A Mountain Picnic and a Ring Gift Love Story
Eva Harrold plans a secret mountain outing with friends and a promise of adventure. Herbert Hale courted Lily Archer after a staged romance, gifting an emerald ring that reshapes loyalties and shadows a Baltimore wedding. Six years later the truth about love and mislaid promises comes to light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Harrold
White Mountains
Herbert Hale
Baltimore
Double Hill House
Lilian Archer
Lillian
Eva
Lily
Herbert
Mer’s
Miss Harrold
Darling
Pittsburg Furnaces Cut Fuel Use With Regenerating Stoves
Ten years ago a blast furnace could make 400 tons of metal weekly using 600 tons of fuel. Pittsburg furnaces now produce about 1500 tons per week with under 1500 tons of fuel by recapturing heat. Old heating let gases escape at 3000 degrees, but regenerating stoves keep gases in until only 800 degrees remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Tobacco Industry Tales From Slavery to Adulteration
The piece traces tobacco from its regional cultivation in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Connecticut, Ohio, and Illinois to its use in plugs and cigars, noting perique's historical Louisiana role, shifts after abolition, tax changes, and the craft of masking inferior tobacco. It discusses labor, adulteration, and the high salaries of skilled workers in plug tobacco factories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Chicago
United States
Havana
Connecticut
North Carolina
Kentucky
Ilinois
Rapides Parish
Louisiana
Mussulman
Revenue Department
The Intricate Workings of Watches in Timekeeping
A reflection on the complexity of watch mechanisms and the labor they perform. It explains how gears rotate multiple times daily and yearly, from the main-wheel to the scape wheel, and notes the number of beats and revolutions a watch undergoes in twenty four hours and each year.
Dispute Over Cato Splits a Deadwood Crowd
A summer gathering in Deadwood debates whether Cato was a poet or an orator. The crowd seeks an answer from a grocer named Jim who checks his ledger and concludes Cato is not listed, joking that he may have been a scrub who disappeared onto the Gunnison route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deadwood
Cato
Jim
Gunnison
Arnold's Canadian exile and the stir it caused in St John
The article recounts Benedict Arnold's return to the American Continent as a merchant in St John New Brunswick and contrasts his controversial past with his British ventures. It details his residence, business, lawsuits, and family, including letters from his wife Peggy and notes on his pensions and land. It also covers reactions of local residents and the broader legacy of Arnold in Canadian history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benedict Arnold
New York
St. John
New Brunswick
United States
Lawrence
Canada
Chipman
Arnold
Miss Shippen
Philadelphia
New York City
Great Britain
Lord Cornwallis
Tarleton
Simcoe
Loyalist Rangers
Ross
Baltimore
London
Almouth
Southampton
Geyer
Courtney Bay
Partridge Island
Whittier
Munson Hoyt
Connecticut
West Indies
Carleton
Falls of St. John
King and Germain Streets
Hoyt
Martinique
Margaret Arnold
Peggy
Chipmans
Old
England
America
Mr. Lawrence
Virginia
Highlands
Thomas Robertson Arnold
Egypt
Brompton
Lord Clive
India
Lower Cove Slip
Rhode Island
Reporter Details Bagges Wounds After Shooting
A California free-agentry reporter notes Colonel Bagges was shot once in the left side once in the right shoulder and once in the neighboring drinking saloon with injuries described as not fatal and under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Free-Fight
Bagges
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Harter
Rebersburg, Pa
J C. Springer
Journal Store
Millheie, Pa
Prockerhoff
Court House
H. Brockerhoff
McKerver
Rvin House
MAIN
Jay Streets
Lock Haven, Pa
Woods Calwell, Proprietor
F. D. H. Mingle
Milluxrm, Pa
Practical
Tomlinson
Cery Store
Main Street
Mittnem ™, Pa
Perfecut Trust
T. Alexander, Alexander & Bower
Bellefonte, PA
Joan B. Linn
Co. M. Bower
Attorneys AT Law
Garman’s
Attorney AT Law
Allegheny Street
Diamond
Yore & Hastings
High Street
First National Bank
M. C. Heinle
Centre County
JW. Gephart
Busy ER
Gephart
Alleghany Street
High
A. Morrison
Woodring
Tdm Keller
Lyon
G. Love
W. P. Wilson
Millheim Journal
Denver and
Rio Grande
Denver
Littleton
Deay
Dener
Union Depot
Czar
Moscow
Tver
Kiev
Feodore Ivmovitch
Rurik
Kremlin
Cathedral of the Assumption
Constantine Monomachus
Viadour II
Alexis Commenus
Russia
Novgorod
Kiel
Marina
Dewitri
Paris
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