Snakes and Echoes of East Africa and Elsewhere
A fragmented compilation notes East African snakes and their rarity, a wartime memory of a deadly black mwamba in bed, and comments on Esperanto recognition by German and British authorities. It retells a Scottish preacher joke about English spelling reform and small social maxims on punctuality, bread crumbs, and superstition in Balkan and Slavonic contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Africa
Eust Africa
South Africa
Richard Grant White
Blavonte
The Savage Sump Mystery and Lake Tahoe Murder Plot
A long ago Virginia City mining tragedy blends with stock speculation. William Meeker and Col Clair plot to flood and drain the Savage mine using a lake outlet at Tahoe. Col Clair murders Meeker to secure two million in profits as the plot collapses with the sinking of the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia City
Nev
Micah
Savage Mine
Incfine
Goire
Butre
Comstock
Cumstock Minceta
Caran River
Cometock
Savage
Miners’ Union
San Francisco
Lake Tahoe
Sierra Mountains
Nevada
California
William Meeker
California Street
Col. Clair
Pine
Meeker
Virginia Ciy
Col Chur
Licino Ae
W. M
San Prancisce
Tahoe
Tahoe City
Hartel
Goodman & Crowley
Joe Goodman
Eipher
Goodman
Exchange
Stock Exchange
Lake ‘Tahoal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bandkerchiefs
Messinger
Alma Record
Woman's Home Companion
Alma
Hampton's Magazine
Human Life
Alma Records
Everybody's
Hampton's
Hampton,s
Alma Record Review of Reviews
Alma Record Farm Journal
Paris
Germany
Onenl Norton
Chemnitz
Gerry
Catmaster
United Kingdom
Sam Davis
Babblerwright
Shortstory F
Alma State Savings Bank
Michigan
W. A. Bablice
Geo. W. Moore, Cashier
Dean
M.L. Perrigo
Xmas
G. W. Wright
Union
St. Louis
Ann Arbor
S . Louis
A. A
American Transfer CO
ST Louis
Mich
St. He
Wright House
Skuen
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