Prosper and Madeleine in Paris intrigue and betrayal
In a Paris study Prosper confronts his former banker foe M Fauvel as Verduret uncovers motives. Madeleine, Fauvel’s niece, breaks an oath and lovers reconsider their bond while Verduret hints at a larger plot involving a theft and sacrifice. Prosper vows to aid Verduret and prepares to depart for San Francisco.
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Prosper
M. Fauvel
Monsieur
M. Bertomy
M. Verduret
America
Paris
Huimil
Tai
Unit St. Pauvel
M. Pauvel
Madeleine
Catherine de’ Medici
Straangers
Presper
Tie
Nina
Remy
Mlle
San Francisco
Archangel
German Army Officers Inspire Formal Civility at Tables Abroad
London writer notes civilians and officers maintain rigid bows and ceremonial table conduct. Officers rise, salute peers, and click heels as elites observe strict hierarchies, treating meals as grand rituals of deference and order amid dining, drinking, and shared toasts.
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London
Etiines
Ile
Wien
The Undoing of a Rising Citizen in Baldville
In Baldville a self made town founder Perry Bald fences a township to found a frontier settlement. Dave McDonald, a handsome freeholder and constable, kills a Shawnee trader during a drunken spree and later dies after a confrontation with a stranger. A white widow visits the unmarked grave at Polecat Creek, grieving for her son buried there.
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Old Perry Ald
Bald
Baldville
Pete Crotty
Emporia
Dave McDonald
Polecat Creek
Deacon Hempstead
Dave
McDonald
Thirdville
Congress
Crotty’s
Bhicksmith
Dave McDowall
Wiehi
Pardville
Tlewis
Jerusalem
Buld
Gogfolk
Perry Bald
WiIchita
David McDonald
Wichita
Chicago Record-Herald
Royal lineages traced from gods to pawn brokers in history
An erudite survey traces how European royal houses gained the throne from divine right to moneylenders and marriage. It notes Japan’s Mikado lineage, Britain’s Hanover succession by one vote, Hohenzollern rise from a Nuremberg burgrave, and the Romanoffs’ ascent through strategic marriages and conquest.
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Europe
Japan
Nebuchadnezzar
Edward VII
Alfred the Great
Egbert
England
Rome
House of David
Edward
House of Hanover
Arthur Owen
M. P
Pembrokeshire
Wales
Westminister
Age
Great Britain
Victoria
William II
Frederick Hohenzollern
Nuremberg
Sigismund
Frederick
Brandenburg
Frederick I
Prussia
William Hohenzollern
Palestine Awakening Under German Enterprise Claims
United States Consular Agent Harris reports marked progress in Palestine over the past decade driven by German colonists merchants and horticulturists. He notes a Jerusalem bank with a Yafa branch exchanging 15 million in 1901 German boats on the Dead Sea and a Baghdad railroad link seen as key to trade and tourism growth while warning Germany could monopolize Palestine transit and Asia Minor once routes connect.
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United States
Harris
Eibenstock
Palestine
Levant
Jerusalem
Yafa
Dead Sea
Kerak
Moab
Arabian Desert
Jordan
Germany
Asia Minor
Bagdad
Anatolia
Tigris
Euphrates
Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia
Hauran
Syria
Beirut
Damascus
Haifa-Damascus
Manila's Palanca Deaths Mark Pomp and Culture Clash
The Manila Chinese leader Don Carlos Palanca and his wife died years apart and lie in a cemetery vault awaiting transport to China. Chen Kang arranges the journey with two American and one Filipino band present, Chinese mourners in black with white headbands, and a grand, fusion-filled funeral procession. Palanca, famed as the greatest Chinese Filipino, received Spain's Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic. A Weyler anecdote recalls Palanca gifting two $20,000 diamond necklaces to Weyler's wife, who kept both.
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Manila
Don Carlos Palanea
Palanea
Tan Cheuce
China
Chen Kang
Andone
Palanca
Philippines
Spain
Isabella the Catholic
Butcher" Weyler
Weyler
Palaneca
Escolta
Mrs. Weyler
Cheap Monkey Labor in Peru Brightens Plantation Profits
A Denver Post piece recounts Dwight Darrington’s claim that Peruvian apes outperform humans in nut picking. He describes 40 trained apes on his 700 acre plantation near the Ucayali river, overseen by native foremen, working from dawn to dusk with donkeys delivering baskets and apes showing remarkable efficiency and musical fondness.
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Peru
Dwight Darrington
Philip Hitchcock
Wabash Railway
Darrington
Ucayali
Sayers
Denver Post
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Emile Gaboriau
Tien Raoul de Lagers
Lattte Street
Cavaillon
Sle
Nina Gipsy
Civilianus
MacDonald
Werner
Hopefolk
Nise
Hanovers
Austria
Bardolph
Bohemia
Hungary
Rudolph Hapyburg
Thezar
Lithuania
Kobyla
Russia
Ivan I
Moscow
Romanoffs
Argus
Europa
Tyre
Medea
Helen
Leinster
O' Lourke of
Dreffin
Connaught
Henry II
Keinglind
Drekind
Englinder
Henry van Dyke
Camila
Big Guone
Chivaman
Carlos Palanca
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