Deane Family Drama Intensifies Over Dora Arrival
Eugenia Deane faces envy and scheming as Dora Elliott, her cousin, arrives at Avon with Mrs Elliott. Mr Hastings and Uncle Nat observe tensions while Dora charms visitors, threatening Eugenia’s status and plans to keep Dora under control. Dora's future sparks a decisive clash over where she will live.
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PNR
Purenia
Mr. Hastings
Eugenia
Dora
Mr Hastings
Uncle Nat
Tam
Stephen Grey
Nat
Stephen
Grey
Tess
Fueema
Doraland
Amber
Hastings
Deane
EU Feria
Mrs Deane
Alice
Mat Aare
Tate
Abermoon
Elliott
Steve
Jenna
Bora
Ings
Exen
Eafenin
Locust Grove
Eugenia Deane
Joppa
Tad
Mrs Elliott
Sarah
Pempet
Forgotten Time Tragedy of Jane Owen Remains Found
The saga of Jane Owen unfolds at Pen'rallt Inco where farmer David R Griffith and his housekeeper vanished in 1577. Local theories swirl from murder to burial sites as dreams and digging hunts probe possible resting places.
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Jane *Owen
Gaborian
Pen
David R Griffith
Jane Owe
Grifith
Griffith
Owen
Treefern
Jane Owen
Carr
Dulyn
John Evans
Evans
Homan
Jane Ween
Hind
England
David
Chase Through Snow: Delirious Patient Escapes Hospital in Pursuit
In severe winter conditions a pneumonia patient named Stewart leaps from bed during treatment and flees through snow. His brother Robert McClure pursues, with a postman and police eventually catching the exhausted man near Ballynaterph after a lengthy chase in freezing weather.
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Stewart
Robert McClure
McClur
McClure
Mastery at Fifty: A Look at Peak Achievements Across Professions
Century article summarizes a study by W. A. Newman Dorland on the age of peak work across fields. It lists averages by occupation from poets and playwrights to scientists and statesmen, noting thinkers often peak later than workers and linking health and optimism to success.
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Milson
Wellington
Waterloo
Bacon
Cervantes
W. A. Newman Dorland
Fragmented Memoir on a Freak Mind and Charley Johnson
A nameless inquisitor probes an aged memory in a humorous piece about a man who remembers people as numbers and recalls Charley Johnson as a baker through a Dutch-labeled painting. The tale questions how mnemonic associations trigger memory beyond pure recall.
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Charley Johnson
Charley Jonson
Charley
The Englishman’s Letter and the Long American Address
A tall girl notes English habit of overlong delivery directions. An Englishman, amused by American addresses, writes a lengthy Staten Island address to feel at home, praising the extra detail as a comfort.
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Miss Smith
Blank Street
City
East Side
West Side
Manhattan
Staten Island
Avenue
Stapleton
Richmond County
New York
N. Y
America
Enigma at Newburyport Waterworks Envelope Puzzle
A Newburyport Waterworks treasurer received his annual bike one year wall request. Five days later a woman entered his office with an empty envelope saying, Here is your envelope, but what you want of it is more than Toa eer. Lipincott's Magazine notes the odd encounter.
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Newburyport Terworks
Newburyport Waterworks
Newburyport
Mass
Lipnincott
Maragice
Tarpon Leaps and Destroys Boat In Ocean Feats
The article describes dramatic tarpon leaps in the Pacific and off Florida waters, including a six foot fish rising into a boat and crushing the hull. It notes a senator witnessing a tarpon jumping onto a passenger deck and the fish's frenzied aerial contortions when hooked. The largest leaps occur as the tarpon leaves the water head-on.
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Pacific Ocean
Elephants Rampage in Lomagundi District
Bev Me Grantham reports ongoing destruction by elephants in Lomagundi. Herds exceed 100, terrorizing locals, raiding at night, trampling crops and damaging homes. Calves accompany adults, and villagers abandon kraals as authorities consider special measures.
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Grantham
Ragundi
Agai
Granth
Fragmentary Note on Seamen Multinational Recruitment
A damaged excerpt discusses the mix of foreign seamen and language barriers in British mercantile marine service. It notes increases in non British sailors over 16 years, mentions orders about employing non European crews, and references interpreters and language diversity aboard ships.
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Boccia
Co Lancarey
Con
Rvance
Siritish
European
Engah
Ile Hationalities
Toatawain
Scotland
Wales
Believe Ship Haunted After Sinking Refit
The belief spreads that a sunken and raised liner remains haunted by drowned souls. In a coastal tale from Enton a large emigrant steamer sank in the Mediterranean with over 500 lives lost and was later salvaged and refitted. Rumors say the ship's phantom rigging screams nightly.
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Enton
Faleing
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Dora Dean
Mary J. Holmes
Easure Rey
Iowa
Hamilton
Sue
Buenos Ayres
Wallan Lowe
South America
Ora Tom
Indies
Fugenia
Dunwood
Avon
Thone
Tony
Cate Eile
Uae
Acorn
Tage
Newport
Thor
Mar
Porgotten
Rpon
Lomagundi
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