Czar Kitchen Dossier Claims Dirt and Waste in Imperial Meals
Prince 8. 2. 6. reports gruesome particulars about the Czar’s kitchen, alleging dire hygiene and extravagant costs. It recalls tuberculosis in the Grand Duke George’s entourage, typhoid fever during Livadia visits, and cooks cutting meat on a dirty stool. The article details thefts of wine, food, and valuables from the Imperial table.
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la Revue
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Caucasus
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Livadia
St. Petersburg
Rouen
Paris
Russia
Fragmented Scottish anecdote on affection and wit
A garbled excerpt recalls a Scottish couple sharing a kiss on a deathbed. The husband jokes about never kissing before, while the wife responds with a retort about their years together. The text is incomplete and difficult to restore for full meaning.
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Tamimas
How Insects Speak and The Limits of Language
The passage argues insects lack vocal organs and speech but can express emotions through gestures. It compares mimetic language to human language and suggests nonverbal cues like eye movements and gestures can reveal thoughts or feelings even when speech hides them.
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Henry McCook
Belgian engineer announces new airship tested soon
From Roussels comes word that Commandant Le Clement de Saint Marca, a Belgian military engineer, has invented an airship to be tried shortly. The inventor is a noted authority and the plans are, it is said, almost revolutionary and highly secret.
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Roussels
le Clement de Saint Marca
Minister of Education speech in Fulding dinner remarks on schools
The Hon. Geo. Fowlds spoke to a public dinner in Fulding on March 10 about his charge of the Education Department. He praised the Education Committee's work, noted visits to 57 North Island schools, highlighted Maori schools' progress and cleanliness, and argued for equal opportunity and reform including salaries and promotions, defending Government sincerity amid criticism.
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FB. ¥. Lethbridge
Groua
Committee of the House
North Island
Electric post in the air mail system moves at 250 miles an hour
Italian engineer Count Pispicalli Peagel unveils an electric post system using a wireway and torpedo shaped carriers to deliver letters at 250 mph. London to Brighton in 15 minutes, York in 45 minutes, Edinburgh under two hours, with automatic town branch off and multi-wire redundancy to prevent tampering.
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Count Pispicalli Peagel
London
Brighton
York
Edinburgh
Tis
Imiger
Holiday footwear sale at Steller’s shoes
During the holiday season readers are urged to buy tennis bowls and cricket footwear at Steller’s shoes. The ad promises light durable high quality products at economical prices during an alteration sale with prices that cannot be duplicated in the district.
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Steller’s
Neiers Wo
Pope Clamps Down on Modernism with Abbe Loisy Excommunication
The Vatican under Pope action sentences Abbe Loisy to greater excommunication for Modernist views in Catholic teaching. The piece surveys Modernist debates with references to Tyrrell and Loisy, outlining excommunication depths and historical context from church law to Froude.
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Congregation of the Index
Loisy
Father Tyrrell
M. Loisy
Japan Cuts Naval and Military Expenditure
A London Daily News reprints Japan’s reduction of prospective naval and military costs by 12 million sterling citing it as prudent finance action. It notes post Russo-Japanese War tax rises on citizens and comments on imperialism’s costs and Western impressions of Japan’s halt in spending.
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Daily News
Japan
Rheumo credited with curing Wellington man in 1907
Mr James Briggs of 8 8 Aorere Wellington testifies Rheumo relieved his rheumatism after trying liniments and pills with no relief. He writes that others should try it and be cured. The medicine is sold by chemists and stores for 6d and 4s 6d.
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Froude
England
James Briggs
Aorere
Wellington
Themista
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