Quest for Water in Sahara Ends in Tragedy and Miracle
In the Sahara, Belleau Littlefield and Colet drill toward water but a simoom drains their supplies. Colet dies of thirst, Belleau follows, yet at dawn water bursts from the well, flooding the site as the men lie exhausted and hopeful stars look on.
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Mediterranean
Great
Sahara
Belleau
Littlefield
Colet
Technological School
Simeon
Heaven
Simoom
Belleaux
New England
Harry
Trans Saharan Station
A brief vignette by J E Pember follows a journey across arid landscapes and iron rails. The narrator encounters peculiar travelers and glimpses of distant lands as steam and sand blur the horizon.
Desolate Trans-Saharan Rail Node Station 1M Unveiled
A stark desert scene surrounds a remote work site marked Station 1M on the French Trans-Saharan railway. Three workers shelter as a giant iron derrick moves cable in a heatwave, linking Algiers to Timbuctoo and promising eastern Soudan riches.
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Algiers
Timbuctoo
Soudan
Tale of a Swell Dresser Tony Teraini
Tony Teraini rises from a Harlem barber shop milieu to social prominence by being a “swell dresser.” He acquires a secondhand silk hat for 40 cents, varnishes it, and plans a social coup, but a dance night failure isolates him as the envy of rivals and rejection from a potential partner.
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Tony Teraini
Harlem
Tony
New York Sun
Not Quick Enough. A Candid Exchange on Early Moving Pictures
A friend taunts an amateur photographer about exploiting Black subjects for a watermelon eating scene. The judge notes the photographer succeeded only in a blurred image, suggesting a moving picture camera for such a shot.
Stamps Offered As Two One-Cent Substitutes
A Yonkers Statesman snippet shows a drug store clerk asked for a two-cent stamp. He replies no two-cent stamps exist, but offers two one-cent stamps as a substitute. The brief exchange highlights a clever workaround in everyday commerce.
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Yonkers Statesman
Porpoise Menace of the St. Lawrence Tamed by a Vibrating Rod
Article recounts beluga porpoises devastating salmon and cod harvests in the St. Lawrence. Quebec citizen Campbell MacNab develops a method using a vibrating rod in river mouths to deter porpoises, allowing hunters to shoot them in shallow water. Each porpoise yields $30 to $50 in hide and oil, making the technique profitable and reducing a long standing pest.
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St. Lawrence River
Frank Veigh
Quebec
Campbell MacNab
Bic
Portners
Helen
St. Lawrence
War’s folly voiced by labor and peaceable creed
Henry Labouchere and Lord Percy are cited to argue against military fervor. The author, aligning with working people in France Germany and Italy, decries wars’ harms to industry and praises peace driven by trade and honest labor over armed regiments and martial display.
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Henry Labouchere
London
Lord Percy
France
Germany
Italy
Uganda
Soudan
Sokoto
South Africa
Transvaal
French Society Fad Trains Cats In Paris High Society
Paris socialites embrace trained cats as a new fad with women in elite circles dedicating an hour daily to educate their pets. Reports note prominent Parisian society figures participating in the trend.
Three Centuries Old Celebrations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
The Youths Companion notes three hundredth anniversary celebrations in Annapolis Nova Scotia and St John New Brunswick. French explorers Champlain De Monis and Poutrincourt reached these coasts in 1604, predating Jamestown and Plymouth by years. The piece highlights Annapolis history from French to English to Scottish rule, enduring French and English influences, and modern cordial relations during the festivities.
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Atlantic
Canadian
Maritime Provinces
Annapolis
Nova Scotia
Port Royal
St. John
New Brunswick
Noble Basin
Samuel de Champlain
Sieur ‘de Monis
Monsieur Poutrincourt
Jamestown
Virginia
Plymouth Rock
Dumas
Scott
France
England
Canada
Republic
Oblique Quotation Sparks Chronicle of Mrs and Man
A fragment from Harper’s Bazaar presents a shy debate over a husband and wife relation. The lines suggest a formal declaration of identity and a remark on possible time wasted, framed as a terse, elliptical observation.
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Westville
Temple of Fame
J. A. Edgerton
Banner of Gold
J. E. Pember
Shortstory Publishing Company
Minneapolis Journal
Maritime Provinces of Canada
Harper’s 8 Bazar
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