The Brahmins Gift Chapter L Horace Sparkinson
A bachelor Horace Sparkinson recounts his fortune and loves lost in Dereminster. After a hunting accident he learns a Brahmin secret to detach from his body, then inhabits Percival Daubeny’s handsome form and flees with money and gear to seize a fresh life in London.
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Dereminster
Horace Sparkinsop
Horace Sparkinson
Amite
London
Matthew Chidley
Liverpool
Blairfield
Sparky
Shipton
Ida Meredith
Nice
Ida
Ralph Timbrell
Fernside
Mr. Sparkinson
India
No-Man’s Land
Feroside
Millinghan
England
Dennis
Percival Daubeny
Millingham Town Hospital
Faust
Daubeny
A Desperate Gambit in a Dereminster Tale
In Dereminster I, Evan Onslow plots revenge on Ida Menteith while courting her fortune. After a staged ascent to society, he burglars his uncle, flees, and is shocked by the uncle’s death. A later theft and police probe reveal a cat's eye ring tied to the crime, forcing a perilous reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Sperkinson
George
Fernside
London
Dereminster
Briarfield
Ids
Otaea
The Briarfield Robbery and the Double Life Bargain
A prisoner narrator recounts a murder and robbery charge, an alibi miracle, and a twist of identity involving Evan Onslow and Percival Daubeny. After a life of exile inside cells and a rare escape, the tale ends with the narrator fading into a garret dwelling Ephraim Saggers, a clothes dealer, as debts of the past crowd in.
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Briarfield
Mane
Evan Onslow
Queson
Percival Daubeny
Daubeny
Percival Danbeny
Millingham
Whitom
Horace Sparkinson
Ephraim Saggers
Minories
N. B
Ephriam Saggers
Snails and Exotic Delicacies Fashion London Markets
Snails, imported from France, fuel a lively London market as a luxury item priced at 4 shillings and sixpence a tin. Frogs hind legs and crayfish tails appear as popular epicurean novelties. Piccadilly bachelors seek potted larka in aspic. Dr D Jaynes Tonic Vermifuge is touted to restore appetite and vigor for children.
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England
France
Chambers
Piccadilly
D. Jayne
The Czar's Cruelty Exposed in Russian Jewish Plight
Letters from Russian Israelites in Philadelphia reveal systematic oppression by czarist officials. Jews face denied civil rights, forced seat penalties, property confiscation, and expulsion from frontier towns. Reports describe streetcar biases, law-used harassment, and officers wielding punitive protocols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Jewish Exclusional Policy Pressures Jewish Students
The notice describes seven families expelled from a small area and details how a Russian education rule reduces admission to higher institutes for Jews. It cites a drop to near zero for Jewish graduates entering medicine or engineering, recalls M Rabbinowich’s despair, and notes the medical congress boycotted St. Petersburg. It also notes that Jewish scientists face oppression and America seeks to resettle them via a mass meeting planned by the Jewish Alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Rabbinowich
Russia
St. Petersburg
America
Jewish Alliance
Iith
May Laws Exile Jews Across Russian Lands
A London Times report outlines the May Laws targeting Jews in Russia and Russian Poland. It describes forced residency in towns, land ownership bans, expulsion from villages, and loss of mining, education, and professional access. The piece warns of mass homelessness and seeks to condemn the policy as aiming at extermination of about four million Jews.
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Daubeny
London
London Times
Russia
Russian
Poland
Lubernia
Liga
Libau
Rostoff
Nicholas
Father of Four Sons Bets to Warn His Boys
A New York Sun account from Texarkana depots describes a benevolent man, Mr Jones of St Louis, who, to illustrate risk to his four sons, bets small sums in a gambling game with a stranger. He loses a $20 bill as a demonstration, then vanishes, leaving the narrator to reflect on the ruse and the earth swallowing his deceit.
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Harris
Mohilieff
America
Polyakoff
Russia
New York Sun
Texarkana
Buffalo
Mr. Jones
St. Louis
Jones
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Ida Menteith
Paris
Miss Menteith
St Fernside
Mr. Timbrell
Dean
Pal Mall
Czar
Kischenoff
Inquirer
M. I. Blitastein
Fourth
Lombard Streets
Chester
Delaware
Montgomery
Bucks
Sussman
Isaac Sussman
Raden
Pes Me Ebrew Co
Novorossusky
California
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville, KY
Wolff Sagme Blacking
Anal Ao
Chinawwaare Wits Grain
Sram Dasys
Ikon
FeAeve Wolff & Randolph
Philadelphis
Suldrrsaso
J. T. Slagle
Callery Junction
Butler Co
Slagio
Laiso
Ateae
Sron
J. A. Burgoon
Ohio Street
Allegheny City
Suliltrs
Martin Gi”Et & CO
Baltimore
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