Frontier trader Hay worries after horses stolen at post
Major Webb and officers confront a mystery at the post as Hay reports two horses gone and suspecting a inside job. Nanette Flower and Capt Tracy appear amid tension while stables, cash, and a trader’s safe are brought into focus in a tense scene at the quartermaster’s quarters.
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Hobart
Webb
Hay
Quartermaster’s
Ray
Sandy
Mrs. Ray
Stabber
Daddy
Frayne
Laramie
Sandy Ray
Lame Wolf
Omaha
Corporal Ray
Martial
Ind
Big Horn
Capt. Chew
Infantry
Havenne
Nanette Flower
Mr. Way
T Hat Field
Wilkins
Huy
Treasury
Racy
Miss Flower
Ray's Gallant Ride and Inspecting Move Northward
Ray leads a troop at dawn with Field reassigned to rear. He inspects horses and gear by lantern light, praises readiness, and plans a forward push with Sergeant Scott and two flank contingents. Ray seeks Field's confidence amid romantic tension with Nannette Flower and Marion’s wary view.
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Ray
Clayton
Field
Scott
Webb
Nanette Flower Ray
Marion
Maetron
Miss Flower
Miss Powe
Turnip kraut catches Texas fancy in fall harvests
Texas readers learn of turnip kraut a dish unfamiliar to many in the state. Reports from Hullettsville and Lavaca county indicate German farmers and local families make it yearly. Turnips are sliced with cabbage or potato cutters and salted with vinegar, yielding a heavier, firmer white kraut distinct from ordinary varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Galveston News
Hallettsville Herald
Herald
la Grange Journal
Hullettsville
Lavaca County
Department of Knowledge
Volcano Marshall’s Transport Request Echoed by General Chaffee
A Texas man nicknamed Volcano Marshall, stranded in Manila, sought transport home from Gen. Chaffee. The exchange over who qualifies for transport highlighted military and civil service limits. Marshall pressed the case but the general held to orders.
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Chaffee
Philippines
New York
Wimes
Texas
Marshall
Manila
United States Service
Wireless Press Born on Avalon Island in 1909
The Wireless, the world’s first daily wireless news sheet, began from Avalon on Santa Catalina Island on March 25. Promoted as epoch making for isolated communities, the three column folio delivers Avalon local news and a synopsis of Los Angeles Times world news minutes before mainland steamship arrivals.
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Wireless
Telegraph
Avalon
Santa Catalin Island
Scientific American
Los Angeles
Decalogue of Donts and Odd Notices
A quirky collection lists avoidances for appearance and health from mirror care to sun exposure. It notes dangerous social themes about cosmetics and daily habits, then reports Alsace Lorraine conscripts declared outlaws with all property reverting to the crown. A Philadelphia man is described as waking people at odd hours as an arousing business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alsace- Lorraine
Crown
Philadelphia
The Ship's Steward A Sailor's Routine And Pay
A steward combines waiter and chambermaid duties aboard and starts preparation well before breakfast. From serving meals to cleaning rooms and attending passengers, the role blends dining room work with stateroom upkeep. Pay is low and tips are essential, with some stewards earning up to £40 in tips over six weeks.
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Dickey
Leslie
Missing fraction of time stirs grand pursuit abroad
English and French astronomers race to locate a one sixteenth of a second discrepancy between Greenwich and Paris time. A costly Paris observatory, new instruments, and a large team work to resolve the missing fraction. The outcome could redraw national boundaries if time offsets shift longitude calculations.
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England
France
London
Greenwich
Paris
Powers of the President in Century essay
Henry Loomis Nelson argues that the public overestimates presidential power. He notes power appears only during exceptional wartime moments when checks collapse. He states framers planned a weaker president and Congress to hold the real authority.
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Europe
Henry Loomis Nelson
Congress
Intelligence of Fishes and Their Flight Pattern
The New York Sun recounts how menhaden school with synchronized spacing, avoiding contact when calm, yet massing defensively when frightened. The piece likens fish intelligence to birds, noting each fish has room to maneuver while appearing as a single blanket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Onion flavor in eggs linked to hen diet in NC study
North Carolina experiment stations fed hens chopped wild onion tops and bulbs, creating eggs with such strong onion flavor that they were inedible, a condition persisting as long as the onion ration continued.
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North Carolina
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Charles King
Dan
Harney
Rawlins
Sweetwater
California
Whitman
Platte
Tracy
A. H. Thurnes
Mgr
Wills Creek Coal Co
Buffalo
Foley
W. Carter
Ashboro
N.C
Henry M. Langerak
Lone Star State
Americam
Philipyta
Chafee
Land Wireless Newspaper
Pacific Coast
Critish
Flaberman
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