Return of the Soldier at Eton Sparks Old Love anew
Colonel Wilfrid Hope revisits Eton with his nephews and encounters a grown Ethel Stuart who resembles his youth. The chance meeting rekindles past friendships, cures old wounds, and sparks a potential second chance at love after years apart.
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Eton
Raeburn
Ethel Stuart
Ethel
Hope
Henry Raeburn
India
Edith Stuart
Wilfrid
Eton Chapel
King’s College
Cambridge
Pamce
Italy
Colonel Hope
Wilfrid Hope
Lily
Sir Henry Raeburn
Henry
Wome
Boston
Orient Charity Through Ancient Social Duties
The text notes a long standing practice of organized charity in China spanning over two millennia. It also references a similar ancient system among the Egyptians dating to about 2550 B.C. indicating early forms of structured welfare and communal aid across civilizations.
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China
Tis
B.C
Famine in Dawson City Describes Looting and Starvation
A letter from a mining engineer reports Dawson City in the Klondike as a frozen, lawless camp with no food. Prices are ruinous, loafers accuse the police of inability to arrest due to hunger, and supplies are scarce with widespread theft and potential bloodshed.
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James R. Keene
Wall Street
Dawson City
Northwest Territory
New York
Klondike
Alaska Commercial Company
North American Transportation and Trading Company
Dawson
The Art of Mast Making A Big Item of Expense for Yachtsmen
The mast and spar trade for yachts has surged in five years with more than a dozen firms shifting from supply to catering for pleasure craft along the coast. Prices, though high, reflect timber sourcing from the Pacific and Maine yards, built up masts, and ironbanded sticks. Built up masts use a central spindle with bolted slabs, or multi piece round timbers, while deep water ships favor iron masts. A Maine coast example shows mast replacement due to decay and a switch to iron in English ports.
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Oregon
Pacific
Sparmakers
Maine
South Street
New York
Erie Basin
New York Sun
Great Salt Lake May Become Fresh Inland Sea
The Great Salt Lake is two feet lower than seen before in Utah history and may be turning into an inland sea of fresh water. Underground springs feed the lake, with changes over decades altering salinity and depth. The basin spans about 70 by 50 miles, averaging 12 to 20 feet deep, with some areas once unreachable now detectable. Philadelphia Times reports the shifting subterranean brine and seasonal dilution from mountain snowmelt.
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Utah
Great Salt Lake
Dasin
Salt Lake
Bear
Weber
Jordan
Philadelphia Times
Giant Redwoods of California Reach Staggering Sizes
Read of giant redwood groves in California with trees from 275 to 335 feet tall and diameters up to 45 feet. Main Grove spans two miles square housing 427 giants. Calaveras largest, The Keystone State, 325 feet high with 45 foot girth. Mariposa’s Grizzly Giant exceeds 64 feet in girth. Fresno Grove hosts about 600 trees, largest 51 feet in girth.
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California
Main Grove
Calaveras Grove
Keystone State
Mariposa Grove
Fish Adorned in Seaweed Garments in Sargasso Sea
The ocean hosts several self clothing fish led by the antennarius a small species found in the Sargasso Sea. It clothes itself with seaweed using sticky gelatinous threads and then secures the garments with its fins.
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Sargasso Sea
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Itv
Jim
Afghanistan
Chiat
Colonel Slope
Aremy
All School
Henry Rune
Pton
Reeborn
Raeheres
Raeborn
Nes At
Orient Charity
Spain
Cuba
Senor
A. B. de Guerville
Illustrated American
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