Catherine's China Babe Scene and Notable Duels Highlight 19th Century News
A Wilkes-Barre traction strike case ends with a jailed husband released after his wife abandons her baby at the company offices. The infant was placed with the United Charities. The article also recounts Josiah Wedgwood's commission for Catherine the Great and notes a 1,200 piece service with 800 pieces recovered from Peterhof. It closes with a Sicilian duel near Palermo between two noblemen over a love affair, ending in death and injury.
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Traction Company
Wilkesbarre
William Gordon
Traction Offices
United Charities
Gordon
Josiah Wedgwood
Catherine the Great
Russia
la Grenomiliere
Tsarskoe Selo Palace
G. C. Williamson
Imperial Palace
Peterhof
Duke of Argyll
Whitton
Palermo
Sig. Lobianco
Sig. Ardito
Lobianco
Atdito
Alter of Cleopatra's Father Unearthed by Don Covington
An ancient altar of King Dionysis Ptolemy XIII, father of Cleopatra, is described with a four by four foot stone and seven foot pedestal. Don Covington refound it at Koptos near Luxor and added it to the Cairo Museum Ptolemaic collection. Inscriptions are complete though a missing piece may be recovered.
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Don Covington
Cairo Museum
Dionysis
Ptolemy Aulctes XIII
Covington
Koptos
Kust
Luxor
Ptolemy Auletes XII
Neos Dionysis
Lathyros
Gabinius
Syria
Diodorus
Egypt
Kom Omba
Ina An Dendera
Cleopatra
Auletes
Ptolemy XVI
Pompey
Ptolemy
Caesar
Nile
Ptolemy XV
Caesarion
Antony
Tarsus
Brutus
Cassius
Philipp
Octavianus
Augustus
Antonia
Actinum
Alexandria
Topare
Cay- Inn
Indian Turkish bath used by western tribes for cures
The Indian sweat-house or Turkish bath is described as a favored remedy among Arizona and New Mexico Indians. The covered hut, hot stones, and pouring water create a blinding veil of steam believed to aid various ailments.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Far West
New Style in Head Dress in Cape Colony
The Kaffirs of Cape Colony wear horned animal adornments in an unusual head dress. A Smithsonian submitted photograph from Washington shows one wearer and illustrates this distinctive fashion practice.
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Cape Colony
Smithsonian Institution
April Blood April Blood
A noir tale of a loner in New York who slips into a masked party, plans a dangerous liaison, and uncovers a web of letters and secrets. He teams with a mysterious woman to access an old house, only to confront a fiancé who rescues her and rejects the planned harm, revealing broader themes of loneliness and fate.
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Walters
New York
Avenue
Kentucky
Sam
Lfe
James
Jan
Ainly
Rise of American crackers traced in Bakers' Weekly account
The first US cracker, used by sailors, was a large round ship bread. A later cold water cracker differed in size texture and hardness. For long, both were unleavened, kneaded by hand, rolled on shovels, and baked on tile floors. Fermented dough and more varieties emerged only in the last 70 years.
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United States
British astronomer priests and Stonehenge calendars
Sir Norman Loghyer identifies a new class of British functionaries, the "astronomer priests," revealed through study of ancient monuments. He argues that temple axes and stone circles marked sunrise and sunset directions for May August November and February, functioning as calendars and night watches with living priests and a perpetual sacred fire.
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Norman Loghyer
Stonehenge
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Sicily
Alter
State Theater
Sao Paulo
Brazil
South America
Ceylon
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Hoyt Moore
Bright
Daily Story Pub. Co
Praud
America
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