Night Attack on the Amazon Telegraph Cable Mission
A cable team on the Amazon near Manaos endures a violent night storm and a deadly encounter with a large water-boa as they retreat to shore. Lieutenant Coutinho and the narrator survive after a fatal strike and a dawn discovery of a slain sucuriaba blocking their montania.
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Amazon
Manaos
Montania
Mauhes
Scacee
Para
Amazonas
Rio Negro
Wallace and Bates
Continents
Aticor
Sorus
Samuel
Chance
Montaria
Coutinho
Old Samuel
Countinho
Owe
Sucuriaba
Settlement with Sheriff Hughes Details Bonded Indebtedness
The document notes a settlement with Sheriff John K. Hughes showing a balance due of 259.31 and 1 579.50 total, plus 156.25. Orange county has two bonds of 1 000 each issued July 1, 1899, maturing July 1, 1905 and July 1, 1906, with interest paid through July 1, 1904. John Laws, Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners.
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Orange County
John Laws
Board of County Commissioer
Oldest Paterson House Demolished for Church Site
A pre revolution frame and stone dwelling dating to the 1600s in Paterson New Jersey was razed to clear space for Trinity Methodist Episcopal church. The Van Winkle family built the stone section and the frame was added later. it served as the Black Horse tavern for travelers to New York until the late 18th century.
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Paterson
N. J
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Simonon van Winkle
Black Horse Tavern
Totowa
New York
van Winkle
Rector Leighton Parks Recalled Home by Homesick Note
The Rev Leighton Parks newly serving at St Bartholomew s in New York from Emmanuel in Boston wrote to a Boston boy asking for a cure for homesickness. The reply came quickly: Yes Come Home. Harper s Weekly notes Parks parlays this charming exchange.
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Leighton Parks
St. Bartholomew’s Church
New York
Emmanuel Church
Boston
Harper's Weekly
The Knowledge of God Sermon by Rev Livingston L Taylor
Strong sermon argues religion is an affair of the soul not dogmatic sectarianism. Taylor urges a God who survives nature and trial, stresses personal knowledge of God through love and humility, and warns against narrow denominationalism hindering faith.
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Livingston L. Taylor
Brooxton
N. Y
the Tor
Taylor
Jeremiah
Job
Jesus Christ
Paul
Ferry
Fer
Pacarniets
Nature
God
Emmanuel
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jo Ly
Galilee
John
Luke
Jesus
Father
Heaven
Earth
Babes
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Ers
Lavery Stables
Bank Stoce Oe
Slomis Os
Lede
Lens
Telephone and Corporation
Pennsylvania
Ben Record
Ireland
Elf
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