Sailor Graith and Ambrose Face Fleet Battle Royal
Oliver Graith regains resolve aboard the Seamen as Lancelot Ambrose proves useful. Aboard a French frigate, Graith leads a desperate boarding party with old ally Gaspard, but the action ends in disaster for the enemy as the British ship sinks amid smoke and wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Graith
Lancelot Ambrose
Ambrose
Oliver
Susan Arphrese
Susan
Aebie
Susan Amntctise
Ambrise
Warimly
Benns
Zion Farm
Porgy
Hanna Sands
Bootewain
Battlefeld
Graith
Gaspard
King George
The
Republic
Strength of Insects Compared to Human Power
Public Opinion reports on insect strength showing wing and ground force differences. It notes plateaus in wing scaling, examples like a fly lifting a match, an earwig pulling a chariot, a flea leaping far above its height, and an oyster's valve action equating to heavy loads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Graith
Oliver
Hanna Sands
Ambrose
Noboddy
Fin
Felix Plateau
de Lacy
Eiffel Tower
A Stamp Rich Inn in Sussex Captivates Visitors
The Rising Sun Inn at North Bersted, Sussex, showcases a stamp filled JubHee Room with stamps on all surfaces and a picture of the queen and Eiffel Tower. The stamp value is said to total forty thousand pounds. A rustic summer house houses a visitors book with eighty five thousand autographs including Gladstone's. The piece ends with a village humor about packing time.
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North Bersted
Sussex
Eiffel Tower
Lttle
Mr. Gladstone
Loving Kingdom
Good Protection The Groom's Joking Exchange
The bride and groom joke about protective garb for their wedding journey. They discuss wearing automobile goggles to keep snow or rice from their eyes as guests attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georg
Pipe of peace ends in a domestic quarrel
A humorous aside from Samuel Salt in Adam Rush notes a quarrel over a pipe of peace in a domestic setting. La Moyne recounts his wife throwing the pipe at him after a late return, and a bleak joke about the afterlife follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Montt
la Moyne
Samuel Salt
Adam Rush
Fort Des Moines Ready for Occupation After costly build
Des Moines Iowa hosts the Fort Des Moines complex erected by act of Congress at about 2 million dollars. Colonel William C. Wallace will command the post on Thanksgiving with the Fifteenth Cavalry in the Philippines forming the nucleus of the garrison. The campus surrounds a large parade ground with barracks stables officers’ quarters and a bakery and steward’s houses while Iowa farm country lies beyond. The four administrative and ceremonial squares feature blue white and red field markings and stars.
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Des Moines
Fort Des Moines
Des Alpines
Congress
William C. Wallace
Fifteenth Cavalry
Philippines
Iowa
State
Montana miners battle copper trust in Butte dispute
In Butte Montana miners face unemployment as copper kings wage a state wide struggle for control. Reported suffering grows as starvation fears rise and workers are driven from their jobs amid the copper trust conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Copper Trust
Butte
Mont
Copper Kings
Montana copper country in crisis as Amalgamated mines shut
Montana remains the richest copper region but Amalgamated Copper shuts all operations after court rulings. Butte loses 10,000 jobs as $50,000 daily payroll halts, plunging 70,000 people into hardship amid looming starvation and business ruin.
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Montana
Butte City
Jennyth
F. Augustus Heinze
Amalgamated Copper Company
Copper Trust
Butte
Rural landscape chosen for West army post homes
Twenty six buildings completed and equipped with modern conveniences. Built by expert workmen with slate roofs, hard finished interiors, steam heat, and electric lighting. The army post will have its own power plant.
Train Tests Near Berlin Hit 129 Miles An Hour
Electric train tests near Berlin reached 129 miles per hour. Engineers expect speeds to exceed this and say 140 miles an hour is practicable in future trials.
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Berlin
Germany
Graft Defined As Parasite In Politics And Horticulture
A definition equates graft in politics with a parasite in horticulture, describing it as sap drawn from the original plant or office by an attachment or offshoot that has no rightful part in the main entity. The passage contrasts graft with the legitimate core.
Indiana News Highlights From Across The State
Reports from Indiana recount a fatal wagon accident near Valparaiso injuring farmer J. D. Hesser, amputations after a streetcar crush near Amboy, and deaths including Joseph S. Daugherty in Evansville. Postmasters appointed across Adams, Union, and Grant counties. city of Newcastle bans swine. various patents issued. gas explosion near Kinley Hotel. education bid rejections. schoolboy Adolph Schmidt case. Wesleyan women aid church framing. Elwood gas tank nearing completion. farmer Thomas Hough critically injured by a cornfield accident. Shelby County yields lead with John Yarling Jr. reporting record corn.
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Petereer
Clarkshill
Je. D. Hesser
Valparaiso
John Rainer
Wear Amboy
Marion
Joseph S. Daugherty
Evansville
Indiana
Hines
Adams County
Lewis H. Bailey
Adah M. Maulier
Kitchell
Union County
J. P. Horsham
William Oxer
C. D. Pilcher
Grant County
East
Pilcher
Evansville & Terre Haute
Ft. Branch
Néal Tullis
Muncie
W. E. Preston
Cudury
Michigan Central Railway
Michigan City
Newcastle
Fred Burger
H.M. Williams
Fort Wayne
Frank D. Frazee
John W. Heaton
Indianapolis
Harris F. Holland
A. L. Wheeler
Elmer E. Reese
Robert W. Stimson
F. McManus
Camus Ll. White
Kinley
Ingalls
Wagner Glass Company
State Board of Education
Adolph Schmidt
Frenchtown
Citizens’ Heat and Light Company
Elwood
Thomas Hougha
New Garden Township
Wayne County
Hough
John ‘Yarling
Shelby
Yarling
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Hanna Lands
R. E. Francillon
Ker
Minneapolis Journal
Republic OF Panama
Chicago
St. Paul
Southern Pacific Company
San Antonio
el Paso
Tex
New York Central
Clover Leaf
Toledo, St. Louis and Western
Louisville and Nashville
Eastern
Trunk Line Association
New York
Middle Western
Gulf
Atlantic
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