A DEMOCRATIC KING OF GREECE IN ATHENS
In Athens I interviewed King Georgios I of Greece at the royal palace. He speaks several languages, supports modern Greek progress, and maintains a simple, democratic court life with the Queen and seven children. The Crown Prince Konstantinos, aged 18, prepares for a October wedding to Sophie of Germany.
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Thens
Greece
Athens
Walker Fearn
Andro
Corinth
Germany
Berlin
Sophie
King George
Europe
Army
Andreas
Maria
Alexandra
Prince George
Konstantinos
Ai Athens
Sion
Ady
Sparta
Prince of Wales
England
St. Petersburg
Great Britain
France
Ruvia
Tatoi
Corfu
Paris
Louvre
Man tests travel with a large bill and loses it
A Penobscot County youth uses a $50 bill for all travel expenses from Northport to a tug and a sailboat cruise. Each time he pays with it, changers reveal the note is not spent. After a costly change spree with ship captains, he finally admits he has the exact change and cannot shed the note.
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Penobscot County
Northport
Emall
Homemade Japanese goods on a budget
A New York World interview features a woman with many original ideas who created a "Japanezy" portiere from bamboo poles and beads for about 60 cents. She describes a future bamboo bead curtain plan and prefers oil to varnish for easy upkeep.
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New York World
Pied
Wilkie Collins Anecdotes From The London Star
The London Star recounts Wilkie Collins anecdote about imagining character sources. He describes a house from Armadale that he had not seen and a fictional man who weighs his food in scales. A real visitor challenges him for caricaturing a habit he claims to carry by physician advice.
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London Star
Wilkie Collins
Diring
Armadie
Mr. Collings
Mr. Collins
A Guarded Opinion on a Washington Superior Officer
A Washington Post note reports a department clerk avoiding direct insult by saying he would charge two prices for five hair cuts if the superior officer visited his shop. The remark exposes the tension between diplomats in lower Washington positions and their immediate chiefs.
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Washington Department
Washington Post
Washington
Remarkable Elixir of Life Tour in London and Paris
BILL MYE in Europe recounts a visit to London and Paris with reflections on hospitality and social life. He notes the Shahlike justice tale, the House of Commons, figures such as Gladstone and O Connor, and encounters with Mrs. Alice Shaw the whistler. He comments on steamship captains and American ministers abroad, plus Dr Brown Sequard experiments on animals and a farcical account of a Paris elixir trial.
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King George
Europe
Docs
Harrison
Exec
Washington
New York
Athens
Delphi
Fearn
Myeense
Dr. Schliemann
Mr. Gladstone
T. P. O'Connor
London
Box
Tompkinsville
Staten Island
Robert Lincoln
Kate
France
England
Reid
Rathbone
Paris
Lincoln
John 0
New
Engers
Johnstown
Moses Williams
Chicago
Peter McSweeney
Moses
Pharaoh
Moses Williama
Brown-Sequard
Arc of Triumph
Dr. Brown-Sequard
Indian Woman Fights Bear to Save Family
A Oneida woman from Hampton Virginia killed a mother bear with an ax after defending a log blockade that blocked their road. She then saved three cubs and adopted the fourth cub, returning home to find her husband and others fearful, declaring they had no Indian blood.
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Hampton
Orolly
Lightning Rod Man Escapes Fire After Barn Blaze
An insurance man recalls testing lightning rods on a farmer’s barn in Nunkin township. A thunderstorm caused the barn to ignite in multiple spots. the crew fled to the house and did not return. The farmer reportedly warned them with a shotgun if they returned before counting to fifty.
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit
Nunkin Township
A Tracery of Hick Explosives by Brainard Gardner Smith
A newspaper note describes a derelict ship Albatross found drifting in the Southern Atlantic with two headless corpses aboard and a drowned journal. The editor implies a long-lost Liverpool to Australia voyage and sparks a narrator’s hunt for a fuller story, linking to a Benton murder trial in Vermont and a Prosecuting Attorney, George Judson.
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Viece
Australia
Cape of Good Hope
Atlantic
Liverpool
Gorshad
Vermont
Benton
I’rosecuting
George Judson
Journal at Judson's Seance Uncovers Hidden Albatross Tale
In a Mississippi town a skeptic becomes part of a seance led by Judson, a lawyer friend chasing proof of spirits. A damp journal found aboard the Albatross surfaces the message “Arthur” and March 7, revealing a restless pursuit of a mysterious tale and a powerfully persuasive will.
Journal Entry From a Passenger Aboard the Voyage
The narrator begins a maritime diary to satisfy his mother and record life aboard a long voyage. He plans to document thoughts and impressions as the ship departs Liverpool, five days at sea, and he notes a companion named Uoele John growing quiet.
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England
Liverpool
Uoele John
Sea Captain and Anger at Sea
A distressed narrator praises Captain Raymond Jacchs while detailing sea sickness and a longing for distant waters. He reflects on a broken relationship and vows to return to England to confront the woman who betrayed him, revealing jealousy, regret, and resolve aboard a voyage.
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Raymond Jacchs
Raymond
England
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Apollo
King George of
Aid-De-Camp
Reitorr
Denmark
Great
Britain
Russia
Mediterranean Sea
Queen of
George
King
Pat
Constantine
Alexander II
Hawthorne
Royal Family
Frost G. Carpenter
Kennebec Journal
Bill Mye
Little Moses
Savage Club
Nye
Orient
House of Commons
Gladstone
Bes Bag
Wilson Barrett
America
Alice Shaw
Whistler
Brainard Gardner Smith
Niiyi
Judson
Judeon
Judson’s
Arthu
Paea
Dovne
Mr. Hartley
the Journal
Mbontit
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