Burning Daylight in Klondike Fame and Fate
Elam Harnish known as Burning Daylight rises from Circle City to Dawson and San Francisco. He loses a mining fortune in a manipulated scheme, confronts partners with a revolver, then seeks love with Dede Mason as he navigates high finance and personal upheaval.
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Elam Harnish
Alaska
Circle City Trall
Yukon
Tivol
Arnish
Dawson
Klondike
New York
Hamish
San Francistro
Dede Mason
Fie
Dassight
San Irancisco
Dede
Daylight
Daylight's Bay Boom Drives Oakland Growth Vision
Daylight outlines a grand Oakland expansion plan to build roads waterworks docks and hotels, capture waterfront land and water supply, flood the bay with factory sites and a mass of housing. He boasts thirty million available and ready cash to seize corner lots and multiple companies while buying newspapers and consolidating transport and utilities to spark rapid population growth.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Bay
Dede
Cap March Lyne Ete
Sauausted
Atreat Railways
Eens
Daylight’s Oakland venture and a thwarted mare deal
Daylight builds electric lines and plants in Oakland creating a booming district. He faces a moral test when Dede sells Mab the mare to aid her brother and tensions rise as Daylight pursues a private arrangement to fund his brother’s Germany treatment.
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Jones
Sonoma County
Dede
Mab
Germany
A Sudden Visit Upends a Reserved Courtship
Six weeks pass as Dai ght avoids Dede ex accept. On a stormy Sunday he defies restraint and calls her from his hotel notebook. She arrives to meet him. she guides him to his rooms past boisterous youths, signaling a clandestine moment to come.
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Dede Ex Accept
Dede
Selfishness of Love in Deep Affection
A reflective note on love where true affection seeks quiet reward by causing the beloved to appear ungrateful. The piece argues deep feeling spurs subtle acts of self-interest framed as moral or poetic justice.
Lessons for June 30 Review of Second Quarter
The piece surveys Jesus teachings and the June quarter lessons tied to the year of popularity. It outlines themes from Easter, the Sabbath, love, faith, actions, and John the Baptist as forerunner, concluding with compassion and discernment shown in the new kingdom's fulfillment.
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Jesus
John the Baptist
John
Simon
Sand Range Accident Sparks Quick Reaction
At St Andrews a stray bullet struck a plowman during a sand carting session behind a rifle range. The plowman cried out I'm shot and collapsed. A nearby farmer ran up the bank and shouted to the volunteers to stop, pointing out the danger to the horse as well.
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St. Andrews
London
General Grant's tale on military neatness and a brigadier
Gen. F. D. Grant recounted a story about his father speaking with General Sherman. A brigadier known for slovenliness joined, and after the brigadier left, Grant’s father blew a smoke cloud and asked Sherman who assigns that man his shirt duties for the first week.
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F. D. Grant
General Sherman
Sherman
Cutting Répartee from a Legal Exchange
A lawyer questions a witness about testifying against a friend. The witness replies that he loves his friend but loves Truth more, and rejects the idea of betraying a friend for a stranger.
His Choice
A dialogue reveals a cautious investor seeking a paying proposition in a promising enterprise. The exchange contrasts optimism with practical financial expectations. The snippet highlights a mindset shift from enthusiasm to profitability as the speaker weighs commitment.
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Waite Fang
Alameda & Contra Costa Land Syndicate
Consolidated Street Railways
Yerba Buena Ferry Company
United Water Company
Piedmont Realty Company
Fairview and
Portola
Piedmont Laundry Farm
Redwood Consolidated Quarries
New Yorkerald Company
The
MacMill:a Company
Wilkinson
Chicago
Street Railway
San Francisco Bay
Berkeley Hills
Eleator
Miss Maso
Jason
E. 0. Bellers
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Matt
Life Savers
Post
Grocers
Postnim Cereal.Compsny, Ltd
Rattle Creek, Mich
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