Tomorrow and the shadow of the safe
Gilbert Senn faces moral ruin as Donald Barron clings to a fortune and Elsie Senn endures sacrifice. The great detective J R Prior watches from the Barron mansion while a bank robbery’s aftermath and a looming partnership threaten the family’s fate and Barron’s life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senn
Gilbert Senn
Boston
Donald Barron
J. B. Prior
J. R. Prier
J. B. Prier
Prior
Mr. Prior
Prier
Reason
Barron
Boomville
Elsie Senn
Lurline Bannettie
Albert Senn
Elsie
Sean
God
Love
Gilbert
Battle of Shimonoseki: McDougal Saves Wyoming in 1863
The 1863 Japan Strait action saw Commodore McDougal defend Americans in Yokohama and force through the Shimonoseki narrows. The Wyoming, with six guns, battled three Japanese warships, one brig, and batteries, destroying Lancefield and crippling other vessels in a one hour ten minute duel. Five killed, seven wounded, and over 100 Japanese casualties marked a daring U S victory praised by Griffis and Roosevelt-era accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Japan
Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt
Commodore M. C. Perry
Commodore Tattnall
United States
Chiosu
Satsuma
Washington
Strait of
Shimonoseki
Yokohama
McDougal
Wyoming
Alabama
Pembroke
America
Daniel Webster
Lanrick
Lancefield
Chiasa
Dahlgren
William E. Griffis
David MceDougal
Shimonoeski
Philadelphia Public Ledger
When People Fly Prompts Fear of Wings and Crime
Harpers Weekly excerpts argue small airships could carry people but raise security concerns. The piece warns bars on windows and strict policing, fearing winged thieves and ill born youths, suggesting social reform to raise humanity as flight becomes possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Perkins
Harper's Weekly
Cuba
Japan and the yellow races in Pacific clash
The article surveys Japanese attitudes toward Koreans, Chinese, Formosans, and Ainu, arguing a pattern of conquest and prejudice. It notes topknot bans in Korea, harsh labor views toward Koreans, and mixed Chinese relations in Japan, with little cross assimilation and lingering imperial hostility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chang-Chang
America
Japan
Waseda University
Waseda
Tokio
Yokohama
Kobe
Nagasaki
San Francisco
New York Sun
History of the chicken origins and breed development
Oscar Erf outlines the domestication of chickens from a single Indian jungle fowl lineage and traces spread through China Europe and Egypt. The article details European selective breeding, American imports, and cross breeding that produced modern Mediterranean and mixed breeds with varied egg and meat traits. The note concludes with a church attendance tax reference from Fulbourn, England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Erf
Kansas Agricultural Experiment, Station
India
China
Mediterranean
Europe
Poland
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God Erant
Waterloo
Khartoum
Hell
Iquiliue
Peru
Constantinople
England
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pacific Coast
Kipling
Vancouver
Corea
Kiushin
Troy
Hondo
Hokkaido
Sakhalin
Northwest Territory
Aino
Formosa
Philippines
Fulbourn
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