The Train Siege Ends as Faruskiar Kills Ki Tsang
In a dramatic confrontation on the Transasiatic, Faruskiar leads a defense against Ki Tsang and his Mongol band attacking the treasure car. After a furious battle, Faruskiar kills Ki Tsang with a final kandijar thrust, ending the raid and saving the group aboard.
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Pekin
Caterna
Popof
Ki-Tsang
Faruskiar
Monsieur Bombarnac
Faraskiar
Ghangir
Son of Heaven
Miss Bluett
Madame Caterna
Kinko
Major Noltitz
Ruskiar
Ansailants
Santa Fe Trail Hotel Proposal for Las Vegas Emerges
A Las Vegas Optic item relays a Kansas City Star idea to build a three story native brownstone hotel named the Santa Fe Trail Hotel Company. The plan includes a 220 foot dining room, wall displays of the old Santa Fe route and associated figures, and rooms named for states and territories. Estimated cost is $80,000. Also noted is Bengal census data showing 4,000 baby girls married in the province, 600 under a year old widowed.
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Las Vegas
Kansas City Star
Optic
The
Westport
Missouri River
Santa Fe
United States Cavalry
Redian
Doniphan
Kit’ Cargon
F. O. Kihlberg
Brunswick
William Kroenig
Olathe
Kan
Council Grove
Bent's Fort
Raton Mountains
Red River Station
Fort Union
Fort Craig
Pigeon Roost
Tas Vegas
Bengal
Bob White in the Clover Sings a Garden Tale
A poem recounts Bob White bold in May and June singing from dawn to dusk among clover and reeds. The male calls to his mate and visits a garden edge while a looming reaper crowds threaten the little home in the field. The speaker worries for the nest and asks what will happen tonight.
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Bob White
Bob
Bob White Ls
Rover
Wilfred Roofe Seeks Social Rise Through Brother
Wilfred, a Rockford social climber, vies for Ethel Marsh’s hand while his brother Tom returns wealthy from America. Tom’s easy charm and blunt manners threaten Wilfred’s carefully curated image as he discovers Ethel’s refusal and the limits of social ascent.
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Ilfrhed Roofe
Rockford
Wilfred
Stillmouth
Ethel Marsh
Rockford Society
Tom
America
Pater
Gorgonzola
Mater
Jack
Reck
High Street
Wied
Ee Brisav Powne
Ethel
New York
Hong Kong
States
England
London
the Quarterly
The Cobbler A Chronicle Of A Failing Trade
Observations compare traditional shoemakers with factory work. The piece contrasts cobbler apprenticeships, wages, and living conditions with those of factory hands, noting declining craft income and rising employment in other sectors. It examines economics, rents, leather costs, and the bleak outlook for journeyman cobblers.
Giants of History: Tall Skeletons Across Ages and Lands
A historical survey catalogs giant skeleton finds from Rouen to Sicily, noting height records such as a 80 foot tomb near St. Gernad, a 44 foot remains in 1599 Sicily, and a 30 foot giant near Palermo in 1516, among others. It cites legends and measurements across France Italy and beyond.
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Bkeletonse Bhow
Rouen
Galabra
Arabia
Rome
Claudius Caesar
Fannum
Eugene II
Chevalier Scrog
Teneriffe
Faragus
Orlando
Charlemagne
St. Gernad
Isolent
Dauphine
France
Palermo
Sicily
Magrino
The Famous Frog and the Professor’s Cutting Experiment
A renowned frog died after a university experiment in 1800 that removed both brain hemispheres. Despite the surgery the frog remained healthy and lived five more years to show pupil effects. It could see and move, but showed no initiative, requiring food to be forced.
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Tom
Wilfred
Beven
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ti-Teang
Gobi
Noltitz
Douchak
Tchertchen
Grand Transasiatic
Tcharkalyk
Nathaniel Morse
Fulk Ephrnaell
Horatia Bluett
Tehertehen
Misa Bluett
Fulk Ephrinell Ia
Varuskiar
Ghaugir
Lob-Nor
Falk Ephrnnell
Horatio Bluett
Isaac
Abraham
Rebecca
Rachel
Central Asia
Messrs
Ephrnnell
Kandijar
Tif_ls
Transasiatic
Anid Popof
Pan Chao
Ephrinell
Stoker
Popef
Francis Trevellyan
Trevellyan Hall
Reapers
M. Adelaide Preston
Roe
Indianapolis Sun
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