Passion and peril aboard the convict ship on a moonlit night
Captain Blunt and Maurice Frere confront romance and danger as Sarah Purfoy, posing as a lady’s maid, mingles with officers and prisoners. A shipboard fire and a rescue plan unfold while Sarah tends a sick convict in the hostile lower deck, prompting tense pursuit.
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Pine
Captain Blant
Sarah Purfoy
Captain Blunt
Blunt
Vickers
Sarah Porfoy
Phineas Blunt
Mr. Frere
Slant
Maurice Frere
Sarah
Maurice
Brant
Frere
Rufus Dawes
Mr. Best
No. 10
Miles
Agalnat
Fine
Lives Well on $10 a Year in Wisconsin Cabin
A St. Louis Republic correspondent profiles George Skinner a Civil War veteran living near Mirror Lake Wisconsin on ten dollars yearly. He sustains himself by fishing storing fish in brine canning garden produce and using a self made boat dubbed the flying machine. He buys tobacco hooks and clothing with his annual ten dollars and keeps a winter surplus of fish from his summer yield. London reports six thousand homeless sleepers each night.
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Mirror Lake
Wisconsin
George Swinner
St. Louis Republic
Skinner
Delton
Lonesome Boy Remembers His Missing Mother
A young boy describes a home broken by his mother’s absence. His father sighs and hides tears as the two cope with lonesome mornings, missing stories, and the warmth of a woman who cannot return. The boy clings to hope that they might someday reunite.
We'LL KEEP THE LITTLE FARM
A speaker declares attachment to a farm, rejecting selling it for city life. The verse celebrates seasonal pleasures and rural life from spring buds to harvest, concluding the author prefers staying on the little farm.
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Jane
Jones
Deacon Crown
Mystery of Wilbur Clarke Missing Boy Continues
The disappearance of Wilbur Clarke of Beverly Massachusetts on June 17 1202 remains unsolved after years of searches. Police and neighbors used bloodhounds rewards and widespread scouring with no conclusive clue. A theory suggests a wealthy summer resident abducted the boy to adopt him, but no evidence has emerged to confirm it.
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Sonny
Abe
Hewart
Blade
Eanex County
Charlie Rom
Wilbur Clarke
Charle Ross
Clarke
Walter
Russell
iWarry
County Woods
Wilbur
Mr. Boya
Army of Education numbers and age distribution in the United States
The article outlines a large United States teacher force totaling around 120,000 men and 840,000 women with many details on ages birthplace and distribution across states Vermont and West Virginia are highlighted for age structure percentages There are about 21,000 colored teachers and 240 Indian-school teachers noted with shifts in numbers over 15 years and references to uneven youthfulness across regions The piece also includes unrelated satirical dialogues and anecdotes.
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Army of Education
United States
OOO
Allong
Vermont
Virginia
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Mrs. Vickers
Sylvia
Bront
London
Turtle
J. Edgar French
Willie
Hennypeck
Forres
Frank
Washington Star
New York
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