Wealthy Men and the Anticosti Island Barons Reach Across Seas
In a panorama of wealth and empire two men stand out. Henri Menier, the chocolate king of France, owns Anticosti Island at the mouth of the St Lawrence, a domain 140 miles long and 40 miles wide, shaping feudal-like control under Canadian law. His fortune, once estimated at 43 million, now around 50 million, marks him among Europe's richest. Cunard lineage and ventures also surface, with Charles Cunard family ties and the early drive behind transatlantic steamship ambitions, framing a historic era of conquest and risk in ocean travel.
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Henri Menier
France
Anticosti
St. Lawrence River
Baron de Rothschild
Canada
M. Menier
Europe
Paris
Joliet
Lost Friends Amid a Brabank Fraud by a Psychic Queen
Alan Randolph and Helen Dale, childhood friends turned married neighbors, fall under the spell of Mme Wildemere, a trance medium who manipulates guilt and loss to profit. A stolen ten dollar bill triggers suspicion, but Susan’s accusation collapses when the bill resurfaces. Helen forgives, and Mme Wildemere is expelled from town as the two women reconcile.
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Alan Randolph
Helen S. Dale
Brabank High School
Archer Avenue
Mme. Wildemere
Brabank
Susan
Helen
Susan Randolph
Tillie
Helen Dale
Mme
Dale
Her End
Mme. Wildefraud
Larry Randolph
Miss Randolph
Photography in Wartime
As the United States entered the war the government organized its camera men. European methods were copied and improved upon. Washington housed a great photographic laboratory directed by commissioned officers while draft selections yielded about a hundred photographers to assist. The lab, described as the most complete in the world, would serve as the base of photo operations.
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United States
Washington
Pho
Sunsets appear oval why and how optics mislead observers
An Oval Sun HY explains why the setting sun looks elliptical near the horizon due to atmospheric magnification and the eye’s perspective. It also notes how dust and heat enhance the effect, compares it to viewing a circle through a lens, and discusses optical distortion from near-horizon air.
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Derstood
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Nce
England
Nard
W. S. Cunard
Sir Bache
Robert Vernon Harcourt
John Lothrop Motley
Samuel Cunard
Savannah
London
Liverpool
Bristol
New York
Sir Samuel Cunard
Great Steamship Line
Britannia
Cunard
Boston Harbor
Tographic
Army
Navy
Boys’ Life
Boy Scouts’ Magazine
Quebec
America
Cunards
Mary Mache Maciver
Sir Bache Cunard
Maud Aline Burke
Chicago
Margaret Cu
George Burns
Glasgow
Burns
Boston
Persia
Ching
Cunard Company
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