A Queer Girl Makes Her Quiet Mark
Stella invites Myra Garland to a Christmas gathering. Myra, quiet and steadfast, helps during a medical crisis and reveals a daring life plan. After a swift departure, she joins the Red Cross and heads toward distant missionary work in Chinese Tartary. The Reeves family, astonished, calls her the queer girl of mythic resolve.
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Hale
Je Wes
Stella
Mere. Theeves
Myra Garland
Patty Harper
Nellie Campbell
Jennie Stagg
Myra
Mrs. Reeves
Academy
Reeves
Arthur Teeves
Naval School
Arthur
Jennie
Trecause
Cairo
Alyra Setimlly
Dwlee
Han
Ana
Egypt
Etrta
Sten
Ted Cross Society
Khartoum
Paris
Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Chinese Tartary
Dramatic Tales Of Railway Insurance Perils
An old Railway Magazine piece recounts odd insurance ticket lore. A betting man buys tickets on trips. one tale recalls a man alerted to a wife by post and a fatal train crash. Tay Bridge disaster funds, a pulp torn ticket still yields print. A victim’s estate reveals cash and small personal fortune. A skull fracture from a low arch closes with surprising longevity. Another policy holder ignores injury for weeks before dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hie Gfe
Straighway
Railway Magazine
Men of Butter and Eggs in a 16th Century Siege Trick
In a tale from Harpers Bazar, Sir Francis Vere uses disguises of Gelderland egg women and beer sellers to seize Zutphe forts. Dutch rebels resist Alva and Spain. Vere’s ruse leads to swift capture while Sir Philip Sidney dies in the ensuing actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip
Duke of
Alva
Bey
Spain
Francis Vere
Vere
Philip Sidney
Vere—Hiarper
The Viagraph Road Surface Elliptical New Instrument
A historic description of the viagraph a device resembling a sledge used to measure road surface undulations. It records variations with two pencils a fixed straight line and a mobile line on a rolling wheel linked to a lever. It notes use in England and a numerical feet index for severity of unevenness. It also cites the US constitution naming the government United States of America and discusses territorial scope and amendments.
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England
St. Louis
United States America
United Stater of
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Fred. T. Dubois
Burton L
John T. Morrison
M. Stevens
W. H. Gibson
Theo
Turner John A
Bagley R
Rounds
R. V. Coozier
Henry N, Coffin
Robert Bell
Jasque L
Scott Vow
Eglewon
Supreme Court
James F. Airshie
I. N. Sullivan
Charles Stockslager
Istriet
Lyttleton Price
Land Office
Custer County
Charles F. Baker Ohn
J. Fitzpatrick
Jesse G. Finnell
William J. Bowen
William Elder
Geo
E. Keyes
Alice Felkper
Martha Keenan
W. W. Ademson
Duncan Cameron
Rube Howell
E. B. Cartie
George Hosford
Frank Uehren
Fourth Judicial District
Cassia County
Lincoln County
Elmore County
Blaine County
Price
Lytiletc
Custer Lodge NO
O. F
Challis
M. M. Sweet
N. G
J. G. Fisseun
Silver Leaf Rebekah NO
Silver Leaf
Rebekah Lodge No
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Pearl McGowan
Mabel Jose
Custer
1.C.C.F
Thomas Jose
C. P
Congregations
Christian Endeavor
Nickerson
Robert W. Philps
Dentisv. Mee
Odd Laws Hall
Sula Street
J. ©. Rogers
W. W. Adamson
Rogers & Adamson
Attorneys-At-Law
R. A. Pierce
W. J. Lamme
Idaho
Frank Nigkersor
AOL
Onallis, Ida
Prospa
Investo
Lutah
Oregon
D. E. Burley
Salt Lake City
Utah
Robinson Bar
Warm Spring Creek
Salmon River
Clayton
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K. D. Williams
Holland
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