Christmas Bumper on Trail Brings Prodigal Stranger Westondale
In a Yukon camp, Malemute Kid hosts a Christmas punch gathering that features Jack Westondale, a driven lone traveler chasing a Barked sled and a missing team. The scene blends camaraderie with hints of danger as Westondale prepares for a grueling 200 mile run toward Five Fingers.
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Belden
Dawson
States
Sal
Malemute Kid
Jove
Prince
Jack Westondale
Sitka Charley
Pelly
Thirty Mile
le Barge
The Malemute Kid Defends A Trail Man In Frost Night
In a tense Yukon scene the Malemute Kid urges mercy for a trail partner blamed for a theft. The mounted police pursue a cold night pursuit as dogs falter and drivers grow hostile. The Kid elevates a moral argument to spare the team. Confusion erupts among all as bets settle on the right path.
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Bettles
Henry Ward Beecher
Prince
Sam
New World
Savoy
Meyers
Alsace
Lorraine
Malemute Kid
Constantine
Babette
Gar
Northland
Jack Westendale
Joe Castrell
Dominion
Circle City
Castrell
McFarland’s
Jack
Moods of Negro Folk Songs and Their Religious Veil
A New Republic writer notes that enslaved Africans turned to Protestant religion to channel their longing and express a wide emotional range. Spirituals, camp meeting songs, ballad tales, and hymns reveal dances, laments, joys, and grand choral forms under a religious shield.
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New Republic
Hat mystery in Birmingham row as couple quarrels
In a Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt, Mr Jagsby demands the missing hat while Mrs Jagsby coldly notes he did not have it upon returning home. The brief rustic dialogue centers on a vanished hat and the couple's dispute.
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Mr. Jagsby
Mrs. Jagsby
Birmingham Age-Herald
Dickens and Americans on a London tour in 1843
A note recalls Doctor Howe and Horace Mann touring London with Charles Dickens during a wedding trip. Dickens invites the Americans to dinner and offers to guide them through dark London locales, reflecting his playful spirit and literary fame. The manuscript dated June 9 1843 shows Dickens orchestrating a mysterious coach episode at St Giles Church.
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Doctor Howe
Europe
Horace Mann
Mary Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Laura Bridgman
England
Dickens
London
Mary E. Perman
St. Nicholas
Howe
St. Giles’ Church
Browning Praised as Premier Victorian Talker in Guardian
The Manchester Guardian hails Robert Browning as the era’s best talker among Victorian literary men. It notes his vigorous, inexhaustible gossip alongside American James Russell Lowell, highlighting his worldly breadth for a poet.
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Browning
Manchester
England
Guardian
James Russell Lowell
Humble Work Resumes in New York Fire Wood Trade
Across New York the bimi tradesman reappears as building activity rises. Once a common sight before the war, BIMI workers gather and split cast off timber into bundles sold as kindling. A 10 cent price in the past has risen to 20 cents after the war, boosting incomes for this humble profession.
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New York
Heat in Earth's Interior Prompts Theories Review
Dr. C. E. Van Orstrand of the United States Geological Survey reports inconclusive temperature data from 107 deep wells. He finds the increase in subterranean heat slows slightly beyond one mile, challenging estimates of center heat as high as 180000 degrees and noting the law governing heat distribution remains unknown. Further deep-well investigations are needed.
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C. E. van Orstrand
United States Geological Survey
Doctor van Orstrand
Homesick Elephant Refuses to Work at London Zoo
An elephant at the London zoological garden boycotted rides after new steps were added and even a return to old steps failed. A mahout from India arrived and coaxed her with a rope harness, enabling her to resume her acts. The elephant had been a gift from the maharajah of Cooch Behar.
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London Zoological Garden
India
Cooch Behar
Memorial Garden For Lafayette Escadrille Aches Verdun
France to honor 63 American Lafayette Escadrille fliers from World War I with a memorial garden near Verdun. Each air service member will have a dedicated space whether interred in France or his name inscribed on an honor roll. Designer M Alexandre Marcel, chief French government architect, leads the unique plan.
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France
Fortress of
Verdun
M. Alexandre Marcel
Britain Tries Protection As War Baby Legislation Emerges
A Canadian official calls the British safeguarding of industries act a war baby while a British MP calls it a foundling. The board of trade may impose duties of 331 3 percent on imports to protect British industries, now extended to fabric gloves, glassware, lighting glassware, and aluminum and enameled cooking utensils.
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British Board of Trade
Corn More Valuable Than Currency in Transcaucasia
Boxes of American grits are passing as currency in Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan and the Russia of the Caucasus. Laborers there won 120 000 workers on road building farming and sanitation for two and a half pounds of grits a week. The grits are said to be worth more than a basket of rubles.
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Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Russia
Caucasus
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