Zanzibar Recalled Through Storied Port and Clove Trade
A traveller’s reminiscence blends Zanzibar and Pemba with tales of cloves, dhow markets, and colonial links. It notes Tippoo Tib’s palace, Livingstone’s house, Father Etienne Baur, and American trade since 1833, with clove harvests beginning in July and copra as a key export.
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Sultanate
New England
Zanzibar
Pemba
Moluccas
Syyed Said
America
Mombasa
Sultan
Mungo Park
Livingstone
Stanley
Emin Pasha
Burton
Etienne Baur
Tippoo Tib
Muskat
Zansibar
Passing of Old Synagogue Marks London Jewish History
The demolition of London's Western Synagogue in St Alban's Place Haymarket signals a key moment for London Jewry. Originating with Liepman and Baron de Symons around 1768, it became the West End's first synagogue, later moving to Denmark Court and then acquiring St Alban's Place in 1826.
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London
West End
His Majesty's Theater
St. Alban’s Place
Haymarket
Bedford Row
Liepman
Denmark's Court
Denmark Court of Westminster
Exeter Hall
Strand Palace
Burton Street
Converts Testify At Religious Clinic On Healing Powers
A city mission meeting blends faith and testimonial accounts of physical illness. Converts describe chest pains and damaged lungs as they recount spiritual conversion while a medical student wonders if the gathering is a clinic or a religious service.
Telautomatics in Massachusetts Coast Defense
A youth, John Hays Hammond Jr., directs a high speed craft from a hilltop overlooking Gloucester harbor using vibrations and remote apparatus. The piece explains telautomatics as a new field controlling machines from afar and hints at future, wider applications in defense and industry.
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John Hays Hammond, Jr
Massachusetts
Salem
Gloucester Harbor
Cider and Amur River Tales in Old Journal Style
A fragmentary column blends a New England cider recipe praised for gout with a travel note by C A Hibbard on the Amur river journey. The cider section offers mulled cider with eggs and lemon and a cider jelly recipe. The Amur piece praises comfort, notes the river’s commerce and scenery, and describes Khabarovsk and local riverbank scenes.
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New England
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A. W. Weddell
Los Angeles Times
Vasco de Gama
Cape of Good Hope
Maskat
Lamu
India
Uganda
Zanz
West End of
Amur
C. A. Hibbard
Chicago Daily News
Siberia
Mississippi
Vladivostok
Khabarovsk
Nikolsk
House of Romanoff
Joseph
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