Courage of Captain Plum on Beaver Island Mystery
Captain Plum of the sloop Tyrphoon lands on Beaver Island, confronts Mormon forces led by Obadiah Price, and vows to deliver a package to President Franklin Pierce. Nat rescues Neil, Leans Marion the lilac girl, discovers sloop seizure, and faces Strang’s threat as battles erupt and fate looms for Nat and Neil.
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Nathaniel Plum
Typhoon
Beaver Island
Obadiah Price
Nat
Franklin Pierce
United States
Price
Neil
Arbur Croche
Plum
Marion
Winnsome
Strang
St. James
Captive escape plan in a Mormon stronghold continues
Nathaniel and Neil endure torture and moral strain as Winnsome and Marion’s fates loom. Jeekum betrays hope with gold as jailers circle, while Marion’s possible suicide to avoid capture haunts Neil and Nat. A looming rescue or doom promises to decide their final outcome.
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Neil
Jeekum
Winnsome
Nathaniel
Taim
Marion
Nat
Strang
Jeckum
Tye
Mysterious Stranger Digs Up 50 Year Old Gold Cache
Oakland Chronicle reports a stranger dug up a buried box of gold near an adobe north of town. The cache allegedly belonged to Glanville Swift, a 1860s miner from hills east of Chico, who once carried about 750000 in gold.
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Here
Oakland
San Francisco Chronicle
Glanville Swift
Chico
Fawcett
Land and Water Craft by Rear Admiral Howell Prototype
Rear Admiral John A. Howell, retired and inventor of the Howell torpedo, builds a 20 by 6 ft craft at Bath Marine Construction. Powered by a 10 hp engine at 1,000 rpm, with a 21 inch port pitch and stern trail wheel, it features four foot driving wheels forward. Expected speed seven mph on water and twelve on land, with trial planned early next month. The craft may be named the Crocodile Kennebec Journal.
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John A. Howell
Bath Marine Construction Company
Crocodile
Kennebec Journal
Change and Time in Marcus Aurelius Reflection
The excerpt contemplates perpetual flux of matter and events, noting how quickly nature shifts. It contrasts the vast gulfs of past and future with the fragility of human pride and sorrow, urging humility in the face of impermanence. Marcus Aurelius reflects on the instability surrounding fortunes and feelings.
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Marcus Aurelius
Those Transient Engagements
A humorous exchange set in New York where a brother and sister discuss engagements. The sister is described as very pretty and the brother notes engagements are more transient here than marriages. He plans to bring a young man to meet them, claiming the man is engaged to be married.
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New York
Canada Wins 1500 Dollar Trophy At National Exposition
Canada dominates the Columbus Ohio National Corn Exposition winning the 1500 dollar silver Colorado trophy for best peck of oats grown by Hill & Son of Lloydminster Saskatchewan. Alberta and Saskatchewan show strong grain entries with multiple awards in wheat oats barley.
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Columbus
Ohio
Saskatchewan
Canada
Colorado
Messrs. Hill & Son
Lloydminster
Spokane
Alberta
Hay
Department of the Interior
Tri-State Board of Examiners
Cincinnati
Surveyor-General of Canada
Dominion Lands Branch
North Dakota
Minnesota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Washington
Michigan
Iowa
Delaware
District of Columbia
Indian Territory
United States
Norman Cherry
Davis
G. H. Hutton
Lacombe
J. C. Hill & Sons
The Chief Need Question at Athletic Lesson
A pale intellectual visitor asked Tom Volk whether boxing and wrestling lessons would require special effort. Volk replied that no special application was needed, but a little alpha would come in handy.
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Tom Volk
Volk
Cleveland
Reminder on three years since hat purchase in Harper’s Bazaar
In a playful exchange, a wife reminds her husband that three years ago today he bought her a new hat, sparked by a line from Harper’s Bazaar. The husband reacts with disbelief, and they note it isn’t their wedding anniversary, adding a lighthearted moment about a fashion purchase.
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John
Harper Bazar
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement and Moral Note
An old ad promotes USE ALLENS FOOT-EASE antiseptic powder to shake into shoes for comfortable walking and a free trial package by addressing Allen S. Olmstead LeRoy N. Y. A moral note follows about a saint who cannot sin and suggests trusting another man with church funds.
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Allens
Allen S.olmstead
Leroy,n
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Captain Plum
James Oliver Curwood Altrations
Magnus G.ketzner
Beain
George
Jeekaim
Winnsome Croche
White
Tobh
Poe
California
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