The Islands and Cuba in Columbus Voyages
The article recounts Columbus reports on the Bahamas and Cuba, noting tropical calm and rare hurricanes, island dwellings, and misunderstandings of Asia by Pinzon. It describes a Cape of Palms sighting, Guanahani natives, and the failed attempt to reach Cathay, ending with embassies and ongoing speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahamas
Cuba
Columbus
Cipango
Rio de Los Mares
Terra Firma
Cape of Palms
Laguna de Moron
Guanahani
Martin Alonzo Pinzon
Cubanacan
Pinzon
Toscanelli
Asia
Dublai Khan
Marco Polo
India
Mangi
Cathay
Cape
Arkansas girl Nellie Wilson sails to Australia for awe
Miss Nellie Wilson, an Arkansas farmer's daughter, travels to Australia to show antipodes what kind of people free country produce. Described as eight feet four inches tall she could pitch hay with three men and break any horse or mule. She reportedly once picked up a mule and set him over a rail fence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Wilson
Australia
Miss Wilson
Futurity Album and Russian Style Forecasts
An article describes a novelty called the Futurity Album with sealed messages for Halloween or trouble moments, sold cheaply or decorated richly. It also discusses Russian-inspired winter fashion, including furs like sable and astrakhan, long fur capes, and brocaded wraps, with a London Telegraph briefing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samovars
Czarina of All the Russias
Sable
Astrakhan
London Cor
Philadelphia Telegraph
Dress reform and social change ripple through society
A column reflects on how women now favor practical dress over ornate styles, contrasting past fashions with today’s ease of movement. It notes the South’s educational need for a strong university for women, and mentions social figures like Mrs. Potter Palmer and Miss Cornwallis West, plus archeology leaders and Mme. de Lesseps in brief society blurbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Cornwallis-West
Hans Heinrich of
Pless
London
Fraulein Mestorf
Professor Handelmann
Archanological Museum
Kiel
Mme. de Lesseps
Edison Sees Low Cost Lighting and Heating for Homes
Edison predicts that houses will be lit and heated for sixty cents a year. Electricity is already used to forgeings augurs railroad spikes ball bearings and many other items once made by hand or costly machines. An electric lamp consumes no oxygen, giving it an advantage over open flames in apartments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Detroit Free Press
Edison
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the Intelligencer
K. Wilson
Pos.Isners
H.S. Goble
Nevada
Iowa
New York
Cramblil
Main Street
Wm. Sahl
Propr
Geo. McCinness
Bingham
Kintzley
Geo. McGinness
Stalt
Read’s Market
AMES
Rupyard Kipling
Nina Fitch
Jimmie Daly
Edward Harrigan
Tom Hood
Franz Reuter
Hans Andersen
Indianapols News
Ite
Kipka
Robert von Rider Muerd
Bret Harte
Thomas Hardy
Maurice Thomaxteen Doyle
Olve Schreiner
Ann- Bierce
Commmon
Sterawre
Humber
Coma Publishing Company
Astor Place
Literaire
Chapter
Isabella
Islas de Arena
Bahama Bank
Nuevitas del Principe
Juana
Prince Juan
Spain
Africa
Antilles
Charlevoix
Tion
Rodrigo de Jerez
Luis de Torres
Plumb
New Eng
South
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Johns Hopkins
Wilbur F. Tillet
Potter Palmer
J. E. Richards
Montana
Rickards
Chicago
Col
Inter Ocean
C. Fiorse
Five Mile Boss Electric
Ayres & Sons
Philadelphia
Sopyer
News England
New Yok
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Great Northern Railway
St. Paul
Minneapo
Great Fall Monarch
Neihart
Barker
Helena
Butte
Great North
Red River Valley
Great Northern
Minnesota
North Dakota
F. L Whitney
G. P
T.A. J. Paul
Minn
Minneapolis, Duluth
West Superior
Northwestern and
Pacific States
Great Northern B’y
Vailey
W. W. Braden
Land Com
Dakotas and
Motana
F. Ll. Whitney
T. A. Ieat Northern Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Mason City
Peoria
Marshalltown
Daly
Sun
St Louis
Kansas
Albia
St. Paul & Minneapo
C. H. Ackert
A. F. Banks
P. Barry
Ier
Thonholl
Ives
R. Lhovealand
Eure
the Park Lumber Yard
H. L. Munn
City Park
Ertalliday Wind Millis Ad Pumps
J. F. McLain
Equitable Life and Endowment Association
Waterloo
State of
A. H. Thayer
Sec’y
George D. Loud
ER Abd
North Side Main Street
Manitoba
Dakotas
Wyolake
Clear Lake
White Nd
Northwest
Missouri
Colorado
Arizona
Old and
New Mexico
California
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Excelsior Springs
Hot Springs
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virgo
ST. Loui
OWA
TRAF
T. P. Barry
Asso
Humphreys
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
William and John Sts
Lance Major
Fa Vale
Price
Ce Ry
Poe
Sox
U. S
Washington
Adress
C.a.snow &Co
D.C
el Rion
L. M. Bosworth
Scientific American Agency For
Oss & As
Ee Eee
Rica
Scientific American
Intel
Mann Publishers
Broadway
Grand Palace Hotel
N. Clark Street
Chicaco
Court House
Chichen
Lowell, Masa
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