Captain Blood and Levasseur Duel for Treasure at Tortuga
In a pirate saga from the Caribbean, Captain Blood and Levasseur clash over a captured cargo aboard the Arabella and the Santiago. They plan to unload cacao at Tortuga, recruit more marauders, and set sail for a bold assault on Maracaybo while threats loom from pursuing ships. Arabella, Captain Blood, and Levasseur drive the action as betrayals and our hero’s resolve shape their course.
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Potee Blood
Barbadoes
James
Bishop
Arabella
Dos Diego de Espinosa Valdez
Mary Tranil
Hispaniola
Bloodalla
Tortuga
Arabella le
Cinco Lingas
Arabia
Lévasteur
Madelon
d'Ogeron
Blood
Levasseur
Maderon
Mademoiselle
Cabusac
Ife
Calusac
Captain Blood
Santiago
Puerto Rico
Cahusac
Joy of Good Health Chronicle Fragment
Fragmentary note from Manitobe relate health joys and youthful days amid unclear context. Reading hints at personal wellbeing and past experiences, with sparse details on events or dates.
Storm Drives Levasseur to Seek Shelter for Shipyard Crew
As the Arabella departed, Levasseur moved his ships into the lagoon and began building temporary quarters for himself and his crew during careening and repairs on La Foudre. A gale strengthened into a hurricane that forced him to seek safe shelter ashore.
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Levasseur
la Foudre
Vunach
Levas Zeur
Qnd
Captain Blood Appears to Mediate Pirate Standoff
On Virgen Magra beach Captain Blood arrives in black attire with crimson plume to confront Levasseur and the French filibusters holding Ogeron and his sister. Blood notes two prisoners washed ashore after a hurricane, while ransom negotiations unfold over twenty thousand pieces of eight.
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Virgen Magra
Levasseur
Tortuga
Ogeron
Mademoiselle
Mr. d'Ogeron
Monsieur
Captain Blood
Saturday Night Traditions and Modern Life Reflections
Dayton News contemplates how Saturday night traditions have faded as modern life accelerates. The piece urges Americans to reclaim old fashioned Sabbath prep and weekly reflection to inspire service and progress for the coming days.
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America
Dayton News
British Crusader Tomb Found Near Jerusalem
A tomb near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is identified as Philip Daubigne a British crusader and former governor of the Channel Islands who witnessed Magna Charta. He died in the Holy Land around 1234 and tutored King Henry III. The inscription is legible and matches Daubigne’s arms on Jersey documents.
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Jerusalem
Man
Holy Sepulchre
Philip Daubigne
Channel Islands
John’s
Runnymede
Daubigne
Holy Land
Henry III
Storres
Jersey
Old Prophecy Coming True in New York Hotel Rooms
A major New York hotel announces installation of a radio receiving set in every room. The system will provide daytime and night entertainment and may lull guests to sleep with music, echoing Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward prophecy.
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New York
Bellamy
Edward Bellamy
St. Catharines
Dairy Output in 1823 Dominion Canada Records
Dominion distry and cald storage News Letter reports Canada produced 151 624 375 lbs of cheese valued at 28 645 192, 162 834 608 lbs of creamery butter valued at 56 873 410, and 100 000 000 lbs of dairy butter valued at 20 000 000. Milk used totals 11 765 564 229 lb fat equivalent to 411 794 743 lb. total value 233 629 033.
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Dominion Distry and
Cald Storage
Canada
Fishing For Eels Dominion Coastal and Inland Catches Rise
Eels are taken from Dominion waters in growing numbers. In 1923 sea fishermen caught LAS ewt and inland waters yielded 14 753 ewt compared with 4 134 owt and 4 710 owt respectively in earlier figures.
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Dominion
Ancient Artesian Wells Across Europe and Other Lands
The article notes ancient artesian wells including Europe’s oldest in Artois France sunk in the twelfth century. It cites Queenslands 500 wells averaging 1,170 feet deep producing about 395 million gallons daily and mentions wells in Schladebach Prussia and London’s Trafalgar Square fountains drawing from artesian sources.
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Europe
Litlers
Artois
France
Bieh
Sahara Desert
Queensland
Coast Range
Schladebach
Prussia
Trafalgar Square
London
Melbourne teen tunes alarms into chromatic clock chorus
A young Melbourne musician filed down the bells of several alarm clocks to create a chromatic scale. Each morning he wakes to a chiming, musical alarm clock chorus.
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Melbourne
Australia
Micro engraving sent to Smithsonian by Alfred McEwan
Alfred McEwan sent a forty-four letter micro engraving to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D C. The tiny inscription is readable only when magnified eight times and is described by McEwan as a crude hurriedly prepared large sample of micro engraving.
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Smithsonian Institute
Washington, D.C
Alfred McEwan
McEwan
Canadian Climate Lament Stirs Foreign Correspondent
The London Times prints a pessimistic Canada piece from a California based correspondent not native to Canada. The writer, who spends winters in the south, laments the harsh Canadian climate and its rigors. The Toronto Globe notes the piece occupies most of the section.
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London Times
Canada
California
South
Toronto Globe
Gifted Son in Family Parable
A father laments his shiftless son yet admits the boy is gifted in every trait the father possessed. A friend confirms the father’s paradoxical boast that the son lacks nothing the father didn’t bestow.
There Are Exceptions Manager of tore
The dialogue notes a dispute with a customer and asserts the old maxim that the customer is always right. It mentions a campaign cost for electing a new British Parliament estimated at more than 25 million dollars.
Leaning Tower of Pisa Reported At Risk Of Fall
The Rowe Tribune cites Pisa dispatches warning the famous leaning tower may collapse. Built between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the tower leans fourteen feet from the perpendicular due to long debated causes.
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Pisa
Rowe Tribune
Hemp Fiber Focused Plang Designs For Lumber Substitutes
Planes designed to use hemp fiber from manufacturing cordage to make a substitute for lumber. Destruction by Ingeets of farm crops forests and animal feed is expected to cost about 8.9 million dollars daily.
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Aemprahard
Sapa
Jonggroun
M. d'Ogeron
Henri
Cahuase
Virgin Islands
Lydia E
Rae
W’ogerom
Carter
Cy Carter
Ellie
Ieee
Famous Tower
Magnavox
Ios
W. McLean & Co., Ltd
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Radio Agency
McDermot Avenue
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