The Mount Mysterious Intrigues at the North Atlantic Rock
A tale unfolds on the Mount, a French coastal rock fortress during Louis XVI era. Delaurac seeks education and love as Elise returns from Paris. The Black Seigneur pursues escape, arrest plots, and a moonlit ascent toward a covert retreat amid abbots, guardians, and shadowed corridors.
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Comtesse Fis
France
Louis XVI
Seigneur Desaurac
Delaurac
Paris
Elise
le Seigneur Noir
Pilise
Sanchez
Desaurac
The Whirling of the Wheel in the Mount
In a moonlit chamber a dwarf guards a hidden wheel lift as Jacques confronts him with a drawn sword. The Black Seigneur forces the intruder into the ancient hoisting machine while a plan of mercy or punishment looms, ending on a tense cliffhanger.
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Seraglio
Jacques
Wunbroken
Pardi
Hundack
Bre
Stairway of Silver at Mount Ends in Silent Pursuit
A young soldier slips past a sentinel toward a moonlit ascent at the Mount. He climbs the broad stone stairs toward a sacred edifice, the silvered moonlight revealing ancient façades and a looming, ceremonial path.
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Henri
England
Saint Louis
Escalier de Dentelle
Louis
Saint
France
Kinder Skittish and the Shoe Store Request
A Chicago Post item recalls a antebellum mammy entering a shoe store seeking daily shoes in small sizes. The clerk stands as she tests a pair of heavy plow shoes, and she asks if he will stay. he offers to move, and she replies she is white folks raised and is skittish.
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Chicago Post
Anti-suffrage anecdote shared by Dr. Lyman Abbott in New York
Dr. Lyman Abbott, a noted anti-suffragist, told a luncheon anecdote in New York about two suffragists at a club. The joke revolves around a husband who is “slowly mending” his wife’s khaki riding breeches, not ill, highlighting anti-suffrage sentiment with humor.
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Lyman Abbott
New York
Death mask sculptor adds Clara Barton to display
Maker U. S. J. Dunbar, famed for death masks, adds Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross to the National museum collection. He previously modeled masks of Judge Gresham Chief Justice Waite Supreme Court Justices Bradley and Matthews Fred Douglass Frank Hatton Senator Beck General Joseph E. Johnson and Admiral Stevens.
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U. S. J. Dunbar
Clara Barton
American Red Cross Society
National Museum
W. Gresham
Waite
Supreme Court
Bradley and Matthews
Fred Douglass
Frank Hatton
Senator Beck
Joseph E Johnson
Admiral Stevens
Plague of snails reported on Ceylon island
A snail infestation on part of the island of Ceylon devours all vegetation as it appears. Native communities dig trenches to slow movement and encircle tree trunks with tarred cork or fiber to deter snails.
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Ceylon
Old Adam Strong In Him Sad Time For Mother
A four year old boy, kept from older crowds, visits a group of teens and learns crude language. On return, mother questions each word learned, and realizes her beloved is just a boy after all. The tale highlights a mother’s realization about her child’s speech.
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Mother
Teaching Safety in New Jersey Schools Bill Passed
Legislature in 1913 requires public school teachers to provide 30 minutes monthly instruction on accident prevention.
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New Jersey
Picnic Ends in Near-Drowning Panic, Birmingham Report Says
A Birmingham Age-Herald note describes a thoroughly enjoyable picnic that turned chaotic as near drownings occurred among many attendees. The vivid account highlights the scare and compares it to other similar gatherings, calling it the most perilous moment heard of.
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Birmingham
Age-Herald
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Telric S. Isname
T Red
Ray Walters
OF LY
the Mount
St. Dalard
St. Aubert
Auberge Des Voleurs
Norman
Salle Des Gardes
Hostetter
Hanford
Sserttis Co
Adam
Post
Postam Cereal Company, Limited
Battie Creek, Michigan
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