Escape Through Moor Pursuit Ends with Reunion
Geoffrey Heathcote narrates a daring escape from a house guard aided by Ieuan and Dafydd. He runs hard across the moor, outpaces pursuers including Sir John Postgate, and is saved at the last by Enid and Jack Locking as he nears home. The Red Men of the Dusk disperse, and the narrator looks forward to peace with Enid.
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Iévuan
Ieuan
Mteac
Lfe
Red Men
Dafydd
Sir John Postgate
Butley
John Postgate
Butley Heath
Portian
Sir John
Jack Postgate
Enid
Jack Locking
Jack
George Monk
London
Oxford
Yonder House
Geoff
Adam Bell
Roger Thorne
Locking
England
Heathcote
Siam
Ieuan Gwylit
Whitesock
A Fruitful Vision of Fresh Air Began in Pennsylvania Mountains
Riis describes the first Fresh Air movement as a rural revival sparked by Willard Parson and New York City efforts. A Pennsylvanian village church, sunlit windows, and a sermon on aiding the urban poor ignite a chain of aid across farms, tenements, and settlements.
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Pennsylvania
Jacob A. Riis
New York
Twin Island
Henry Street
Brotherhood
Willard Parsons
Tribune
Enormous marine creature menaces Seymour Canal whales
An Alaskan fishery hand reports a huge club wielding monster in Seymour Canal attacking rorqual whales. The attacker, described as a twenty four foot long tail weapon, could strike with a bladed tail that crushed canoes and left whales with wounds though no confirmed kills. Indigenous witnesses recount years of sightings and one canoe massacre.
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Alaskan
Admiralty Island
Alaska
Seymour Canal
Beer and Cancer Findings Stir Debate Across Europe and America
Dr Alfred Wolff reports from a wide study that cancer mortality clusters in beer drinking regions and wooded wet areas. He argues environment and habits trump heredity, links rising beer consumption with higher cancer death rates, and calls for more investigation into beer related transmission factors.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Alfred Wolff
Europe
America
Bavaria
Germany
Salsburg
Austria
France
Wolff
England
Garner to Study Monkey Language on African Expedition
Professor R L Garner naturalist and language of monkeys sails from Philadelphia on Noordland to Liverpool then Marseilles en route to Gaboon and Cape Lopez on the west coast of Africa. He carries an iron cage and delicate diaphragmed phonograph devices to record jungle sounds for linguistic and psychological observations. He aims to advance the study with new instruments and repeated experiments over several years.
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Garner
Philadelphia Public Ledger
R. L. Garner
Noordland
Liverpool
Marseilles
Africa
Gaboon
Cape Lopez
Thomas A.tdison
What a Million Dollars Could Buy a Pair of Porters
Two porters in a store discuss how they would spend a million dollars. One would buy the fastest automobile and finest yacht and live to a queen's taste. The other would visit New York, stay at the Waldorf Astoria, and demand wake up calls at six in the morning, then complain about getting up.
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Neo Yorok
Waldorf-Astoria
Congress
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Ben Davis
Feeding Sheep in Troughs and Farm Notes Review
A compilation of home agriculture tips including a sheep trough design with hinged racks for easy side filling, notes on oleomargarine taxation and dairy markets, tree wound care with grafting wax, winter horse feeding, bran and corn balance in dairy rations, and advice on poultry house cleanliness, apple quality, and historic Alaska trade figures.
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Geoffrey Heathcote, Esq
United States
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