Gordon's Peculiarities Recapped by a Friend
The piece recalls Gen Gordon's strange habits such as coining roses to express ideas and giving away a gold medal to avoid its snare. It notes his practice of writing prayer lists, disdain for hypocrisy, and his Khartoum reputation. A travel anecdote places him leaving for Marseilles, believing he would not return, with doubts about future work. The excerpt shifts to unrelated observations on insects, Indian cooking, and desert tribal customs.
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New York Sun
Gordon
Speror
China
Tie
Khartoum
Jerusalem
Wich
Iit
Ile
Soudan
Congo
Acre
Marseilles
Upper
Egypt
Third Street Bridge
Mahalas
Lake Taoe
Arabia
Sahara
Oasis
Charles Whimple
Magazine of Art
Locusts and Pestilence Across Ages
The article reviews recurring swarms of locusts and related pestilence, noting widespread famine stemming from crop destruction. It cites historical cases, from North Africa to Venice, where plagues and hunger caused massive deaths and long-lasting hardship.
A Dimer is Worth of Smoke in Yuma
A Mexican youth group in Yuma promotes selling smoke in lid cans from burning hediondia to chase mosquitoes. They offer to supply air to drive away pests for 10 cents per house, a modest sum. The note mentions the Astors paying high rates for land on Al Street in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Alta
Yuma
Astors
Lang
al Street
New York
The Laundryman's Victim and a Worldly Hair Trade
A humorous piece follows a man’s plea for a universal laundry mark system as his linen bears an array of odd brands from cities like Philadelphia Pittsburgh Columbus Kalamazoo and Kansas City. It then shifts to a New York telegraph operator who chases Tehuantepec riches by buying raven hair for export, ending with disillusionment after three harsh years.
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IR. J. Burdette
United States
Lorneo
Wun Jung
Ram Jam Pang
Phi
Psi
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Great Western Satin Glass Laundry
Ping Ping
Columbus
Ohio
Kalamazoo
Minneapolis
Council Blails
XOA
Concordia
Kan
VZ Io
Kansas City
Hang Hi
Decatur
Terre Saute
Ind
Valparaiso
Beaver Falls
Lbridheville
New York Times
New York
Tehuantepec
Yucatáa
Inter- Ocean Railroad Company
Fle
Brazil buys United States flour as transport limits demand
The Brazilian market for U.S. flour ranges from five to six million dollars annually. Despite cheap exports, consumption in Rio de Janeiro and dependent regions remains limited due to poor internal transport and local preference for manioc based flour. Interior Brazilians live primitively and consume little flour.
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Beasil
Phiadelphia Press
Brazil
United States
Rio
Imported Cutlers Tour Sparks U S Factory Plans
The article recounts Col Frary's failure to hire Sheffield English workers who demanded separate rooms and quit when visitors entered. It notes German workers joining him in Bridgeport and contrasts American and European cutlery practices. The narrative also diverges into bird feathering observations and courtly curiosities about plumage displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Report Cutlery Company
Euro
Germany
Hamburg
England
United States
Sheffield
Col Krary
Bridgeport
Col. Frary
Diverse beliefs and humor fill scattered notes and quotes
The text surveys islander myths about a stone deity and his green and red shrimp wives, a harsh Native American tale of a courageous worker, a breakfast table farce, Irish political color symbolism, a greeting misstep about color names, Greek journalism’s growth with many printing houses, and a note on China’s etymology from Chinque to China.
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Oases
Demorest
London Standard
North Africa
Daniies
Harper's Basar
Ireland
Soidisant “National Party
Prince of Wales
Cassanaus
Goy Lially
Misa Greenleaf
Redpath
Journalistic
Greece
Chicago Journal
Little Kingdom of
Wee
Yi “Alls
Chay
Chumque
A.C. Ladd
Ladd's Hydraulic
South Forsyth St
Atlanta
Louisville Cement
Mar
Merit
Jim Hi
Indorse
F. A. Toomer
Perry
Joseph Palmer
Feagin
Wow. Smith
Echeconnce
W. B. Jobson
Macon
Perry, GA
Barnesville
Mercer University
Macon GA
James G. Ryan
Georgia
Peare Boys
Thomas KE. Kyula
A. J
John J. Brantly
Ju E.W
W. BR. Smith
Commercial College
Kentucky University
Lexington
Noardina
R. F. Lawton
Whiaker
H. Perdue
J. W. Hightower
Thomaston St
F. Reichert
Mulberry St
Macon, Ga
Victoria
Chattanooga
DALY
Tennessee
Vermont
Smith, Cture
North Georgia
Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn
Women and Children
Abram Love
M. D
Thos. D. Love
Arsistant
White Iall Street
W Tlands
Wm. Scott
Whitehall Street
Learry
Luis Relinas
Immer Stock
Wien
George
Muse
Atlanta, Ga
Detroit Free Press News
Tate
York
Jenry Whittemore
Waursunome
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