Bridegroom from the East continues perilous jungle plot
Peg nurses Ethel as tensions rise over a coerced engagement. In a Malay colonial setting, Christian Petrie and Lieut Denton plot the next move while Mat Han and a sleeping Malay guard complicate escape. Ethel fears marriage, Peg contemplates breaking her own engagement to Charlie Denton amid danger and deceit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peg
Denton
Douglas Stewart
Mat Han
Petrie
Christian Petrie
Ethel Dear
Ethel
Christine Petrie
Mr. Stewart
Charlie Denton
Ethel Rule
Lieut Denton
Lieut. Denton
Hallo
Ramsay
Smith
Port Elliot
Posthaste
Charlie
Singapore
Mr. Denton
Margaret
Night Escape With Petrie and Denton
Peg and Ethel, guided by Christian Petrie and Denton, flee through jungle toward their camp. Peg feels protected and blissful under a starry sky, amid danger from hidden pursuers and jungle beasts as they reach a long hut camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peg
Charlie Denton
Ethel
Christian Petrie
Denton
Miss Morland
Petrie
If You Want to Be Loved
A Christian World note offers timeless social guidance on avoiding contradictions, refraining from prying into friends’ lives, resisting envy, not distrusting chances, avoiding gossip, and staying polite to all, including those of lower status. It urges respect for others and cautious judgment.
Spine essay sparks schoolroom anatomy humor
In a West Philadelphia school a class studying physiology used a skeleton in lessons and during recess pupils joked about bones. A standout composition titled The Spine described it as a unch of bones running up and down the back that holds the ribs with the skull on one end and the writer on the other.
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West Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record
Belgium’s Elongated Orchards On Roadsides Revenue
Belgians line roadsides with apple and year trees of cider and perry varieties. About 800000 roadside trees yield £13,000 annually, roughly 4d per tree, while replanting costs, including sinking fund contributions, come to a little over 1d per tree.
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Belgium
Thebes Plans Garrison Strength for Gates and Chariots
Thebes could muster a hundred oo and send out at each gate 0,000 fighting men and 200 chariots for a total of 1,000,000 men and 2000 chariots.
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Thebes
Civil War Echoes From a Transatlantic Journey Part
A traveler recounts arriving in New York aboard the Arabia, meeting figures like Horace Greeley, Lincoln and Seward, and attending events at the Clarendon and Willard’s hotels. He details conversations on slavery, politics, and the Union’s fate, then journeying by steamer toward Norfolk as Fort Sumter’s news shocks and North Carolina secession fervor grows.
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New York
Clarendon Hotel
Rowan
Mynheer Kerner
Wellington
Waterloo
Sixty-ninth
St. Patrick's
Corcoran
Butler Duncan’s
Mr. Tilden
Sherman
Barlow
Governor Seymour
Fish
New England
Seymour
Washington
Fort Sumter
The
Clarendon
Medias Res
Mr. Lincoln
Horace Greeley
America
Mr. Greeley
Willard’s Hotel
Abraham
Sandaford
Brussels
Truman Smith
Foster
Keen
Anthony
Seward
Mr. Seward
White House
President Lincoln
Willard’s
Prince Bismarck
Lord Lyons
Legation
Sam Ward
Chase
Cameron
Smith and Co
Sumner
England
Douglas
Totus
Illis
Eutaw House
Baltimore
Norfolk
Atlantic
Robert Lee
Despond
Lake Drummond
North Carolina
Abe
Blackwater
Jeff Davis
Glory
Richmond
Goldsborough
Sir William Howard Russell
North American Review
Jests and jibes from many papers in one page
A collage of light humor and social quips from Philadelphia Ledger Cleve land Leader Washington Star Brooklyn Life Meether Town Topics Gossip The Catholic Mirror Puck London Tit Bits Philadelphia Inquirer Chicago Tribune and others. The items feature witty exchanges about courtship marriage money brains hair and manners with brief dialogue snippets and playful observations.
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Johnny—iIt
Muriel
Carsone
Brooklyn
Robert
Washington Star
Miss Blondlock
Puck
Lord Lewson
Pat
Pat—Bedad
London
The
Catholic Mirror
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Spain
Holland
Italy
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Sweden
Grocer
Dickelwurst
Alretty
Philadelphia Ledger
Jimmy
Cleveland Leader
Mirandy
Harper's Bazar
Catholic Standard and Times
Jones
Thompson
Chicago Daily News
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