The Red Men of the Dusk Hold Nant-y-Bryn Halffort
Ieuan and Iein defend a besieged ale-house against Sir John Postgate and followers. They repulse attacks with a blunderbuss and sword, then trap the escapees as a fire blooms nearby and a larger force looms on a hill.
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Dafydd
Ieuan
John Postgate
Ieuan Gwyllr
Seunn
Teuan
Jack Postgate
Jack
Teamn
Jielan
Nant-y-Bryn
Sir John
Fenan
Jenan
I Run For It Chapter Opening Scene
Morning light spills through a door hole as the narrator wakes to find a dwarf marching along the passage with a bloodstained left hand. The stark scene hints at danger as the dwarf’s crimson rags reveal recent injury and a grim condition.
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Teuan
Ieyan
Ieuan
Women Rising In Industry In Massachuset ts
The Harpers Bazar summary notes Massachusetts statistics show self supporting women doubling and women workers rising to nearly one third of gainful labor. Women move into business and professions with substantial gains in professional workers and business ownership while marriages decline and divorces rise over the past decade.
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Harpers Bazar
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
Bay State
Massachusetts
Cave in mountain yields subterranean auditorium for six hundred
Chester gunners in Mifflin county Pennsylvania discovered a cave near Burnham. They descended a narrow passage and a steep stair to a large underground chamber that could seat about 600 people, where torches revealed pretty stalactites.
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Mifflin County
Pennsylvania
Burnham
Snake Haunt in Salt Spring Mine Yields Venomous Fight
Anecdotes report Dewitt Vanarsdall guiding Colonel Jack Chinn's fluor spar mine at Salt Spring Kentucky where a shaft fifty feet into the cliff reveals a bottom crowded with vipers moccasins copperheads and black snakes. Workers killed the snakes after a lively clash proving they had fallen in and could not escape.
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Dewitt Vanarsdall
Jack Chinn
Salt Spring
Newark Inventor Claims Direct Power From Fuel
Newark inventor J H Reid unveils a device named dynelectron that allegedly yields 75 percent savings in power costs. Tests show high efficiency, potential to replace boilers and dynamos, and use of any fuel with reduced installation costs.
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Reid
Newark, N. J
New York
J. H. Reid
Newark
N. J
Humorous Tales From a Washington Society
A string of vignettes portrays a charming foreign actress and friends discussing friends' fates, a public school supervisor and a misbehaving pupil, Miss Ethel shopping in Paris, a 28 year old returning to her Mammy, and a Sunday school catechism moment. The pieces blend humor and social observation with era‑tone dialogue.
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Washington
Eferybody
Ethel
Paris
Mademoiselle
Salls
Caroline
Walpole Warren
John
Miranda and Hazel exchange a measuring joke
Miranda dismisses a joke as ancient while Hazel recalls it lasting decades. The exchange hints at a shared history and lingering humor between the two characters.
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Miranda
Hazel
Steam sheller to speed corn harvest worldwide
A statement compares manual shelling to mechanical efficiency noting it would take the entire U S population about 100 days to shell the corn by hand while a steam sheller processes a bushel per minute and a skilled worker needs about a half hour per bushel.
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United States
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Roosevelt
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Iowa
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Congress
Prince Kalauiauoale
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Tubbs
Willie
Dryden
New Jersey
John Smith
Insurance Company
Cuba
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
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Jones
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