Tense Night in Orham Echoes of Town Gossip
Sam Hammond’s drunken outburst disrupts a Cape town gathering as Gus Nickerson resists his advances. Bradley confronts danger aboard the Diving Belle while Captain Titcomb contemplates insurance and the fate of the wrecking crew.
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Mr. Halmond
New York
Gus
Mrs Piper
Mrs. Piper
Hammond
Sam
Bradley
Gorm
Orham Harbor
Alvin Bearse
Orham
Bearse
Alvin
Sam Hammond
Cap'n Ez
Captain Titcomb
Fo'castle
Brad
Obed's
Ched
Peleg
Cap’n
Boys for British Navy Need State Aid for Training
A committee of the Board of Trade recommends state capitation grants of 20 pounds per boy trained for the mercantile navy to raise the number of boy seamen. They estimate 5,000 boys trained yearly and note the navy can draw on merchant seamen in emergencies, with 39 711 signers in 1995 and foreigners remaining a steady element not viewed as a national danger.
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Board of Trade
Mercantile Marine
Sea Service
British Mercantile Marine
Shark Papers and the Nancy cargo tale from Kingston lore
A London paper compares the famed shark papers to Kingston events of January and recounts how the Nancy brig’s papers were allegedly found in a shark’s stomach off Haiti. The documents, proven authentic, moved court action in the Vice Admiralty and now rest in the Jamaica Institute with a memorandum by John Fraser. The Nancy’s captain reportedly discarded papers as capture loomed.
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London
Kingston
Jamaica
West Indies
Jamaica Institute
Nancy
Baltimore
Curacoa
Wylie
Lieut
Filton
Haiti
Vice-Admiralty
Institute of Jamaica
John Fraser
Beau
United States Museum
Pointed Paragrap hs on forbearance and fate
A witty reflection on human folly and social behavior cites misjudgments of forbearance, the inevitability of sins finding men out, and shifting attitudes as a person rises or falls. The piece includes a question about when a female child should be saluted in public, noting ages ten, fourteen or sixteen, with Atchison a Globe as the source.
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Atchisona Globe
Secret Writing Methods for Concealed Messages
An oldInstructions describe two methods to hide writing on paper. One uses a wet sheet and dry top sheet to leave no visible trace until moistened. A second method writes on multiple sheets then uses iodine vapor to reveal writing. It notes starch in paper explains the whitening and browning.
Things Worth Knowing Beauty and Health Tips
Limewater mouth rinse is recommended with a simple mixing method and bottling. For hair, a tonic of tincture of nux vomica and rosemary spirits is advised, applied to roots several times a week. A good complexion relies on a mild diet, regular digestion, fresh air, sleep, and calm mind, with specific food guidance.
Train and Track Developments Across Borders and Rail Costs
Juvisy near Paris will soon host the world’s largest railway station. Morocco’s first railway, built by a German firm to move quarry stone, runs about 1.25 miles. England’s coal price rise adds over 8 million dollars yearly to British railways. Pennsylvania Railroad buys 20 000 cats to curb vermin. freight agents supply each cat with a daily quart of milk.
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Juvisy
Paris
Morocco
Tidewater
England
British Railways
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Decaying Stone Warns of Coal Emission Hazards
A Cosmos (Paris) writer claims sulphuric acid from coal combustion dissolves stone monuments and fine buildings across many cities. In London alone an estimated half a million tons of acid are discharged into the atmosphere each year.
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Paris
London
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Brad Nickerson
Web Saunders
Web
Thezad
Cove
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