Vast Rainless Span Noted In Oodnadata To Bangkok Palaces
A West Australian exploring party reports two years with no rain at Oodnadata region. Bangkok is described as an Indo Chinese Venice with hundreds of palaces, gardens, and canals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oodnadata
Bangkok
Askold
Bogatyr
Venice
Menam
Nile
Siam
Vickers, Sons & Maxim
Barrow
England
Platte County
Missouri
Board of County Commissioners
Wichita County
Kansas
Great Yarmouth
Bahama Islands
Washington
Scintillating Nuggets From The Times Of Old Europe
A collage of trivia notes reports England’s women’s colleges crowded and tea consumption high while battles boast low hit rates. It cites Windsor’s gold plate value, Suez traffic and ships, Baltic grain, and Germany’s rising lending role with figures on emigration, leather production, comet observations, and North African investments.
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England
Cotopaxi
China
Baltimore American
SiIberia
Windsor Castle
Philadelphia
Taylor
Suez Canal
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Alfred Austin
Baltimore Herald
Widow’s Weeds and Widows in Jokes and Wit
A compendium of quips on widows and remarriage from 19th century papers. Jests contrast a widow’s rights stance with marriage to widowers and stepchildren, including exchanges about wealth, age, and propriety.
Reflections of a Bachelor in New York Press
A collection of blunt social observations on marriage gender roles and dating etiquette from the New York Press. It contrasts convention with behavior noting women husbands dinners and social clubs with satirical bite. The pieces riff on marriage psychology and common stereotypes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tess
Jess
Philadelphia Press
New York World
New York Press
Along the Wayside Quotations on Life and Humor
A compact collection of witty aphorisms and maxims about living well, home life, and social manners. Includes lines about pride, gratitude, and daily habits, with a final Somerville Journal quote contrasting ill versus sick through a humorous doctor’s bill anecdote.
Babes and Grandmother Laughing at Odd Answers
A whimsical collage of children's quips and simple misunderstandings. Grandchildren tease grandma with candy deals, a child misreads a parade, a fluttering eyelid prompts a child’s eye curtain joke, a governess ponders Henry I, and twins Katie and Willie race for eggs prompting a joke about the old hen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie
Willie
Grandma
Educational Notes and Academic News Digest
Educational notes report that only 41.51 percent of American high school pupils are boys. Italian communities petition for abolition of compulsory education due to cost. Yale students working for college funds become pallbearers earning $1 per funeral. Amanda B. Ensworth of Danbury wills half her $11,000 estate to Tuskegee Institute after bequests. Dr A M Stein wins permission to explore Kho tan in Chinese Turkestan for science. Oxford’s historic Bampton lectures paused due to agricultural downturn. Dr Archibald Robertson to lecture in 1901. A J Balfour to deliver inaugural address at Cambridge summer university extension meeting with noted lecturers. Waltham Massachusetts to run a summer vacation school for children, with kindergarten for ages 3–6 and programs for 5–11 and 11–15 including cooking, nature study, drawing, and calisthenics.
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Italy
Yale
Amanda B. Ensworth
Danbury
Conn
Tuskegee Norman and Industrial Institute
A. M. Stein
Punjab University
Government of India
Khotan
Chinese Turkestan
Oxford
Archibald R.bertson
King’s Coll
London
Fish stories from newspapers echo humor and fishing lore
A montage of humorous quotes from Ohio and Pennsylvania papers about fishing mishaps and tall tales. From a parson nicknamed liar to bankers boasting four pounders, a stern parent punishes with a woodshed joke, and ads about Hungerstora Bitters claiming fish bite after use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Hungerstora
Quotations and Proverbs From Historical Thinkers
A collage of sayings from Russell to Eliot and Seneca notes on truth, fate, time, prudence, and human conduct. Includes references to Ruskin and quotes about courage in love and war, time, and conversation.
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ST. J. Miller & Son
M. K. Smith
WW .du Dcreon
J. W. Hauser
Ames’ New Hardware Man
Siteen & Loughran
Frank Gibson
Prop
The
AMES
Germany
Globe
North Africa
Brownson
Boston Transcript
McJiger
Thingumbob
McJigger
Somerville Journal
Somerville
Babes
Smarl Tommy
Harry
Margie
I. N. Gg
Bessie
Little Clara
Henry I
A. J. Balfour
Cambridge
R. C. Jebb
A. V. Dicey
Clifford Allbutt
Augustus Jessop
Trinity
Robert Ball
J. J. Thomson
Skeat
Waltham
Mass
Kidergarten
Chicago Tribune
Fish Stories
Parsin Baggs
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ohio State Journal
John
North American
John Ruskin
George Eliot
Philip Henry
Jeremy Taylor
Seneca
Chicago News
Carling
Civic Socintita
C. C. F. Ames
Iowa
Odd Fellows Hall
R.T. Sisson
Sec
E.S. Proper
N.G
M'Carthy & Lee
Ames, Iowa
J. F. Martin
Nevada
W. H. Wynn, JR
Attorney-At- Law
AMS
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Fitchpatrick & McCall
Edward M. McCall
Attorneys-At-Law
Opera Block
A. Richmond, M.D
Hutchison M.se
M.D
DRS
Richmond & Hutchison, Physicians and Surgeons
Bosworth's
W. BE. Harriman
Hamilton Block
Thurston's Hardware
W. E. Winsett
Story County Bank
H. Kelso
Hamilton's Grocery
Owa
E. F. Posegate
Lam
A. K. Banks
Twa
Onke. F. Bell
Thms
MO. H. Williams
Budd Block
Duff Street
Lockwood Elevator
Westerman
the Undertaker
W.m.greelefy
Henry Wilson
A. S. Needham
Union National
Bankers’ National Bank
Chicago
National City Bank
New York
Valley National Bank
Des Moines
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