Adventure of the dying prospector and child in desert
A plains-dying prospector on the Sierra Blanca contemplates death with his five year old daughter. They recount a trek through a lifeless wasteland where relatives have perished and water is gone. The scene ends with the girl finding small mica tokens as hope fades.
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Gregson
Lestrade
Holmes
Assassion
Jestrade
Scotland Yard
Wiggins
Sherlock Hiolmes
Jefferson Hope
Enoch Thebber
Joseph Stangerson
Sherlock Holmes
Sierra Nevada
Nebraska
Yellowstone River
Colorado
Sierra Blanca
Bob
Mr. Bender
Pete
Mrs. McGregor
Johnny Hones
Dearie
Part II The County of the Saints Chapter I
Excerpt describes a vast arid desert on the Great Alkali Plain in the central North American region. The narrative introduces a harsh landscape and sets a somber, exploratory tone for the county’s beginnings.
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Great Alkali Plain
Great North American Continent
Buffalo Hunt Aims to Select Ponca Chief in Texas Arena
Survivors of the Poncas dwindled from 6000 to 600 plan a buffalo hunt at the Goodnight ranch in the Panhandle of Texas to decide a new tribal chief and council. Horse Chief, chosen last June, awaits the hunt to assume authority. A 3000 by 1500 foot arena with two six foot fences will host the event for twelve tribes. Interest grows as visitors forecast a huge turnout and Santa Fe rails run seven extra trains to Bliss, Oklahoma.
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Goodnight Ranch
Panhandle
Texas
Horse
Sundance
White Eagle
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Santa Ffe
Bliss
O. T
Kansas City Cor
New York World
Awkward Garden Proposal Between Heirs Sparks Quiet Love
In a New Hampshire estate garden, Helene Hunter and Philip Parkhurst confront six years of unspoken tension as relatives plan an arranged match. They finally confess love and accept an engagement amid spying aunts and amused onlookers, choosing honesty over tradition.
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Scott
New Hampshire
Helene Hunter
Familes
Polly
Helene
Stony Brook
Adonis
Mollie
Kitty
Philip
Phil
Aunt Polly
Charlie
Ben
Philip Parkhurst
Uncle Charlie
Sweetheart
Rockefeller finds industry heed on daily workers
John D. Rockefeller Jr addresses a Sunday school class about industry, recalling a Dunfermline anecdote where a farmer misreads a standing figure as a scarecrow. The other farmer reveals it is a man working by the day.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Dunfermline
Secarce
What Shakspeare Missed
Herbert Spencer recounts a story of a vain acquaintance who praised Shakspeare aloud yet misunderstood his genius. She wished the author alive to enjoy their conversation, imagining delightful exchanges, as quoted from the New York Tribune.
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Herbert Spencer
Shakspeare
New York Tribune
Dinner devotion sparks a couple’s disagreement
A witty exchange in the Washington Star frames a couple’s quarrel over priorities. One mocks a man’s focus on meals while the other defends his habit of watching baseball, highlighting conflicting values in domestic life.
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Washington Star
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Hit
Inez
Drelber
Stancersoen
Mr. Gregson
Charpentier
Strangerson
County OF the Saints
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Buffalo Hunt
Otho B. Senga
Moses
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