Grandet's Final Hold on Wealth Strains Family Fortunes
In Saumur, the Grandet household reels as Natheless avarice and a daughter's loyalty collide. Grandet confines Mme Grandet to her room while Eugenie faces pressure to renounce her late mother's property. The cooper seeks to seal wealth and control, while Eugenie confronts foreboding legal steps that could strip her of inheritance.
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Cooper
Grandet
Saumur
Nanon
Charles
Eugenie
Mme. Grandet
Louis D'Or
Louis
Tie
Duo van
Wei
Pointeel
M. Bergeria
Sanmur
Very Sengedle
M. Bergerin
Reu
Daris
Girondet
Aein
Stetocerest
Mme. Grau
Heaven
Brichtsith
Fondys
Mr. Crochot
Grrandet
Eugenie Grandet Inherits Wealth After Father’s Death
Eugenie Grandet learns she has about seventeen million francs in assets after her father’s paralytic death. Cruchat informs her that the estate is clear and her yearly income plus other holdings total vast wealth. Nanon remains her trusted confidante as Eugenie contemplates the immense future alone in a now empty home.
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Nix
Crochot
Grandet
Eugenie
Cooper
Realis
Tie
Fexnsente
Mile
Hfe
Seymur
Nenon
Big Nanon
Iror Eugenie
Naenon
Mou Creachot
Ensente
M. Cruchat
Nanon
Our Peppermint Stick Candy Ad Claims Tradition
The piece extols a peppermint striped stick candy praised as wholesome and affordable for families. It advocates six sticks for 3 cents, recommends storage away from children, and warns to avoid substitutes while calling it the candy of our forefathers.
Undefined coats of mail and ideal wives remark
A quirky dialogue about old coats of mail resembling hardware and the common belief that every girl imagines she would make an ideal wife.
World’s Great Battles and Their Crushing Losses
A compact list recalling famous battles from Marathon to Leipzig with forces, casualties, and outcomes. It cites Persian, Greek, Roman, and medieval clashes, noting legendary figures like Leonidas and eras from 490 B C to 1815.
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Marathon
B. C
Thermopyle
Leonidas
Sparta
Platea
Arbela
Alexander the Great
Darius
Admiral Gift Funds Vallejo Sailors Clubhouse
Rear Admiral Bowman H Metcalf funded a Vallejo California sailors and marines club house with prize money from the Spanish American War and additional public donations. President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone during a Pacific coast visit. The four story building, modeled after Miss Helen Gould’s sailors club house, stands near Mare Island Navy Yard.
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Iate
Vallejo
Cal
Mare Island Navy Yard
Sys Lestio
Bowman H. Metalla
Mare Island
Navy Clubhouse Opens Free to Sailors at Mare Island
A new multi facility club at Mare Island Navy Yard offers gym, bowling, baths, dining, theater for 500, and hotel space free to U S sailors. It aims to steer sailors away from town temptations, promoting thrift and self respect, a boost to Navy morale and efficiency.
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United States Navy
Mce- Calia
Navy
Mare Island
Naval Service
New Vessel Design Aims To Reduce Ship Pitch and Roll
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a French naval engineer M. Ture introduces a submarine-like hull with two side floats to improve stability. A 6,300 ton model shows center of gravity to metacenter separation of 2.44 meters and rolling duration of 22 seconds, with hull length 300 feet and floats 180 feet long separated by 63 feet.
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M. Ture
William Froude
M. Bertin
Brooklyn Eagle
Their Benefactor Controversy Cited in Dated Exchange
In a dated social quip, a speaker urges Tom to reflect on society before courting a grocer for a dance, while another notes Tom’s reply that they should consider what they owe the grocer.
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Tom
Conversation Between Weeks And Brown On Health
Brown compliments Weeks on health and improvement. Weeks attributes progress to medical care, noting the doctor was away for three weeks.
Governor Durbin Lost On Plains for Three Days
Indiana governor Winfield T. Durbin survived three days and two nights in the South Dakota plains with little food after wandering away from his party. Indian scouts found him near exhaustion as he failed to locate his camp and horse, forcing him to camp out overnight twice more before rescue.
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South Dakota
Winfield T. Durbin
Land Vanishes Around Noble County Lake Prompting Inquiry
In Noble county a multi acre tract surrounding a lake has gradually disappeared under water. J. C. Holden reports the ground sinking despite drought conditions as State Geologist Blatchley probes the cause. Holden fears his farm will vanish.
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Noble County
J. C. Holden
Blatchley
Holden
County Council Approves $350,000 Court House Improvement
The county council voted in favor of a 350000 appropriation to improve the Goshen county courthouse, ending a conflict with Elkhart over the proposed improvements. Elkhart had refused to sign the bond ordinance, proposing a new courthouse be built there instead.
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Goshen
Elkhart
Whitley County Man Aims to Make Sudan Cotton Field
L. S. J. Hunt once penniless in Yorua built a fortune in Africa and now plans a syndicate to settle young men from Indiana in Whitley County to develop the Sudan as a major cotton region.
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Whitley County
Africa
L. S. J. Hunt
Yorea
Soudan
Scaffold Falls at Swedish Mission Church
A scaffold bearing five men collapsed twenty feet at the Swedish Mission church near Porter. John Strom Ott Johnson Swan Johnson and Angus Malmstrom, all church members repairing the building, were badly hurt and may die. The fifth man was unhurt.
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Porter
John Strom
Ott Johnson
Swan Johnson
Angus Malmstrom
Northwest Indiana conference to meet in Michigan City next year
A Terre Haute conference plan to hold next year’s meeting in Michigan City. Reports include hires in Peru high school science, a religious band forming in Clinton, and various local incidents and misfortunes across Indiana towns.
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Northwest Indiana
Terre Haute
Michiga City
Marion Redding
Warren
Peru High School
Albert Butcher
Clinton
Madison County Board of Children Guardians
Porter Patton
Marion
St. Joseph
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Iser
Honre. DE Balzac
Uyas
Theo
Nannon
Crachot
Mademoiselle
Cruchst
M. Cruchot
Rourke
Mia Demoiselle
Cannae
Hannibal
Pharsalia
Caesar
Pompey
Tours
Tastings
William of
Normandy
Harold
Leipsig
Gustavus Adolphus
Blenheim
Marlborough
Austdrlitz
Watbori
Hettysburg
Plevna
Sapowa
Club
Vallejo, Cal
the Naval Club House
Brown
Indiana
Gov. Durbin
Henry Williams
Charles Harris
Dublin
Harris
Cambridge
Ife
Fine
Thomas Harvey
Logansport
Jennie Hall
Toledo, St Louis and Western
Indianapolis
Hillyer
William Daviness
Martinsville
Danville
Hendricks
Plainfield
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