Slatin Pasha Ends Long Anglo Egyptian Service
Slatin Pasha, a key Sudan figure, resigns from the Anglo Egyptian army and plans to retire in Austria after two decades of fighting Mahdism and aiding the fall of the Khalifa. Once captive near Omdurman he endured hunger, torture, and near execution before fleeing Khartum in 1895.
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Slatin Pasha
Sudan
Austria
Omdurman
Khalifa
Africa
Slatin
Darfur
Kordofan
Father Ohrwalder
Dhurra
Abdullah
Khartum
Gordon
Cairo
Nile
New York Sun
Windsor Castle Kitchen Named World’s Largest Royal Fireworks
The Windsor Castle royal kitchen expanded by George IV is described as possibly the largest kitchen in the world with a 14 by 9 foot hot plate table. Its copper batterie and two ancient smoke jacks symbolize its medieval look and grand scale. In 1842 Lady Bloomfield recalled a fiery furnace scene and Charles Murray noted a dinner service feeding 113,000 people last year.
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George IV
Windsor Castle
Pall Mall Magazine
Victoria
Manuufacturer
Lady Bloomfield
Nebuchadnezzar
Windsor
Charles Murray
Wave Speed Outpaces Autumn Winds In Bay Of Biscay
Observations note waves travel faster than the winds that generate them. In the Bay of Biscay a heavy sea often forms in calm weather, rolling toward the coast twenty four hours before the gale that causes it arrives.
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Bay of Biscay
Passion Flower Fades When Plucked
The passion flower, native to South American forests, wilts almost immediately once removed from its growing habitat. Its fleeting beauty limits viewing to locations where it naturally thrives.
Quote on love and indifference from 1805 La. note
A dated line from Fa bucher Louisiana dated August 26 1805 notes that hiding indifference is as hard as hiding love and praises Piso's Cure for Consumption as the best cough remedy available.
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George W. Lotz
Fabucher, la
Corcarets Candy Cathartic Health Remedy Preview
Advertises Corcarets Candy Cathartic as a universal medicine for the family promising health preservation at home. Claims quick relief and reliability with druggists selling Elephants are fond of gin line included as a witty aside.
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Howehold
Two-Thirds of One Crop Buoying Manitoba Farm Promise
Buena Vista county Iowa men report Western Canada’s Hartney Deloraine and Souris River area as highly suitable for farming. They praise soil for wheat, good schools and markets, plan to return in March to buy improved farms on reasonable terms. They note a Hartney example of two thirds crop share that funded farm ownership.
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W. R. Milburn
John Holmes
M. R. Dagger
E. L. Stetson
Buena Vista County
Iowa
United States
Hartney
Deloraine
Souris River
Manitoba
Canada
Dowa
Towa
Cough Remedy Ad Promotes Kemp's Balsam Sample
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughing and consumption with a free sample bottle offered at druggists. It sells in 25 and 50 cent sizes and warns that delays are dangerous and common sense is questioned.
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Kemp
Pinkham remedy praised by women in caveat laden letters
A collection of testimonials from women across the United States praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief from menstrual irregularities backache and related symptoms. The letters say health improves after following Pinkham’s advice and using the product.
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Macoie P. Stine
New Berlin
Lydia E. Pinkham
George Osman
Belvidere, Warren, Co
N. J
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