A Night of Battle and a Hidden Love Revealed
A rugged rider recounts a brutal combat with Choctaws and Natchez as Labrador Damian and allies fall. He saves a French refugee, Mademoiselle Dahlsgaarde, and contemplates a future home and marriage while facing personal pride and duty. The tale moves toward a reunion at a plantation after a long pursuit.
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Labrador
Damian
Joe
Damoan
Mademoiselle
Narbonne
Chakafalaya
Virginia
Carolinas
Bienville
Damian the Fox
Chickasaws
Ship Island
France
Mademoiselle Dahlsgaarde
Monsieur
Claire Dahlsgaarde
Charles Town
Reagan
North
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Savage Recipe for Pork Beasts and Vegetables
A kitchen instruction from the Washington Star details browning half a pound of salt pork, adding a quart of boiling water, then chopping six medium bees, one carrot, and two onions to add to the pot for a household dish.
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Washington Star
Tungsten Discoveries and Uses From Early Isolation to Lamp Filaments
Historical notes describe tungsten or wolfram as a metallic element isolated by the d Elhujart brothers after Scheele. Tungsten occurs as tungstate in wolframite and scheelite, commonly with tin ores. It sharpens steel hardness for tools and Coolidge made tungsten malleable for filament wire in incandescent lamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
d’Elhujart
Scheele
Coolidge
Shoppers Thrive on Health Boost From Vegetable Compound
Louisa, a tired department store worker, credits Lydia P. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after weeks of fatigue. She, now Mrs. L. G. van Dyke of Baltimore, recommends the tonic to other working girls who suffer weakness and run down conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa
Lydia P. Pinkham
L. G. van Dyke
Spring St
Morrell Park
Baltimore
Lydia
Pinkham
Pellagra cure book offer from Dr McCrary in Alabama
A dubious health ad promises a free book by Dr. W. J. McCrary, mailed in a plain wrapper from Carbon Hill Alabama, claiming pellagra symptoms and urging readers to request the booklet without waiting for all signs to appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. McCrary, Inc
Dept
Carbon Hill
Alabama
Farmers Wives Drive Cars in West States Survey
A survey shows more than half of farming wives in sixteen western states drive cars. The same study reports washing machines present in about 40 percent of homes. An ad notes Roman Eye Balsam for eye inflammation with a 35 cent jar, and mentions a national trend of faster urban death-rate decline.
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America
Widdle- West
Pearl St. N. Y. Adv
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Main St
Houston
Texas
Rsoyear Mit
Tonia
Hugh Oyter
The
Missouri
Frogh Benider
Chapter
Monsieur le Sauvage Blanc
King Street
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Santee
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Mishongnovi
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F. W. Heitmann Co
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