The Powdered Escape of a Trader and Missionary
A trader Lee hides ten kegs of powder under a wagon seat in Natal territory to trade with Zulu. After insult to a missionary’s wife Mollie Flanders alights in the tale. Lee is executed by powder trap, but the scene ends with both trader and missionary dead and the locals spared as a warning to intrusive natives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cruss
Reetess
Uta
San Francisco
Attica
Robert Milles
London
Mowbay
Natal
Charles Lee
Clinlee
Liu
Lee
Loudom
Amt
India
Robert ‘Miller
South Awetla
Eric
Carta
Lome
Natu
Nui Arches
George
Mollie
Glonarzy
Min
Ehlef
Amon
Lew
Lis Lumi
Wipr
Ifteca
Tmrder
Summer Dieting Advice From The Sun
The article urges adjusting diet with hot weather, favoring vegetables and fruits, reducing meat intake, and adopting a mainly plant based, lighter summer regimen. It warns against sugar heavy drinks and suggests mild wine if alcohol is used, plus hot water in the morning to trigger cooling reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Helenicals
New York
Inncheon
Nurtays
Putard Trust
Drink timing in heat for cold drinks and water
The text advises against drinking cold drinks with meals in hot weather as it slows digestion and causes discomfort. It recommends consuming water before breakfast on an empty stomach and avoiding excess intake during the dry season to maintain hydration and skin moisture, noting evaporation cooling is reduced if water is scarce.
The First Mosatto and Alaska Mosquito Tale
A fragmentary magazine piece recounts Alaska adventures of battling mosquitoes, a survival episode at 3 000 feet, and an Indigenous legend about the creature. It weaves travel peril with a cautionary note on insect swarms and a mythical origin tale of mosquitoes in Kleca mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ube
Uber
Alaska
Jane Pites
Toliuw
Theo
Trom
Tedd
Kleca
Chilent
Gooneman
Dad
Doctor Attacks With Knife Amid Fire Fight
Fragmentary account describes a fiery disturbance with embers flying as a doctor leaps up and uses a knife. The scene escalates quickly with a brutal attack leaving the combatants dead amid dusty, weeded surroundings and a crowd reacting to the rapid violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glint
Strange World Facts From Old Time Readers
A miscellaneous roundup of odd notes: rabbit fencing in New South Wales, Tudor executions, Viking lasss of Norway, Goose and Fleet in Boston, and various curiosities. Insights range from astronomy to insects, famed artworks, and ancient sites, with references to Ben’s clock, Capr i Blue Grotto color, and a U S irrigation push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Wales
Henry VIII
England
Mercantile Club
St. Louis
Norway
Ofother Goose
Goose
Fleet
Fudding Lane
Boston
Scotland
Ireland
Tadamone
Egypt
United
Topinard
Emperor of
China
Capri
Bay of
Naples
New Waven
St . Shakespeare
London
Isle of Man
Irish Sea
Japan
London Letter on summer trips to Epping Forest
A Boston Herald London Letter describes summer Saturdays at Epping Forest with thousands of visitors bringing provender and drink, the forest’s quiet and freedom, and a narrator’s visit to High Beech. It contrasts English forest roads with American travel and notes the forest’s beauty, birds, and landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Boston Herald
Epping Forest
Fredom
Itrusiop
William Westall
High Beech
Midlands
Devon
Wanstead
Wonton
Zmytitd
Kpping Forest
East
England
America
East Enders
Paper stamping process in 19th century industry
The text describes making sheets by gumming with potato starch paste, drying in a steam fanning machine, and pressing under 2,000 tons. It notes that the stamped sheets receive 100 slips, then perforation and final pressing separate the sheets. a single damaged stamp ruins the whole sheet, leading to burning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puckenhan
New Orleans
England
Moreh
Orient
Belus
Moses
Ismel
Replidim
Sinai
Gredes
Corinth
Ners
Europe
Athens
Zen
Nero
Loggart Creek
James
United States
Ely
Whitever
High Seas
Ireland
Newfoundland
St. Patrick
Nova Scotia
Cape Breton
Lost Opportunities in College Football Scandal
A fragment recalls disappointment over a student who wasted his time and his father's money at college. A speaker accuses another of not knowing about the football game and implies regret over misused opportunities and poor judgment impacting the player and family.
Disciple of Schopenhauer Answers Will Debate
A metaphysician declares no man can act against his own will. Jones counters with a defiant question about rising at seven each morning and seven evenings a week, asserting personal effort against will. The exchange frames a clash over free will and determinism in a concise philosophical dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
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Atriga
Missionuy
Hoe
Mosatto
Drietwood
Mary Sarees
Chickasaw
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Trinidad
Arbuckle
Guy
Spain
France
Normandy
Schopenbiauer
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