The Wreck of the Mascot by Frederic Tan Rensselaen Dey
Craddock and Thorgensen survive the Batavia plague aboard the Mascot, drift for weeks, endure a cyclone, and strand on a basalt mountain island. They discover an obsidian Eden with a buried English inscription by Jonny Simonds dating to 1748, uncover gold and gems, repair a stone house, and escape three years later in a sailboat laden with treasure, swearing a lifelong oath.
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Batavia
Java
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Samoa
Buenos Ayres
Naenen
Scorld
Otler
Kraaliund
Lattor
Leemis
Tyre
Thorgensen
Craddock
Sumatra
Torres Strait
Coral Sea
New Hebrides
Santa Cruz
Aurel
Australia
Tvas
Crad
Normegina
Catavia
Ralph
Schuylkill
Yhorgensep
Tomor
Tie
Ile
South Sea
Tonga Islands
Kaafn
Dand Bird
Verne
Aperen
Wedeel
Tluni
T. J'n Simonds
London
Thin Island
Jonny Stuoxoa
Jobo Simonds
Jobo Simounds
John Simonds
Empire Island
Agreement on Island No Return Promises
In an improvised pledge the two mariners vow not to return to their island. Four months later they reach San Francisco safe and sound with their fortunes intact.
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San Francisco
A Man With a Tiny Gun Catches Eyebrows on a Fulton Ferry Run
A man with a fish pole boards a streetcar at Fulton ferry and, amid questions about his catch, reveals a small gun in his vest. Passengers express disdain as he fails to seize a better chance, per the Brooklyn Citizen account. Also in New York Herald notes on quirky church collections across the city, from brass pans to derby hats and tambourines in Salvation Army barracks.
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Fulton Ferry
New York
Salvation Army
New York Herald
The Lady's Slipper Bloom Also A Bee's Dining Hall
The lady's slipper or moccasin flower grows in deep woods with mosses and ferns. It tempts pickers, making it rarer. Bees find it a rich banquet hall with yellow pollen, entering through two rows of dark spots above the entrance. Blooms begin in early June, after the pink sister flower.
The Heart and Pumping Engine of Circulation
The mechanism of circulation and respiration as well as secretion is explained. The heart acts as a pumping engine pushing blood through capillary tubes to nourish tissues. Waste products are carried away by veins back to the heart. Two additional circulatory systems involve the liver and kidneys.
The Weather Confession From a Friends Exchange
An elderly friend speaks frankly about vacillating moods from taking weather forecasts too seriously. The exchange centers on how constantly changing predictions affected decisions and mental state.
Court of Inquiry and Court Martial Tales of War Leaders
G L Kilmer surveys famous military inquiries from Barron to Porter, Hull, Lee, Ney, Bazaine, Grant and Bragg. The piece traces how courts of inquiry or court martials examined cowardice, disobedience, and strategic decisions across the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras through the Civil War era, and notes outcomes and enduring controversies.
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Copsright
G. L. Kilmer
James Barron
United States Navy
Decatur
Naval Board
Barron
State Department
Chesapeake
William Hull
Canada
Detroit
Hull
North
Charles Lee
Washington
Henry Laurens
Napoleon
Marshal Ney
Ney
Waterloo
Marshal Bazaine
Metz
Marshal MacMahon
France
United States Congress
Grant
McClellan
Cross
Sherman
Donelson
J. Smith
Shiloh
Columbia
Richmond
A Candid Announcement by Plodding Pete and Meandering Mike
In a witty exchange cited by the Washington Star Pete laments the world owes 19 living. Mike replies that to collect it they must convince the world they are alive, but he calls this too much trouble.
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Mike
Pete
Living
Washington Star
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By Frederic Tan Rensselaen Dey
Cies
Loomis
Rocky Reef
Schodmuer Jonah
Hader
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Bome
Captain Barron
General Porter
Braxton Brage
Kentucky
Don
Carlos Buell
Bragg
Saat A Kat
Schley
Buell
Munfordville
Benn Pitman
Parson Brownlow
Andy Johnson
Ohio
Buena Vista
Jeff Davis
Murfreesboro
G. K. Warren
Fitz John Porter
Warren
Five Forks
Sheridan
Porter
Pope
Winfield Scott Sceley
U. S.5
Hayes
United States
Hayes Board of Officers
Gevorce L. Kivu
Clara
Fou
New York World
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