Kidnapped Davie Seeks Uncle Amid Highland Perils
The fragment recounts Davie BalfoUr’s perilous arrival at Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws in the Scottish Highlands in 1751. He describes coercive hospitality and a tense bargain with his uncle while grappling with fear, hunger, and the eerie atmosphere of a haunted estate.
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Belne
David Balfour
Hichlands
Aen Breck Stewart
Righland
Ebenezer Balfour
Shaws
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hinson
Iset
Tiakat He
Cosme
Bearres i
Wessen
Ketal Theosen
Ivy
Balancer
Krieksamd
Balfour
Fenad
Mr. Balfour
Thar
Carey Regia
Betaveen
Hilagieshies
Uss
Mr. Belfour
Bee
Davie
Dave
Ishpat
Ebenezer
Alexander
Daresay
Tio Chamber
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Tieen
Star
Family of Athletes Leaves Rich Olympic-Style Legacy
The Garnier family displays multiple generations of athletic achievement. Thomas Garnier, linked to Oxford boat history and later church leadership in Ripon and Lincoln, had sons who starred in the Oxford eleven and university hurdles. Edward Garnier also claimed Oxford hurdling success, indicating a durable sporting dynasty.
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Thomas Garnier
Thomas Crarmer
Winchester
Oxford
Ripon
Linculn
Thomas Vv. Garnier
Edward S. Garnier
Istz
Edward D. Garnier
Ellusive glamour and famous women in a miscellany note
A fragmentary column notes Elsie Lamay a French Canadian cobbler in Lewiston Missouri, Miss Rothschild's rose collection valued at Sou Cu 0, Clara Schumann's stroke at Frankfort, Benseley's oriental manuscripts donated to Cambridge University, a long list of unmarried literary figures, the Empress of Austria's Corfu villa sale, Mrs. Humphrey Ward on women writers, and Ex Empress Eugenie's diamond penholder used in 1856 treaty signing.
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Elsie Lamay
Lewiston
Miss Lamay
Eugenie
Paris
Cat Protects Chicks With Humanlike Mothering
In Morgantown at Capt. Lorentz’s South Main, a house cat sheltered newly hatched chickens in a basket. The brood peeped and cuddled against the cat until the mother hen arrived to claim them, sparking a battle as the cat defended her adoptees before retreating to long for her lost charges.
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Morgantown
Lorentz
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Rod Becht
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Oo Netuhbars
Demminet Clauston
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Ebeneezer
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John Daniel
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Alice Rothschild
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Frankfort
Prof. Benseley
University Library
Cambridge
England
Nora Perry
Ouida
Jean Ingerow
Rosa_ Cary
Edith Thomas
Sarah Orne Jewett
Mary Wilkin
Grace Denis Litchfield
Edna Lyall
Austria
Corfu
Humphrey Ward
Hood
Anna Perenson
Latimer
Kansas
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W. Va
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