Turbulent voyage of a nameless ship and a dangerous plan
The narrator recalls a perilous Channel crossing with Captain Black and the crew aboard a nameless vessel. Locked in a Kent Coast house, threats and intrigues unfold as a mysterious conspirator warns of arrests and a daring escape while police close in on Captain Black.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Risck
Olear
Myseelf
Jobo
Ego
Black
Teleet Greason
Roderick
Mars
London
Kent Coast Express
Wico
Mary
Busch
Debart
Ashirt
Nameless ship pursuit and battle at sea
The narrator and Black flee a pursuing nameless ship from Tilbury to the Atlantic inlet aboard a launch and then a cruiser. After a fierce exchange with a pursuing vessel, they fire repeatedly, hit the cruiser, suffer casualties, and prepare for a final fierce engagement with a second battleship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilbury
John
Sheerness
Nore
Black
England
Thames
Atlantic
Dover
Jobe
Joan
Nameless Chip Faces Fleet Ambush at Sea
In the night chase a nameless ship races toward a superior fleet. Engines falter, a second engine fails, and as ironclads close in, Black orders defiant resistance while sailors brace for a ramming, with the hull trembling and the crew awaiting doom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taygent
Haree I
Black
Friedrich
Four-Eyes
Thorr
Rheumatism Cure Claims by S S S Patent Remedy
An advertisement asserts rheumatism stems from uric acid in the blood and cannot be cured by rubbing. It promotes S S S as a purifying remedy that cleanses the blood and renovates circulation, claiming no minerals and offering free information and a treatise on Rheumatite.
Subtle Divergence and Wit in Public Discourse
A compilation of humorous snippets on language and life from Irish nuance to urban banter. Includes quips about bull Irish speech, sharp road curves, rail safety railings, a book misread as a deaf institute, and a note on Boston electricity and Siberia butter exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Ie
Chicago Tribune
Cold Wit and Weather Notes in Lincoln Journal
The fragment hints at a Lincoln Journal item about cold weather and a joke about a cold cure. It mentions a general and a receiver of tax returns, and an inventory of property. The text is garbled but centers on weather, a character named Mr. Receiver, and a property owner's legal matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Journal
Dooly
Hanson
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Iron Pirate
Uno
Jus le
Qiart
Olek
Admiralty
Busines
Mark Surong
Roderick Stewart
Doctor
Fock and Key
Midlands
Captain Black
Scotland
Bellonic
Arerr Ee
S.S.S
Iirish
Ireland
Boston
Siberia
Aie Vaal
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