Cape of Storms and High Hat Man on a Sleeper Train
An 1890s style long poem opening with the Cape of Storms imagery and a prose tale of a sleeper car on the Denver route where a trio of men endures a tense card game. A mysterious passenger from High Hat robs the others at gunpoint then escapes with the loot, leaving a note: The flour man has gone with the dough. The piece closes with humorous railroad anecdotes from the era.
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Grand Junction
Denver
Plains
Donyer & Wyoming
Highlat
la Junta
St. Paul
Philadelphia
High Hat
Munsey
Courage at the Front: Veterans Prepare for Desperate Assault
General Horace Porter notes a notable act of courage among veterans at the extreme front. Soldiers calmly write their names and home addresses on slips to place on their coats so their bodies may be identified by families if they fall in the dawn assault.
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Horace Porter
Queensland Land Grants Attract British Settlers
The Westminster Gazette notes Queensland offers long term land leases at low rents to attract settlers. Ordinary land for twenty years at three pence per acre and scrub land up to ten thousand acres for thirty years at under a penny per acre. Western Australia is growing rapidly, adding 75 people weekly, outpacing Treasurer forecasts.
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Queensland
Western Australia
Ewes
Westminster Gazette
I Am Debtor to the Greeks The World’s Debt Speech
A sermon argues that Western civilization owes Greece for language scripture and culture. It extols Greek contributions in literature architecture sculpture medicine and philosophy and urges Christian readers to repay the debt through action and witness to Greece’s legacy.
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Paul
Europe
Corinth
Gieat
Jerusalem
Chrysostom
Apostle
Hellas
Larg
New York
Cylons
Eta
Taygetus
Tymphrestus
Parnassus
Jameso
Bethlehem
Golgotha
Olivet
Jordan Banks
Galilean
Pauline
Patmos
Christ
Heaven
Homer
Sophocles
Plato
Socrates
Lycurgus
Demosthenes
Greece
Aristophanes
Orpheus
Atlas
Daniel Webster
Athens
Martin Luther
John Kuoz
William Penn
Thomas Chalmers
Wellington
Lafayette
Acropolis
Phidias
Clearchus
Doutas
Hippocrates
Marathon
Miltiades
Callimachus
Hippias
Greecs
Mistisles
Washington
Robert Burns
Grecks
Leonidas
Aristides
Themistocles
Alliatic
Senate
Mars’ Hill
Dionysius
God the Father
God the
Bon
Holy Ghost
Notable Figures Shine During Birthday and State Affairs
Prominent individuals mark birthdays and public roles in the era, including a New York financier’s family ties to hospitals and education. The set notes Baroness de Hirsch’s philanthropy, British diplomacy shifts, and U S Senate heightens with Fairbanks as the new Indiana senator. Also mentions Thomas Bradley, a 26-year-old New York educator and independent candidate who won a district seat.
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Sirona
New York City
Walker
United States Navy
Tinke
Ife
John S.ookefeller
Weepington
Maryland
Tve
Devgate
Oe Tribune
Ornor
Minnesta
State
Institution
New Hampshire
Baroness de Hirsch
Lorton
United States
Queen Victoria
Bir
Wilson
Princeton
N. J
Mra Patton
Mme. Towaal
Lonion Museum
Curimito
Nansen
Jackson
Herbert Spencer
Cameriage
Burians University
United States Senate
Fairbanks
Indiana
Voorhees
Brea
Fairbacks
Mackinnelly
Priet
Americas
Joan Jacob Astor
West
House of Reprecatives
Thomas J. Bradley
Tim” Canpell
Nineth
New York
Tammany Lugate
Wheeling
Mr. Bradley
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Oearge
Veesel
Sea of
Liscio T. Green
Philadelphia Ledger
Man
Casino
Dom Pedro
Colfax
Lake Shore Flyer
Cleveland
Chicago
Ray
Chicago Tribune
Rev. Talmage
Wibhoot Ramone
Nes Eckb. S
Dryasdust
British Columbia
Frank Conson
Jem Smith
Reesie
Jim Homeworth
Jim
Jim Hemsworth
Hove
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