Little France A Romance Of The Great Lord Hawke
Excerpt from Cyrus Townsend Brady novel detailing the rescue at sea during a battle. Hatfield saves Countess Anne and Jean-Renaud from the wrecked Torbay while the Maidstone, facing peril, searches the Le Four area. Anne clings to hope her husband Grafton survived as storms rage and ships burn.
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France
Maidstone
Hatfield
Torbay
le Thesee
Countess Anne
Jean- Renaud
Anne
de Vitre
de Kersaint
Jean-Renaud
Grafton
Hatfeld
le Four
Leeward
Return of the Admiral Grafton and the Queenly Anne
Anne Grafton endures a brutal海 storm and the loss of her ship to reach her husband Philip on Le Formidable. Admiral Hawke consoles her, confirms Philip’s survival, and she returns aboard to nurse him back to life. They reconcile, amid grief and memory, and plan their future together as a Breton cradle-song lulls the sleeping child.
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Anne
Union
Watch
Torbay
Madame
Grafton
Hawke
Leutenant
Grafton— — Hawke
le Four
le Formidable
Hatfield
England
Royal George
Monsieur
Ince
Philip
Admiral du Verger
Quebec
Old Slocum
France
Canada
Virginia
Jabez Slocum
Admiral Grafton
Chateau de Josselin
Brittany
Toto
Demoiselles de Paris
Josette
Philip de Rohan
Jean-Renaud
Jean- Renaud
Monsieur l'Amiral
Kaiser
Berlin
Germany
Paris
London
Washington
Herbert Howe Bancroft
Grafton Family Sails From England To Potomac Estate
Early two years pass in a new land as Philip and Anne Grafton settle at their ancestral manor near the Potomac. The couple, amid a grove and a riverside pleasure-house, adjust after Philip leaves active naval service to honor his wife and George II’s favor.
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Potomac
Old Dominion
Philip
Anne Grafton
Grafton
George II
Japanese in the Moon at Russian Village Fair
A Kazan correspondent reports villagers at a fair use an itinerant showman claiming the man in the moon is a Makak Japanese. Peasants shoot toward the sky, chanting Ura and claiming eighty Japanese slain, while the priest narrates the spectacle as patriotic folly.
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Kazan
London Daily News
Ignatius Diatchkoff
Magnate Thomas W Lawson and Public Finances
William stories recount Lawson a Charlestown native who rose on State Street and in 1901 clashed with Standard Oil, amassing fortunes from copper and mining schemes before a dramatic fall. He built a yacht, a park in Back Bay, a large stock portfolio, and a notable charity record amid a volatile era of markets.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Charlestown
Nova Scotia
State Street
Boston
Westinghouse Electric Company
General Electric Company
Kentucky
Butte and Boston’ Copper Mining Company
Boston and Montana Company
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil
Amalgamated Company
Amalgamated
Caliifornia
Lake Superior
Scituate
Broom Sellers Try for Cash Then Trade in New Hampshire
Two elderly New Hampshire men Cy Pettingill and Ezra Hoskins duel in a humorous bartering tale from the Columbia Record. Cy offers cash for brooms while Ezra pushes half cash, half trade and Cy finally accepts only brooms. A New York Letter notes on witness reliability and misperception in courtrooms.
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New Hampshire
Cy Pettingill
Ezra Hoskins
Columbia
Ezra
New York
Call to double congressional salaries and broader pay hike
A BaltimoreAmerican dispatch outlines a plan by several congress members to raise congressional salaries from 5000 to 10000 a year and the president’s from 50000 to 100000 with the vice president at 20000. The bill would delay any increases until the next Congress, and would not apply to the current lawmakers.
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Congress
Washington
Washington Cor
Baltimore American
Lafayette Leads Boston Ceremonies at Bunker Hill Cornerstone
On June 17, 1825, a large crowd filled Boston streets for a civic and military procession honoring Lafayette. He rode in the parade, declined a reserved seat under the pavilion, and insisted on standing with Revolution survivors after laying the Bunker Hill monument cornerstone.
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Boston
Charlestown
Lafayette
Brandywine
Bunker Hill Monument
City Editors and the Public Be Damned Legend
A portrait of the city editor as a keen observer who handles a flood of mail each morning and shapes the news for a wide audience. The piece recalls the Chicago interview with William H. Vanderbilt and notes how city editors helped popularize the line The public be damned. through decisive reporting and editorial craft.
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New York City Hall
William H. Vanderbilt
Chicago
Mr. Vanderbilt
Bartlett
William F. Miller
Bob Ammon
Sing Sing
Cleveland
Charles Watson Meade
Bookman
Remembering Thurman and the Democratic Comeback
An Ohio Democrat responds to advice the party is finished. He recalls 187% comments by Allen G Thurman who warned against shrinking the party and asserts resilience by noting William Allen later became Democratic governor.
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Ohioan
Allen G. Thurman
William Allen
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Reuben James
D. Appleton & Co
Ched
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Edward Hawke
Sir Edward Hawke
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Marquis de Chabot- Rohan
Monsieur Hatfield
Monsieur l’Arras
Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle Anne
de Rohans
Gen. Wolfe
L'Envol
T. W. Lawson
Daniel Webster
Marshals
Webster
Morocco
Walter Harris
Scribner's
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America
Mexico
Texas
India
Asia
China
Siberia
Turkestan
Himalayas
Africa
Australia
United States
Preshewelski
Bunker Hill
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