Wakalona and the River Quest Ends in Rescue
A tribal princess driven to despair wanders the plains and river seeking death or rescue. McAlaster, a railroad worker, helps her, guards capture her, then a Pawnee attack leads to a dramatic rescue as the lovers reunite and flee toward safety amid a rain soaked night. The tale closes with the lovers escaping on a caboose as the sun sets.
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Shem
Omaha
Slide McAlaster
Wakalona
United States Army
McAlaster
The Worm Turned and the Mother Quest
Teddy Allright, a henpecked husband, schemes with his brother Harry to outwit his wife Mrs. Allright after a night out. A mock misbehavior leads to a staged intoxication scare, a late return home, and a comic police intervention that ends with Teddy’s wife being escorted home while Teddy calmly serves supper, the ruse seemingly successful.
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Teddy Allright
Teddy
Ameries
Mrs. Allright
Allright Maison
Harry
Ebenezer Chapel
Mrs. A
Allright
Fashion Hints on Costumes and Gowns of the Season
Fashion hints describe tunics paired with skirts as a growing stylish novelty for tall slender figures. Black white and gray headgear dominate, with hats matching gowns. ceremonious gowns feature long trains while visiting gowns drift shorter. The illustrated sky blue and white glace ta f fet a gown shows a fitted back bodice, draped front, lace fiches, and a blue satin cord embellishment.
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Camutos
Fashionable Long Mantles and Redingotes Echo Revival
The season favors eclectic fashion with many adaptations of prevailing models. Long mantles and redingotes vary widely, but a graceful flaring silhouette, perfect fit, and good quality material suffice. Evening wraps in velvet and silk are popular, with luxurious touches like white velvet capes and fur borders, as illustrated by Judic Chollet.
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Valois
The Sickle of the Sphinx Iron Blade Found
The oldest wrought iron piece, a roughly fashioned sickle blade discovered by Belzoni near Thebes and now in the British Museum, embedded in mortar under the Sphinx base. Believed to be 4,000 years old, mortar preservation of iron noted as old buildings are pulled down.
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Belzoni
Karnek
Thebes
British Museum
Remarkable Blind Man Trades and Works With Skill
John Walther of two miles from Clinton Indiana is blind from birth yet drives harvest teams, manages a farm, raises garden crops, and trades horses with ease. He guides his stock by sense and memory, builds fences, and once rushed his injured brother to a doctor in town while remarking the exact time. The Indianapolis News notes his speed and skill, praising his reliability as a worker and trader.
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John Walther
Clinton
Ind
John
Walther
Indianapolis News
Register of Old London and local printer Jim Hatch memory
A discussion of preserving London's old buildings and beauty spots through a register and council support, followed by reminiscences of James G. Hutchins known as Jim Hatch the Skipper, a long-time Chicago Tribune printer, and tales of their wartime newsroom fire and subsequent recovery. Also an anecdote from Fort Sheridan where a claimant failed to prove total deafness for a pension.
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London
William Morris
Greater
London County Council
Chambers’ Journal
James G. Hutchins
Jim Hatch
Jim Hutch
Tom Sullivan
Jim Snow
Mr. Medill
Sam Sullivan
The
Chicago Tribune
New York Sun
Fort Sheridan
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OY Warman
Peking
China
Cincinnati
Papa
Chamberlain
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central
Middlesex
Central Streets
Mr. Stoggleby
Varnum Avenue
Pawtucket School
Pawtucset School
Awtucket Street
Varney Street
Ns Street
Bridge Street
Centramville
Queen Street
Ck Street
Rood
Cushing Street
Branklin Street
W.K. Dodge
Central Street
T. K. Eynett
Amos B. French
Grand Army Hall
O. Greenwood
Leighton Bros
Central Atneer E
Salye
Milford
Fish & Plummer
Lowell
Mass
Fich & Plummer
Lawrence
Central Trees
Walker and
Grove Streets
Warwick Street
Highlands
Charles Griffin
Walker Street
Meall Tf
New Hampshire
T. H. Elliott
Thomas F. Burgess
So. Hastings, Shaw, Burgess, Grace, Spaulding and
E Streets
M. L. Hamblet
Nis
Neal Estate
Billerica
Billerica Centre
S&tf
H. A King
Mt. Vernon Street
A. J. Ryan
BNO
Moody Street
Race Street
Chelmsford
Grand Streets
M. H
Citizen Office
Jersey
Charles
Lowelleekly Journal
U.S. M. Marine
Billings, King & Co
Pearsweet
New York
Ripans Chemical Co
N. Y
J. T. Rhodes & Sons
Good Grey
Arthur Rhodes
Merrimack Street
Covorter-Citizen Building
Worthley’s
Www
EL. Dodge, Heal Estate and Fire Insurance
Central St
Frank W. Dobson
Stort
Central Block
LOW Edale
Sewall G. Mack
Jacob Rogers
Lawl E. Raymond
Levi Sprague
Alexander G.cumnock
George 8. Motley
Edward M. Tucke
James Francis
Lowell Rendering Co
Merimack St
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