FIGHT FOR A CHILD In Solomon's Court
Captain Jim guards a caravan as a herd stampede devastates a plain, while Thad Faircamp fights to keep control of Waldeck Hill. Helen Faircamp confronts him over the child’s true mother, Barstow pursues justice, and Janet reveals Robert is alive.
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Parstow
Helen
Jim
Thad Fair Camp
Waldeck Hill
Faircamp
Thad
San Francisco
Janet Faircamp
Janet
Helen Faircamp
Thad Faircamp
Barstow
Bell
Ene
Robert
Thaddeus Faircamp
James Terrill
United States
America
Court of Justice
Pyne
Col. Barstow
Helen Paircamp
Rue End
Authors’ Alliance
All Rights Pst
Engagement Ring and Guard Bring Couple Together
Mamie Stivetts recalls Blanche Biggerstaff’s plan that won the bashful suitor. Blanche notes guards on engagement rings and the man then brings both engagement ring and guard next evening, securing the match. The tale, told as gossip among a group of girls, attributes the success to a timely proposal.
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Blanche Biggerstaff
Mamie Stivetts
Biggerstaffs
Blanche
Mr. Singer
Charlie
Moses
Bazar
Asbestos Facts and McClellan Statue Funding
The piece notes common errors about asbestos including heat effects and insulation, citing New York Sun. It reports Philadelphia’s George B. McClellan statue project lacking 86 500 for the pedestal. city help anticipated. A stray fragment mentions Peru holding a revolution on Sunday.
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New York Sun
George B. McClellan
Philadelphia
Henry G. Ellicott
Ames Works
Chicopee
Mass
Ruskins Experiments and Bread Origins In Historical Notes
A survey of Ruskin’s social experiments in Marylebone shows a landlord’s ethics guiding rents and housing, plus a tea store model promoting pure tea and clean streets as education. It then traces bread’s origins across ancient cultures, noting early grain use and myths of agriculture emergence.
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Ruskin
Marylebone
London
Italy
Lord Bacon
British Museum
St. Giles’s
University Town
Downs
Oxford
Corsica
Sardinia
Manly retaliation and a tale of revenge in art gallery
A European art gallery scene frames a revenge tale as a woman warns a boy before a Richelieu painting. A neighborly feud over land inches explodes into action, pushing a man toward confrontation and violence as he seeks restitution for a prior grievance.
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Richelieu
Clog Mars
de Thou
Betrothal talk linked Duke of Orleans to Princess Marie of Greece
In Copenhagen during Greek and Russian sovereigns visit, Count of Paris and his son pursued a betrothal between the Duke of Orleans and Princess Marie of Greece. The match would be financially advantageous for Marie and would connect to vast inheritances, but the Czar may oppose due to the Duke’s past scandalous conduct and a fast lifestyle.
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Paris
Copenhagen
Greece
Russia
Duke of Orleans
Marie of
George
Czarowitz
Fwedensborg
Duke of Montpensier
St. Petersburg
The Locksmiths Daughter in Sultan Visit Romance
A Bangkok paper notes a romantic tale linked to the visit of the Sultan of Johore to Europe. The Sultan’s nephew, widowed, wooed the locksmith’s daughter during an earlier Carlsbad visit and plans marriage after the wedding in Europe before returning to Johore.
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Johore
Carlsbad
Bangkok
Siam
Europe
How Ben Hur Came to Be Written
Gen. Lew Wallace explains in New York that he simply sat down and wrote Ben Hur without vision or inspiration. He started with a serial idea, which grew into a novel, and at 66 he says he cannot quit work.
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Ben Hur
Lew Wallace
New York City
New Island Plant Produces Coffee Substitue Musaenda
A plant called wild orange from Reunion yields a green to purple fruit used to make a beverage equal to coffee at lower cost. The product, named mussaenda, can be brewed alone or with coffee. About 24,000 acres are under cultivation, likely impacting chicory more than coffee.
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Reunion
The Smallest Coin Described in Malay Peninsula
A traveler reports natives use a wafer coin from tree resin as the world’s smallest money. Its value is about one one-hundredth of a penny. The piece notes growing school enrolments while the number of children declines.
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Malay Peninsula
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