Pirates on the Port Edes and a looming shipment
The Port Edes sails south of Newfoundland toward New Orleans with 500 000 pounds in gold planned for secure stowage. Captain Kettle and Camber discuss piracy and danger while an anarchist onshore warns of the ship’s doom before being hauled away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambel
Nell
Bank of England
Camber
Kettle
Liverpool
Captain Kettle
Mersey
Wheaters
Port F&des
Yeuc
Edes
Newfoundland
Cape Hatteras
Gulf Stream
Florida Channel
Bahamas
Patrick Canibel
Pierre Loti
United States
Florida Shoal
Everglades
Patrick Camber
Cainbel
McFee
Mississippi
New Orleans
Liverpool Dock
Bobby
McFe
Coal costs drop for electric railways in the United States
The greatest expense for steam railroads is coal at about 15 percent of operating costs. Recent figures for electric railway companies show coal costs reduced to a little above 10 percent.
The Crime of William Orth Clairsentience Horror
A Michigan Ohio narrator recalls a November 1903 night of clairaudience hearing two distant murder cries as a mother and daughter are killed nearby by William Orth then his own death by suicide. Witnesses, including a physician father and a village minister, corroborate the mysterious events and link them to a double murder about thirty miles away.
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Cinelaths
Society For Psychic Research
Ohio
Ann Arbor
University of
Nir
Vilage
Presbyterian Church
Millerstown
William Urth
Orth
Antidotes for Poisons and Their Treatments
List of antidotes and remedies for various poisons including oxalic acid nitrate of silver sulfuric acid mercury ammonia petroleum and arsenic. Instructions cover emetics such as mustard and powders like lime and zinc and suggest follow up with oils milks waters and baths.
Greatest telescope planned for Mount Wilson site
Technical World notes a proposed American telescope of about one hundred inches diameter to be erected on Mount Wilson summit near Pasadena and Los Angeles. Funds come from John D. Hooker of Los Angeles, supporting Carnegie Institute solar observatory aims begun in 1904 for solar and stellar evolution studies.
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Pauli P. Foster
Technical World Magazine
Mount Wilson
California
John D. Hooker
Los Angeles
Carnegie Institute
A Rheumatic Flight From a New York Weekly
A humorous dialogue where a dynamo station worker jokes he transferred rheumatism from himself to his watch. The First Citizen asks if his illness has left him, and the SecondCitizen replies yes, it has moved into his timepiece.
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New York Weekly
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Walla
Pine
Eller
Davy Jones
Gulf
Cambell
Byron
Florida
Chicago
Richard Evis
Sheridan
Levis
William Orth
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