The Stalking of Pavguk in Midwinter Minnesota
Foster Van Dorn faces a perilous pursuit and Wolff Loree, a clash of rival interests in the Minnesota cutover. Van Dorn’s hunt turns inward as Loree and Trudeau chase both deer and a wounded rival, a tale of ambition, loyalty, and the costs of pride.
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Wis
Colonel Loree
Solar Selling
Williamson
Mid-Continent
Mid- Continent
Trudeau
Foster van Dorn
Gwendolyn
Jong
van Dorn
Tonopah
Foster G. van Korn
Fellows
George
Dr. Watson
Kosmos Chemical Company
Loree
Solar Selling Company
Solar
Kut van Dorn
Trudeayn
van Yorn
Joree
Minnesota
Dogs in Literature Across Prose and Verse
This survey catalogs famous canine characters and authors from Captain Marryatt to Jack London, noting dogs in Dickens and Maeterlinck alongside Daudet and Reade. It highlights Johnson and Boswell detailing bulldog form as part of literary dog culture.
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Captain Marryatt
John Brown
Rab
Ouida
Flanders
Anstey
Hicken
Maurice Maeterlinck
Pelleas
Reade
Dickens
Boxer
Bull’s-eye
Diogenes
Tip
Merrylegs
Bob
Battie
Eleanor Atkinson
Greyfriars
Bobby
Jack London
Samuel Johnson
Johnson
Turkish Coffee and Turkish Hospitality Teaches Flavor
The Turks prize practical coffee making using pulverized beans ground in a marble mortar. A host roasts beans with a brass shovel and pounds them by hand, with heirloom pestles passed through generations, ensuring full flavor and strength. After coffee, guests can feel safe in the host’s house despite any reputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Austrian Women Rally In Vienna Over Political Rights
Women of the Social Democratic party gather at Vienna City Hall where banners fly and speakers urge organization to repeal the ban on political meetings and groups. The crowd notes wartime duties of women at home and criticizes the inadequacy of government allowances to families of reservists.
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Social Democratic Party
Austria
Vienna
Propagating Frogs Could Make Frog Legs a Common Dish
The U S Bureau of Fisheries begins experiments at the Edenton hatchery in North Carolina to propagate frogs rapidly. If successful, frogs may become as common as bacon and eggs within years across North Carolina Virginia Maryland and other states where experts believe frogs will thrive.
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United States Bureau of Fisheries
Bureau
Edenton
Albermarle Sound
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Indiana
Wireless telegraphy using horizontal antenna proves effective
Experiments show a hundred fifty feet of wire spread across ground at three feet height functioning as an antenna equivalent to a forty foot tower. Messages were satisfactorily received from multiple stations in different directions. The wire formed a cross at the center where the receiver connected.
Handy Boys Moving Pictures Toy by A Neely Hall
Instructional piece describes a home made moving picture toy using a cardboard cylinder on a wooden base and a pencil spindle. It explains constructing the base circle, attaching a paper cylinder with ten slots, and mounting picture strips depicting a horse and hound in action to simulate early film sequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Neely Hall
When I Was a Child by Yoshio Markino
A Youth's Companion excerpt discusses Markino, a Japanese artist in London, and his views on childrearing. It recounts his childhood without spanking, influenced by Confucian ideas, and describes family dynamics, affection, and humility within a Japanese village context.
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Yoshio Markino
London
Confucius
Japan
Made Actor Feel at Home Golfing Judge Dinner Tale
Frank Moulan the comedian describes a Chicago dinner where he sat between two prominent judges. Golf became the main topic, and he overheard them discuss a round of 9 as the highlight of the evening while he sought a profound story to tell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trudeau
Monsieur
van Dorn
Frank Moulan
Chicago
Moulan
Gymnastics Linked to Brain Development Says Mosso
Experiments by Mosso of Turin show physical education benefits the brain as well as muscles. The authority argues that muscular and intellectual training should be balanced, and that children should start reading and writing around age nine.
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Mosso
Turin
Harper’s Weekly
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Herbert Quick
Alladin & Co
The
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Tru
Deau
Depot
Jacques Lacroix
Heem
Lorie
Las' Wintaire
Pete St. Cyr
Bettaire
David
Goliath
Swordfish
Ewe Lamb
Dorn
China
Ike
Kosmos
Colonel
Ben
Dangereuse
Messieurs
Hungaire
Tubber
Gwennie
Papa
Foster
Earth
Gwen
Paula
Creasey
Handy Boys
By A. Neely Hall
Gymnastica
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