Romance at Sea and a Country House Mystery Tale
A sea voyage interweaves a spirited courtship on deck with a dramatic aboard a coffee ship tale. A Spanish girl agrees to wed the first officer to escape her step father’s schemes, while a captain recalls love, marriage, and a daring escape from burglars at a country house near Hucknall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hetty
Deb
California
Heaven
Prigsby
London
Rhine
Sam Boland
San Francisco
Guatemala
Callao
China
San Jose de Guatemala
Bay of Fundy
St Jose
Eck
Tack
Hem
Capisten
Dolores
Tn Irons
Jack
Aia
Doloter
Charity
Miss Hetty
Flora
Fiora
Sam
Cousin
Mne
Tower of London relics and dark legends in old England
A vivid tour of the Tower’s gruesome implements, from the headsman’s block to the rack and thumb screws, contrasted with modern England’s armory storage of 90 000 rifles. The piece laments past cruelty, praises current guards, and mocks old persecutions amid social mischief and a cooking reform aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hucknall Yorkard
Nottinghamshire
Lord Byron
Byron Memorial Committee
St. Petersburg
Byron
Hamilton Gard
Hyde Park
Bullock
Georgia
Utica
London
Earl of
Bexco
Louise
Canada
England
Afghanistan
Thomas L. Ssecombe
Laiia
Ling
Merrie England
Edward
Henry VII
Domestic Recipes and Crafts from a Past Era
Practical instructions cover preserving peels with syrup, shaping scales and leaves from fish scales, making jewelry components, seaside toiletry cases, window garden boxes, and woven carpet strips. Includes lemon and orange peels preservation, scales, leaf patterns, and home textile hacks.
Domestic lore and curiosities from a late 19th century column
A collage of anecdotes on landladies economy boarding house tricks and social foibles. Vignettes include fatally frank mothers in New Haven and Rockland girls on rides with wary suitors. Also a travelogue of turnips cucumbers and gardens plus a Dublin zoo lioness and terrier helps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reginald
New Haven
Frank Caller
Long Island
Huntington
Suffolk County
Farmingdale
St. Thousand
Boston
Huntington Stone
Also Mentioned on This Page
Love
Bell
Thia
Elwood
Tower of London
Greenhorn
Ths
Bio
Brooklyn
Mass Corgon
New York
Disa Perloa
Kerry
Ireland
Peter T the Great
Britain
B. C
Mexico
Fuller
James Watts
Herculaneum
Europe
Mont Cenis
Honolulu
Russia
United States
Supreme Court of Massachuette
Cincinnati
Vermont
Monroe County
Fla
New Zealand
Chicago
New Orleans
Laat
Augusta
M. Roustan
Tunis
Treseury
Jonsin
Siater
Finnegan Brothers
James
Michael
Detroit
Toledo
Henderson
Misses Jones
Rockland
Galveston
Emerald Isle
Thorp Springs
Lenox Pren
Dace Cork
Keokuk
Iowa
AvolsHus
Angeline
Adol
Iphus
Anrisr
Porter
Academy
Bob
Olster
Sky Sphy
Switzerland
Cantons
Lake Constance
Aar
Lake of
Bienne
Helvetia
Fribourg
Pum
Doterwalden
Tae Suoz
Nat
Georgel
Papa
Kustnal
Bezo—rah
Sedansgram
India
Ericsson
Nile
Gungea
Algiers
O. Bornheimer
Stranes Briends
Zoological Garden
Dublin
O Oga
Hin
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