Murder on the Icebound Schooner Ends in Tragedy
On a perilous voyage from St Boniface to Quebec Hilary Askew confronts traitors Dupont Brousseau Pierre and Leblanc aboard a lumber laden schooner. Madeleine defies danger to save him, but a brutal struggle amid raging seas ends with wreck and a bleak shore of ice and loss.
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Dupont
Brousseau
Captain Dupont
Hilary
Quebec
Brousseau Sharp
Monsieur
Lafe Jennell
Lafe
Madeleine
St. Boniface Company
Lupont
Ife
Pierre
Marie
Mademoiselle
St. Boniface
Leblanc
Chateau
Monsieur Askew
St. Lawrence
M Hilary
Morris
Ste. Anne
Father Lucien Trains in Single-Stick at Secluded Study
Father Lucien, exiled by villagers, grows fond of Hilary and fears transfer. He carves a hazel singlestick from a magazine remedy and practices precise lunges in his study, gaining health and expertise unseen beyond his old housekeeper. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Father Lucien
Hilary
Ste. Marie
St. Boniface
Quebec
Nell Gwynn’s Rise From Orange Seller to Royal Favorite
Nell Gwynn, illiterate yet beloved, rose from an orange seller at the Theater Royal to a treasured figure in London society. Her warmth and charity earned the enduring esteem of the people, and Charles II allegedly said, Let not poor Nelly starve, on his deathbed.
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Nell Gwynn
Nell Gwyn
Nell
Theater Royal
London
Burnet
Evelyn
Charles II
Nelly
England
Earth Shine Illuminates Moonlight
The sun lights the earth and moon, with light reflecting between them to create moonshine. Earth shine appears on the moon’s darker hemisphere when conditions favor it.
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Earth
Moon
Won't Sweeten Coffee
A brief cartoon-like item in the Boston Transcript notes the saying adversity has its uses but dismisses the sentiment as not helpful in practice. The line echoes a common adage without expanding into a broader story or names.
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Boston Transcript
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