Double-Barreled Ruse on a Tramp Ship
A sea yarn depicts Captain Pray and his chief officer Hogg cooking up a fake illness to trap Smiley, a deceitful suitor tangled with two women. A nurse arrives with a doctor, a dramatic bluff unfolds, and a ploy nearly sinks the plan before Smiley learns the truth and sails away.
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Smiley
Baltimore
Pillman
Black Sea
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Putin Jal
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Henry
Egypt
Ortul
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American Millionaires Favor Domestic Ancestral Homes
American millionaires after European visits seek their own ancestral homes at home rather than abroad. They buy English noble houses briefly, then return to Wall Street life, finding foreign aristocratic life impractical and seeking modern comforts or building homes closer to busy cities.
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Europe
Philadelphia
Wallstreet
Millonaire
Wanted Queen's Courier in Turkish Tour Case
A London era tale recalls a wealthy American in Constantinople who claimed to hire a queen's courier. A trip prosecutor of tour and family seeks the servant, offering far more pay than the royal post, testing whether the famed queen's messenger still commands high bounties abroad.
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Constantinople
Quern
Bern Tourin
Turkey
Electric railway to the Jungfrau highest in Europe
A near completion electric line climbs the Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps. It will span seven and a half miles to a summit station at 13,670 feet with a lift to the summit and a mountain power plant harnessing waterfall sources. Passenger health monitoring and luxury stations are planned for the rarefied air journey.
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Europe
Jungfrau
Swiss Alps
Lnst
Bchelberg
Eiger
Ingenious clock rouses cadet with coffee boiler
Aene Cadet awoke to a clever system that used electricity to lift a rising bell and boil his coffee. The clock’s minute hand triggered two spring contacts, sending current to ring the bell and activate an electro-magnet. This released sulfuric acid to ignite a spirit lamp under the coffee boiler, heating the coffee by the time he dressed.
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Aene Cadet
Enelieh Scientific Corps
Qin
Decline in Family Size Through American History
A historical calculation shows average children per white native family fell from over six a century ago to under two among Boston upper classes by 1900. The trend moves from six plus in early America to below two in 1900 among elite Boston families, with intermediate drops in 1830 1860 1872.
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United States
Boston
First Prune Tree Planted in California in 1870
The first prune tree was planted in California in 1870 by a person who brought the tree from France to the country. The readable fragments hint at early orchard origins and plantings, though much of the text is garbled.
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California
France
Tim Wcres
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