Violet Chevenix Breaks Silence at Garswood Hall
Lady Chevenix reveals her past romance to Felix Lonsdale after a dramatic hospitalty and a near affair at the Hall. She recounts a tale of a young woman who chose wealth over love and later sought forgiveness from her long-lost beloved, testing Felix’s resolve and forgiveness.
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Owen
Hunter Plantagenet
Martin
Plantagenet
Chevenix
Telix
Violet
Felix
Sir Owen
Lady Chevenix
Lady Cheyenne
Maertin
Baronet
Lonsdale
Captain Hill
Mrs. Haye
Miss Hethcote
Lady Brownson
Miss Fern
Mr. Lonsdale
Normandy
Garswood
Lilford
Lady Maude
Violet Haye
Tuady Chevenix
Darcy Lonsdale
Felix Lonsdale
Ivady Chevenix
Long Months Pass in August at Chevenix Estate
In August, years after Sir Owen's burial, Lady Chevenix is praised as a model widow. The narrative resumes with the lingering consequences of the long interval since his death.
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Sir Owen
Chevenix
Lady Chevenix Returns to Garswood for Michaelmas Accounts
A letter from Lady Chevenix announces her return to Garswood at week’s end. Mr. Lonsdale orders preparations for her comfort and Felix awaits further directions. Darcy soon departs with good news for the household, while a heavier workload looms with Michaelmas accounts and Lord Arlington’s rent due.
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Lonsdale & Son
Chevenix
Felix
Garswood
Darcy Lonsdale
Lord Arlington
Pat Garrett the Quiet Sheriff of the Southwest
In New Mexico’s border country Pat Garrett, 49, is described as the most successful frontier sheriff. He is credited with capturing more outlaws than any other man, including Billy the Kid, and his swift shooting earned him a feared reputation from the Staked Plains to Las Tabias. His calm demeanor masks deadly skill as he hunted Mexican, Indian and white offenders and enforced law across the territory.
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New Mexico
Pat Garrett
Santa Ana County
Garrett
Billy the Kid
Greenfelt
Las Tabias
Manuel Sanchez
Old Mexico
Sanchez
Fort Stanton
Barfoot
Seven Rivers Country
Mr. Barfoot
Lemon Brothers
Moral Suasion on a Dog in the Country Road
A country minister who faced repeated bulldog attacks used moral suasion. He halted before the house, sat in his sleigh, and ignored the dog as it barked and charged. After the dog failed to touch him and returned crestfallen, the animal ceased its assaults on subsequent passes.
A Coffee Barometer Forecasts Weather by Cup Bubbles
A 19th or early 20th century note explains a coffee barometer. Do not stir to read bubbles forming in milk with two sugars. Rapidly rising bubbles signal rain within a day, slow clustering means possible showers, stationary center indicates clear weather for outdoor walks.
New Electric Heater Heats Rooms and Street Cars
A bell shaped electric heater uses a fan and porcelain cylinders wrapped with German silver wire heated to red heat. Air is blown over the cylinders to provide warm ventilation, drawing fresh outdoor air to supply clean air to apartments and potentially replace furnaces or radiators.
Married to a Flower Vase in Shanghai
A Shanghai correspondent reports a young Chinese woman wed a red flower vase after her fiancé died. She had pledged not to marry, so the vase served as a substitute groom in a ceremony with pomp. Such impersonal marriages are not uncommon in China.
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Shanghai
China
Game Birds From China and Lessons on Skill and Will
The article lists game birds native to China including the golden pheasant silver pheasant Reeves ring neck pheasant Lady Amherst and Cochin China fowl. It also notes various poultry and ducks. It urges a girl to learn baking before painting and contrasts tasting refinement with flippant appetite while asserting personal will shapes greatness.
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China
Indiana mulls use of voting machines after New York success
An Indianapolis correspondent notes broad support across parties for adopting voting machines in Indiana before the 1902 elections. County boards consider appropriations and counties may push for machine purchases to meet Indiana law requiring independent or irregular vote registration.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Marion County
Washington City
United States
New York State
Portable huts for British troops in South Africa
The British government ordered 30 000 troop huts for the occupation army in South Africa at war’s end. Warrant officers’ quarters measure sixty by twenty feet with twelve rooms. Men’s huts hold thirty men and a non commissioned officer, about 113 by 20 feet. Packed huts weigh thirty five tons for men and twenty tons for officers. Euphonistic language in social discourse noted with a comic anecdote about a laundress and her washing.
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South Africa
Army of Occupation
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