Passion and Intrigue in Sidi Bel Abbes Drama
In Sidi bel Abbes Capt Desire Arnaud faces a tangle of passion and betrayal. Sylvia Ommney loves Arnaud while Farquhar, entangled with Gabrielle Smith, seeks revenge and control through a stolen confession. Farquhar confronts Arnaud in a seedy cafe as the Foreign Legion darkens around secrets and loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Ommney
Richard Farquhar
Arnand
The
Foreign Legion
Gabriella
Iarquhar
Arnaud
Sylvia
Farquhar
Richard Nameless
Mme
Colonel Destinn
Gabrielle
Corporal Goetz
Divorce Dilemmas in a Hidden Love Triangle
A reader asks how to respond when discovering a spouse is in love with a boss. The piece explores whether to stay and rebuild or leave and start over elsewhere, weighing trust, economics, and social consequences.
At the Villa Bernetto Sylvia Contemplates Fashion and Identity
In a scene at the Villa Bernetto's, Sylvia Arnaud and Miss Smith finalize appearances for an outing. Sylvia admires her own radiant femininity while Miss Smith, in a pearl gray dress, remains stern and uncompromising as they prepare to go.
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Miss Smith
Sylvia Arnaud
Sylvia
Look Out for the Arab Spy in the Jewel Plot
A cryptic warning hints at a mysterious Arab suspect connected to the Jewels and figures named Sylvia and Colonel Destiny. The text asks for a guess about the spy’s allegiance and anticipated actions, but provides no concrete details or outcomes.
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Jewels
Sylvia
Colonel Destiny
New England Angler Becomes Father Again
A New Englander famed for fish tales and his eight year old son welcomed a fifth child. The boy, curious about the newborn, asked to see him and quizzed his father. Then he pondered seriously and asked if the infant would make a first rate bait.
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Harper’s Magazine
Mistletoe Seen as Pest in Northwest Lumber Regions
The paper reports mistletoe is becoming a pest in Northwest lumber areas and the government forestry service is taking steps to combat it. Jill questions whether men must marry the girls they kiss in the humorous exchange.
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Bill
Government
Forestry Service
Jill
Metal Waste Figures Prompted 14 Tons of Silver Loss
Report notes coin minting wear rubs metal, estimating about 14 tons of silver wasted each year from coins rubbing together.
Catherine Stinson Makes Loop Flight at Sheepshead Bay
A 19 or 20 year old gypsy girl Catherine Stinson, weighing 104 pounds, looped the loop in her own biplane at Sheepshead Bay speedway. She hovered near the ground then dived head downward, looping the loop twice and landing safely after about ten minutes aloft. She says aviation is a woman's profession and hopes more girls learn to fly.
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Arnaud
Sylvia
Earth
Sidi-bel- Abbes
Sylvia Arnaud
Desire
Tonkin
England
Sidi-bel-Abbes
Cafe du Tonkin
Desire Arnaud
Phere
Chasseur d’Afrique
Mademoiselle Rachael
Monsieur
Monsieurs
New York
Sheepshead Bay Speedway
New York City
Catherine Stinson
Miss Stinson
Jackson
Miss
Ancient Bark Recalls Romantic Days in Sea History
Bridgeport notes a contrast between the Morning Star, a half century whaler from New Bedford, and the L-5 under construction, a modern man made submarine. The piece traces the Morning Star’s long voyages, its future repurposing, and its preserved fittings as it nears overhaul while the L-5 signals new seamanship.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
New Bedford
New England
Morning Star
New Bedford Harbor
Benedict plans bird sanctuary on 100 acre Greenwich estate
Commodore HE C Benedict aged eighty two aims to transform his large Greenwich estate into a model bird sanctuary. He will remove English sparrows and crows drawn by available food, and install nesting boxes for birds from house wrens upward.
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Greenwich
Conn
Commodore HE. C. Benedict
Bird World
Greenwich Estate to Harbor Large Wood Duck Habitat
Commodore Benedict hosts a major bird conservation project on his estate with a large freshwater lake and planted food to attract wood ducks. Audubon collaborators support creating nesting pairs and using gardens to deter insect enemies. The Greenwich Press regularly features bird conservation notes, a rare weekly focus.
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Greenwich
Commodore Benedict
Greenwich (Conn.) Press
United States
War on lazy husbands in Martinsville charity drive
The Associated Charities executive committee prosecutes lazy husbands. John Gourley was fined 10 dollars and sentenced to 30 days at the penal farm under the lazy husband law. Charles Kenworthy pledged to seek work and left town. James Padgett promised to leave town if allowed to stay. The charity offers aid to needy families but will not encourage sponging husbands.
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Martinsville
Ind
Associated Charities
John Gourley
Charles Kenworthy
Whitaker
James Padgett
Charity Association
Crown Prince Chauffeur Ride Reveals Imperial Meeting
A wartime diary fragment recounts a German artilleryman encountering the Crown Prince on a western front patrol. He describes riding an automobile with the prince and a major, recognizing the chauffeur and learning the royal identity only after requesting to exit.
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Puburb
Cologne
H. 1 Walf
London Debates Over a Historic Tax on Matches
The piece recalls Robert Lowe’s 1871 proposal for a penny or halfpenny stamp tax on boxes of matches and fuses to raise funds. It notes initial parliamentary favor, widespread opposition from matchmakers, and that rare trial duty proofs were printed but never widely adopted.
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London
Robert Lowe
Lord Sherbrooke
America
Lowe
Westminster
Accurate time signals for Canal Zone ships to nautical mile precision
Chronometers in Cristobal and Balboa offices are corrected daily to match the US Naval Observatory time. Washington sends standard time to Key West, then via wireless and telegraph to the Darien station and Canal Zone offices. Darien’s weak signal introduces about two tenths of a second error. a future transmitting clock will reduce this. Exact time aids navigators whose longitude observations lose a quarter mile per second of time.
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Cristobal
Balboa
Canal Zone
United States Naval Observatory
Washington
Key West
Darien
Ancon
Canal
Japanese Sale of Philippine Sugar Estate Completed
A Japanese syndicate led by Kobe Chronicle buyer Mr. K Hada has completed the purchase of a Dominican order sugar estate in Laguna Philippines. On February 7 the transfer occurred at midnight and the next day department heads were dismissed and replaced by Japanese staff.
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Philippines
Kobe Chronicle
Dominican Order of Friars
Laguna
Manila
North China Daily News
K. Hada
Scotch Co-operative Stores Progress in East Scotland War Year
Wholesale and retail co operative societies in the East of Scotland report marked progress during the war. The Scottish Co operative Wholesale Society's 1915 sales reached 56,812,450 with a 9,720,620 rise from the previous year and membership increased by 2,947. The Dunfermline Co operative Society paid a dividend of 81 cents per pound in 1915, with the majority of members drawn from the working class.
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Scotch Co-operative
Scotland
Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society
Dunfermline Co-operative Society
Astor Family Origins and Astoria’s Founding
The Astor family traces to John Jacob Astor born in Waldorf Germany in 1763 who arrived in New York in 1783. He founded Astoria in Oregon in 1811 about 100 miles west of Portland on the river, with the name deriving from his own lineage.
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Astor
John Jacob Astor
Waldorf
Heidelberg
Germany
New York
Astoria
Oregon Track
Portland
Day of Reckoning Comes A Bluff Works Sometimes
Article notes a bluff can work until it targets a bank balance highlighting a cautious approach to financial risk and personal strategy.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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Captain Arnaud
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Goetz
de Ato
Valenting
Villa Bernetto
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Espia
Mexico
Dartmouth Mass
Connecticut
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