Indian Chief Struck by Lightning in Ocean Crisis
Captain Hollis and Masters debate navigation of the disabled steamer Indian Chief after a lightning strike. The vessel is wrecked, crew injured, the owner aboard and a New York millionaire passenger aboard. Hollis plans to steer to the nearest American port and surrender to the owners while ensuring the safety of a young woman aboard.
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Hollis
New York
Gerald Carrington
Montauk
Hull—Sound
Masters
Captain Hollis
Atlas Line
Esmeralda
Vulcan
Carrington
Tolls
The Indian Chief Brings Home A War Contraband Dilemma
Captain Hollis confronts a perilous cargo aboard the Indian Chief. Owner Gerald Carrington seeks to sail to Hamburg with nearly half a million dollars in contraband war goods while Germany faces war. Hollis weighs aiding the owner and protecting a stranded woman, amid stealth routes by night and danger from European powers.
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Hollis
Hamburg
Baltimore
Capes
Europe
Chesapeake
Germany
Austria
France
Russia
England
Belgium
Paris
New York
Great Britain
North Sea
English
United States
Old friendship rekindled amid danger on the Bascom steamer
The episode recounts Vera’s past friendship with Rob ert Bascom the steamer’s owner and introduces a fresh peril born from the long standing enmity between Bascom and McCann.
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Vera
Robert Bascom
Bascom
McCann
Tropical Rainfall Patterns in the Tropics
The document notes short duration of tropical rains and uniformity of cyclonic storms year round. It explains Porto Rico’s heaviest rainfall links to West Indian hurricanes and cites the August 8, 1899 storm as delivering rainfall equivalent to 1,113 tons per acre.
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Tropics
Porto Rico
Present and Future Reflections on Happiness and Duty
A short meditation on the mystery of daily fate. It argues that personal happiness and the happiness of others depend largely on our own choices and actions. The piece invites responsibility in shaping favorable days.
Gasoline Crop Reaches 292 Million Barrels This Year
Production of crude petroleum in the country totaled 292.8 million barrels in the just completed year, rising 4 percent from the prior year's output.
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Randall Parrish
A. C. McClurg & Co
Kollis
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