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Newspaper

Western Kansas World

Location

Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Dec 13, 1917

Page

6

Contraband Mutiny Aboard The Indian Chief

Hollis battles mutiny as two deserters seize control with gang of crewmen. In dense fog and near mutiny, Hollis urges discipline, warns of murder risk, and offers a chance to stand with officers to sail to Hamburg. Conditions and loyalties fray as conflict unfolds aboard the neutral American register vessel.

Dugan Hamburg Dégan

Held Prisoner on a Mutinous Ship Amid McCann Gold

The narrator awakens in the captain’s stateroom after a mutiny led by Fergus McCann and his lieutenants Red and Jim White. With the ship wandering northward, he plots survival and a rescue plan while contending with Lyon-like threats and a locked door. The crew’s motive centers on McCann’s wealth as leverage over the voyage and its ominous outcome.

White Lenyard Liverpool Red Seayard Liverpool Jim Germany Billy Olson Simms Harris Hollis McCann Dugan Leanard Death Leayard Olson Fergus McCann Jim White Red Bascom Micers

Textile of Raw Silt Supposedly Remains After Year

A Chinese textile crafted from raw silt is claimed to endure burial in soil for a full year without showing deterioration, suggesting remarkable preservation properties and potential ancient technique insights.

Farmer’s Premonition Sparks Family Visit Surprise

An Indianapolis News tale recounts a family of eight in a large automobile stopping at a northern state farmhouse for water. The farmer’s wife serves a hearty meal as visiting children explore the home, and the farmer’s oldest boy quietly frets, while his father had warned of a day he felt would bring an event like this after injuring his leg earlier.

Indianapolis News Sonny Sartin Pap Mappem

Rectifying Her Mistakes In Wartime England School Reform

The Red Cross Magazine notes England must rebuild schools shorten factory hours and bolster child welfare agencies. In Parliament last spring Sir Herbert Fisher sought a £3,529,000 rise in education funding. A juvenile education committee backs a fourteen year leaving age and compulsory eight hour continuation schooling for fourteen to eighteen.

England Red Cross Magazine Herbert Fisher

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