The Mount Mystery Ends In A Desperate Ride
In the Mount a coastal stronghold during Louis XVI era, Lady Elise escapes danger on a wild ride with her horse Saladin. A sudden grand tide and collapsing cliffs drive her toward a hidden cove as the mare falls, and darkness swallows the scene.
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Comtesse Elise
France
Louis XVI
Seigneur Desaurac
Desaurac
Paris
Elise
le Seigneur Noir
Saladin
Beppo
Casque
The Old Watch Tower and a Desperate Rescue
The Governor's daughter awakens in a damp stone cell atop Casque island's watch tower. A dark, loyal hunter guards her, explains the escape, and recalls their earlier dance as tension builds toward a perilous return to the Mount. A second note recalls Chauncey Depew’s remark about Daniel Webster and an English noble’s quip about his fame.
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Casque
Webster
Chauncey Depew
England
Washington
Daniel Webster
Senate
Clay pipes in fashion in London 1862 according to McCarthy
Justin McCarthy visited London in 1862 and observed clay pipes as a fashion statement for men of style. He noted it was seen as proper for a fashionable man to appear in broad daylight with a clay pipe, inspiring many young men to imitate the refined habit.
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Justin McCarthy
London
Value of Time Anecdote From Two Boys in Woodshed
A pair of boys debate a father’s punishment for not chopping wood. One says the punishment felt brief, less than twenty minutes in the woodshed, while insisting it would have taken at least three hours to complete the task. The exchange highlights different perceptions of effort and time.
Laysan Island Eighty Day Scientific Quest Ends
Commodore George R. Salisbury retired naval officer led a small party of naturalists on a December to March expedition aboard the Thetis and Sherman to Laysan Island in the mid Pacific. They gathered 175 rare specimens for government museums and documented two unique birds the Laysan rail and Laysan teal along with mallard ducks that drifted from California. The island is two and a half miles long a mile wide with a central lagoon and rises no more than 25 feet above sea level.
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Kansas City
Pacific Ocean
George R. Salisbury
United States Navy
Mark Salisbury
Independence
Jackson County
Laysan
Commodore Salisbury
Kansas City Star
Department of Agriculture
United States Territory
San Francisco
United States Revenue
Thetis
Island
Honolulu
United States
Sherman
Washington
Golden Gate Park
California
Bad Teeth as Crime Prevention Trial in Boston Jail
In Boston at the Charles street jail Sheriff Quinn starts a program using a dent ist chair and a skilled dentist to treat prisoners teeth. He argues malnutrition and bad teeth fuel criminal behavior and hopes dental care will reduce recidivism.
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Boston
Charles Street
Quinn
Funeral tragedy as mother poisons self during service
In Brooklyn, Mrs. Mary Johnston killed herself with poison just as funeral rites for her son Herbert Johnston Jr began in the family parlor. She died an hour later at a hospital.
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Kini
Brooklyn
Herbert Johnston, Jr
Mary Johnston
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