Aerodromone plots and saucy sisters ignite a war path
Napoleon Edison Astra von Werdenstein and Rositta star in a grand science fiction drama of war in the air. European powers push to invade America while chemists hunt for drynith and a flying machine race advances amid romance and betrayal.
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North America
Hannibal Prudent
United Vernment
Count von Ordenstein
Germany
Bagtena
Prudent
Astra
Forel
Napoleon Edison
Chevalier di Leon
Werdenstein
Europe
Countess Rosing
di N
von Erdenstein
America
von Werdenstein
Schomburg-Lithow
Ison
Edison
Edilgen
Rositta
Santos
Rosltta
Santos Dupres
Yon Duprel
Count von Duprel
Crystal Lake
Garden of Eden
Ciryne
Napoleon
Whistler
Count von Werdenstein
Sullivan
Peace Committee
Ig Ssemenat
Wei Ieee
Suemeg
Hungary
Cabinet for Collection of Curious Little Things
A father helps a boy organize a home curiosity cabinet using simple shelves and spools as display. The piece extols collecting rocks shells and other small treasures, notes display ideas, date and place labeling, and links the habit to observation and sentiment.
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Katherine Atherton
Grimes
Big Sister
Big Brother
Father
Mexico City Hotel Encounter Reveals Old Spanish Customs
An American interviewer arrives at a Mexico City hotel to find rooms scarce as the manager quotes a high rate. A thin, silent manager refuses service, while a porter and local staff display a preemptive rugged courtesy rooted in old Spanish social norms. The piece sketches Mexico’s landscapes and social order observed by the traveler.
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United States
Mexico City
Texas
John Lind
Gamboa
Mexico
Spain
The Garden of Eden Flight Interrupted by Countess Rosing
A fragment notes Napoleon and Astra keeping a flight at the Countess Rosing, with the scene ending abruptly as the disap appears. The snippet suggests a journey halted by aristocratic authority and unclear circumstances surrounding the flight.
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Garden of Eden
Napoleon
Astra
German Kurs Not Cure In Medical Translation
A concise note explains that the German kurs does not equal cure and that heilung is restoration to health. It contrasts Latin cura and English curing, citing a misinterpretation of a physician who claimed curing typhoid patients. The date and source are Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Germany
Journal of the American Medical Association
Just About the Limit in a Street Encounter
Fansome vents frustration and mocks a passerby, Mr Gadders, after a street meeting with Snoddiles about keeping up with the world series. The exchange reveals confusion over which world series is meant, hinting at local chatter and miscommunication in a brief urban vignette.
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Fansome
Mr. .Gadders
Snoddiles
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Guido von ‘Horvath and
Dean Hoerd
Oes
W. G. Chapman
The
United
Pearante
Bantes Dupres
Mrs. Edison
Mes
Jerome Whistler
Aastra
Pacific
Americas
Afides
Arneé
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