The Wife-Ship Woman I Snatched Up My Musket
A lone fighter recounts a night battle with Choctaw warriors along a bayou. Narbonne and Six Fingers aid, rescuing a girl as the hero fends off attackers with knife and ax while Damian urges the assault. Narbonne’s reckless boldness buys a crucial retreat as the struggle unfolds.
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Narbonne
Damian
Mademoiselle
Monsieur
Hein
Damoan
Six Fingers
Mississippi
Monseigneur
Monsieur le Regent
Banque Royale
Indian Company
Banque
Bayou
Mingers
Mademoiselle in peril and a French spy’s revelation
In a river escape, Brampton rescues a bound ally as Choctaws yell nearby. Joe Labrador reveals loyalties while Narbonne dies in a skirmish and Brampton awkwardly offers marriage to the wary mademoiselle before their perilous march toward Virginia.
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Brampton
Damian
Mademoiselle
Pirogue
Narbonne
Monsieur
Monsieur Narbonne
Labrador
Joe
Damean the Fox
France
Six Fingers
Golden Acannibas
Acaanibas
Damoan
Lifting the Peace Pipe and a Narrow Escape
The narrator and Labrador evade Damian the Fox during a river journey, conceal pirogues, and rest in a hollow. Labrador recounts Damian’s map to seize escapees as Choctaws follow, a planned ambush fails, and a Natchez war-cry erupts amid rising tension in the bayou.
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Damian
Labrador
Damoan the Fox
la Nouvelle Orleans
Sieur de Bienville
Damoan
Pirogues
Biloxi
Iberville
Natchez
Monsieur
Human Ruminants Not Unknown to History
Medieval and ancient accounts portray men who chewed the cud as common, with Roger Gill of Dorsetshire described as dying after suffering prolonged chewing. The British Annual Register notes Gill’s phase of chewing after meals, often lasting an hour or more and causing illness, with similar cases cited in the Chicago Journal.
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Robert Gill
Dorsetshire
Roger Gill
Gill
Chicago Journal
Reopened St Michael Church Gains Wren Legacy and New Choir
Historic London church The Church of St Michael reopened after renovations. Built on the Dick Whittington site, the original grave is gone after the great fire. Interior changes include wall and ceiling repainting, moving the altar railing to form a choir screen and relocating Moses and Aaron statues to wall niches.
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St. Michael
Wren
London
Dick Whittington
Sir Richard Whittington
Moses
Aaron
Poetry Restored to Truth and Purity Statement
A quotation from James Thomson urging poetry to return to its pure high vocation. He calls for inspiration from heaven and for poetry to abandon venal trifles in favor of subjects that please instruct surprise and astonish, so ignorance and prejudice are struck dumb and poets again delight mankind.
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Jamen Thomson
No Place in Society for Fijian Bachelor
Fiji society has evolved, with women equal to men yet retaining customs. Bachelors are shunned by a vigilant “Make Em Get Married” society. A debutante’s curls signal marriage prospects, and a suitor leaves his ecard, a small white tooth, after courting success.
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Fiji Islands
Pathfinder Magazine
Saladin’s Rise and the Third Crusade Record
Saladin rose from Koord shepherd origins to vizier and then sultan of Egypt and Syria. He captured Jerusalem in 1187 triggering the Third Crusade, lost Acre to crusaders in 1191, and secured a three year truce over Jesus tomb before dying in 1193.
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Saladin
Egypt
Syria
Jerusalem
Acre
Jesus
Kansas City Star
Bacteria Survive Cold After Two Years In Ice Cream
Researchers M J Prucha and J M Brannen of the University of Indiana kept typhoid germs in ice cream at roughly four degrees below zero for two years. Periodic sampling yielded positive cultures with bacteria gradually decreasing yet as many as 11000 typhoid organisms surviving in the final sample.
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M. J. Prucha
J. M. Brannen
Department of Bacteriology
University of Indis
China Wants Loud Garters
The Chinese market drives attention as garters in bright colors gain popularity. American makers note higher demand for violent checks and plaids. Isaac F. Marcosson explains in the Saturday Evening Post Inquiry that male students in Canton and elsewhere wear garters outside their trousers.
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Isaac F. Marcosson
Saturday Evening Post
Canton
War on Destructive Moth in Army Helmet Felts
The Department of Agriculture cooperates with other agencies as the Army ordnance department seeks aid against clothes moths harming felts in crates of steel helmets. A Bureau of Entomology specialist was sent to the reserve supply depot at New Cumberland Pennsylvania to supervise fumigation of 450000 feet of storage space.
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Department of Agriculture
Ordnance Department of the Army
Bureau of Entomology
New Cumberland
Fall at Harrison gas plant yields sprained ankle
John L. Green fell twenty feet from a gas plant under construction in Harrison New Jersey. Fellow workers rushed him to hospital where doctors spent thirty minutes undressing him. He wore five sweaters two suits of underwear two coats three pairs of trousers and two pairs of socks. Doctors found only a sprained ankle.
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John L. Green
Harrison
N. J
Green
Trudianapolis
Vacation as religious duty in Asia but pleasure in the West
The article notes that many in China and India devote vacations to religious rites rather than recreation. It also mentions similar attitudes in Japan and Germany, while Western countries are described as treating vacation primarily as a period of pleasure.
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China
India
Japan
Germany
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Missouri
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WNU
Joe Labrador
Canada
Gulf
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Ship Island
Louisiana
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Taniac
W. B. Com
Hickory St
Dallas
Tex
Mother Nature
Tormmorrow
Mos
California
Democratic Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Brooklyn
Fred G. Marquart
Carter
Lear
G. Green, Inc
Woodbury, N. J
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