Fire Island A Lure For Shipwrecks And Historic Wreckage
A vivid portrait of Fire Island shore as a silent graveyard where centuries of shipwrecks rest in sand. The piece notes constant wrecking along the outer bar, with relics washing ashore while lighthouses and life saving efforts evolved to limit disaster.
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Atlantic
Atlantic Coast Line
Cape Cod
Nantucket
Block Island
Oamnia
Fire Island Beach
Shinnecock Bay
New York City
Baymen
Fire Island
Rita
Amsterdam
Hull
Plymouth Town
Spain
Life Saving Service
New York
Daysey Mayme Appleton Plans For Visiting Guests
Daysey Mayme Appleton will entertain two out of town guests for two weeks. She asks friends what they are willing to do for guests and notes she may announce mourning unless guests come up to the scratch, limiting activities to walks and prayer meeting.
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Daysey Mayme
Daysey Mayme Appleton
Atchison Globe
Burglar Scenes Prompt Midnight Escape in New York Journal
A fragment depicts Falleash waking to sounds in his room and a whispered warning from a burglar named Sikes. The intruder slips downstairs and out the back door to steal his booty, in a terse New York Journal style.
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Sikes
Falleash
Les
New York
The Whistling Groundhog of British Columbia
A narrative on groundhogs and Siwash hunting methods in British Columbia describes the whistle of Indian trackers guiding hunters to burrows. It notes traps, meat storage, pelts for quilts, and the value of hides and fur, with a brief fiction interlude about lovers and mistaken identity.
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British Columbia
Hudson Bay
Brent Altsheler
Johnny and the Metempsychosis Mystery
A boy asks his father for the meaning of metempsychosis. The father delays, urging him to look it up, and Johnny later finds the dictionary open at Met. He contemplates whether his father is a fraud, contrasting reliance on self study with parental guidance.
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London
Johnny
Johnn
Met
Boston Transcript
Gladstone’s Hat Incident at the Commons
The London Globe recalls a famous moment when Gladstone, during his third premiership, could not find his hat to address a division. He seized a colleague’s hat four sizes too small, and the tiny headgear rocked on his large head, a spectacle remembered by witnesses.
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House of Commons
Mr. Gladstone
London Globe
The Stealthy Tiger Observations On Hunting And Silence
An excerpt describes a tiger's stealthy approach and night hunting behavior. It notes the tiger’s quiet movements, the mournful call aiding its hunt, and the deer’s reaction to the tiger’s voice. The piece blends anecdote with reflections from London Times and Parisian scenes.
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Sambhur
Mowgli
Algernon Durand
London Times
Drunken prisoner learns a quiet night at Scotch police station
A drunk man, kept in a Scottish police cell, created loud noise by kicking the door. The constable coaxed him by offering a small rub to look respectable for the bailie in the morning, then shut the door and advised the man to keep quiet while he could.
New York's First Ferry and Its Early Upgrades
The piece recalls the first East River ferry a square ended scow with mast and tails used by riders in 1735. It notes a horse fare of 1 shilling and a wagon fare of 5, with three quarters of a century for later improvements.
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New York
East River
Manhattan
Hate
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Gladstone and Hat
Tiger
Paris
Sadia
Vis
Paris Journal
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