Ites Secret or A Bitter Reckoning
A dinner party at Sir Geoffrey's reveals marital tensions and hidden past loves. Captain Pelling plans a sudden Paris trip to reconcile with his wife Mrs Pelling while Miss Malling faces a potential elopement. Pauline's secret life culminates in tragedy as she dies after a horse accident, and Pelling contemplates a future helping Jack pursue art.
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Sir Geoffrey
Ethel
Captain Pelling
Bertha Collins
Bertha
Miss Collins
Pauline
Miss Malling
Lord Summers
Geoffrey
Dornton
Pelling
Central Africa
Paris
Eeife
Jack
Babette
Alec
Italy
Alexander Pelling
Remarkable Notes From Science And Engineering History
A diverse survey covers luminous bulbs and friction heat, sea levels added by clouds, life expectancy across nations, spontaneous pile ignition in Rotterdam, eupatorium rebandium’s industrial promise, London's smoky lungs, Birmingham’s soft water effects, a seven foot six inch gorilla shot in French Congo, and future river power. The Danube’s Bavarian hydropower potential nears two million horsepower with only a fraction currently developed.
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Norway
England
Belgium
Switzerlnd
France
Austria
Germany
Italy
Bavaria
Rotterdam
South America
Beroni
Paul du Chailly
Sangha
French Congo
Europe
E. T. Hamy
Danube
Alps
Early Erie Rail Beginnings Mark 70th Anniversary
A Deposit New York commemorative monument honors the seventieth anniversary of the Erie Railway work beginning. The 1851 completion featured President Fillmore and Secretary Webster with special trains to Elmira and Dunirk.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Moscow
St. Petersburg
New York Central
Erie
Jersey City
Piedmont
Hudson
Fillmore
Daniel Webster
Dunkirk
Elmira
Newburg
Austerlitz
Waterloo
Cousin graft of Japs exposes secret service in servants
An article describes the so called cousin system used by Japanese domestic workers in American cities. It claims a hidden, efficient network gathers intelligence on employers and households, with members acting as informants while preserving loyalty to their own craft. The piece satirically notes legal oddities from a Stony Gulch trial and includes unrelated snippets about army orders and medical advice on erysipelas.
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London
Birmingham
England
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Fehleisen
Carnegie epitaph tale and a Dunfermline school anecdote
A broker mocks Andrew Carnegie's declared epitaph while recounting a Dunfermline childhood tale. The piece recalls Carnegie's bulldog perseverance and a schoolmaster demanding a quick answer to seven times nine. The boy pleads for relief and speed from the master.
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Ebay
Andrew Carnegie
Andy
Carnegie
Dunfermline
Little Durfermline
Ali
Crie
Reading as a key duty in education inspires teachers
A Hamilton Colles president argues reading gives an edge beyond other gains and urges love of reading as essential to teacher duties. The fragment alludes to a St Nicholas tribute and a Wall Street leisure scene with a dog and financier remark.
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Hamilton Colles
St. Nicholas
Wall Street
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By Charlotte M. Braeme
Mallingford
Bois de Boulogne
Miles
Lapleigh
Giles
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sommers
THE
Deposit
N. Y
New York Evening Post
South Carolina
New York and Erie Company
James Gore King
Stony Gulch
Mike
Pete
Washington Star
London Mail
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