Dick Brayton Breaks Free In Frontier Drama Chapter XV
Dick faces a mob frame up over a horse theft and is jailed in a milk house. Samantha helps him plot a night escape through an underground passage as Nannie mourns the accused match and plans unfold for a safer pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Bonner
John
Bill
Mr. Porter
Bill Green
Wayne
Ladie
Mr. Boone
Tor
Samantha
Nannie
Dick Brayton
Fang
Morning meeting of settlement men over a prisoner
At dawn the male residents gather from the settlement to hear the prisoner tell his story. The men display stern resolve as they prepare to proceed with a decision they deem grave and weighty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Green
Bill
Deacon Snyder
Mr. Balcomb
Saman
A Lesson in Courtesy From Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I, an absolute ruler, scolded a household officer for roughing an old beggar woman. In a public rebuke with courtiers present, he forced the man to pace the corridor all night and shout repeatedly that he is a puppy.
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Nicholas I
Russia
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Tenough
The Actress Make Up Tricks for Stage Roles
Franklin Fyles explains how actresses alter features with makeup to appear older or mis shapen. He notes nose shading, cheek darkening, and light beneath the eyes to suggest youth, with additional tweaks for character parts and aging on stage.
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Franklin Fyles
Ladies’ Home Journal
South Africa in Brief Dates of Key Historic Events
A compact list outlines major milestones in South Africa from Diaz’s discovery of the Cape in 1486 through early 20th century events. It notes Dutch arrival, Table Bay settlement, British occupation and settlement, language policy, Boer republics, mineral finds, annexations, the Great Trek, and the Jameson raid. Includes dates and names like Transvaal, Natal, Witwatersrand, and the British South Africa Company.
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Cape of Good Hope
Bartholomew Diaz
South African
Table Bay
Cape
Cape Colony
Britain
Transvaal
Orange River
Vaal River
Zululand
London
Witwatersrand
British South African Company
Natal
Csccensseeens
Indiannapolis Sentinel
Lawyer’s canvass encounter with ham theft claim
A lawyer and municipal candidate goes door to door in a Cardiff suburb. At a cottage, a woman explains her husband will vote for him after he helped clear him in a ham theft case, joking that the ham was still partly theirs.
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Cardiff Western Mail
Making It Easy for the Victim Gallant Bandit
A Kansas City Star style remark notes a robber stealing jewelry from a young woman and the thief claims a diamond ring is superfluous. The prose uses old timey aphorisms on diligence and courtship with humorous diversions about pies and forks.
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Kanasas
Road tax and road maintenance discussed by Agricultural Epitomist
The excerpt argues roads should serve public benefit, criticizes narrow widths and obstacles, and notes poor maintenance patterns. It covers grade, drainage, and durable construction with stones in the center and dirt tracks on sides, then shifts to a comic aside about domestic life and Wagnerian music.
Steel Track Wagon Roads Idea Puts Steel Rails on Highways
A Pearson's Magazine essay describes steel-track wagon roads as two parallel eight inch wide steel rails embedded in concrete roadbeds with low flanges to guide vehicles. Government experiments showed an eleven ton load drawn by twenty horses on a conventional road compared to a single horse on the steel track road moving easily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson
Woes of House Cleaning and Letters of Sir William Harcourt
A humorous colonial style dialogue mocks house cleaning woes with a domestic chaos image. The text shifts to note that Sir William Harcourt’s private letters are witty, widely circulated, and show his forthright political opinions with a changing view across time.
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Chesterfield
Sir William Harcourt
Lod Salisbury
Sir William
Versatile railroad man Sir William Van Horne
Sir William C. Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific Railway is described as a versatile railroad magnate, skilled in painting, drawing, architecture, civil engineering, and writing. His deep knowledge of Canadian geology, botany, and early North American settlements is noted, along with his challenging early years and rise from railroad yard worker to executive head.
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William C. van Horne
America
Pacific Railway
Queen's Dominions
Canada
British North America
Sir William
Canadian Pacific
Solar Discoveries At Paris Exposition Telescope
A Paris exposition telescope examination of the sun revealed clear images with prominences visible on the surface that previously appeared only at the edge. The findings mark unlooked-for results from the optical pavilion study.
Tiresome author urged to write a favorable notice
A French journal paints a tiresome author as hoping to do something unique but asks what to do. An acquaintance replies straightforwardly, urging him to write a favorable notice of one of his own books.
Big Domain and Wonders Across a Vast Empire
The Czar governs estates totaling over one hundred million acres, more than three times England and more than twice Scotland. Gersoppa Falls on the Sharavati in South Kanara, India, outshines Niagara with an 830 foot fall. A phonograph speaks, a wife and husband share wedding gifts, and a father learns from his children until they grow older and wiser.
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Engand
Scotland
Sharavatti River
Kanara
India
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the Swamp Secret
Biull
Sartin
Samanthy
South Africa
Josh Wink
Baltimore American
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