The Weasel and the Southern Song
Stuart awakes in low mood after a money dispute with Nan and a call from Bivens. Harriet’s singing softens him, and he meets Bivens, a wary Wall Street figure known as The Weasel. Their North Carolina college past links their fates as Bivens awaits his opportunity to push Stuart’s legal talents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Broadway
Stuart
Bivens
American Chemical Company
Wall Street
Weasel
North Carolina
Rivens
Litther
The Attorney and the Tempting Offer
Cal Bivens asks Jim Stuart to join his firm with a high starting salary to win Nan Primrose. Stuart suspects a trap tied to Bivens secret love for Nan and wealth. He refuses, then departs to Gramercy Park to act on his decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bivens
Stuart
The
Primroses
Miss Primrose
Nan
Jim
Amieney
Cal
End of engagement as Nan turns cold on Jim
Jim Stuart confronts Nan Primrose over news from Bivens and a secret engagement. Nan rebuffs him and declares the engagement over after a heated exchange revealing her cold, calculated ambition and his jealousy. He leaves into the night, their future unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rivens
Bivens
Jim
Stuart
Nan
Players’ Club
Ice Trust
Coal Trust
Broadway
Twenty-third Street
Street Railway
Madison Square
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Woodman
John C. Calhoun Bivens
Worthy Act of Worthy Son
Judge Neal presided as a man jailed for beating his wife faced a six month road sentence. A clean cut youth then asked to serve the sentence instead to spare his mother humiliation. The judge bluff-tested him, then granted parole to the father in the boy’s care, praising the son’s resolve and noting drunkenness as sickness and family salvation over punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neale
Warlick
Mulenburg
Charlotte Observer
Crossing Freeze Facts From An Alaskan Pioneer
An Alaska pioneer explains how people and animals cope with extreme cold when the thermometer drops to 60 or 80 degrees below zero. He notes exposed ears and noses can freeze, children endure commutes with protection, and lungs risk pneumonia if air is breathed through the mouth. Horses wear breathing bags. people use parky hoods. Northwest Mounted Police safeguard horse welfare on freight routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Marshall J. Taylor
Seattle
Wash
Northwest Mounted Police
Washington Herald
A Thoughtful Office Boy and a Persistent Artist
A comic sketch shows an office boy telling a persistent lady artist that the editor is engaged. The artist replies she does not want to marry him, while the boy laments the editor has had several disappointments today. A tip for married people follows: nagging does not end nagging.
Tragic Yukon Patrols Highlight Mounted Police Tradition
Four Royal Northwest Mounted Police members on the Ft. McPherson to Dawson patrol perished in the Yukon wilds after two months without word. The diary notes reveal hunger and grit, with Inspector Fitzgerald and Constables Kinney, Taylor, and Carter dying on a 250 mile retreat toward safety. The piece chronicles the corps history, danger, and the motto Maintiens le droit, as the force grew from 300 to 649 men with a future goal of 1000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Ft. McPherson
Dawson
Yukon Territory
Kinney
Taylor
McPherson
Fitzgerald
Carter
Peel River
Rockies
London
Regina
Sitting Bull
Louis Riel
Northwestern Territories
Blackfeet
His
India
Northwest Mounted Police
J. A. W. O'Neill
Norway House
Keewatin
Mounted Police
Pendant d'Oreille
Hogges
Monaghan
Cowboy Jack
Edward
Earl of Minto
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Northwest Territories
New York Post
Ancient coal mining traces from Roman to medieval Britain
The article surveys coal use and mining in Britain from Roman times through the medieval period, noting early finds of coal in Northumberland, the shift from wood, and the rise of monastic and royal roles. It cites 13th and 14th century records, including tax data, royal orders, and export bans, plus a Berwick inventory mention of sea coal and a live pig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Northumberland
Bede
Gibson
Tynemouth
Timmouth
Wylan
Roger Sherewynd
London
Gravesende
County Kent
Cullercoats
Ralph Bullock
Edward III
Gateshead
Tyne
Calais
Berwick Castle
Spreading plague traced to rats and fleas worldwide
A Youth's Companion summary notes that bubonic plague began in Hong Kong in 1894 and spread to Bombay and beyond, with 6 million dead over twelve years. It explains transmission via rat fleas, extends to Norway rats, and distinguishes pneumonic plague as directly infectious, with recent cases in England and Harbin, China.
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Hongkong
Bombay
Harbin
Manchuria
England
Indian Plague Research Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas Dixon
Doubleday, Page & Co
N. Y
Mr. Bivens
Harriet
Pal
White House
New York
Mott Street
Nan Vet
Placent
Gramercy Park
Primrose
Ger
Mr. Stuart
Mecklenburg
Canadian Royal Military College
Kingston
Dublin
Scots Grays
Oxford
Scotland
South Africa
Egypt
Afghanistan
Regiment of Foot
Earl of Aberdeen
Canada
Ft. MacLeod
Denmark
McDonald
Wood Mountain
Salteaux
Aviren Cress
United States
A. L. Haydon
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