Wee Cripple Fulfills Duty At Lighthouse Night
Kenneth Mayne and his crippled son Willie guard the Inverkaldy lighthouse shore as three wreckers abduct the keeper. Willie climbs with books and a chair to light the lamps, risking a fall yet ensuring all lamps burn. The false beacon fails as Willie’s glow saves ships and defeats the criminals. Kenneth returns to praise his brave boy.
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Inverkaldy Hgllhouse
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Laddier
Fragments of a Poem Amid Sea and Isle Imagery
A dreamlike verse passage portrays restlessness beyond meadow and fell. It speaks of rustling trees guarding smiling plains and a distant shore where bright shells gleam and fish dart among seaweeds.
Two on lem with a pack pony chase on prairie night
A sheriff and scout follow two mounted strangers toward Republican River after a weary trek across Buffalo Station. The men are labeled likely Texican drovers or outlaw riders as a moonlit pursuit begins with a pack pony between them.
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Texas
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North Platte
Praire
Desperate Showdown on the Prairie: A Sheriff and a Train Heist
A quiet night erupts into a brief gunfight as a dozen troopers confront fleeing robbers. A horse falls, a rider is shot, and a boy fights on. the suspected robbers turn out to be a Texan couple with $11,000 in coin, disguises and all.
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Dover
North Platte
Poe
Proverbs From Don Quixote Charm and folly in verse
A collection of quips and maxims drawn from Don Quixote and related musings. It blends wit about beauty and virtue, restraint, luck, and human folly with scattered anecdotes about manners, hunger, and chance encounters. The tone reflects a period newspaper miscellany of quotes and brief humorous observations.
Washington Ancestor Memorial in Brington Parish Church
In Brington Northamptonshire the parish church holds memorials of the Spencer family and a lineal Washington ancestor. A granite slab in the chancel records Lawrence Washington of Northampton, an ancestor of George Washington, with effigies and a mortuary chapel for the Spencers. The article notes Holmby House ties and the church’s late medieval to Tudor architectural echoes.
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Westminster
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Robert Washington
Sovngrave
Countie of
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Tees
Countie
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United States
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Alfred T. Story
Harper's Magazine
Mar
The Fairy Watch
A传奇 tale sets a poor couple in Yates County with 12 children and a gold watch as the motive. The father hides the watch before Hezekiah Shotgun sinks it in Crooked Lake. A trout swallows the chain, the watch rests at lake bottom, and a fairy guards it with a moral about peace and family.
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Hezekiah
Ile
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Itezekial
Gond
Intemperance in Male and New Drug Habits Cited
Governor Garcelou’s Maine temperance address highlights rising intemperance beyond liquor including tobacco snuff dipping and opiate use. A Maine law critique suggests druggists sales surged after prohibitory legislation, with opium eating increasing and reform relying on example and higher ideals rather than law alone.
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Desolation of Babylon in springtime contrast with ruin
In April the Euphrates valley shows green fields and irrigation canals. Described by Geary in Through Asiatic Turkey, the old capital’s ruins seem less mournful as birds, blossoms, and spring odors fill the scene, suggesting charity’s beauty in giving.
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