Intrigue as Carolina Governors Quarrel Darkens Politic
Meredith Nicholson tale unfolds with Griswold and Ardmore backing rival daughters of North and South Carolina governors. Appleweight, a powerful outlaw, drives rival schemes to seize missing papers from Gov Osborne's office. Ardmore races toward arrest while Griswold maneuvers from Ardsley as both sides seek the same criminal.
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Thomas Ardmore
Henry Maine Griswold
North
South Carolina
Griswold
Barbara Osborne
Southrolina
Ardmore
Jerry Dangerfield
North Carolina
Osborne
Rder
Appleweight
Ardsley
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Governor of North Carolina Reveals Front in Night Ride
Ardmore and colleagues trap a newspaper reporter turned spy on a moonlit pursuit toward the red bungalow as the governor announces he holds sole authority. Collins is enlisted as publicity agent and the trio plans to seize the Appleweight gang before dawn.
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Cookie
Providence
Cooke
Thomas Ardmore
Ardmore
Ardsley
Red Bungalow
G. D. Ardmore
Mr. Ardmore
Collins
Mr. Collins
North Carolina
Raleigh
Cotton Planters
New Orleans
Atlanta
Dangerfield
John C. Calhoun
New York
Caboose
Palladium
Jerry Dangerfield
Destruction of St Thomas Becket Shrine under Henry VIII
The piece describes Henry VIII’s 1538 move to erase St Thomas of Canterbury’s cult turning Becket’s shrine into loot. It notes the burning of bones and removal of Becket’s name from service books as part of the crown’s seizure of relics and revenues.
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St. Thomas of Canterbury
England
Henry VIII
St. Thomas
Canterbury
Becket
Geta
Dean Staanley
Stage Superstition and Stage Etiquette Oddities
The article describes stage superstition such as opening an umbrella on stage brings bad luck and actors delaying wearing new shoes on opening night. It notes that wearing shoes on the wrong feet is said to avert misfortune and that whistling on stage during rehearsals attracts frost on opening night. It also mentions a yellow clarinet in the orchestra as believed to cause a similar bad omen in operatic circles.
Brief Irish Orator Taunton Defends With Sharp Retort
In a famous forensic moment Taunton, a future judge, succinctly dismissed Charles Philips’s flowery assault speech. Taunton for the defendant declared that the eloquent complaint equated to this plain English verdict the client had received a good sound horsewhipping and his defense is short that he richly deserved it.
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Taunton
Charles Philips
It Is Not So Much That We Do As What We Are
A reflective line from Home Chat emphasizes character over deeds, suggesting personal essence shapes how one is judged in life and by others. The phrase implies everyday conduct reflects inner identity more than outward actions alone.
Tramp Uses Clever Ruse to Get Meal in Suburban Pittsburg
A hungry tramp, posing as a knight of the road, asks a matron in a Pittsburg suburb for food. After ten houses deny him, the tenth resident offers a meal, remarking that the neighbor hinted the household might be short. The hungry man accepts and eats.
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Pittsburg
Gnat Proven Cause of Pellagra, Not Maize
London report from Rome states the Field committee has proved maize does not cause pellagra. The parasitic conveyor is identified as simulium repans, a biting gnat, shifting blame from corn to the insect in the disease’s spread.
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Committee On Disease In
Europe
London
Sambon
Rome
Milk dealer recalls country visit and humor about faucets
A Washington Heights milk dealer recounts sending his eight year old son Willie to the country. Willie watched Uncle Hezekiah milk a cow and joked that Hezekiah had finished two faucets and was busy with the other two.
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Washington Heights
Willie
Hezekiah
Hezzie
Reasoning of Youthful Mind Class Convo in Suffolk
A Suffolk schoolmistress tells of a coal mine lesson and claims she has worked there. A pupil asks if that experience made her hair so black, prompting a humorous exchange.
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Suffolk
England
Not the Reply He Expected
A terse exchange turns tense as a man questions approval of smoking and a woman counters with a practical request for a cigarette provoking an unexpected reaction.
Humility and self distrust as paths to knowledge
A reflection on humility as a first lesson in self understanding and self distrust as proof of gaining knowledge of oneself, attributed to Zimmermann.
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Zimmerman
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Ray. Walte
Elise
Dange
Paul
Tramp
Tutt
DeKalb Ave
Paxton
Boston
Maes
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