Micah Clarke Chapter XXIIIContinued Escape by Sea
Micah Clarke and his companions escape a cave scene where gaugers and smugglers clash. A perilous exchange ends with Clarke aboard a lugger bound for Bristol as fog closes in and a likely king's ship hovers nearby. The crew debates mercy, justice, and duty while plotting safe passage for Clarke.
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Ancarved
Batuie
Trinidade
Tie Scheim
Tong John
Cooper Dick
Tee
Silas
Boos
Asard Murgatroyd
Gauewer Westhouser
Oman
Pete
Sour Ieaye
Fie
Westhouse
Anthors
Ilegal
Tle
Venables
Seldier
King Monmouth
Henry
Duke of Beaufort
Badminton
Jin
Murgatroyd
James the Second of
England
Duke of Monmouth
Henry, Duke of Beaufort
Wales
Micah Clarke
Saxon
Wiltshire Foot
Bristol
Long John
Weston
Maria
Thien
Dead Man's Lodge
Daddy
Jim
Siss Bolitho
Clarke
Farmer Black
Chester
Havang
Murgatrovd
Milrgatrovd
Solent
Silas Bolitho
Tam
Mother Carey
Godden
Dicon
Brooklyn Bridge Receipts Rise Despite Economic Slump
Historical notes show Brooklyn Bridge earnings climbing since 1883 with September receipts at 102 825 83 dollars, up over six percent from the prior year as daily crossings approach 125 000 passengers.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Trafic
McKinley
Bridge Railroad
New York
Brooklyn
Bermuda School Views and Washington Memorabilia
A New York woman returning from Hamilton notes Bermudian children know little American history. She recalls asking a bright colored boy about the United States and learning that Queen Victoria rules Bermuda while George Washington is the sole US president the boy has heard of. The walls show maps of other nations, not the United States. The piece ends with a remark on degrading punishment involving a boot.
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Bermudas
New York
Hamilton
Bermuda
Desea
England
Queen Victoria
United States
Canada
George Washington
Washington
New York Sun
Submarine Mine Diagrams Support Deliberate Havana Explosion
The engineer Joseph Powell Gibbins explains field mine layouts for Havana harbor defenses. He shows a twenty one mine field with electrical firing from shore, and details steps to arm and explode a mine, arguing only deliberate action by one of two Spanish officials could trigger the Maine’s destruction.
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Joseph Powell Gibbins
Havana
Maine
Warning on firing station mine tests and explosive types
Article details a firing station test table for electro mechanical mines used by the Spanish Naval Commission in 1886. It explains procedures to set the test table, close circuits, and trigger mines on contact or observation, listing ground and buoyant mine capacities and noting a dangerous capability to explode upon vessel impact. J. P. Gibbins New York World.
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Tom Baldock
Dicon
Bristol
Long John
Silas Bolitho
Spanish Naval Commission
Oldest wooden building in the world noted in Japanese carpentry
Miss Ida Tigner Hodnett writes about Japan’s earthquake safe architecture. She describes castles and wooden pagodas centuries old and notes the Nara wooden museum housing the Mikado treasures. The Mikado’s 1200 year old log building uses keaki timber and a roof renewed only three times.
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St. Nicholas
Ida Tigner Hodnett
Nara
Widow jailed for theft of four sticks of wood
Prussian authorities in Alt Landsberg imprison a 99 year old widow for three days after she steals four small sticks of wood. It is noted as her first offense.
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Alt-Landsberg
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Bali
Weil Enow
Waterhouse
Rer
Cooper Phick
Iichesner 3
Mgt Moarsatroyd
Ato
Ovenant
Waaland
Gibbins
al Foe
J. P. Gibbins
New York World
Morro Castle
Havana Harbor
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