Longing for Betty and a Colonel in Yorickshire
Betty Rawlins, amid summer gaieties at Lowland Glen near Fort Sherman, fancies Col Reginald Southcote, an English colonel, while Capt Roy Lanyard, in love, longs for her. A fakery of aristocratic romance unravels as a stockyard of rumors tests Betty's heart and loyalty.
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Bonn Rawlins
Buttry
Betty
Lowland Glen
Fort Sherman
Uncle Sam
Roy Lanyard
Roy
Capt. Lanyard
Betty Berself
Betty Rawlins
Towland Glen
Dexter Country Club
Col
Reginald Southcote
Betty Rawlin
Royal Yorickshire Regiment
Regiinald Southcote
Cirelea
Capt
Lanyard
Old Coke
the Broad Arrow
the United Services of Great Britain
Coke
Powell-Bacon
Royal Yorickshire Regimnt
Yorickshire
Chicago Record-Herald
Conscience Law Corporation Formed in Maine
The Conscience Law corporation, a Maine formed entity, operates to provide a transportation medium for conscience money or property. Its letter head features a balance scale with conscience law and legal law mottos. Notable slogans include biblical foundations and do unto others principles.
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Oda Corporation
Maine
Conscience Law Corporation
Lost Continent Theory Revived by Royal Irish Academy
London reports Mr. Scharff of the Royal Irish Academy revived an Atlantic lost continent hypothesis linking Portugal with the Azores and Madeira in the Miocene era. He claims Morocco joined South America via the Canaries to St Helena, with Europe submerged only at the start of the tertiary epoch. Edward VII stands out for visiting St Pauls more times than any other English sovereign.
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London
Scharff
Royal Irish Academy
Atlantic
America
Europe
Portugal
Azores
Madeira
Morocco
South America
Canaries
St. Helena
Edward
St. Paul's
Edward VII
Anne
France
Spain
Oysters and Oaths A Civil War Feud
A veteran describes a prank during the siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakeley. An officer steals a sack of oysters while the narrator fills a coffee sack, sparking a lasting feud. After the nine days siege ends, reconciliation occurs when the chaplain admits the ruse and the narrator recalls the motive for the past grudge.
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Spanish Fort
Ala
Dauph Island
Mobile Bay
American Tribune
First Gun at Fort Sumter A Gibbes Claim
A Charleston News and Courier letter from the son of the late Maj. Wade Hampton Gibbes of Columbia asserts his father, Lt Gibbes, fired the first signal gun at Fort Sumter on April 12 1861. He describes simultaneous actions including firing a shell, aiming a fort shot, and laying mine wires. No consensus which of three batteries fired the second shot.
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Fort Sumter
Wade Hampton Gibbes
Columbia
8. C
Charleston Newa and Courier
Charleston Harbor
Gibbes
James
Raffin
Fragmentary chatter recalls a forgotten gift request
A clipped excerpt from a Chicago Daily News column shows two men trading remarks about anger and a pending shopping task for a wife. The fragment hints at memory lapse and a late realization of an unpurchased item.
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Chicago Daily News
Lost Cause Lingers in Postwar Southern School AIr
A university professor recounts how southern schoolhouses after the Civil War taught a lingering Lost Cause narrative. Teachers in border states emphasized Jefferson Davis as the first president and Lee as the greatest soldier, naming New Orleans and Charleston as key cities while ignoring Lincoln and Grant. The oral curriculum cited cotton as the country’s greatest product and avoided northern figures, slowing sectarian reconciliation.
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South
New York Sun
George Washington
Jefferson Davis
Lee
New Orleans
Richmond
Charleston
United States
North
Lincoln
Grant
Sherman
Mason and Dixon
Extravagant Yankee Artillery Tales From Murfreesboro
A Detroit Free Press account recalls a Loomis battery veteran describing artillery use at Murfreesboro. He notes the high moral impact of shelling and recounts a scene where no wounded enemy appeared after heavy bombardment, noting the enemy prisoner exchange moment.
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Loomis
Detroit Free Press
Murfresboro
Donkey Evasion of Draft Sees Laughing Farmers Help
A Civil War era tale from Milwaukee Sentinel recounts a Mary land Kentucky border communities officer compiling draft lists. A farmer’s door yields a boy who names Billy Button who sleeps in the barn as a witness to the deception. The draft officer enrolls the donkey as a man and is chased away by the farmer’s laughter.
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Maryland
Kentucky
Anne Arundel County
American Tribune
Billy Button
William Button
Billy Buteton
I Won’t I Will I Did
A Washington Star verse by Mary A Denison depicts a little boy torn between defiant refusals and hopeful chants. The poem traces his moods from I wont to I will to I did as he grows up with family nearby.
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Iran
Xeour
Mary A. Denison
Washington Star
Parlor Magic for Boys Trick Reveals Hidden Confederate
A Brooklyn note describes a stage deception where two performers use coded raps to signal letters and conjure an animal in a locked room. The guide emphasizes memorizing signals, manipulating ash and powder, and timing to fool the audience as the confederate identifies the animal, such as a dog.
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Thorugh
Brooklyn
Aweto vegetable caterpillar and its miraculous fungus
The article describes the aweto or vegetable caterpillar Hipialis vire scens reaching inches, living near the rata tree, burying underground. When full grown a fungus Sphaeria Robertali attaches at the neck, grows into a bulrush like stem, fills the caterpillar, then both die. It is edible in soft form and used as a dye in Maori tattoo.
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Hipialis
Oddest Insect From New Zealand Described
Melbourne observer L T Chambers sends notes on extraordinary New Zealand vegetable caterpillars. The piece cites fungi affecting various insects and a striking development stage described in Wakefield's New Zealand and After Fifty Years, noting the creature straddles flora and fauna in its final form.
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L. T. Chambers
Melbourne
Australia
New Zealand
Wakefeld
First Class Work Behind Barn Sparks Self Respect
A back fence built cheaply by a carpenter proves the value of pride in workmanship. The tale, cited by Wellspring, argues against taking on subpar work to gain clients, noting the mason’s insistence on quality leads to better opportunities. Also notes on glaciers in the Alps and King Alfred’s royal lineage.
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Houston
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Eins
Fort Blakeley
Alabama
Tennessee
Madison
Wis
Lost Cause
Mple
Country School
Iife
Milwaukee
Deley
Alpe
Alps
French Alps
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
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Alfred
Bes
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