How He Came Home The Deck Melton London Gambler Tale
Deck Melton, an American in London, seeks a way home after losing his funds to gambling ventures. At the U S Consulate he explains his financial ruin and stall for time while hoping for help. A Jewish dealer, Goldstein, offers a risky plan to sail steerage in exchange for carrying a small package. Deck agrees to the arrangement, sensing desperation and opportunity as the plan unfolds.
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Deck Melton
Mansion House
Threadneedle Street
Bank of England
Bobby
London
Deck
Royal Exchange
Finance of
England
Victoria Street
Henley
George
Threadneedle
Bishopsgate
St. Helen's Place
United States
Guild of Leather
Mr. Decker Melton
New York
Decker Melton
Paris
Baden Baden
Monte Carlo
Ostend
Broadway
Hippodrome
Mr. Melton
Sixth Avenue
Goldstein
Simon Goldstein
Goldstein & Kronenheimer
the Cecil
Gome
Victoria Embankment
Thames
Waterloo Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Houses of Parliament
St. Chon
Southampton
Resolution Endorses Amendments to South Carolina Party Rules
The South Carolina Democrats at their convention adopted resolutions amending rule five to preserve challenged votes in envelopes for later review, aligning with article six changes, and providing for candidate replacements if death occurs. It also endorsed Tillman’s Senate record and backed the state warehouse law and Farmers' Union, conditional on constitutional validity.
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South Carolina
County Executive Committee
State
Indorse Tillman
Committee On
B. R. Tillman
Southlina
United States Senate
N. 8. Richards
Kershaw
Richland
Central Bank
National Reserve Association
Aldrich Plan
W. A. James
H. B. Carlisle
State Warehouse
Farmers’ Union
O. P. Goodwin
Laurens
State Democratic Convention
Long Staple Cotton and Arctic Ocean Currents Study
Government soil doctors and plant specialists claim Egyptian long staple cotton can be grown in the United States. Experiments in California and Arizona show droughted lands and irrigation enable Egyptian seed to produce fine cotton, expanding southern agriculture and boosting exports. The article also discusses Atlantic currents and how wind and sea currents influence climate and heat transfer, including the Gulf Stream and Labrador current, with implications for transatlantic shipping.
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America
Washington Dispatch
George W. Neville
New York Cotton Exchange
United States
Egypt
United Kingdom
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Yazoo
Arkansas
Helena
Ark
Memphis
Tenn
Baton Rouge
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Colorado River
California
Yuma
Arizona
W. D. Hunter
Bureau of Entomology
David R. Coker
Hartsville
D. C
Coker
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf Stream
North Atlantic
Baltimore
North Atlantic Ocean
Newfoundland
Straits
Florida
American
Azores
Spain
British Isles
Labrador
Greenland
Earth
Equator
Arctic
Ocean
Atlantic
Africa
South America
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Straits of Florida
Poles
Europe
London
New York Evening Journal
Boisterous Convention Echoes From 1880 Debates
Washington correspondence recalls the 1880 Republican convention in Chicago where Conkling led New York, Lodge watched, and Garfield faced a long deadlock before being nominated amid a dramatic ruling by Senator Hoar. The piece notes fierce rhetoric and a volatile, boisterous atmosphere expected to reoccur.
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Chicago
General Grant
Senator Conkling
New York
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Washington
Senator Lodge
Hoar
Philadelphia
McKinley
Taft
Conkling
Edmonds
Sherman
Grant
James A. Garfield
Garfield
John Sherman
Lodge
Senator Hoar
Ohio
Baltimore Advertiser
Gods Phonography in a Dream of Divine Insight
A dream vision presents a golden box recording every word thought and feeling. The device allows replaying life by key, revealing a sense of pity in the dreamer yet highlighting divine wisdom as perfect and growthful. Dr. Frank Crane’s narrator contrasts human error with God’s beauty and tolerance.
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God
Frank Crane
No-title fashion quip about magazine plates and wives
A brief satirical remark notes that when a man sees a fashion plate in a woman’s magazine he is glad his wife does not resemble it. It reflects social attitudes toward beauty standards and marriage in a lighthearted, ironic tone.
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By Wood
Levette Wilson
The
Bobb-Merril Company
Vestas
Jerome
Ludgate Hill
Fleet Street
Strand
Amsterdam
Law
New York World
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