House of the Black continues with a tense chase scene
In a moonlit Glen a man and Lona flee a looming danger toward Roaring Run. She warns him to go and keep silent as a deadly force or fate seems to stalk them. He escapes to his home seeking normalcy, while dread lingers over the old house and the Run.
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Uke
Eibbor
Roaring Run
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Tie
Man Li
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Denver Post
The Play and the Chorus In Rose Hartewick’s World
After a devastating fire Rose Hartswick withdraws from life, her fiancé Karl Keichline gains her father’s approval while she fixes on a distant view, a pine cone note from Jim Jonk, and a dangerous social future. The chapter follows her mood, Karl’s optimism, and a churchyard night wager among neighbors in the valley. Rose’s haunting decision looms as May deadline nears.
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Rose
Dot
Val
Atairs
Miss Hartewick
Arden
The Cyclone Orator of Kansas Bristow
Washington special profiles Joseph J. Bristow as the rising speechmaker in Kansas politics. From a timid editor to a confident stump speaker, Bristow gains technique and wins two debates against Chester I. Long, then secures the Senate verdict on election day.
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Zuyder Zee
Chester I. Long
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Senator Long
He Was Honest and the Spy’s Pay
Revelations about the double career of the Russian police agent Azeff recall a tale of Louis XVIII and Fouche. The king asked who spied on him during the empire, learning the Comte de Blacas was the spy for two hundred thousand francs a year. Louis replied that Blacas was honest, after all.
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Philadelphia
Azeff
Louis XVIII
France
Fouche
Napoleon
Comte de Blacas
Louis
Language of Clothes and Victor Hugo Home Tale
A Cleveland Plain Dealer clipping opens with a pompous colored woman asking for a plain calico gown in a cloak department. It then shifts to a note about Victor Hugo's house in Paris, its history, and a quip from Arsene Houssaye. The piece ends with a London Globe anecdote about a tramp and a humane bullfight interruption.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Victor Hug
Victor Hugo
Paris
Arsene Houssaye
Victor
Hugo
Princess de Laurignan
London Globe
Government Cemeteries in the United States
The United States established cemeteries for military and naval burials across eight percent of sites in two states, mainly in the South. Eleven cemeteries hold over 10,000 graves each, with Gettysburg, dedicated by Lincoln, among the smallest and housing about 3,500 soldiers. In 1872 control passed to the federal government.
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Boston Globe
United States
Union
South
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Chemical Amnity and Distant Maritime Facts Revealed
A collage of odds and ends cites a chemical question from Cornell Widow, Japan’s fleet statistics totaling 7 523 ships, a Brooklyn Bridge maintenance cost of 360000 yearly, and a humorous annotated exchange about a student’s tax estimate for college expenses, ending with a failed effort to regulate a New York election signal.
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Cornell
Mercantile Marine
Japan
Brooklyn Bridge
New York City
Chicago Tribune
John
New York
Over the Fence Neighbor Delivers Coffee Substitute Advice
An old Baird Texas resident recounts quitting coffee for Postum after coffee caused severe dyspepsia and pain. He reports immediate improvement, regular bowels, and regained strength in two weeks. He says his son also benefited and his family now uses Postum in place of coffee. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
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Texas
Postum
Wellgilis
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