Martha de Kalb Betrays and Dies in Boer War Atrocities
Martha de Kalb, daughter of a devoted Boer family, sends secret payoff letters to her English fiancé Lieutenant Venable while torn between loyalty to country and lover. After abandoning Boer ranks to warn Venable, she is shot as ambush fire rips through her and Venable during a tragic clash at Majuba hill, dying alongside her beloved.
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Jan
Martha de Kalb
Major de Kalb
Peter
Ante de Kalb
Martha
Transvaal
Qondan
Tante de Kalb
Villey
Bries Endamet
Teers
Cape Town
Tug
Te Toe
Old van Belys
Tichting
Verdomter Ulllander
Jan de Kath
Lerha
Old Yao Belt
Valces
Springbokfonten
Urage
Old van Belt
Sid
Tand
Alme
Stephen
Stephena
Venable
England
Abe
Hpst
Oom Jan
Anl
Mathal
Flormeyr
Marsha
Father
Majuba Hill
Ned
Venabre
Venabie
Countess de Montagne
Lfe
Mediterranean
Paris
Mystere
Wellington's Preciseness In Answers To Letters
The Duke of Wellington replies to an unknown quack who sent salve informing him the box will be returned by Monday's coach. He denies a facial disorder, explaining rheumatism from exposure and cites trusted English medical advisers, refusing salves from strangers based on newspaper reports.
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Wellington
Duke of Wellington
Deloureux
England
The Deserving One and the Prompter’s Stage Woes
Hoyt and a playwright friend observed a play not his own as the lead actor floundered with the part. The prompter’s constant voice drew affection, and Hoyt briefly left during the final act, returning as the curtain fell amid applause. The audience called for the leading actor, dubbed X to spare feelings, prompting a quip about the prompter.
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Hoyt
New York Clipper
Just the Same Absurd Anecdote From Hare’s Autobiography
Augustus Hare recalls a friend famed for absentmindedness. When greeted, the man asks about his father, who is dead, twice, each time replying with the same blunt line. The tale playfully highlights forgetfulness across repeated encounters.
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Augustus Hare
Artistic contrasts and a fisherman's doomed clock tale
A painting teacher defines an artistic girl as one who pins roses to a sky blue frock, while another wears a blue ribbon with a pink dress. The piece links style to authority and nature, then shifts to a fisherman's wife haunted by a clock’s ticking, hearing the refrain wife widow wife, as boats go out. Cynthia In the West.
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Cynthia
Danton Ardent Leader of Terror Ends in Guillotine
Glowing portrait of Georges Danton as a fiery orator and pivotal Cordeliers figure who rallied Paris, led revolutionary steps, and pushed terror against royalists. As Marat and Robespierre rose, Danton’s moderation faded, he clashed with rivals, and ultimately faced the revolutionary tribunal that condemned him to death.
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G. L. Kilmer
Anton
Cordeliers’ Club
Paris
Marat
Cordelliers
Danton
National Assembly
Cordeliers
Tuileries
Mirabeau
Austria
Prussia
Verdun
Agust
Committee of Safety
Robespierre
Longeur
Champ de Mars
Roland
Tie
Clemt
Jacobins
Twelve Dangerou
Ile
Marats
Stetloc
France
Seine
de Cors
Cains
Elephant tricks and half crowns in a London show
A cockney observer questions an elephant’s tricks while the keeper explains the animal has been trained to place money in a high box. The elephant accepts a half crown and deposits it, then the keeper shifts focus to monkeys and hyenas. London Tit-Bits notes the scene.
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London
Monster Octopus Drags Boat Threatens Ship Near Malay Peninsula
A huge octopus drifted ashore on the Malay peninsula after a fight with another monster. It carried 12 to 17 foot arms and weighed about 550 pounds, strong enough to drag a two ton fishing boat beneath the surface.
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Malay Peninsula
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