Land frauds and a queen nurse in public view
A humorous column mix of odd snippets and satire notes spans land fraud chatter, a royal nurse bulletin by Queen Carmen Byloa about King Carol, and reflections on Shafter’s Cuba era. It riffs on politics, technology, exploration, and social quirks with a period newsprint tone.
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Carmen Byloa
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Mins Cumnock Visits A Reading-Hungry Neighborhood
Mins Cumnock travels as a district visitor dispensing reading and books to an elderly woman who longs for the world’s news. A minister notes their long afternoon as the old woman asks for help to escape her daily isolation, while family chatter about local tales and children’s mischief fills the scene.
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Miss Cumnock
Mrs. Higging
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Rosy
McCarthy Twins
Pearson
Halloran
Treachery and Murder Plot Foiled by Lucknow Inspector
A traveler narrowly escapes a staged grave plot after staying with a Lucknow police inspector. The inspector and two accomplices conspire to rob and kill the traveler for his money, but the plan collapses when the inspector is slain by the conspirators who turn on him. A student robbed by two masked men and a digress into verse follows in this eclectic dispatch.
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Agricultural Department
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Ife
Lucknow
London
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