Foreign Spy Systems and Secret Service Costs Across Nations
An analysis compares secret services in Russia, Japan, Germany, France, Austria, and Britain, noting parliamentary expenditures, unknown Russian funding, and the scale of European espionage. It cites Pall Mall Gazette and includes a domestic anecdote about Mrs Burke and a quickly improvised supper after foraging.
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Russia
Japan
France
Austria
Germany
England
Admiralty
War Office
Great Britain
Pall Mall Gazette
Burke and His Associates in Whipoli Society Tale
A fragment describes Edmund Burke and his political and literary circle, noting casual hospitality with friends. The anecdote recalls supper invitations featuring beefsteak or mutton, and a late night gathering that included Fox and ten or three more associates in a Whig context.
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Burke
Fox
Remarkable Spring in Newico with Sodium Salt Bed
A remarkable spring in Newico saturates water with sodium sulphate. Distilled water weighs eight and one third pounds per gallon while the spring water weighs ten and two thirds. The course of ages has formed a vast bed of solid sodium salts miles in extent. Warm urine reportedly yields organism-like activity as it dries into the sodium expanse.
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Newico
Harper's
Time to Move
A small town boy returns home from his uncle’s after two weeks protesting the two prior weeks of farm deaths. He explains the uncle’s household killed a sheep and a hog then the hired man died, prompting his early return.
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Willie
A Hard Critic and Sermon Praised by Fishermen
Dr Hedge and Dr Bartol spent a summer down east with a sermon to a fisherfolk crowd. An old salt replied that the ideas were absurd and the language preposterous, offering a blunt fisherman's verdict on the preaching.
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Hedge
Dr. Bartol
Bartol
Wonders of Ether Medium Carrying Light
J Gordon Ogden explains in Popular Mechanics that the luminiferous ether, a space filling medium, is proposed to pervade all matter and space. He argues it must be rigid and elastic to allow light's immense speed, yet its true nature remains debated by scientists.
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Young
Atrium
J. Gordon Ogden
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Many-Fingered Family Reported in Russian Village
In Koshilovo Grodno region Russia over fifty peasants are noted in Vremya with extra fingers. Descendants of a 19th century marriage show growths ranging from two to five additional digits on hands. The condition is causing social and labor effects in local villages.
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Koshilovo
Grodno
Russia
The Killing the Goose Young Lawyer Succeeds in a Suit
A young lawyer, newly taking over his father’s practice, bursts with triumph after claiming to settle an old chancery suit. The elder lawyer reacts with disbelief, noting the son’s lack of sophistication in legal method.
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Chancery
New Work Tribune
Eccentric People Fielding Rumors at London Express
Mrs Smith notes strain between Mr and Mrs Adair since their marriage. Some take her side others back him. Mr Smith remarks that a few eccentric people mind their own business in London.
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Mrs. Smith
Adair
Mr. Smith
Londof Express
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