Faraday Earns Place Among Colorado Mine Owners
In a Colorado mining tale, Bud Faraday volunteers to protect Margaret Floyd from a deadly hydraulic surge at the Midas Gold Mining site. His quick action saves her, earning praise from President Floyd who then offers him a directorship aboard the company as they return to town.
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Araday
Colorado Canyon
New York
Midas Gold Mining Company
Broadway
Margaret Floyd
Floyd
Bud” Faraday
Rockies
Faraday
A Mining Company
Harry
Big Harry
Marry
H. B. Floyd
Colorado
Margaret
Miss Floyd
Rom
Midas Company
Little Mountain Station
Courtship stunt sparks laughs in quirky exchange
In a lighthearted scene An Othern See Us, Charlie Lapleigh, and Miss Wigerly engage in a playful courtship stunt. The banter highlights twin thoughts and a shared desire, as the Chicago Daily News quips about the origin of the idea, while Glyen Valeable Library and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths fund an academic gift to the University of London.
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Charlie Lapleigh
Miss Wigerly
Chiago Daily News
Glyen Valeable
Company of Goldsmiths
University of London
Foxrwed
Proof Positive and The Landlady Pricing
A comic exchange shows a student balking at a $10 weekly room rate, exposing the premise that willingness to pay marks the start of a bargain. Separately, a humorous tidbit notes the shah of Persia ordering ministers to marry 50 wives as many others find spouses without royal help.
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Sach
Persia
The Harvest Season of the Rees
The Rees, a northwest tribe once bordering Mandan hunting grounds, have disappeared though legends endure. Squaws cultivated corn in large quantities and held an annual harvest festival at the close of the corn harvest featuring the dog’s dance. They were not warlike and vanished without troubling whites as civilization advanced.
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Northwest
Women Best Scholars Across Coed Colleges Say Reports
Across the country reports from major colleges and universities suggest women excel or match men in scholarship at coeducational institutions. At Chicago and Brown parallels emerge with women earning notable Phi Beta Kappa representation and high marks, though some figures show men slightly ahead in bachelor degree attainment.
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Chicago
Boston University
Phi Beta Kappa Society
University of Chicago
Phi Beta Kappa
George E. MacLean
University of Iowa
West
Northwest
W. H.P. Faunce
Brown’ University
Brown
Pembroke Hall
Submerged Atlantic Mountains and Ocean Depths
London Strand reports on the submerged Atlantic continent with peaks such as Laurel Ethel and Mount Chaucer. It notes depths around 2,000 fathoms near the crest of mountains, describes ranges like Edward the Seventh and Mount Tillotston Bright, and cites overall ocean depths from Krummel and Prince Albert of Monaco including Atlantic 2,012 fathoms and Pacific 2,125.
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Atlantic
London Strand
Laurel Ethel
Alps
Andes
Chaucer
Oceanograpers
Sainthill
Snowdon Range
Edward the
Tillotston Bright
North Atlantic
Placentia
Pacific
Prince Albert of
Monaco
Prof
Krummel
Indian
Antarctic
Arctic
Mediterranean
Anecdotes and Battles Recall at Regimental Reunion
General Hancock and Hugh ONeill are recalled in stories from Civil War days as Judge Anderson shares memories of incidents and anecdotes. The tale of Gettysburg and the mountain pursuit of Lee ends with a coffee and a laugh, while a congressional flub shows Private Allen’s forgetful wit.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
J. 8. Anderson
Fifth
Wisconsin
Gen
Hancock
Hugh O'Neill
Hugh
Havercack
Army of the Potomac
Anderson
Gettysburg
Lee
South Mountain
German Chamber of Commerce Duties for district progress
The chamber of commerce serves to unite and promote the commercial and industrial interests of its district. It initiates examination of new enterprises, supports railways and waterways, and fosters commercial museums and technical education. It also pursues apprentice welfare and moral advancement.
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German Chamber of Commerce
Friendly Enemies on Christmas Day 1862 Across the Rappahannock
An American soldier recalls a Christmas 1862 picket encounter with a Confederate Georgian from Howell Cobb's Legion. They shared pork and hard tack, traded stories, and exchanged a Bible and a likeness before parting. The diary excerpt ends noting later fighting near the Cobb Legion and the Georgia friend.
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Saya
American Tribune
Ninth Army Corps
Fredericksburg
Yank
Barden
Scott
Bull Run
Alexander Barden
Alick
Cobb Legion
Georgia
Curious Battleflag in 1860 Breckinridge Era
The American Tribune recalls John C. Breckinridge as a young vice president and Southern ally who early in the Civil War took the sword for the Confederacy. His wife crafted a battle flag from her wedding dress and urged him to present it to the bravest regiment, eventually given to the Twentieth Tennessee under Col Tom Smith. The flag survived Fishing Creek and the regiment earned the title Battle Regiment in the West.
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John C. Breckinridge
United States
South
The
American Tribune
John
Breckinridge
Fishing Creek
Twentieth Tennessee Regiment
Tom Smith
Twentieth Tennessee
West
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Daily Story Pub Co
REES
Sedgwick
Russell
John Alien
House of Representatives
Mississippi
Allen
Littlefield
Maine
Atettysburg
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania
Howell Cobb
Wil
Will
Bareden
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