Calcutta the Emibolimert and the Indian Empire described
Evelyn Wilson portrays Calcutta as a modern yet ancient metropolis. She highlights Chowringhee and government house, cosmopolitan markets, colonial rails, and the river ghat rituals. The piece contrasts grand streets with old cemeteries and burning ghats, noting enduring native customs amid British influence.
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Calcutta
Delhi
India
Chowringhee
Regent Street
Alshance
Government House
Thomas Babington Macaulay
South Park Street
Rose Aylmer
Hooghley
Ganga
England
Bazar
Evelyn Wilson
Denver Danish servant in jail faces memory lapses in theft case
Hannah Lindy a Danish maid held on a request by Deputy Shafer for stealing $809 and jewelry from Ida Lehten. She wandered to Leadville after an impulse she could not resist, later recalling no memory of the theft and claiming she had no control over her actions. She reported prior childhood accusations of small thefts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver, Col
Hannah Lindy
Shafer
Ida Lehten
Twenty-third Street
Leadville
Denver
Hannah
Union Station
Tree Saves a Man Life in Wild Wreck
In Waterbury Winn region Mallory a would be farm hand from Briston suburbs wandered from Walcott and fell from a cliff into a tree crotch. A girl crossing a swamp heard his groans after about twelve hours and Mallory was rescued with two broken ribs and a fractured ankle. His watch survived unharmed.
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Waterbury
Mallory
Bristol
Walcott
Girl Takes Midnight Ride on a White Hog
In Skowhegan Maine a 16 year old girl awoke to strange noises and saw a white animal approaching the house. The hog from the family stable had escaped and carried her downstairs on its back before the animal was chased away. The hog was later found calm at a neighbor’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skowhegan
Frank Lane
Mr. Lane
Ife
Wild cat in freight car near South Amboy shocks residents
In South Amboy New Jersey residents armed themselves after a wild cat said to be a southern lynx emerged from a Pennsylvania freight car loaded with lumber bound for South Amboy Lumber and Supply. The animal about four feet long fled the yard after being exposed by lumber handlers and was later seen drinking at a spring. The company offers a reward for its capture dead or alive.
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South Amboy
N. J
Pennsylvania
South Amboy Lumber and Supply Company
North Carolina
Edward Letts
Teen Bride Rescued by Handcar Union in Minturn
Miss Birdle Crickly, a teen from Allefa, fled an arranged match and rode a handcar with a section gang foreman to Minturn to reach her sweetheart Sam Smith. The bridegroom had moved on to Hoxie. Her father and Smith met her there and a promise to return for a formal ceremony was secured before the knot was tied.
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Allefa
Arik
Miss Birdle Crickly
Minturn
Sam Smith
Hoxie
Miss Crickly
Smith
Bills Will Not Pass in Roosevelt Era Currency Rift
Washington reports from April 22 indicate President Roosevelt’s measures face stiff Senate resistance. Republican leaders expect adjournment around May 16 with little legislation beyond appropriations. Aldrich holds firm for his currency bill, while Beveridge warns against adjourning without enforcing the president’s agenda.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Allison
Aldrich
House
Beveridge
Republican Party
Theresident
Brownsville
Warner
Foraker
Revevidze
Trains Collide in Australia Wreck Kills Forty-Two
Melbourne April 22 Forty two bodies have been recovered from a collision between Ballarat and Tendigo trains at Braybrook Junction eight miles from Melbourne. Eighty eight people are reported injured. The crash occurred as passengers were boarding the Ballarat train when the Tendigo engine failed to heed signals. The cars caught fire and many victims burned beyond recognition. A fireman found his two sisters among the wreckage. The Tendigo driver reversed when signals failed but could not stop.
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Australia
Melbourne
Ballarat
Braybrook Junction
Th Ig
Braybrook
Tendigo
Fire Brigade
Tremdingo
Girl Acquitted of Bathing in Neighbor’s Kitchen Case
In Alton UL on April 22 Justice Tord discharged Miss Marie Treius after examining alleged January bathing in Mrs Randolph Smith’s kitchen. The charge claimed disturbance of peace of Mr and Mrs Herman Herrin, a newly married neighbor. The court found no guilt.
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Alton
Marie Treius
Randolph Smith
Herman Herrin
Justice Tord
Herriu
G Miller Directory Entry for Musson Building Suite 2
G Miller listed in Suite 2 of the Gillespie Building Musson with office contact Atlantic and phone 396.
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Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlantic
Formerly Interne Hospital State Uni versity of Iowa
Formerly interne hospital state university of iowa. House phone 461 black office 203 black atlantic.
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Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Atlantic
The Fiadlesnake Emblem at Jefferson’s Era
Dr. Thornton persuaded President Jefferson that the native rattlesnake Crota lus Horridus was the best emblem for the United States. It acts defensively, warns before striking, and when it strikes it is fatal.
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Thornton
Jefferson
United States
New York Press
The Simple Life and the Monastic University Ethos
The Independent notes that university life resembles a monastery where students are shielded from the outside world. It argues ethics are stricter and trust in fellow students is higher, while warning that skilled swindlers view professors as easy marks.
First Greek Letter Society Theta founded for women at DePauw
The First Greek letter society Theta was established as a women’s Creek letter group at DePauw University in Crawfordsville Indiana on January 27 1870. Phi Meta Phi organized at Monmouth Illinois around 1807 later known as the sorority.
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Kappa Alpha ‘Theta
United States
de Pauw University
Drooncastile
Tail
Phi Meta Phi
Monmouth
Found at Last Ode on Simple Rural Joys
A rural speaker declares the happiest life lies in plain living. He urges telling time, drinking water from a gourd, paying the preacher and sister, and not worrying about whether the world is round or flat or how high heaven is.
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Indian Empire
Callcutta
Maidan
Strand
Traffe
Burmah
W Straits
Messageries
Marie Times
The
General Post Office
Aphasia
Mysterious Phantom
Tree
Wildcat
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney-at-Law
Town Trust and Savings Bank
G, R. Miller
DR. Co, G, Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic
Opera House
Iowa
T. B. Swan
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy
Chestnut St
Atlantic, Iowa
Nels Brown
Atlantis
Butler
M. H. Butler
Musson ’Phone
A. H. Goodspeed
Cass
L. L. Nutt
4Th and
Walnut St. Musson
C. J
Walnut Street
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