War plans and forbidden love on the frontier
Marta Galland and Colonel Lanstron argue over war strategy and a spy plot in their Gray Browns frontier setting. He reveals a secret telegraph scheme using their gardener Feller to monitor the enemy, while Marta contemplates loyalty, risk, and a forbidden romance amid looming conflict.
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Their
Marta Galland
Westerding
Grays
Lanstron
Browns
Westerling
South Safir
Marta
Feller
Gardner
Lanny
Colonel Lanstron
Miss Galind
Langtron
Mr. Feller
Lanstren
Mercury
la Tir
Eighth Division
Making a War With a New Frontier in Mind
Hedworth Westerling meets with the premier to plan an offensive against Gray forces. They discuss mobilization timelines and the role of public opinion, arguing five million Browns against three for a rapid, wave after wave assault to seize terrain. The premier sets a war condition and the plan hinges on mass intelligence and total resources.
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Hedworth Westerling
Marta Galland
Browns
Grays
Westerling
Gray Foreign Office
Oregon state board of health bulletin on mad dogs
The bulletin advises not to hastily kill a dog that bit a person. It emphasizes preserving the dog for diagnosis since the outcome determines if rabies develops. Proper handling may reveal whether the animal was rabid and protect others from risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Board of Health Bulletin
Women praise Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for childbirth
Readers report improving fertility and successful pregnancies after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Several testimonials from Mrs. Mitchell in Massena New York to Mrs. Tillis in Winter Haven Florida claim restored health, stronger babies, and life-saving benefits attributed to the remedy.
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Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mose Blakeley
Imperial, Pa
Winnie Tillis
Winter Haven, Florida
Rhodes and Boers siege feats at Kimberley
During the Boer war Rhodes was confined in Kimberley as long-range shells rained down. The town saw 300 shells kill 12 people while Rhodes built a modern rifled cannon at his works inside the town and fired homemade shells stamped with his name. Boers humorously fired ten plum pudding shells into Ladysmith on Christmas Eve 1899, bearing season's compliments.
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Rhodes
Kimberley
C. J. Rhodes
Ladysmith
Johannesburg
Ambiguous war reminiscence in illustrated papers
A terse dialogue recalls exposure to war through illustrated images rather than direct experience. The speaker notes he saw much of the war in magazines and papers, while a companion questions whether this was in Louvain or Reims, highlighting the gap between perception and reality.
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Louvain
Reims
Illustrated Papers
Let Them Speak Let Them Speak
A promotional blank reads Let Them Speak Let Them Speak encouraging readers to try Post Toasties by pouring crisp flakes into a dish with cream or milk and a sprinkle of sugar to judge the taste. The ad invites personal judgment of the cereal's superiority without external claims.
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Partow
John Mitchell
Massena, N. Y
A. M. Myers
Gordonville, Mo
Lydia E.pinkham
E. M. Dorry
Conshohocken, Pa
E. W. Sanders
Rowlesburg, W. Va
Popham
Mail Inc
Williams Mfg. Co., Props
Cleveland, O
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