The Bald-Headed Tyrant by Mary Ke Vandyne
A wartime era poem recounts a household troubled by a bald-headed tyrant from No-man's-Land who rules with mute brutality. Old Father Time intervenes with an hourglass to tame the tyrant, and the speaker laments peace lost yet finds a grim concession as time advances.
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Peace
No-man's-land
Thia
No-man's Land
Manx Rescue Saga of John Taggert and Philip Saville
In Castletown Isle of Man a missing Englishman Philip Saville is found alive after a harbour mystery. John Taggert is cleared of suspicion and saves Saville from a wreck in a daring dawn rescue, proving his innocence and earning Mary Boyd as his wife.
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Isle of Man
Castletown
Castletown Pier
Saul
Heaven
Philip Saville
John Taggert
Saville
John
Ballabeg -Woods
Mary Boyd
Sands
Gleatate
Gwynnes
Gwynne
Mary
Philip
John Taggart
Joan
Mr. Saville
Porta
Man
Yrork
Amd
Quiggin Point
Castletown Quay
Abe
Liverpool
England
Rome
Italy
London
Job
Mustapha Pasha's Household Vast and Loyal in Constantinople
Albert Wolf recounts Mustapha Fazyl Pasha brother of the Egyptian viceroy as a grand seigneur who maintains a palace fleet of servants and eunuchs, funding a self-contained world in Candilli and at Tchamsidja with hundreds of domestics, horses, and pages. The piece notes the prince’s benevolence, protecting staff and educating children.
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Egypt
Iin
Albert Wolf
Courier Des Etats Unis
Mustapha Fazyl Pasha
Italiene
Baden
Hombourg
Constantinople
Bosphorusa
Candilli
Mustapha Pasha
Tchamsidja
Mustapha Faryi Pasha
Nezir Aga
Turfite
Mustapha
Jean
Brand
Orient
Stantinople
Pera
Candilla
Nea
Coffee grown in Gulf states may replace imports
A 1872 U S Bureau of Commerce and Navigation report notes U S coffee consumption and imports and argues for developing coffee cultivation in the Gulf states Georgia and Alabama with red sandy loam soils and warm hill slopes. It forecasts potential growth in California and the Atlantic coast if cultivation expands.
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Bureau of Commerce and Navigation
United States
Gulf States
Kaffa
Abyssinia
Georgia
Alabama
California
Atlantic Coast
Indians as Fighters and Athletes in Sioux War
From the Chicago Meld the Rosebud battle shows Indians as superior fighters and athletes. The Sioux are highly skilled, self-reliant, and combat-adept with equal endurance, horsemanship, and ground knowledge, challenging white troops as a formidable force in their own country.
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Chicago
Rosebud
Startled Watchers
Southern by Ba reports a tale from Moton N Blade about Mrs Roney and a sick child of four or five, who sat up at a wake, ate from a cupboard, called for milk, and a nurse claimed electricity revived her before the child died of a mysterious illness.
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Moton N. Blade
Roney
Fragmented humor and oddities headline a late century paper
A jumble of comic quips and vignettes from a 19th century paper recounts a mix of witty exchanges, small-town mischief, sermon aims, and frontier tales. It notes eccentric characters, a centennial interest, a book agent’s fate, and local conversations from Harrisburg to New Orleans.
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New York
Postoffice
Norristown Herald
Chicago
Prairie Avenue
Atill
Mariar
New Orleans
Chattanooga
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Vandyne
Harper's Magazine
Joan Taggert
Mel, Amelia ”. Barr
Prencely Turk
Fitkiz Popés
Ary Sesal
Tiger
Humboldt
Cumanna
South America
North America
Ripsepe
Greenwich Observatory
Naval Observatory
Washington
New York Herald
iYounai
Humerous
Rascal Jack
Jamie
Randy
NorHina
Peter
Harrisburg