Piracy scheme on the Shah seeks to lure McTodd aboard
In New Orleans the second engineer McTodd recounts meeting Captain Blake aboard the Shah, who offers £12 a month plus ascent to chief engineer. Blake plans a swift piracy, bluffing danger on the Mississippi bar and testing McTodd’s silence. McTodd refuses and contemplates consequences as the plan unfolds.
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Shah
New Orleans
Kilmarnock
Free Kirk of Scotland
Bailindrochater
Mississippi
Calaboose
West Indian Pacific
Grover Cleveland
B Ke
Two
Atlantics
Canal Street
Sirree
Blake
Rs Stone
Jay Gould
Carrajo
Mac
Clyde
Liverpool
Pensacola
Fla
Knowles
Cable
England
Cody
Wade
Stokehole
Sonny
Bee
Pass
Gulf
McTodd
Eads Spit
Captain Blake
Key West
Pittsburg
Eer
Boston
Los Angeles
San Diego
Chicago
Kawans City
Santa Fe
Pacific Coast
Kansas City
Mexico
Jamaica
Canidis
Florida
Oriental Lands
Boston & Albany
Boston & Maine
Prof Drummond as a Hypnotist and Mentor
Professor Hugh Scott recalls Scotland days and Henry Drummond's personal magnetism. He recounts Drummond discovering hypnosis as a boy, causing a girl at a party to play the piano on eye contact and a boy to wield a poker as a gun. The magician’s quick cue halted the act.
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Hugh Scott
Scotland
Henry Drummond
Drummond
Westminster Gazette
Trains to Boston and other cities from Lowell depot
Corrected schedule for October 3 1898 lists trains from Merrimack Street Lowell to Boston and to numerous regional destinations including Lawrence Salem Haverhill Newburyport Amesbury Portsa Montpelier Montreal and more with numerous times and Sunday runs noted by line and venue, reflecting a dense era timetable with many connections and abbreviations.
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Newfoundland
Hodge Water
Tickle
St. Patrick's Brook
Howe Ly Moses
St. John’s
Fort-au-Basque
Boston
Boston Herald
Lowell
Taunton
New Bedford
Newport
Providence
Pawtucket
Marlboro
South Framingham
Way
Albany R. R
Worcester
Springfield
Albany
Concord Junction
Fitchburg R. R
Stonington
New York City
Mansfield
C. Peter Clark
A. C. Kendall
Isaac N. Marshall
Geo. W. Miller
Middlesex Street
Merrimack Street Depot
Ory
Medreses
Street
Lawrence
Exeter
Dover
Rochester
Alton Bay
Somersworth
N. H
Saco
Old Orchard
Portland
Augusta
Beth
Waterville
Glewiston
Bangor
Belfast
Skowhegan
Rockland
St. John
N B
Halifax
N. S
Grand Trunk R. —T
Eastport
Cartine
Deer Isle
Sedgewick
Bar Harbor
Joneeport
Machiasport
Frank Jones
Woburn
Ayer Junction
Amherst
Milford and Wilton
Greenfield
Peterboro
Bennington
Hillsboro
Keene
Nashua
Manchester
Concord
Franklin
Lebanon
White River Junction
Essex Junction
Gurlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Montreal
Central Vermont
Quebec
Boston Air Line
Plymouth
Sherbrooke
Iexpress
wVia
Western Division
Bedford
zVia
Wilmington
A. GC. Taft
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Cutcliffe
MYNE
Prof. Drummond
Varnum Avenue
Pawtucket School
Oe Street
Gorham Street
Varney Street
Stevens Street
Bridge Street
Cettonsville
Queen Street
Hock Street
Cushing Street
Franklin Street
Vw. EE. Dodge
Central Street
Northern Station
Centralville
Filghlande
Belvidere
Ste
WY. H. Elliott
Amos B. French
Grand Army Anll
O. O. Greenwood
Ixey
Leighton Bros
Central Eates
Thor Levi
Bigelow & Miller
Lowell, Mass
Wallsee
Nasnua
N. H. Na-Me-Dua
U.S
Billings, King & Co
Pearl Street
New York
Ripans Chemical Co
N. Y
Copartnership
Middlesex
Mass
N. W. Norcross & Co
Nicholas W. Norcross
Nicholas G. Norcross
Rawrimondai A
California
J.T. Rhodes & Sons
Arthur Rhodes
Merrimack Street
Courier-Citizen Building
The
Courier
E-Em
Pawtucketville
iftLi
Vine Street
Wilder Street
Srooma
Bath
Highlands
Ofice
Troomrs
F. B. Russell
Entral ‘Street
Billerica
Billerica Centre
H. A. King
Billerica Centra
Sally
Pawtucket Bridge
Lakeview
Good Brook
Willowdale
Merrimack River
A. J. Howr 2 CO
Courier-Ucitizen
Moody Street
Race Street
Chelmsford
Grand Streets
EH. Dodge
Central St
Sor Sale
Warwick Street
Charles Griffin
Walker Street
Meall
New Hampshire
T. H. Elliott
Thomas F. Burgess
Se. Hastings
Shaw, Burgess
Grace, Spaulding
E Streets
M. L. Hamblet
Nis
Lowell Mutual
the Courier-Citizen
Railroads
Maime
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Dd. J. Flanders
New York, New Haven & Hartford
R. BR
Boston & Maine & R
Georgee
Stanley General
Boston and Lowell
Old Colony
Vna
Maine R
the Tivoli
A. L. Pendergast
Jones
Tees Quincy
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