Thrilling sea tale of a life saving dash at Rupert's Leap
An old fisherman and a young woman witness a ship wreck off a rocky coast. The life-saving crew harnesses a mounted cannon to fire a line, saving three sailors who cling to the wreck while the ship breaks apart. The tale blends peril at sea with wartime solacing resolve.
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Rupert
Minam
Mary Ann
Gopher Creek
Spits
Gaffer Johnson
Hns
Gaffer
Sulors
Tom Gassy
Nantucket
Tom
Waste in needless expense praised by Lord Derby
Lord Derby urged English workers to consider the tangible cost of trivial expenditures. He compared daily choices such as beer and spirits to consuming a square yard of fertile land valued at £60 per acre, arguing that small savings could prevent wasteful drift from a modest farm and an independent living. He extended the point to tobacco and finery as well.
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Lord Derby
Providences
Miss Prin
Denk
Nynelf
Doc, CuicaGo T
A Learned Professor and a Curious Test on Water Vapor
A scholar argues that resinous pine and needle trees attract moisture and transpire more water. A simple test uses sugar in water to judge organic matter in sunlight, then a long narrative follows a schoolroom scene with Miss Prim disciplining Cornelia by a corn cob cap and a mock cricket song.
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Cornelia
Miss Prim
Margaret Sidney
Knights Templar and Masonry Compared in Historic View
In the Chicago Journal view Knights Templar is not essential to Masonry but an ornamental offshoot. Masons include Jews and infidels. Knights Templar excludes Jews and atheists. The piece contrasts the order’s modern Christian nature with ancient Masonry. A storm refreshes parched land, prompting a humorous exchange about onions.
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Order of the
Knights Templar
Chicago Journal
Nature Silver-Plating in Lord of Lorne Mine Vein
In the Lord of Lorne mine in American Flat the walls of the ledge show a natural silver plating coating the ves and hanging walls. The narrow vein is being prospected via a tunnel. A superintendent notes the silver deposit appears smooth and burnished, formed under immense pressure.
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Lord of Lorne
Theater Quarrel in Dublin Ends with Evasive Reply
At a Dublin theater a gentleman asked a man in front to sit down and mocked him as opaque. The man retorted he would sit when it suited him and offered his corrected name O'Brien, not O'Pake. In Holden Massachusetts C G Parker witnessed wildlife action with a woodchuck and fox racing toward a burrow, the fox arriving first and turning to confront the woodchuck.
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New York
Tris
Dublin
O’pake
O’brien
Holden
Mass
C. G. Parker
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