Kerry courtyard intrigue grows as strangers arrive
Colonel John Sullivan sees tension rise at Morristown estate. A priest, Captain Machin, and O'Sullivan Og join a wary group inside and outside the manor. Secret plans unfold. Uncle Ulick hurries toward a dangerous choice while a French cargo and potential danger loom over the Kerry scene.
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John
Colonel John
Ulick
Alick
Uncle Wlick
Mr. Sullivan
Colonel Sullivan
O'Sullivan
Morristown
Machin
Uncle Ulick
McMurrough
O'Beirnes
Asgill
Flavia
Sullivan
Steamboating on the Missouri and the snagboat effort
The Missouri riverbed has fill with trees and snags from long disuse. Government snagboats have cleared obstacles for about a year between Kansas City and St. Louis. A Kan. river boat company carried freight and passengers but profits were low due to daytime limits and slow navigation.
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Missouri
The
Technical World Magazine
Kansas City
St. Pode
Men of Kanty
Congress
Navinaeeen
Prtenton Eney Thor
Iti Vanitie Pesenset
Kansas City Transportation Scheme Aims for $1,000,000 Capital
The article notes influence leading to an appropriation for improvement work and outlines a broad Kansas City plan to organize a transportation company with a $1,000,000 capital. The piece situates this within a larger, maturing scheme for regional transit development.
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Kansas City
Need of Farmers Echoes Across States
The New York Times notes a Georgia county calls for 1,000 more farmers and urges that 146 Georgia counties plus eastern and northern states need competent, up-to-date growers to cultivate soil efficiently and maximize crops with minimal toil and expense. It suggests New York state also badly needs top farmers.
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Georgia
New York State
Birds Avoid Crossing The Sea A Peculiar Flight Pattern
London letters describe the annual autumn exodus of birds from the British Isles to Baynt. Cuckoos swifts fly catchers and nightingales lead the migration with swallows martins nightjars and more following. The birds zigzag to avoid sea crossings, favoring land routes via northern Germany France Spain and beyond to reach winter haunts. The note explains the overland path lengthens the journey but avoids crossing the Mediterranean.
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British Isles
Baynt
London
Egypt
Arabia
Germany
France
Spain
Straits of
Gibraltar
Gulf of Genoa
Corsica
Sardina
Tunis
Italy
Sicily
Tripoli
Austria
Greece
Crete
Alexandria
English Channel
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean
Britain
Denmark
Dogger Bank
Buddhist Pagoda Remains Found Near Peshawar
Dr. Spooner of the Indian Archaeological Department uncovers near Peshawar a Buddhist pagoda ruin with a stone burial chamber and a bronze casket. The cavity, 285 feet across, holds a green moldered relic casket inscribed in Kharoshthi, depicting Buddhas and worshipers. The find echoes Hiuen Tsang’s notes of a sacred capital enshrining Buddha’s remains.
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Suddah
New York Herald
Spooner
Indian Archaeological Department
Peshawar
India
Hiuen Tsang
Kanishka
Didn't Wear Em From Success
Jimmy giggled when the teacher read about Ronan who swam across the Tiber three times before breakfast. He questions why he did not swim back to the side with his clothes, wondering about four crossings. Sunshine is not the kind of medicine that places the patient's picture in the papers.
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Colonel John
Uncle Uwlick
Ulick
Uncle Ulick
Uncle Alick
Ireland
Kerry
Jimmy
Ronan
Tiber
James
Irving Place and Washington Irving Last City Home
Laurence Williams describes Washington Irving’s last city home on Irving Place New York. The piece recalls his winters in the city after Sunnyside and his rooms in Colonnade Row now decaying as the neighborhood shifts to business.
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New York
Laurence Williams
Bookman
Irving Place
Washington Irving
Fourteenth Street
Academy of Music
Gramercy Park
Westminster
Dickens
Irving
Seventeenth Street
Union Square
John T. Irving
Bowling Green
Lafayette Street
Sunnyside
Hudson
Tarrytown
Oliver Goldsmith
Washington
East River
London
Scott
Tom Moore
Paris
Madrid
Grenada
Alhambra
Time at the North Pole described in London Chronicle
The North Pole renders time meaningless as all hours meet at the pole. A resident would never need to wind a watch and would be at 12 o'clock always. Any point directly beneath a person sits at all 24 hours at once, while a pole watch could align with global time. Bees and a stray home run quote appear in the fragment.
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North Pole
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Ueber S
Jean
Hamlet
Ae Lee Ber
Cer
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Rae
Harriman
Hetty Green
Marshall Field
Walker- Penfield
New York Times
Evaurisman
Agesilaos
Nepal
Burna
Siam
Ceylon
Japan
London Chronicle
Shanghai
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