Battle of the Long House Ends with Surrender and Flight
Murray agrees to terms after a siege at the stockade as Ta-wan-ne-ars plans to recover his lost soul. Marjory and Ormerod prepare to depart with the captured Keepers toward Jagara while peace talks with Joncaire and Onontio unfold.
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Marjory
Murray
Ta-wan-ne-ars
Gahano
Ormerod
Ha-wen-ne-yun
Ath Entsic
Murjory
Songbird
Long House
Andrew Murray
Cormaer
Albany
The Doom Trail Sundered by Battle and Judgment
Corlaer and Do ne ho ga we h discuss Mur ray’s terms after a brutal campaign on the Doom Trail. The Keepers lie defeated or imprisoned in Murray’s stockade their families taken as captives and the belt of scalps grows heavy. The royal envoy reports ashes and destruction everywhere as the guardians of the trail prepare to relay a message to Murray demanding surrender of his house and fortifications.
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Ormerod
Fernieside
Canada
Corlaer
Roy-An-Eh
Long House
Royan-Eh
Ga-ha-no
Do-ne-hoga-weh
Murray
Letter From Master Juggins Sparks Trade Hope in Pearl Street
On Pearl Street a letter from Master Juggins, delivered by the Bristol packet, urges confident plans to expand provincial trade under Governour Burnet. Burnet announces favorable news from the Lords of Trade as the narrator recalls past trials in Paris, smuggling, and exile, hinting at continuing adventures to come.
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Pearl Street
Garden Street
Paris
England
Channel
London
Ormerod
Governor Burnet
Reserve Officer Provokes Sentry Salute Dispute
During WWI tensions rose at San Pedro between regular navy personnel and naval reserves. A reserve camp sentry, unfamiliar with ongoing salute rules, failed to salute a retired regular officer who demanded salutes each time he passed, leading to a clash over rank and etiquette as reported by The Periscope.
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San Pedro
Memorials to honor notable men in market square
The text notes images of notable men and benefactors placed in the market for perpetual memory of their deeds, to inspire future generations to virtue and to keep ancestral glory and renown alive.
Moses as an Inventor in Biblical Hypotheses
German engineer Jens Juergens argues in a new book that Moses was a powder nitroglycerin and dynamite merchant who used land mines to deter the Egyptians. He claims the tabernacle served as a laboratory for explosive experiments and weapon making.
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Jens Juergens
Moses
Wisdom From La Rochefoucauld Advised Yet Not Used
A maxim from La Rochefoucauld cautions that advice is shared freely but the wisdom within may not be acted upon. The quote reflects on human restraint and the gap between guidance offered and actions taken.
Road Costs Reveal How Motorists Pay for Highways
A study by Thomas H. MacDonald shows annual road costs near 1 billion dollars, paid by motorists through gas taxes, registration fees, automobile taxes, federal excise taxes, and petroleum taxes. Federal aid to roads totals 460 million from 1918 to 1925, far less than half of 1924 1925 spending, while motorists supplied most road funding via internal revenue taxes.
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Thomas H. MacDonald
Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
MacDonald
New Jersey
New York
Illinois
Massachusetts
World Road News And U S Forest Fund Allocations
Japan reportedly imposes the highest car tax with annual fees over 312 dollars for cars over 20 horsepower. Dustless motor travel expands on Michigan routes and Paris plans underground intersections to ease traffic. The forest service allocates 7.5 million dollars for the 1928 read fund. Global highway spending tops 550 million dollars in the past year. Causes of narrow roads include forecasts of future traffic and false economy. Grade crossing accidents rise despite safety efforts across the United States.
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Japan
United States
Indiana Renumbers State Highways Under Federal Plan
All roads in the Indiana state highway system are renumbered under a permanent scheme to align with a schedule set by the federal bureau of roads. North south routes will have odd numbers and east west routes will have even numbers.
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Federal Bureau of Roads
Four-Lane Lincoln Highway Contract Awarded
The state highway department awarded a contract to extend the four-lane Lincoln highway from Downingtown toward Philadelphia. The current four-car-wide section now runs east of the Potts Town West Chester crossroads, and the new award will add nearly five miles more of the widened road east of the present section.
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Downingtown
Philadelphia
State Highway Department
Pottstown
West Chester
Town Criers' Duel Rocks British Town
Pewsey Wiltshire hosted a town criers championship with twenty four loud speakers vying for a silver cup and sovereigns. Ernest Austin of Highworth won in plain clothes, beating Walter Abbott of Lyme Regis and favorites like Gomer Thomas. James Cox of Burnham boasted the longest range but lost on enunciation.
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London
Stentor
Pewsey
Wiltshire
Britain
Town Criers
England
Wales
Gallants of the Bath
Beau Nash
Ernest Austin
Highworth
Austin
Walter Abbott
Lyme Regis
Gomer Thomas
James Cox
Burnham
Cox
Cross Bred Trees to Solve Wood Shortage
A New York botanical garden report written with Columbia University and Oxford Paper Company finds wood pulp consumption outpacing growth by four to one. Selective breeding and hybridization boost growth rates. success seen in fruit trees, some nut trees, and ornamentals, with similar gains expected for wood pulp trees.
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New York
New York Botanical Garden
Columbia University
Oxford Paper Company
New Simple Alphabet Favored by French Blind
A new touch reading system for the blind, simpler than Braille, gains support in Paris. Proponents say it can be learned in minutes. Louis Mayron devised it using three-character patterns a right angle a U and a square to form the alphabet.
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Paris
Louis Mayron
Alaska Ice Sells At $2.50 Half Ton To $4 Ton
An oddly phrased ad describes ice prices in Alaska and promotes real dye tinting for fabrics. It touts true dye powders at fifteen cents per envelope, recommends cold water dipping for even tones, and notes a final setting with boiled water.
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Alaska
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Brentano's
Arthur D. Howden Smith
WNU
Jagara
Joncaire
Onontilo
Tiroquois
Do-neho-ga-weh
Mohawk Castle
Great League
Onontio
Quebec
Oroyanehs
Joneaire
Hudson’s River
Lad
Governour Burnet
Burnet
Grannie
Holbourne
PXOKO
Xe Lo Lek
la Rouchefoucauld
Michigan
West Michigan
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Mufti
Ovez
King
Forde
Burlington
Vermont
Aes Fcp Ne
G. G. Green, Inc
Woodbury, N. J
McCormick & Co
Baltimore
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