The Niobe crisis and a voyage to Mounts Bay
Dick receives a dispatch about Niobe's refit at the Cape of Good Hope after losing her captain and first lieutenant and being short of stores. He packs for a sudden departure, aided by Lord Glamorgan, while pursuing a plan that may sever him from Camellia for months as a lantern-lit harbor fades into a desolate twilight at Mount's Bay.
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International Press Association
Rand, Menally
Costisren
Niobe
Cape of Good Hope
Leutenant
Inagale
Speedwell
Truscott
Mount’s Bay
Cape
Anderson
Portsmouth
Camiliia
Lord Glamorgan
Bedford Square
Guildford
Admiralty
Ice
de Montauts
Helston
Mount's Bay
Michael's Mount
Fairyland
Will-o'-the-wrap
Uli Ing-star
Voyage to Boavista Port Adds Civilians Aboard
Dick and the Speedwell sail toward Cape Verd islands when Madeira and the Canary route give way to Boavista. Passengers include Swiss colonists and a Spanish seaman bound for Ascension. campfire stories mix with routine aboard as Dick contemplates a dramatic encounter on the morning after docking.
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Asecension
Cape
Worsley
Madeira
Canaries
Teneriffe
Grand Canary
Boavista
Hamilton
Southampton
Bahia
Madame Schutz
M. Frochard
Ascension
Gildez
Tick
Frochard
Estcourt
Africa
Camilla
Colonel de Montaut
Camila
Rattlesnake Showdown Ends With Dollar Gift
In Newton New Jersey, a live rattlesnake exhibit draws crowds. Snake handler Jake Wood captures seven rattles on the tail and disarms the rattler after a tense standoff. The snake is placed in a milk can and sold to Vic Rosencrans for one dollar.
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Arold Rosen Crins
Newton
N. J
Jake” Wood
Swortewood
Vic" Rosenorahs
Tate
Jake
Jim” Smith
Jim
Vic" Rosencrans
A Novel Scrap Book From Dr Goodrich of Vernon
Dr A R Goodrich ex comptroller and ex treasurer of Connecticut sits with a curious scrap book. It holds sample tickets of political parties in Connecticut at all levels from 1848 to present. The first ticket shown is Vernon’s 1848 Democratic state candidates ticket.
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A. R. Goodrich
Vernon
Connecticut
Desire for money lacking among Chitral mountaineers
Capt. Younghusband, assistant English resident at Chitral, notes that the principal evil in the mountains outside the station is the want of desire for money. He states mountaineers have never used money and thus have no sense of coin value due to their isolation among the hills.
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Capt
Younghusband
Chitral
India
Not Just Saeay A Banger Me
A man returned home to find his wife painting the furniture with his shaving brush causing surprise and amusement in a domestic moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saeay
Tomb of the Bonapartes Resting in Saint Lew Church Vault
A Paris correspondent visits Saint Lew near Paris to view five Bonaparte tombs. The Mausoleum honors Charles Bonaparte and Louis Bonaparte with emblems, while Napoleon II rests elsewhere. The vaults are damp and largely neglected, and the fifth tomb remains empty. The piece ties tragic fates of Napoleon’s relatives to a quiet provincial vault.
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Tilatrious
Paris
Saint Lew
Charles Bonaparte
Napoleon
Hortense
Bohy
Josephine
Napoleon II
Louis Boneparte
Einredom
Napoleon Sii
Forli
Unecle
Prince Imperial
Zululand
England
Louis
Mme. Mere
Allentown Board Bars Tobacco Sales to Under 16s
Allentown school board acts on rising youths smoking by warning tobacco dealers to stop selling to boys under 16, with legal steps threatened if not observed. The move aims to curb cigarette use among students and enforce age restrictions.
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Ciarettes
Allentown
Ends of Thought on Love and Marriage
A compact aphoristic meditation on love, marriage, wealth, and time. It quips that matrimony is a harsh teacher yet unavoidable, notes the folly of haste in alliance, and contrasts individual abundance with social duty, finishing with a sharp line about feeding one versus many.
Josh Billings Philosophy Bits on Honesty and Power
A fragmentary excerpt presents Josh Billings's aphorisms on living well and facing death. It mocks flattery in police, notes the ease of reaching a major-general over a corporal, and warns that parenthood reveals true law. The voice challenges vanity and public perception.
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Thare
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Xen
Henry Newbolt
Penzance
Newlyn
Dirk
Ieer
Tim
Estuourt
Her
Ninbe
Lewis
His
Corunna
Cadiz
Empire
St. Vincent
Trafalgar
Europe
Azores
Canary Islea
Funchal
Santa Cris
Cape Verd Islands
Dake
Fan
Josh Billings
Philosophy
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