The Chase Through the Cavern to Rescue
Richard and I endure a grim stake in a struggle with Cherokees as Uncanaola and Jenifer dispatch foes. Ephraim Yeates guides us, we move to strike at dawn, then descend into a cavern river passage toward the camp to free Margery and the others.
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Richard
Kingdom Come
Uncanaola
Margery
Tomas
Uncaloonia
Jennifer
Ferara
Hisself
Great Bear
Papoose
Ephraim Yeates
Gover
Stirling
How A King's Trooper Became A Wastrel Chapter Ending
In a rugged cave system a hidden route reveals how a powder train could slip through from the stream bed. Dick and I trace the natural tunnel and crevice to follow the path, testing a cavern wide enough for a loaded wagon yet full of twists and dead ends. (Continued Next Week.)
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M Richard
Blot machine for hot water street lamps proposed
A New York Herald article describes a penny slot machine built into Paris and London street lamps to provide boiling water on demand. The concept envisions ornate lamp columns with heat captured to boil water, delivering a gallon per four minutes, and even supplying sea water for baths.
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New York Herald
Paris
England
Atlantic
New York
London
United Kingdom
East End
Seaboard
Tod Sloan a Chauffeur in Paris After Fall from Fame
Washington Star reports former world champion jockey Tod Sloan, now a Paris chauffeur for a French auto concern, living frugally on wages far below his past $80,000 yearly income. He sells machines to banks on his name, plans to stay abroad, and may resist returning to Kokomo, Indiana where foster parents once claimed him. Munich has one high school for girls according to the item.
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Washington Star
Monte Carlo
James Tod Sloan
Paris
France
United States
Kokomo
Ind
Todd
Shibboleth Across Borders in 1854 Kansas Tale
Representative Curtis recalls a border thicket custom from 1854 when Missouri and Kansas tested emigrants with animal words. New England settlers faced a cow versus keow cross at river crossings and Kansans supplied a bear to welcome or ban with b ar. The anecdote underscores tensions over slavery era loyalties.
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Bir
Keow
Washington Post
Curtis
Kansas
Border State Times
Missouri River
Missouri
Compressed Air Transit Debate Draws German Visitor
C L Mueller of Hamburg voices surprise at Americas lag in compressed air use. He notes Berlin style pneumatic tubes for passengers in Germany and parcel tubes in London, cites experiments moving people twenty miles in eleven minutes, and predicts lines soon operating in Germany. He contrasts U S rail leadership with air transit adoption.
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Washington Star
C. L. Mueller
Hamburg
Germany
Metropolitan
London
America
United States
Pretty Figure and Greatest Diver Miss Roeg Wins in England
Miss Roeg holds the Amateur Diving association medal the blue ribbon for ladies diving in England and captured the first prize at Hempstead baths under Mermaids. Her flawless form and rapid progress reflect lifelong aquatic talent trained exclusively by the Mermaids club.
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Roeg
Amateur Diving Association
England
Hempstead
Mer
Courtroom Hero Brings Calm to Street Outrage
Richard Leviston known as Judge Leviston intervenes in a mob drama to spare a local culprit named Joe Francis humiliation. He urges officers, promises to prosecute, and refuses to shame a neighbor, defending order over vengeance. The exchange recalls a boyhood friendship atop Pine Hill and ends with a cold gesture of dismissal toward the old acquaintance. The scene unfolds under electric streetlight as a crowd disperses.
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W. R. Hearst
Francis
Joe Francis
Dick Leviston
Wisteria
Illinois
Richard Leviston
Pine Hill
Leviston
Judge Leviston
Mr. Leviston
Large growth in garden vegetables in fifty years
Harper's Weekly notes farm gardens and market gardens now produce a wide range of vegetables. Census data show ten year increases of 190 to 400 percent in five regions, with North Atlantic states already strong pre 1890. Lettuce, celery, radish and asparagus crops expanded dramatically including North Carolina carloads of lettuce and year round celery shipments.
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Harper's Weekly
North Atlantic States
South
North Carolina
Michigan
Ohio
New York
Florida
California
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Appleby
Francis Lynde
Dante Alighieri
Earth
Catawba
Toto
Yeates
Ancanaola
Ephraim
Tod Sloan
Munich
Miss Jose
Paine Rone
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