Prodigal Judge Chapter XVIII Ends in North Carolina Ties
Polly, Cavendish family, and Mr. Yancy discuss titles from England. The Earl of Lambeth explains lineage from a proud forebear who refused labor, making Yancy feel the honor and burden of a noble name. The trio’s humor and warmth soften class pecking as they travel toward an English dream.
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Polly
Mr. Yancy
North Carolina
Yancy
Cavendish
Mr. Cavendish
England
Cavendishes
Richard Keppel Cavendish
Earl of
Lambeth
Dick. Mr. Yancy
Rhett
Elk River
Earl of Lambeth
Nashville
Carolina
Mebdy
Hecker
Yancey
Earls of
Mebby
Last Survivor of Secession Ordinance Is Col. Thompson
In Walhalla S C Col Robert Thompson sole survivor of the 163 signers of South Carolina's secession ordinance recounts the 1860 convention in Columbia and Charleston, his war service as a lieutenant colonel, and life in Pickens district. He recalls the moment the ordinance was signed, the reactions, and his narrow escape from farming to journalism and law.
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Valhalla
S. C
Robert Thompson
Charleston
Col. Thompson
Confederacy
Baptist Church
Columbia
Congress
Pickens
Walhalla
St. Andrew's Hall
D. F. Jamison
Barnwell
B. F. Arthur
Jamison
Institute Hall
General Pickens
South Carolina
St. Andrew's
Pendleton
D. C
Twelve Mile River
Ilife
Pendleton Messenger
Thompson
Equity
Robert Anderson Thompson
Cleveland
Anderson
Horseshoe” Robinson
F. W. Pickens
Jackson and Roosevelt in a Baltimore Jackson day talk
United States Senator Kern of Indiana spoke at a Baltimore Jackson day banquet on January 9. He contrasted Andrew Jackson’s stand against Nicholas Biddle with a modern case of elite power, arguing 1908 showed a new money power threatening democracy and urging a Jacksonian resistance. Governor Marshall was absent due to business.
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United States
Kern
Indiana
Baltimore
Marshall
Nicholas Biddle
Jackson
United States Bank
Biddle
McKinley
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Nicholas Biddles
Andrew Jackson
Fanatics in Sulu. United States disarms Moros in Mindanao
The United States orders disarmament of Moros in Mindanao and Jolo to end raids. Major General Pershing’s force confronts stubborn outlaws, including a stand atop Bud Dajo. Juramentado fighters have long challenged American rule, with fatal clashes and hostage-like defense of the gate at Jolo.
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United States
Luzon
Mindanao
Jolo
Sulu
John J. Pershing
Department of Mindanao
Bud Dajo
Philippines
Walter H. Rodney
United States Cavalry
Rodney
Panay
Don Manuel Castellon
Edward W. Griffin
Illigan
Moro Constabulary
Juramentado
Colonel Griffith
Captain Wood
Trade dollars and the old mail system unravelled
The trade dollar issued after 1873 faced mispricing and limited use abroad, with millions minted and most redeemed by 1887 leaving under 1 percent in circulation. Separate article recalls Roman cursus publicus, its fast and slow malles, stations, and the evolution into modern postal systems.
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Congress
China
Japan
Philippines
Europe
United States
Treasury
United States of America
Far East
Kansas City Star
Measuring Bird Flight Reveals Long Distances From Marked Chicks
Aberdeen university records track bird flights by marking hatchlings in nests to follow movements. A song thrush traveled 1,250 miles in five months after marking. Five lapwings marked in northeast Scotland: four shot in Ireland, one found in southern Portugal. A guillemot marked on Aberdeenshire cliffs was shot 18 weeks later north of Gothenburg. A widgeon duckling marked in a Scottish loch was captured in a Dutch duck decoy three months later.
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Aberdeen University
Scotland
Ireland
Portugal
Aberdeenshire
Gothenburg
Sweden
Holland
To Pierce the Andes Railway Construction Planned in 1912
The Northern Transandine railway will start mid 1912 with simultaneous work on both sides of the Andes through the San Francisco pass, linking Copiapó with Tinogasta.
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Andes
Northern Transandine Railway
San Francisco Pass
Coplapo
Tinogasta
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Paragon
Rhett’s
Countess of
Connie
Ear of
New South
New York Herald
Jackson and Roosevelt
Pacific
British North Borneo
Harun
Paduca Majasari
Maluana
Mauinin
Harun Narrasid
Island
Jikir
Jikki
Wilson
Baer
Jikii
Rome
Prindisi
Appius Claudius
Rimini
Aquiliea
Flaminius Nepos
Cicero
Atticus
Athens
Richelieu
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Metternich
Antony
Julius Caesar
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Vespasian
Antonius Pius
Theodosius
Marcellus I
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Tiber
Charlemagne
Philadelphia
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