Love and Duty in the Patriot Home
In a sunlit July in a Walnut Street home, Gen. Gerald Seaton, wounded yet steadfast, ponders liberty, Congress commissions, and a stranger named Old Stephen Wilson stirs memories. Robert, his loyal son, learns of the Declaration’s adoption and faces a looming choice between love for Lillian Eastcourt and fidelity to his country as old wounds and new loyalties collide.
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Schuylkill River
Gerald Seaton
Lark
Gilead
Continental Congress
Patience Angell
Vermont
Patience
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State House
Robert
New Hampshire
Ethan Allen
Seaton
Ticonderoga
Robert Seaton
Gen
John Hancock
Massachusetts
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Tom Jefferson
Stephen Wilson
Hancock
Washington
New York
Gates
Schuyler
Arnold
Putnam
Israel Putnam
Gen. Lee
Charles Lee
Charles
America
England
Adams
Congress
Marshal Schwerin
Frederick
Frederick the Great
Prussia
Prague
Bunker Fill
Bunker Hill
Grand
Lillian Eastcourt
Trather
Committee of Safety
Schuylkill
Lillian
Jacob Hastcourt
Father
Gentle Samoa War Tale Shows Soft Side of Battle
An American visitor to Apia describes Mataafa's camp after a factional battle in Samoa. Soldiers rest among huts while wives and children watch, tom-toms beat, and arms stay hidden under mats. A white flag from a homeowner pauses fighting, allowing horses to be moved to safety before hostilities resume.
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Samoa
Apia
Mataafa
Famed Leaders and Valor Highlight El Ca ney and San Juan Fight
The North American Review notes the fierce fighting at El Ca ney and San Juan, praising Spaniards holdouts and American leaders Lawton Chaffee Bates Wheeler Sumner Roosevelt Hawkins Kent for dauntless intrepidity and skillful command amid intense assault on Santiago’s outer entrenchments.
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Cuba
el Caney
San Juan
Santiago
Lawton
Chaffee
Bates
San Juan Hill
Wheeler
Las Guasimols
Hawkins
Kent
Death of Corn Microbes Revealed by Trapist Monk
A satirical clipping proclaims a corn bacillus named Bacillus diabolicus. a Trappist monk allegedly details its destruction with thirty grains mercury chloride and thirty drops laudanum. A wartime mother jokes about packing an axe to help a soldier receive his box.
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la Trappe
Sydenham
New Milking Machine and Egg Packing Innovation
A German maker shows a milking system using a ceiling pipe and flexible arms to guide milk into a collector, with air pressure via a water-regulated cylinder. Also describes a new egg packing case with spring wire supports to prevent cracking during long shipments.
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Europe
Denmark
Switzerland
Russia
When to Cut Corn and Move Fences in Farms
Practical farm tips on timing corn harvest for best grain and fodder quality, moving wire fences efficiently, and a note on abandoning and reclaiming farms. Includes remedy for potato scab using corrosive sublimate soak treatment.
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Kentucky
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