Cargoes of Coral Seas and Maps of a Western Cathay
Columbus misread signs on the Cuban coast as he seeks Cipango and the grand khan. Pinzon disputes his India theory, while boats land natives who trade for cotton yarn and shells. The narrative traces early Cuban settlement views and a farming century forecast.
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Columbus
Antilles
Charlevoix
Bahamas
Cuba
Cipango
Rio de Los Mares
Terra Firma
Cape of Palms
Laguna de Moron
Guana
Asia
Dublai Khan
Marco Polo
India
Mangi
Cathay
Arkansas girl Nellie Wilson stars in Australia voyage
Miss Nellie Wilson, an Arkansas farmer's daughter, travels to Australia to show antipodes what kind of people a free country breeds. At 8 feet 2 inches, she can pitch hay as fast as three men and can break any horse or mule. One tale recalls her lifting and vaulting a mule over a rail fence.
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Tion
Columbus
Toscanelli
Cathay
Rodrigo de Jerez
Luis de Torres
Guanahani
Asia
Cuba
Marco Polo
C.S. Plumb
New England Magazine
Nellie Wilson
Australia
Miss Wilson
Futurity Album and Russian Style Fashion Notes
An article describes a handmade Futurity Album with sealed leaves opened on dates and sayings, costing five cents or more with decorations. It also notes Russian fashion trends for winter, including sable, astrakhan, fur capes, brocade wraps, and fur lined cloaks becoming stylish. London correspondent Philadelphia Telegraph.
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Samovars
Russias
Sable
Astrakhan
London
Philadelphia Telegraph
Women dress and education cited in public dialogue
A Boston Transcript listener praises simplified fashion for practicality and femininity in public life. Century editor Wilbur F. Tillet argues southern women deserve a rigorous higher education akin to UVA, Vanderbilt, and Johns Hopkins. Chicago Inter Ocean notes Montana’s J. E. Richards seeks a silver nail for the Women’s Building project at the Columbian Exposition with copper and gold variants considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Johns Hopkins
Wilbur F. Tillet
Potter Palmer
J. E. Richards
Montana
Richards
Palmer
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Miss Cornwallis-West Engagement and European Archaeo Notes
Miss Cornwallis-West announces engagement to Prince Hans Heinrich of Pless, noted as a London debutante whose mother presented her. Fraulein Mestorf named Kiel Archeological Museum director, a leading European authority who rose to prominence before age forty. Mme de Lesseps, younger by decades than her husband, is described as vivacious with English and Creole lineage and met him at a country house where she worked as a governess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornwallis-West
Hans Heinrich of
Pless
London
Fraulein Mestorf
Professor Handelmann
Archeological Museum
Kiel
Mme. de Lesseps
Edison Sees Electric Light and Heat for Sixty Cents Year
Edison predicts a future where homes are lit and heated by electricity for about sixty cents annually. He notes electricity now powers forgings railroad spikes ball bearings and other items once made by hand or costly machinery. An electric lamp does not consume oxygen in its room giving it advantage over open flames.
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America
Edison
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the Intelligencer
S. K. Wilson, PubLisHeRs
H. S. Goble
A. Em. Bane
Will Cry Sales OF
Farmmple
Nevada
Iowa
New York
Cramblil
Main Street
Sahl
Propr
Cep
McCinness
Bingham
Kintzley
Geo. McGinness
SATT
Read’s Market
AMES
Independent
Rudward al Plil
Nina Fitch
Jimmie Daly
Edward Harrigan
Tom Hood
Franz Reuter
Hans Andersen
Indianapolis News
Kipling
Robert Stevenson
Rider Haggard
Brettb Thomas Hardy
Maurice Thompson
Conan Doyle
Olive Schreiner
Ambrose Bierce
Yarus Sea
Os ‘Ly
Romance Publishing Company
Clinton Hall
Astor Place
Irving S Columbus
Chapter
Isabella
Islas de Arena
Macaras Islands
Bahama Bank
Nuevitas del Principe
Sicily
Juana
Prince Juan
San Salvador
Spain
Africa
Detroit Free Press
Boston Transcript
Boss Electric
Baker
Ayres & Sons
Philadelphia
Sopyer
News England
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Great Northern Railway
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Great Falls
Monarch
Neihart
Barker
Helena
Butte
Great Northern
Go West
Red River Valley
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
Vaile
The
Dakotas and
Mostatin
Fr. Whitney
Tieat Northern Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Mason City
Peoria
Marshalltown
Sun
St Loui
Kansas
Albia
Co. H. Ackert
A. F. Banks
T. P. Barry
Ad WI
Allen
Mty
Maine
the Park Lumber Yard
H. L. Munn
City Park
Bralladay Wind Millis Ad Pumps
JT. F.mclain
Equitable Life and Endowment
Waterloo
State of
A. H. Thayer
Sec’y
George D. Loud
North Side Main Street
Minnetonka
Duluth
Ashland
Spirit Clear Lake
White Bear Lake Lake
Missouri
Colorado
Arizona
Old and
New Mexico
California
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
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Excelsior Springs
Hot Springs
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Iowa Central
O. H. Ackert
Sonce
Washington
C.a.snow & & CO
Humphreys
Dee
Mange
J.K
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William and John Sts
Shumper
Price Humphreys’ Medicine CO
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Toledo
G. C. Bittner & CO
L. M. Bosworth
Scientific American Agency For
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Munn & CO
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Americ
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Chicaco
Court House
Fred Comps
Hieague
Union League Table d
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Board of Trustees
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Lowell
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