Lieutenant Grant Seeks Love After The Battle
In a scene at White Haven Lieutenant Grant shows a blend of humor and resolve as he confronts his mission to propose to Julia. Though his outward mood softens under humor, his decision is firm and immediate once made, reflecting his steady character and past campaigns.
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Emma Dent Sauer
Grant
Jover
Ander
Julia
John Red
Fant
White Haven
Tin
Pia
Cherlah
Grandpa
Jay
Parearenne
Marrie
Huim
Invention of Coinage and Ancient Currency
The Greeks likely originated coinage in Halicarnassus and nearby Greek colonies in the late 8th century B C, stamping gold and electrum ingots to guarantee weight and purity. Greek coins evolved to round shapes, influencing later civilizations, with Phoenicians Persians and Egyptians slower to adopt coinage until Hellenistic spread. The Romans learned of coins through Sicily and Sardinia in the 3rd century B C, while Greek art and coinage remained a standard of beauty.
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Saturday Review
Halicarnassos
Asia
B. C
Phoenicians
Alexander
Sicily
Garasecia
Syracuse
Agigentum
London Great Houses and Treasures in England and Abroad
The feature surveys grand London mansions like Dorchester House and Wimborne House with vast interiors full of priceless artwork and books. It notes other country houses hiding treasures, compares European losses, and recalls Cromwellian era preservation of English collections. A separate anecdote cites Judge Wallace in San Francisco and a quip about the liability of a common carrier.
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London
Dorchester House
Bridgewater House
Chesterfield House
Apsy House
Duke of Wellington
Devonshire House
Grosvenor House
Owne House
Stafford House
Wimborne House
Arlington Street
Wimborne
Marquis of Saliabury
Sir Alexander Henderson
Lord Carteret
Lord Yarborough
H. Gordon Alfridge
Chicago
Greuzes
Rembrandts
Lelys
Germany
Venice
Florence
Verona
Genoa
England
W. T. Wallace
San Francisco
Billy” Barnes
Wallace
Man Finds Five Thousand in Bible Hidden Money
Caldwell New Jersey special Steva Marsh of Fairfield found nearly 3000 bills totaling 4567 0 in his late aunt Miss Barah Marshs family Bible. The worn cash includes 10 cent shinplasters and war era notes, with seven hundred shinplasters valued by collectors. Marsh a 70 year old war veteran lived on 32 a month and will gain financial security from the find.
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Caldwell
N. J
Steva Marsh
Fairfield
Barah Marsh
California
Marsh
Market Tactics Across Harriman Standard OIl and Morgan Systems
A writer in Everybody's contrasts Harriman, Standard Oil, and Morgan markets, noting different manipulation tactics and an extensive telephone network behind each. It recalls a 1906 Harriman price/credit crisis, a 194 bull run, and a plan to boost Union Pacific and Southern Pacific dividends to seize market control, foiled by the San Francisco disaster and tightened money.
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Harriman
Big Bull
Morgan
Harriman Group
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific Treasury
Union Pacific Company
Northern
Pacific
Great Northern
Wall Street
Southern
Wealth as Burden and the Sadness of Riches
A verse fragment from Louisville Courier-Journal and Denver Times contrasts riches with burden and deception. It laments that wealth brings worry while poverty can spark relief, noting the writer seeks a chance at expressing sadness.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Thirteen rattlesnakes loose aboard South Pacific freighter El Alba
In a Galveston report the El Alba bound for New York reportedly carried thirteen rattlers from Brownsville. Five escaped their box while the crew barricaded below. two snakes reached the deck and coiled around a rail as sailors refused to aid in capture. The freighter, about LW miles offshore, waited for orders near the Mexican coast. The article also notes January 16 French university enrollment at 41,597 with 33,285 men and 8,312 women.
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Galveston
Tex
Selegrana
New York
Brownsville
Leoi
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