Tragic Comedy Unfolds Around Frank Armour's Decision
Frank Armour, an American-born Hudson’s Bay heir, weds Indian woman Lali after Julia Sherwood’s engagement to Lord Caldwell ends. He schemes to humiliate his people and exiles his wife to England while plotting a lasting humiliation, aided by a Protestant missionary. Richard Armour counsels restraint in a prescient, humane letter.
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Frank Armour
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Wolseley
Afhica
Canada
Lord Selkirk
Hudson’s Bay Company
Houdson’s Bay Company
Eye-of-the-Moon
Hudson Bay Country
Julia Sherwood
Miss Sherwood
Agnes Martling
Richard
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Frank
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Lord Caldwell
Alia
Greyhope
Sherwood
Mrs. Armour
Armour
Wilds
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Eye-of-the- Moon
Lali
Eye-of the-Moon
Indiena
Great Lakes
Wight
Dey
Aphrodite
Mar
America
England
Luli
Burglar Episode at Minneapolis Hotel During Convention
Wadell recalls a late night burglary at a Minneapolis hotel during the Republican convention. A young clerk rifled his pocket, grabbed a scar pin, and fled after Wadell warned him and confiscated a pistol. The intruder, pale and contrite, expected jail time but left with Wadell still awake and the valuables missing.
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Wadell
Minneapolis
Ford E. Wadell
Hissalary
Stillwater
Chen
St. Louis Globe-Delocrest
Bride Hidden in Chest Tale Echoes Across Europe
An old tale describes a young bride who hides in a large chest on her wedding day and cannot open it. Searches fail until years later when the chest is opened and her body is found. The legend, cited in Modena and Hampshire sites, resembles Catskin and Peau d’Ane motifs found across Europe.
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Modena
Hramshill
Hampshire
Sir John Cope
Mirwell Old Hall
Winchester
Bishop's Waltham
Europe
Cornhill Magazine
Errand Men Move Goods Between Towns and City
A New York Sun summary notes suburban districts employ errand men, the townim ers, who fetch items not in stock by sending messengers to New York stores. They tour local shops nightly, travel to wholesale houses by rail or boat, and earn four to five dollars daily. The piece also mentions African rhinoceros diet, a medical question about diet, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy published at age forty five to ease mental strain.
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New York
New York Sun
Robert Burton
Asphalt Trade on Trinidad Island Rich in Pitch and Slaves
The Washington Post describes Trinidad as a West Indies source of asphalt from a vast pitch lake near Cape Corbaray. Labor is provided by enslaved and later contracted workers, mostly black, under overseers of their own color. The British government leases the lake to an American firm, with forty two years left, and rival mining emerges threatening the supply.
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Washington
New Hampshire Avenue
Dent
Skeel
Trinidad
Terra Tuma
Northwest Passage
Spal
Spirin
San Fernando
Isand
Cape Corbaray
Inks
United States
Washington Post
Poets and the Little Feet oflinewidths
The piece jokes that poets like Tyrone and Tom Moore were short in stature but tall in verse. It notes Moore used the pen name Thomas Little and plays on the line Moore was Little and Little is Moore. Swinburne is praised as a singer in nineteenth century prose.
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Tyron
Tom Moore
Moore
Thomas Little
Gentleman's Magazine
Japanese MP Faces Bribery Trial Over Seaweed Gifts
Tokyo newspapers report a Japanese parliament member on trial for bribery by corrupting voters with edible seaweed gifts. The case highlights novel methods in electoral corruption and the reach of patronage in politics.
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Tokyo
Georgia's Convict Laborers and State Income
A Georgia report states 1,900 male penitentiary convicts provide a lease yielding the state about 25,000 dollars annually. The text notes maintenance costs average roughly 3 cents per day per convict, reflecting early 20th century penal economics.
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