End of a Canadian frontier saga in New France
Jeems and Toinette reunite after years of danger in the Richelieu valley. Hepsibah’s survival, Seneca and Mohawk trials, and the Burns family’s return home mark a turning point as New France transitions to Canada. The tale closes with Tonteur manor restored, descendants thriving, and memory of Odd and Hepsibah shaping the future.
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Plains of Abraham
New France
Canadas
Thomas Foxcroft
Old Church
Boston
Canada
Jeems
Richelieu
Madame Tonteur
Tontour Manor
Toinette
Tonteur Manor
Forbidden Valley
Hepsibah Adams
Quebec
Tonteur
Tanga
Mary Daghlen
Tinoga
the Richelieu
Mary
Shindas
Wood Pigeon
Chemssio
Tokana
de Poncy
Nancy
Chapel Yard
Odd
Hepsibah
Dead Sea Flotsam Leaves Palm Debris Across Jordan Banks
Travelers in the Holy Land behold vast piles of palm trunks and roots along the Dead Sea shore, salt impregnated and centuries old. The text links the debris to ancient times and biblical events, noting the huge accumulation from ages past across the Jordan and nearby rivers.
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Holy Land
Dead Sea
Jordan
Arnon
Mesopotamia
Canaan
Hazazon-Tamar
Lot
Abraham
End of the Road and the Fear of Death
A reflection on mortality framing death as natural and satisfying age rather than an ending. The piece discusses how fear diminishes with acceptance and views aging as a natural stage of life explored in American Magazine.
The Little Madam Music Teacher at Seventy Three
A seventy three year old music teacher, famed for shaping world class talents, lives with rheumatism and loneliness yet remains a beacon to numerous pupils. Her former students visit yearly on her birthday, bearing gifts and praise as they carry on the masters she taught.
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Madam
Morlizy
Lilienthal
Mann
Forenzi
Lanz
Spamer
Brahms
Torenzi
Beethoven
Fortune's Start in Subway Gold Mine
A western millionaire recalls a turning moment ten years earlier when he dropped a $5 gold piece through a San Francisco grate. He retrieved it with a hatchet from a basement and, by finding other dropped coins, secured meals and renewed confidence. The episode led him to meet influential men and avoid insolvency since.
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Chicago Herald-Examiner
San Francisco
Beggar Melvin Traylor Inspires Talk On American Honesty
In New York a Chicago banker recalled the beggar Melvin Traylor used to mimic in stories about honesty. He contrasted past and present business ethics, linking the beggar’s tale to a parable of vision and honesty in American enterprise.
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Melvin Traylor
Chicago
New York
Immense Floating Dock at Southampton Described as Largest
The dock is said to be the largest floating structure, able to lift ships up to 60 000 tons displacement. It covers about 84 acres, houses 17 240 tons of steel, and stands over 70 feet high from pontoon bottom to deck. The berth is dredged to a depth of 65 feet, and the deck is a hollow steel pontoon with side walls forming a huge U shaped hull.
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Southampton
England
The Friendly Mosquito Feeds on Other Mosquitoes
The cannibal mosquito despises humans yet preys on the species that seek human blood and other animal life, according to the passage.
Obedience to the Law in Galatians Lessons on Sowing and Reaping
Bible study outlines Paul s teaching in Galatians 3 6, stressing justification by faith and practical living. It urges restoring the sinning, bearing burdens, self care, supporting teachers, earnest service, and working for the common good including opposing alcohol.
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Paul
Christ
Thosan Christ
Righteous as Trees of Life in Matthew Henry’s View
Writings describe the righteous as trees whose fruits of piety charity instruction and prayer nourish both heaven and earth. Their influence is illustrated as precious fruits feeding spiritual life and guiding others toward virtue and faith.
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Heaven
Matthew Henry
When Learning Is Useful Education and Faith Clash
A quoted aphorism warns that education serves only when aligned with God, and becomes destructive if it ignores divine guidance. The fragment presents a religiously framed critique of secular schooling.
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Babaon
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Anne St. Denis-Rock
Jeéms
Chemussie
Murray
Levis
Chemisto
Tloga
Tiaoga
Chenussio
Tlaoga
Fort Frontenac
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
CWM
Subway
P. B. Fitzwater
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Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
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