Not Guilty at Last Gilbert Senn Acquittal Dramatic Trial
Gilbert Senn is cleared of murder in a case built on circumstantial evidence. Aldrich delivers crucial testimony claiming Senn’s innocence and placing the true killer elsewhere, while Sean faces distrust and isolation as the crowd departs into a cold night. Prior offers support, urging truth with a tense, unresolved ending.
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Aldrich
Senn
Sean
Constance Craig
Roomville
Walter Aldrich
Mr. Senn
Gilbert Senn
Boomville
Blankford
Craig
Law
Matilda Webb
Prior
Maine
Prier
Lee's Audacity a Legend of Confederate Command
RE Alexander recalls Ives praising General Lee's phenomenal audacity during a two week command period. Lee is described as head and shoulders above others in audacity, willing to take desperate risks to counter superior enemy forces. The account highlights Lee's dignity, intellect, and calm self reliance alongside this extraordinary daring.
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Lee
Tit
Ives
RE. P. Alexander
Alexander
Davis
Punishing the Newspapers A Local Editor’s Essay on Voter and Press Relations
A discussion on how readers resist and later react to newspapers taking positions in elections. It cites Columbia South Carolina's The State and notes voters’ impulses to oppose papers they dislike, then to pretend to follow their advice for strategic satisfaction. It contrasts editor confidence with citizen folly.
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Columbia
S. C
Richmond News-Leader
Dyak customs and Gold Coast welfare claims
A Borneo Dyak tradition requires a youth to display the skull of an enemy slain in battle before marriage. In the Gold Coast Colony the report states there are no paupers and no lunatic asylum reformatory or poor house.
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Borneo
Gold Coast
Sharks of Magdalena Bay and the Navy’s wary lore
A Los Angeles Times correspondent recalls Magdalena Bay as a famed shark hotspot where officers once faced dense shoals and a fourteen foot man eater near a bathing pen. The Navy notes there are no shark attacks on sailors, and no sailors exposing themselves in the bay.
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Havana
Nez de Tiburones
Morro Castle
Tropics
Magdalena Bay
Los Angeles Times
Record Gorilla Measured Over Eight Feet From Fingertips
A collector reports the giant gorilla killed by Mr. Paschen in the Cameroons now exhibited at the Rothschild museum in Tring England. The 600 pound specimen was mounted with a clay model and wooden skeleton, its frame built for lifelike pose and scale.
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Mr. Paschen
Walter Rothschild
Tring
Hertfordshire
England
Paschen
Cameroons
Europe
Scientific American
The Amazon Rubber Trade Swindles and Lessons Learned
A Iquitos dispatch recalls traders swapping cheap trinkets for rubber, warning natives have learned value and that deceit persists. Tales of past expeditions show card charms and low goods used to coax rubber from riverside communities, a pattern tied to historic exploitation and missionary despair over colonial greed.
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Iquitos
Amazon
Madeira Falls
Indiana
The
Amazon Basin
Madeira River Railroad Company
Gimcracks
Congo
Europe
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Dr. Welton
George Arnold
Nold
Miss Webb
Jim
Kansas City Star
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