Castaway Harbor Tales of Old Enoch Gray and Scat
Old Enoch Gray, captain of a popular pleasure boat, and his son Scat live in Castaway Milne. The aging veteran Captain Dick Hardaker, once trusted, returns drunk and hostile after a shipwreck, vowing revenge as tensions flare between old friends on the wharf.
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Enoch Gray
Castaway
Milne
Old Hooc
Durpont
Porter
Eon
Samuel Carter
Aa Jong
Enoch
Weather Bureau
Washington
Jack
Gray
Scat
Dick Hardaker
Uquer
Captain Enoch
Captain Dick
Cilden
The Apparition Fells Captain Dick in a Savage Clash
In a tense village scene Captain Dick threatens Captain Enoch and two students. Scatt, a feline-like youth, defends his father with a swift kick using ironclad shoes, smashing the captain’s face. Dick vanishes after a brutal, decisive blow and is never seen again.
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Sent
Old Enoch
Scatt
Pap
They Worked the Fraternity Tale of a Regent and Mrs Smith
The Grand Regent of a District of Columbia fraternity recalls how after urging a friend to join the order the member Mr Smith paid dues late but soon paid in advance. Smith fell gravely ill and died, his widow later seeking work through civil service then asking the Regent to recommend her husband for admission.
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Royal Arvanum
District of Columbia
Mr. Smith
Smith
Government Pawnshop Opens in Paris With High Pawn Rates
A government operated pawnshop in Paris reports heavy activity with about one thousand watches pawned daily and around one thousand wedding rings pawned each week, reflecting strong demand and formalized lending.
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Paris
Death in 4 SHQW Storm and the Idaho Winter Memoir
A rugged reminiscence recounts a violent Idaho winter and Sierras snowbound days. miners and families endure thirty feet of snow, pioneer gear, and a dramatic rescue of Alf Carlton trapped by a chimney snowbank. A funeral for Carltons marks a community vigil on Meadow Lake at 8500 feet, with a ceremonial burial beside a pine.
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Wilde
Idaho
Maine
Rockies
Sierras
York State
Ronda
Carlton Brothers
Alf
Carlton
Jin
Sagan Ene
Meadow Lake
Dean
Atlantic
Fragmented Briefs From Everywhere
Briefs touch diverse topics from Russia prisoners to Japan, a 1000-year-old cave find in Colorado, radium power, Eve’s grave in Jeddah, Navajo labor in Denver and Rio Grande, migratory herring, Japan Korea postal symbols, a giant Adam in 1718, railway scrap value, Persin women dress veiling street life, and English cottage flowers tracing to monastery gardens and Henry VIII.
New Walk For Women From London
New fashion reports describe a refined walking style to suit winter garments like the long redingote coat and princess dresses. The pose emphasizes an upright figure with a slight waist bend and lifted chin, taught in physical culture schools as the Gibson girl influenced elegance, with no drastic rules and cautions against sleeping on one side.
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London
Thumbs Ia
Ag Leiig
London Express
Wood challenges claims on Philippine climate health impact
Major General Leonard Wood reports to the War Department that he regards the notion of harmful climate effects on officers and soldiers in the Philippines as among the most nonsensical subjects written about.
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Leonard Wood
War Department
Californias orange crop value splits last season
Returns from California show that the value of the orange crop shipped out of that state last season was 23,925,000 dollars. The growers received 14,500,000 dollars and the railroad and refrigerator lines 9,425,000 dollars.
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California
Hair Counts Vary by Hair Color and Texture
A historical note states that red-haired men have about 20 thousand hairs on the head, with dark hair finer and totaling around 105 thousand, while people with lighter hair average 150 to 175 thousand hairs.
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Japan
Colorado
Jeddah
Denver and Rilo Grande
South Europe
Korea
Henzoln
Adam
Mve
Aly Bolts
Henry VIII
Philippines
Ree
Thiain
Columbia Novelty CO
Dept
East
Boston
Mass
Holiday
Nk Buchla
HEWES @ POTTER
Lincoln Bt
Doaten
Mans
Megue
Tata
Joadit Sun
Pegeltonas Etree
Wscratvonts
Tee Staaiba ‘Ue Marita PiryArn Co
New Haven, Conn
National Photographic Chemical Company
Ith
Penn Ave
Washington,d. C
Ernest Haskell
Eugene P. Lyle, Jr
John Dinwiddie Driscoll
Orm
Maximilian
Mostco
Jacqueline
Zice
Loula Republic
N. Y
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16Th St
New York
van Dre
Igar
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