The Bold Plan to Seize Arms Aboard a French War Vessel
In mist and danger Colonel John with Bale and loyal men escape Irish pikes by swimming to a French sloop. They learn the crew are prisoners and plot to retake arms while the fog shields their movement before a daring bargain and voyage.
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Colonel John
Bale
John
O’sullivan Og
O'Sullivan Og
O'Sullivan
Andiby
Sullivan
Bule
Bamke
O’sullivan
O’sullivan Ogg
Sadiz
Cadiz
Augustin
Sean Doureviens
Bordeaux
McMurroughs Plot Seeks Irish Revival Across Morning
Flavia McMurrough wakes ready to begin a dawning effort to lift Ireland from oppression. She receives blessing from the bishop as conspirators quibble with Spanish officers and improvised discipline at breakfast reveals tensions. The day opens with hope, fear, and a dangerous resolve to turn past misdeeds toward a revived nation.
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Flavia McMurrough
John
McMurrough
Ireland
Mimdth
Cammock
O’bennes
Asgui
Laughing at Love and Household Secrets
A humorous domestic dialogue with characters Howser and Howser, Miss Brown, Smith, Mrs Jones, and Grace. Imagined jokes about country life, noise from a carpet-sweeper, Mount Vesuvius memories, and a pumpkin peel fortune sketch predicting a fiancé’s initials or a birthday engagement ring.
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Brown
Smith
Miss B
Bright woman who runs Chicago schools
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, newly chosen Chicago superintendent at a $10,000 yearly salary, is described as the city’s only female head of a large school system. Her career spans teaching since 1862, a University of Chicago professorship, and leadership at the Chicago Normal School, with support from President Harper.
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Ella Flagg Young
Chicago
Young
Buffalo
University of Chicago
Chicago Normal School
John Evans
Chicazoo
Evans
Chicago Schools
Board of Education
Ella Mlarg Yeearng
Harper
Whip Wit Rubber Hose Sanctioned by Grand Jury
In Chicago a grand jury sanctioned the use of a rubber hose to discipline unruly boys, approving Superintendent B. Adams view that a hose does not cut flesh though it leaves dark marks. The Illinois State Humane Society had raised the complaint, alarmed by the practice amid Chicago’s 361,586 boys of chastiseable age.
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Chicago
B. Adams
State School For Boys
St. Charles
Illinois State Humane Society
St Charles trustees back corporal punishment in school
The St Charles trustees selected the hose as a flagellator citing "eminence" as a step toward reinstalling corporal punishment. The board, including Judge Tuthell and others from Chicago Springfield Pekin and Pekin officials, argues parents support corporal correction from experience.
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St. Charles
Benjamin Carpenter
Richard 8. Tuthill
T. D. Hurley
Stanley Field
Chicago
Henry Davis
Springfield
William J. Conzelman
Pekin
Ella M. Rainey
Congressman Rainey
Gilbert quips as lion among clergy at country hotel
W S Gilbert finds himself among three cycling clergymen at a country hotel. When they learn his identity he is asked how he feels in such grave company. He replies he feels like a lion in a den of Daniels.
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Boston Transcript
W. S. Gilbert
Gilbert
Mr. Gilbert
Fashions in Photographs From the College Wardrobe
A description of a college undergraduate outfit features a jaunty kilted skirt with a yoke top and a loose tunic in Russian fashion. The tunic is buttoned at the side, with contrasting color trim on collar cuffs and hem and an emblem in the same color. The ensemble uses navy blue and old gold with anchors as a symbol.
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Aepolis
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Cay
Stanley J. Weyman
Reno
Nev
Mr. Howser
Mrs. Howser
Miss R
Jack
Mount Vesuvius
Mr. S
Helen
Elderly
Grace
Edith
Gusslie
Prinky
Red Bridge
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