Daughters of Chit Aunt Deb's Trouble
Esther Wye flees to Boston’s alleys with Aunt Deb dying and plotting, while Aunt Deb’s secret links Gilbert Vye to a hazardous Colorado ranch. Esther confronts Cyril Vye at Rookwood, is held, escapes onto the river in Philip Wye’s skiff, and heads toward Lispenard as a gypsy prophecy haunts her.
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Charlestown Bridge
Esther Wye
Rookwood
Cinderville
Deb
Essie
Jim Hart
Jim
Esther
Joe
Jim H
Aunt Deb
Porgy Rock
Gilbert Wye
Victor Shirlaw
Philip Vye
Pemberton Square
Court Street
Philip Wye
Cyril Vye
Tam
Cyril
Mignon
Shirlaw
Gilbert
Happy Valley Ranch
Colorado
Happy Valley
Black Cave
Charlestown
Father Joe
Porgy Island
Gilbert Vye
Mount Auburn
Lispenard
Mr. Lispenard
Elinor
the Dale
Philip
Papa
Pelion
Ossa
Elinor Vye
Berkelys
Rookwood Gates
Heaven
Abel Lispenard
Wild Hog Hunts in Arkansas of Bygone Days
A lifelong Arkansas resident recalls the now vanished era of wild hog hunts. Pack of dogs, swift horse, and rifle drove hogs from canebrakes into open timber where hunters fired from the saddle. Dogs fought hogs in pairs, sometimes deadly, while large packs killed hundreds in a day.
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Arkansas
Alabama Gazette
England
Little Rock
Under the Light of the Moon Elinor Wye Buried
The fragment notes the burial of Elinor Wye under the light of the moon, identified as a family burial event with limited readable context.
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Elinor Wye
Lost volumes and burned books marked by history
The piece surveys famed literary losses from 1388 to 1560, noting Canterbury Tales fragments burned for fuel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu letters destroyed by relatives, and grand libraries like the Cottonian and Pinellian ravaged by fires and wars. It links such deletions to broader cultural impact and historical reckoning.
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Cardinal Ximines
Granada
Ferdinand
Isabella
Sappho
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Menander
Livy
Varro
Tasso
Atticus
Henry VIII
Thomas Bodley
Oxford
Elizabeth
Ireland
Eschylus
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
Mark Anthony
Theodosius the Great
Roman Empire
Theophilus
Jupiter
Omar
London
Spenser
Mary
Cottonland
Ashburnham House
Westminster
Strasburg
Guttenburg
Gaurino
Greece
Middleberg
Hudde
China
Celestial Empire
Europe
John Reuchlin
Cremona
Mars Mystery: Three Dots Call From Space
A Metropolitan Magazine writer notes recurring three dot Morse signals from Mars station at midnight. Investigations show no earthly transmitter. observers recall a three-dot triangle seen on Mars in 1892 and 1901, bright against the planet's red surface.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Mars
Marconi
Blood and Dust as Sentry Chooses Six for Front Line
A marching column nears woodland and high grass as the captain assigns Sergeant O’Hara the task of selecting six best men to lead a point. He scans the ranks across Swedes Teutons Yankees and finally signals Lynch as the chosen man amid tense anticipation.
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Sergt. O'Hara
Sullivan
McCarthy
O'Donnell
Moriarty
McGinnis
Lynch
Bhimm
Sorr
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Chit
By Etta W. Pierce
Royal Mint
Berlin
Diviners OF Dreams
Dr. Peterson
Harper’s Monthly
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