Maids Marion and Walter Foster in Wartime Turmoil
December finds Maid Marion recuperating as Col Ray and Marion confront strain from Walter Foster’s disappearance. A mother races across the continent awaiting news of her son’s fate after a fire, burns, and a long silence. Walter’s August message from Yokohama says he is alive but in trouble, with a lingering desertion risk and a hidden stash of money belt’s buckskin.
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Porter
Ray
Brick
Drayton
The
Law
Ayuntamiento
Hong Kong
Christendom
Vinton
Miss Ray
Maidiy
Cuartel de Meysiec
Connelly
Ermita
Denver
Sacramento
Oakland
New Mexico
Fort Averill
Cavalry
Averill
West
Murray
Lieut
Stuyvesant
San Francisco
Manila
Portland
Philippines
San Frrrancisco
Walter
Honolulu
Dorie
Rough Whens
Sackett
Ws Murray
Ind
Chum
Freiburg
Willard
Damon
Pythias
Orestes
Pylades
Ajaxes
Tavain
Hong- Kong
Washington
Walter Foster
Marion
Bagumbayan
Col. Ray
Pacific
Carquinez
Tave
Yokohama
Port Costa
Mark Twains Discounts in a Book Trade Tale
A humorous anecdote recounts Mark Twain asking a publisher for 50 percent, the clerk conceding as both author and friend, then adding 25 percent, and finally humor about tax. The clerk calculates approximately three dollars and seventy four cents as the owed amount and invites a return visit.
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Mark Twain
Mark
Prosecutor's tirade backfires in courtroom banter
The prosecuting attorney inflamed the jury with a long list of harsh descriptors for the defendant. The defense attorney retorted that the adjectives were alphabetically ordered from a dictionary, drawing a laugh that shifted momentum and helped win the case.
A Tribute to the Nation's Soldier Dead
A 1903 tribute extols Mary of Bethany's perfume as symbol of lasting patriotism. It honors national Memorial Day and Civil War dead, praising loyalty, sacrifice, and a living ethos of unselfish patriotism to uphold the United States as a united, growing nation.
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Jesus
Mary
Bethany
Isis
United States
Cehestral Kingdom
Jesus Christ
Brussels
Tlenty Voes
John Eseh
Tambert Thorn
Tanther
Thatcher
God
Christ Jesus
Chancellorsville
Jackson
Hooker
Eleventh Corps
Pleasanton
Peter Keenan
Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry
Keenan
Hell
Maj
Lee
Wellington
Nebo
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Lord Nelson
England
Sarath Nelson
Struggle as Spiritual Training in Holtzclaw Quote
A religious exhortation notes that God trains believers through struggles and that no child of God endures hardship without divine presence. Lev. W. J. Holtzclaw emphasizes divine companionship during trials.
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Etrugetes
Lev. W. J. Holtzclaw
Roosevelt concludes California journey pursues final Washington stop
President Roosevelt finishes California tour and moves toward final leg ending June 5 in Washington. He speaks at Dunsmuir Sisson and Montague before heading to Salem and Oregon City then travels to Tacoma and Olympia delivering brief remarks on peace navy and US dominance of the Pacific coast and Alaska development.
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Ashland
Ore
Roosevelt
California
Washington
Mount Shasta
Dunsmuir
Cal
Sisson
Montague
Portland
Willagette Valley
Salem
Oregon City
Portinna
Tacoma
Wash
State of Washington
Olympia
Pacoma
United States
Pacille
Seatile
Papet Sound
Alaska
Explosion on Colony destroys saloon and poop deck
The steamship Colony of the Black Diamond Line from Sydney to Montreal passed Matane Light and signaled a gas explosion on board. The blast wrecked the saloon and blew up the poop deck, with three iron beams broken. A waiter was killed and two steerage passengers are missing, feared thrown overboard.
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Quebec
Black Diamond Line
Sydney
Montreal
Matane
Deel
Mossberg and Granville Plant Shuts for Bankruptcy Plan
The Mossberg and Granville Manufacturing Company ceases operations at its expensive machinery plant. Creditors are notified a bankruptcy petition is filed in New York as part of a reorganization plan. Total liabilities around 260,000 dollars with assets excluding patents estimated at 200,000 dollars.
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Providence
Mossberg and Granville Manufacturing
Hag
Fim
New York
Storm Strikes Indianapolis Area Causes Heavy Damage
A May 22 storm swept over Indianapolis between three and four PM. The Indiaman Thauredday reported buildings struck by lightning and burning fires. Crops and structures suffered thousands in damage with narrow escapes noted as occupants fled.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Elevator Accident Kills Four in Pittsburg Building
Four people die and five or six are injured when elevator ropes snap at the 1026 Fifth Avenue building housing a dancing academy in Pittsburg. The cage drops fifty feet and the victims are badly mangled, delaying identification.
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Pittsburg
Fiftth Avenue
Verdict Expected in Yeager Murder Case In Sokomo
The coroner's inquest closed Tuesday night in the Yeager murder case. A verdict will state Louis Yeager died at hands of unknown person or persons. The woman seen with Yeager at the time of the murder cannot be found.
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Sokomo
Ind
Yeager
Louis Yeager
Lorimer-Durborow ballot recount ends in Lorimer victory
Chicago May 23 recount confirms William Lorimer of the Sixth district won by 1,001 votes over Allan C. Durborow with no fraud found. Washington May 23 reports the U S minister in Bogota says President Marroquin has not resigned as of May 16, 1903.
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Chicago
Lorimer-Durborow
Washington
State Department
United States
Beaupre
Bogota
Marroquin
Death of editor in Pittsburg area noted
Hugh J. Murdoch editor of the United Presbyterian and a church figure died at his Sewickley home after a months long illness from fatty degeneration of the heart.
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Pittsburg
Hugh J. Murdoch
United Presbyterian
Sewickley
Locusts and Snow Straddle Montana Farmland
In Bozeman Montana on May 23 a Montana section suffers locust infestation as storms dump three feet of snow in another area. Prof A C Collier reports a Rocky Mountain grasshopper plague 40 miles east of Forsythe has devoured crops. In Galesburg Illinois May 21 Dr Edward M Fawcett of Chicago becomes bishop of the Quincy diocese.
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Bozeman
Mont
Montana
A. C. Collier
The
Agricultural College
Forsythe
Rocky Mountain
Galesburg
Ill
Edward M. Fawcett
Chicago
Quincy
Protestant Episcopal Church
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Askinet
J. B. Lippincott Co
Becrnuit Foster
Blackguard
Huaumorist
J. M. Edson
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