Wall Street Panic Sparks Amid Romance in Chapter 1
Beulah Sands seeks to restore her father’s ruin in Reinhart’s stock arena. She taps Brownley for help to invest in legitimate securities rather than pure gambling, hoping to learn investing while saving her family fortune. Brownley, Virginian by birth, and Jim Randolph of Randolph & Randolph, longtime friends, back her plan as Brownley falls in love with Beulah. Brownley uses Sands’s money, his own funds, and heavy Randolph backing to plunge into sugar stock.
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Bob Brownley
Wall Street
Jim Randolph
Randolph & Randolph
Brownley
Randolph
Beulah Sands
Virginia
Reinhart
Miss Sands
Bob
Kate
Jim
Beulah
Washington
Ime
Katherine Randolph
Niagara
Buffalo
Stock Exchange
Bears
Heaven
Hell
Exchange
Father
Mr. Randolph
Mr. Brownley
Exchange Telephone
Beulah Sands Saves Bequest as Sugar Stock Surges
Bob Brownley gambles with 60 000 shares on sugar as Beulah Sands faces a perilous wait. The plan aims to raise Beulah’s father from trust debt with a 1.8 million windfall, while Jim and Bob navigate the crowd and court Beulah amid the volatile exchange.
Italians in Texas show thriving colony model
The Chicago Chronicle notes Bryan Texas as a growing Italian settlement under Father Giovanni Militello. About 2,500 contadin cultivate grain and cotton on owned or rented land at $5 an acre, with incomes that fund church debt relief and a parish funded by farmers and families.
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Bryan
Texas
Chicago Chronicle
Giovanni Militello
Father Militello
Sicily
Thrones on which monarchs sit across the world
A survey of royal thrones from Britain to Morocco, detailing the seats of power in Westminster Abbey Windsor Castle the Lords chamber Buckingham Palace Berlin Madrid Copenhagen The Hague and Rome. It notes materials such as ivory silver narwhal horn and velvet and highlights historic gifts and symbolic stones like the Stone of Scone.
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Great Britain
London
House of ‘Lords
Westminster Abbey
Windsor Castle
Edwards
Jacob
Bethel
House of Lords
St. James's Palace
Queen Victoria
Travancore
India
Waterloo Chamber
Buckingham Palace
Edward
Berlin
Frederick William IV
Luther
Reichstag
Worma
Imperial Palace
Winter Palace
St. Petersburg
Kremlin
Moscow
Alexis
Persia
Russia
France
Napoleon
Fontainebleau
Denmark
Schloss Rosenborg
Copenhagen
Roskilde
Holland
Loo
Hague
Amsterdam
Europe
Spain
Madrid
Sweden
Belgium
Leopold
Brussels
Great Hofburg
Vienna
Budapest
Hungary
Italy
Quirinal
Palazzo Reale
Turin
England
Windsor
Rome
Papal
Vatican
Sala Regia
Sengallo Il Giovine
Dolma-Barthe
Abbas the Great
Seraglio
Yildiz
Lion of Judah
Menelik
Muley Abdul Aziz
Morocco
Rice Crop and Northward Farmers Turn Gulf Prairies Rice
An 1884 shift by Northwestern wheat farmers to the Louisiana Texas gulf prairie yields rice with new irrigation and farm machinery. The article notes soil drainage, flat fields up to eighty acres, seed varieties, and government aid, highlighting a labor saving method and global market implications for American produced rice. It mentions historical shifts from South Carolina and Georgia to Louisiana and Texas and ends with a remark on tobacco acreage.
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Northwest
Louisiana Gulf Coast Prairie
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Dakotas
California
Gulf Prairies
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Punjab
Nile
Costa Rica Outlaw Terrying the Length of the Republic
A Port Simon correspondent chronicles Joseph Gordon a Jamaican outlaw terrorizing Costa Rica with burglary and murder for years. He battles authorities. Parsons of United Fruit narrowly escaped as Gordon roams the hills and plains. Gordon even imitates police, borrowing a badge and boasting of three more targets. His pursuit continues with reports of violence and two officers killed.
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Republic
Port Simon
Philadelphia Ledger
Tracey
Joseph Gordon
Gordon
Island
Costa Rica
United Fruit Company
Parsons
Banana Company
Commissariat
Zent
Tree Molasses and Modern Deceit in Farm Produce
A rural essay condemns adulteration of maple syrup and buckwheat molasses, faulting commercialism for replacing genuine products with inferior substitutes. It contrasts pioneer era sweetness with today’s “white-livered” imitations and recalls traditional pairings of tree molasses and buckwheat cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York
Laura
Petrarch
Romeo and Juliet
Heloise
Abelard
War Prices in the South 1865 Quinine to Butter Roasts
Prices in the Confederacy during 1865 show quinine at 1700 dollars an ounce and a ham at 750 dollars for fifty pounds. Flour at 300 a barrel, fish 5 a pound, meal 50 a bushel, and board in houses 200 to 300 a month. Tea and coffee spike to 20 to 60 per pound, sugar 10 a pound, and apparel costs soar. A farmer paying 16 thousand dollars to shoe a horse sparked rumors of currency collapse.
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Richmond
Johnny
Reindeer Bill Huber Walks Ninety Miles in One Day
H. M. Huber known as Reindeer Bill completed a 90 mile trek on foot in 24 hours from Nome to Council. He carried government dispatches and mail to ensure on time delivery aboard the Indiana. His return trip included newspapers magazines skates a bonnet for Christmas lamp chimneys and more. His times are verified by U S marshal and Nome and Council commissioners. He previously served in the Philippines during the Spanish war and earned the nickname Hiking Hube for his mountain climbing during marches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Huber
Reindeer Bill
Nome
Council City
Seattle Times
Indiana
Solomon
Huber
Cape Nome
Council
United States
Philippines
Hube
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Abomas
Doubleday
IGE
Elient
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ormond Beach
G. H. Curtiss
Curtiss
Wray
Scientific American
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