A Deserted Bride on a Cinderville Honeymoon
Esther Fleetwood discovers on the beach that her father is James Hart, a Leadville miner, and that her husband Guy Fleetwood hides the truth about her parentage and her father’s notorious past. He fears exposure of Esther’s lineage and the criminal link to Black Cave as he anxiously plans a departure to care for his dying mother, leaving Esther asleep and alone at the inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Dexter
Porgy Rock
Esther Hart
Deb
Gran’ther
Debbie
Tom
Esther
Gran'ther
Essie
Fleetwood
Porgy Island
Guy Freewood
Earth
Cinderville
Esther Fleetwood
Barton Academy
Paris
Portland
Cleopatra
Guy
Papa
West
Colorado
Leadville
Guy Fleetwood
Concordia Tempest
Debbie Runnel
Light
Hoxie
Black Cave
Hart
James Hart
Barton
Doe
Maud
Rockwood
Massachusetts
Maud Loftus
Porgy Light
Joe Runnel
Canada
Bride Revealed as Outlaw Daughter in Colorado Robbery Tale
The groom realizes at last that his bride, a wife of only days, is none other than the daughter of Black Cave the Colorado robber. The shocking secret unravels the union and thrusts the couple into peril amid outlaw legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Cave
Colorado
Origin of Words and Famine Tales From History
A compendium notes the word cannibalism as a Carib term linked to West Indian peoples, with linguistic ties to carib and Caliban. It explores Black Maria’s origin as jail slang and a Boston boarding house story, and traces papa from Hood era to Homer and Nausicaa, highlighting evolving English usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
Chicago News
West Indies
Caniga
Carib
Columbus
Boston
Marta
Hood
Nausicaa
Pappa Phile
Papa
World tin supplies falter as demand outpaces output
The Boston Transcript notes a rising tin demand driven by canning and shipping uses, with U S consumption exceeding 40 percent of world supply. It describes limited U S production in Alaska, South Carolina, and South Dakota, ongoing prospecting near King’s Mountain and Lincolnton, and imports from the Malay Peninsula and Banka Billiton. It highlights Bolivia, Australia, Cornwall, and other regions as key sources, plus new tin scrap recovery and the potential shift to aluminum as a substitute amid price gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Alaska
South Carolina
South Dakota
England
South Carolina-North Carolina
King's Mountain
Lincolnton
King’s Mountain
Gaffney
S. C
North Carolina State Line
el Paso
Tex
California
Old Temescal
Santa Ana
Buck Creek
Malay Peninsula
Bolivia
Argentina
Amazon
Banka
Billiton
Australia
Mount Bischoff
Tasmania
Queensland
New South Wales
Western Australia
Victoria
China
Yunnan
Burmah
Siam
Germany
Austria
Russia
Spain
Portugal
Mexico
Nigeria
Swaziland
Transvaal
New York
Cornwall
Great Britain
Boston Transcript
The Last Longhorn and Weapons of the South
A San Antonio correspondent recalls the last Texas longhorn slain in Lubbock county near the Brazos. A white longhorn fought a Hereford bull and perished after a fatal fall, marking the end of an era. The piece also surveys the derringer and Bowie knife as famed southern weapons, citing Lincoln’s assassin and Mary land dispute era tales, with notes on Derringer’s 1830s fame and Bowie’s legendary knife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
San Antonio
New York Herald
America
Lubbock County
Brazos River
James Winters
Lubbock
Europe
Lincoln
Booth
War Department
District of Columbia
Maryland
Bladensburg
Philadelphia
Derringer
United States
John Magruder
Brazier
England
Magruder
Mexico
Tennessee
James Bowie
Louisiana
Havana
Stephen
Razin
James Bowle
Bowle
Shreveport
Bowie
New Orleans
Pedro
Alamo
Natchez Island
Mississippi River
James Madison Wells
Louisiana Returning Board
James Blyche
Louisville
Washington Post
Bell on flying machines and awkward starts at sea
Alexander Graham Bell is quoted by the Chicago Chronicle discussing flying machines and his tetrahedral kite, praising Bell and Santos-Dumont for following a guiding principle. He notes invention begins with awkward steps and retells a humor about two men failing to carry a plank, illustrating initial clumsiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Graham Bell
Chicago Chronicle
Bell
Santos Dumont
Prof
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Cain
By Etta W. Pierce
Forsaken
Plains
Lyon
Gov
Ansel
Barnwell County
W. C. Garner
Baptist Church
Barnwell
Board of Registration
Albert Hall
Lord Strathcona
Aberdeen
Westminster Gazette
Lady Burdett-Coutts
Highgate
King Edward
Royal
London
A. J. Balfour
Waverly Market
Edinburgh
Palais de l'Industrie
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