Night Attack at the Prefetto’s Villa in Sardinia
In a midnight assault on Cagliari’s prefect and Count di Pordino, Dambo betrays Nita Barlotti while Brother Michael a Jesuit uses his calm authority to turn the tide. Wilberton battles Dambo, rescues Nita, and Dambo is captured as the two dying leaders confront judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dambo
Signorina Barlotti
Signorina
Prefetto
Count di Pordino
Torre Dell Elefante
Henry Thorlane
Nita Barlotti
Nita
Barletti
Wilberton
Signor Wilberton
Prefeito
Cagliari
Maligni
Brother Michael
Signor
Michael
Dlean
Pordino
Vacho Maligni
Brotye
Mutterelli
Pacho Maligni
Materelli
One-Line Authors and Immortality Through a Single Work
A discussion of writers remembered for a single line or work. It cites Congreve and "Music hath charms" as a familiar quote, Wolfe's lone line "We buried him darkly at dead of night," Gray's "Elegy Writ ten in a Country Churchyard," and Lady Anne Barnard's "Auld Robin Gray" as pivotal legacies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punch
Charles Wolfe
Thomas Gray
Anne Barnard
Robin Gray
Western development and timber limits discussion pamphlet
A prominent note on North American timber misconceptions cites beech elm and birch limits from Quebec to Sault Ste. Marie, with a nod to a pamphlet on the Sunny San Luis Valley. It promotes reprinting chapters and offers the fifty-page pamphlet free with four cents postage.
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British North America
Toronto
Quebec
Sault Ste. Marie
Lake Superior
West
Aridley
Colorado
San Luis Valley
Zeph. Chas. Felt
Majestic Building
Denver
Colo
Century Life Subscription Worth It for a 33 Year Old Man
A century subscriber asked publishers the cost of a life subscription for a man aged thirty three. An insurer based on mortality tables and three percent interest estimates $34. The editors note no plan to offer life subscriptions but reveal a 33 year old could expect over eighty dollars’ worth of future Century Magazines. An Episcopal Cincinnati clergyman’s shaving mishap is recounted with a humorous barber anecdote.
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Century
Defiance Starch Eclipses Others in Local Trade
Grocers report they avoid De fiance Starch 16 oz sales due to stock in hand of 12 oz brands. A boarding house remark recalls simple breakfast biscuits while a city child asks paw about snowy times. An tonic claims Rheumatism Positively Cured with a 25 cent recipe from Prescription Co. Denver. Bijou street quip noted as tourists ask for Bijou street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance
Jones
Paw
Prescription Co
Denver
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Manbeck
Seward W. Hopkins
Jack Robbins
America
China Sea
Two Gentlemen
Hawaii
Robert Bower
Canada
Small Willie
Willie
Century Life Subscription
Cincinnati
Jackson
Colorado Springs
Joe
Baxter's
Bullhead & Cent
Baxter
Helurus
Ogden Assay Company
Denvem
E. E. Burlingame & CO
Jasnaro 4 Laboratory
Mailer Express
Lawrence St
Scott Supply & Tool
Blake St
NGW
The
Knight-Campbell Music Co
Cripple Creek
Pueblo
Dr.j.flowers
Earth Block
Colobal
Namous Proastraliay
Lydia E. Pinkham
Eau Claire
Wis
Dean Mrs. Pinkham
Minnie Tirrz
First Ave
Mrs. Pinkham
Benton E. Derm
Lapidge St
San Francisco
Cal
Planters
Barteldes & CO
Fifteenth St
Rocky Ford
D. W. Burrell
Paradox Machinery Co
E. Division St
Chicago
Denver Directory
Xamne
Fred Muelle
Larimer Street
Venver
Denver Tent and Awning Co
Lacina Street
Denver Normal
Glenarm
J. Y.paulson
Financial Contract Security Co
Fidelity Savings
STOV
Pullen
Northern Nursery CO
Venvei
Bsly
Malldog
Bros
L Levy
Lith & Caaimposts
Cole
Udorset
Denver Merchants and Banks
Geyserite Soap Mfg. Company
L. A. Watkins Merchandise CO
Wazee St
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