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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1899
Page
2
Rob Gleverdale, a strong adventurous boy, boards a voyage to South America. A plot unfolds as he falls overboard during a river passage, then is rescued by the smuggling schooner Black Cat after a tense night watch. Rob survives and is saved at sea as CHAPTER III ends with his rescue.
A boy named Rob sails toward Rio de Janeiro with his mother and Mr. Brown and adjusts to sea life aboard Vigilancia. In the Atlantic a stealthy schooner named El Gato Negro plots contraband entry near La Plata while smuggler Captain Torrero and a mixed crew lurk in the night aboard the Black Cat.
The article recalls historical public penance in a white sheet for grievous offenses. It cites the last such act in All Saints East Martree on July 20 1882 by Martree, with no sheet, and earlier cases in St Bridget's Chester 1851 behind a locked door, in Essex 1848, and Ditton church near Cambridge 1849.
Mr. Rotch reports Blue Hill Observatory data from the past year using kites for meteorology. The record altitude reached 12 440 feet in February, suggesting a ceiling toward which kites rise. The U S Weather Bureau plan for daily kite records at sixteen stations failed due to light winds, though substantial data were gathered both in free air and on the ground.
A theater actress recalls a seasonal gig as Alicia Bloodgood in The Streets of New York. She faces petty manager tricks from late payment in pennies to a sack of nickels, while another worker endures hunger and hardship, ending with a single twenty dollar bill.
Poem imagining swap of identities between a boy and Santa Claus. Santa would bring gifts, books, boxing gloves, a pistol, a bowie knitted leather suit, and candy to brighten stockings. The other boy, a parcel carrier, faces loneliness and is derided by cruel peers, ending in death.
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