A Wayward Beauty and the Damorey Court Welcome
Lady Beauchamp welcomes her ward Beryl Vivian to Damorey Court. A hidden guardian, playful sons, and a near tragedy at the river test the new household. Beryl saves young Eddie from drowning with help from Franklin Gower, revealing emotions and alliances as the guests settle in.
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Leo
Beryl
Eddie
Bery
Frank
Vivian Beryl
Franklin Gower
Vivian
Franklin
Happies
Lady Beauchamp
Damorey Court
Trevor
Trouts Vanish as Friends Slip on Stepping Stones
Three friends in a tense race for a fish attempt a stealthy catch on slippery stones. Eddie fumbles blame toward Leo while Beryl and Leo exchange jokes about drowned trout until Eddie dives into the stream in a bid to salvage the day.
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Beryl
Leo
Eddie
The Queen of Spain's Chaplain and a Scot in Salt Lake
Rev Dr Lees, summoned from Salt Lake on returning from Australia to baptize the Queen of Spain, is a former chaplain to Queen Victoria and performed fifty two Balmoral ceremonies. He notes a Scottish hostel in Jerusalem and a Salt Lake encounter with a Tabernacle official who boasted of Paisley and the auld kirk while contrasting privileges.
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Lees
Salt Lake
Australia
Spain
Victoria
Balmoral Castle
Europe
Jerusalem
Canada
Salt Lake City
Great
Mormon Tabernacle
Scotaman
The
Tabernacle
St. Giles
Paisley
Scotland
Dr. Lees
Gambling crackdown in Ostend sparks state trial in Belgium
Belgium faces a major gambling prosecution as licenses are withdrawn and illicit venues emerge especially in Ostend. Police have rounded up thirty seven people for running unlicensed gaming houses, with reports naming an ex deputy and an embassy secretary among the implicated, though the latter may be shielded by his position.
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Belgium
Ostend
London Globe
Soldiers and spies of the Civil War era reveal a woman front
An interview with a colonel recounts how women in the Civil War cloaked as men joined camps, escaped muster, and served with courage. Tales span nurse duties, courage under fire, and romances amid regiments, including a nurse who fought and later served with a hospital, and a social mirage of love and loyalty amid marching troops.
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Garibaldi
Joe
Remarkable Experiments and Global Fact Highlights
Poitiers wheel ed stretcher drawn by a dog aids ambulance work. Germany exported over 42 million books weighing 42 100 000 pounds valued at 15 00 000. Japan runs 32 timepiece factories producing clocks and watches worth nearly 800 000. 209 792 standing clocks and 441 765 hanging clocks reported. Belgium issues Sunday stamps causing Monday mail delivery. Yellowstone Park set aside by Congress in 1872 covering 93 312 square miles. Yale’s Professor Brown completes years of moon position observations and plans publication over ten years. Kipling’s Canada note contrasts Shakespeare absence in new town names with many English poets across the U S. Livery precocious boy Ruskin’s early verse at age seven and cathedral travels. We Two letters seek ideas for bank clerk couples to marry amid salaries. Galilee yacht returns. ocean magnetic survey pauses for vessel construction with 65 000 Pacific miles logged. In northern India sheep used as sure-footed pack beasts. each carries 16-20 pounds load and grain exchange. Charlestown navy yard reports anchors weighing 17 000 pounds each. largest anchors prior weighed 16 500 pounds and cost 2 000. five men work a month on each. Anchor set measures 15 feet crown to shackle, nine and a half feet arm span, crossbar ~15 feet, palm welds ~32 inches.
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Japan
Belgium
Yellowstone National Park
Congress
United States
Brown
Yale University
Maine
Kipling
Canada
Kosciusko County
Indiana
North America
John Ruskin
England
Tondon Express
Galilee
San Francisco
Ocean Magnetic Survey
Henry J. Gielow
Carnegie Institution
Washington
W. J. Peters
India
Himalayas
Navy Yard
Charlestown
Mass
Pacific Coast
Charlestown Yard
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London
Helen
Gower
Sir Trevor
Les
Irene
Staffa
Mother Dearest
Beryl Vivian
Beryl Dear
Bervi
Hil
Queen of
Gaming
Shireens
Rey
Chicago
West Virginia
Leutenant
Shiloh
Howor
Mosby's
John 8. Mosby
Shenandoah Valley
Millwood
Mosby
Wuert
McKinley
Winchester
Antietam
Srimy
Jobo DD. Wells
Metropolitan Magazine
Poitiers
France
Germany
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