronic diseases. It argues orthopedic care rests with specialists, notes no hostility with family physicians, and invites inquiries for circulars and information.
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National Surgical Institute
Surgical Institute
Indianapolis
Ind
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