Mystery mission and peril on San Francisco docks
Gilespies and Dudley become entangled in a secret assignment tied to Henry Wilton. The plot thickens aboard a waterfront gambling den as disguises, coded messages, threats, and a violent struggle push Dudley toward a perilous escape and an unknown fate in the city.
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Gilespies
San Francisco
Onvy Wilton
Dudley
Whiton
Wilton
Giles
Henry
Henry Wilton
Knapp
Desperate Rescue During Kiowa Indian Attack on Plains
An illustrated excerpt recalls Amos Chapman’s heroism as a dispatch rider for Gen. Miles on McClellan Creek. Surrounded by Kiowa and Comanche warriors, Chapman vaults the buffalo wallow to rescue a comrade, nearly mortally wounded, and continues to shield the group despite a severed leg.
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Amos Chapman
Plains
Randall Parrish
Great Plains
Miles
McClellan Creek
Camp Supply
Indian Territory
Washita River
Smith
Noble birth claims in Konitz parish
The article notes that Prussian Poland’s noble families threaten the common people with their numbers. The village priest of Konitz answered a government circular by declaring every one of the 40 families in his congregation was of noble birth.
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Prussian
Poland
Konitz
Miss Annie Hall Defends Own Case in Supreme Court
Miss Annie Hall of Cincinnati daughter of an Arctic explorer recently defended her own lawsuit before the Supreme Court and lost the case. The opposing counsel presented the stronger argument, and the court upheld his side.
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Annie Hall
Cincinnati
Dayghter
Supreme Court
Rand Responds in Defense of First Civil War Volunteer Claim
Dr Charles F P Rand defends his assertion of being the earliest Civil War volunteer from Batavia New York after a statement by J T Ford in the Sunday Star. He details muster dates May 1 to May 18 1861 and notes his unit joined the Twelfth New York Volunteers as Company K on May 18 after initial militia service.
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Dicky
Mother Borton
Henry Wilton
Batavia
N. Y
Lincoln
Charles FP. Rand
J. T. Ford
Sunday Star
Ford
National Rifles
District of Columbia
Dr. Rand
J.T. Ford
Elmira
Goes
Twelfth New York Volunteers
Syracuse
Sumter
Army cats aboard ships and their costly upkeep spark debate
The article notes Maj. Gen. Merritt enlisted three cats from San Francisco for Manila duty and claims U S depots spend thousands yearly on cat maintenance. It cites cats in stores guarding supplies, preventing rodent damage, and compares shipboard use, recounting a ship stoppage caused by a rat.
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Merritt
San Francisco
Manila
Jessie Street
United States
United States Depot Commissaries
Antwerp
New York
Southwark
Japanese Floral Style and East Asian Etiquette
The piece notes a fashion for Japanese style in everything from flowers to serving rice cakes and tea. It suggests simple orient arrangements may curb extravagant floral displays and mentions tea, preserved ginger, and other Japanese preferences alongside a witty Retort Apropos.
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Orient
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Gorton’ 'S
Richmond
Borton’s
Torton
Jackson Street
Darby Meeker
Meeker
Busin
Mr. Meeker
Mother Barton
Seyperl
Japan
Gen. Miles
Chapman
Amos
Dixon
Italy
Prophet
Antonio Mangano
Br. Rand
the Army
Tabby
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