Wife-Ship Woman by Hugh Pendexter in Mississippi trek
The narrator and two companions travel up the Mississippi toward Long Town with a frightened French woman, facing river dangers, tension over a marriage offer, and the threat of Native ambush as Labrador shields the group and a painted face appears along the trail. The scene ends with a hinted confrontation as an arrow is fired and the party presses on.
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New Orleans
Appalachians
Labrador
Mademioiselle
Monsieur
Parentinace
Monsieur Labrador
Natchez
Bluffs
Mississippi
Chickasaw Bluffs
Mademoiselle
War Tensions Rise As Natchez Hold Peace Pipe Ceremony
The Natchez, Huma, and Serpent factions maneuver around a peace pipe to avert French conflict. La Glorieuse and the traveler Labrador weigh escape plans as English influence threatens war, while Native chiefs debate sending a Fox's message to the Great Sun. The plan aims to flee tonight via the forest toward Fort Rosalie with pirogues available north of the fort.
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Natchez
Strong Bow
la Glorieuse
Labrador
Damian
Serpent
Damoan
Bienville
Great Sun
Warchief
Iron Hand
Biloxi
Blenville
Bluffs
Long Town
Mademoiselle
Fort Rosalie
Pirogues
Farewell to the River Chapter XIII Summary
The narrator, Rosalie, and Labrador begin a long journey in a stolen pirogue after eluding Dameau and his men. With the threat fading, the trio settles into calmer days, and mademoiselle grows more mature and thoughtful rather than playful.
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Labrador
Rosalie
Dameau
Mademoiselle
Little Fear of Brown Spider Bites Despite Myths
The article notes most American brown spiders are not dangerously poisonous to humans. Although bites can be painful, their danger is minimal due to human size and defensive poisons used for prey. Color warnings help people distinguish dangerous species from harmless ones.
When a Leaf Falls Reflects on Leaves and Sound
Beebe contemplates a word or sound that captures the soft fit of a leaf upon leaves. He recalls a familiar timber and echo etched by many listenings, yet cannot lift it from thought to speech or handwriting.
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William Beebe
Whistling Trees Noted in Barbados and Sudan
The article describes a whistling tree with a uniquely shaped leaf and split-edged pods in Barbados. Wind through the pods produces deep tones, notably along a valley when trade winds blow. A similar whistling acacia exists in Sudan.
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Barbados
Sudan
Summit Hill Fire Burns Under Town for A Century
Summit Hill Pennsylvania rests atop a burning coal mine that has raged for ninety two years. The town of six thousand sits on a hill riddled with shafts and tunnels feeding furnaces below. Firefighting efforts include flooding, filling ground, and cutting coal veins, yet flames persist as a regional economic and safety threat.
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Summit Hill
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Carbon County
Chalk as a Building Material Trials in War Britain
During and after the war chalk quarters were built in France for troops and chalk houses were tested in England. Chalk bricks and slabs can be quarried from any chalk deposit by unskilled labor at far lower cost than other materials. Tests show chalk bricks withstand about 2110 psi even as experiments attract builders and government interest.
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France
England
Claimants press war invention rewards in London
Many individuals press claims for millions of pounds alleging that their World War era inventions aided Allied victory. A royal commission on awards to inventors disclosed ideas including nets dropped from airplanes studded with poison hooks to entangle and kill German troops.
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London
Royal Commission On Awards
Pedestrians Regulated On Rio Branco Sidewalks In Rio
Traffic cops posted on Avenida Rio Branco regulate foot travel on the center mosaic sidewalks. Pedestrians on the outside half must turn at the corner to view windows, while inside traffic remains accessible for entering stores and theaters.
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Avenida Rio Branco
Rio de Janeiro
Seven Days With God and a Hindu mystic encounter
An excerpt notes environment shaping thought in a tale by Abraham Marie Rihbany. A famed American clergyman stays briefly with a prominent Hindu mystic in California who, asked about daily spiritual practices, responds with a simple shrug and the word Here.
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Abraham Marie Rihbany
California
Hollywood
Telephones Reach 16 Million in U S on Eve of Semicentennial
Theodore Gary notes in Saturday Evening Post that 16 million telephones operate in the United States, about 61 percent of the world total, outranking the rest of the world ten to one by population share. He cites factors beyond government ownership.
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United States
Theodore Gary
Saturday Evening Post
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Nurses
A Greenfield Mass nurse notes renewed energy and recovery after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash, enabling her to resume housework and return to nursing. A Lancaster Pa user also endorses the medicine for general weakness, with hundreds of letters from states nationwide praising its health benefits.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Mas
Gentrupp L
Davis St
Greenfield, Mass
Lydia DB
J. A. Pierson
Lancaster
Pinkhard Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Pennsylvania
Washington
Texas
Illinois
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Lydia B. Pinkham
California Fig Syrup Best Laxative for Children
An old fashioned medical advertisement describes California Fig Syrup as a gentle laxative for infants and children. It claims prompt relief from constipation wind feverish breath coated tongue and diarrhea with no cramps. The bottle warns to seek the genuine product and to avoid imitations.
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California
Genttifornia
Women Exhibit Fear of Mice Not Men Says Survey
A remark argues women are more frightened by mice than by men, framing a stereotype about gendered fear and behavior.
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