Seizing a Smuggler On Nova Scotia Coast
A lone preventive officer traps a sixty ton schooner off Nova Scotia while pursuing a notorious smuggling gang. He boards at night, takes command, seizes the vessel, and holds the fort until daylight as smugglers approach the wharf with a loaded cargo of contraband. The officer and crew then face a tense standoff near the Atlantic coast.
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Nova Scotia
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Fixnelon
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Ottawa
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Escape from a schooner by cunning and force
A lone rescuer describes a tense night aboard a seized schooner as pirates attack with rocks and a shotgun. He disables the vessel’s steering, crates a smoky retreat plan, escapes in a boat after nightfall, rallies a tugboat, and returns with armed men to reclaim the schooner, delivering the cargo to shore and securing the prize at the wharf with the queen’s broad arrow.
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Ruffien
Neares
Shad
Commercial Bulletin
Early Chinese Compass Use Traced in Antiquity
The article notes Du Halde's claim that China used a compass similar to the mariner's as early as 1040 B C but cites Renandot’s dispute. It confirms knowledge of the magnetic needle by 1265 with Marco Polo observing northern China, mentions Arab sailors using floating needles in cork for north-pointing, and cites Vasco da Gama in 1498 testing Arabian ships near Mozambique.
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du Halde
China
Renandot
Marco Polo
Vasco da Gama
Natambique
A Curious Look at Courting Henry VIII and a Quiet House
An article blends humorous reminiscence about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with a fictional account of a house where young couples court. It contrasts imagined Windsor, Wraysbury, Hever Castle, and St. Albans scenes with the awkward, nosy observations of guests and locals. The piece concludes with a brief, blunt juvenile dialogue from Jerome EK’s Three Men in a Boat.
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Picnic Point
Henry VIII
Anne Bottyn
Hever Castle
Kent
St. Albans
England
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Pats
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John Edward
Anne
Buckinghamshire
Windsor
Wraysbury
Henry
Tom
Jerome EK
Jerome
Child’s Request Tickle Tea Spoon Lisped Plea
A Detroit mother recalls her young daughter left at the table calling for her mamma with a gentle lisp. The child pleads please to tickle her tea with a spoon, prompting a tender domestic moment in Detroit.
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Detroit
Kitty
Detroit Free Press
Portraits of Buttoned Lives and Phrases
A collection of comic lines and witty exchanges from era papers. The snippets joke about installments in housing, tailoring by seam and identity, and social fashion. Characters include a tailor and Mrs Easemore with spirally buttoned gowns.
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Mr. Easemore
Gertrude
Harper's Bazar advertisement for bound volumes and mail orders
Harper's Bazar promotes home fashion and literary content with illustrations and serials. It offers bound volumes, pricing, and mail delivery details, inviting remittances by post money order or draft through Harper & Brothers New York.
Harper's Young People Volume XII opens November 4 1800
The weekly magazine for young readers promises a rich program with fiction serials by Kirk Munroe Howard Pyle Sophie Sweet and Annie Bronson King plus stories by Page Boyesen Lasseter Spottard Wilkins Perry and others. It features science history travel adventure games sports and hundreds of illustrations and is praised as the best reading for boys and girls with careful editing and a balance of instruction and entertainment.
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Slurper
Kirk Munroe
Howard Pyle
Flying Will Farm
Sophie Sweet
Prinea
KR. KL Munkil Trick
Harper's Young People volumes offered by Barper & Brothers
Postage prepaid 2 per year for term subscriptions. Volumes XIII X and XI bound in cloth mailed with postage paid at 9 550 each. Other volumes out of print. Specimen copy 5 cent stamp. Single numbers 5 cents. Remit by money order or draft to Barper & Brothers New York.
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Harper's Vasar
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