An Ideal of Honeymoon Spot Hubertusstock Hunting Lodge
An hour after their wedding Prince Ernest August of Cumberland and Princess Victoria Louise traveled by special train to Hubertusstock in Schorfheide. The hunting lodge sits in a beech and oak forest beside Lake Wehrbellin with a simple Swiss chalet style, antlers on the walls, and guarded access. The site blends royal retreat with vast forest, deer herds, and legends of a sunken city in the Wehrbellin.
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Rom
Berlin
Schorfheide
Hubertusstock
Ernest August of Cumberland
Victoria Louise
Kaiser
Germany
Frederic William IV
Hubertus
Schloss
Her Idea of Teeth
A school lesson before exams shows a teacher quizzing pupils on teeth. A girl answers with humor noting baby teeth, teeth and false teeth but corrects herself saying incisors and other kinds like canines and molars.
Modest Wants of Sane Citizens
It is a remarkable fact that the vast majority of men look forward through the years of their greatest activity, not to luxury retreats, but to a forty acre farm on the outskirts, accessible to a market where they apply lifetime wisdom to managing a chicken yard.
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Florida
California
Cairo
Cannes
Nice
Adirondacks
White Mountains
Rockies
Sierras
New England
Australia Still Unexplored By British Eyes
A magazine note observes that much of Australia remains unseen, with nearly a quarter of the continent unexplored, especially in the west where the sparse population averages one person per twenty miles.
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Australia
Like Cut From Knife Many Cases Where Soldiers Were Wounded
Harper’s Weekly quotes soldiers and a veteran army surgeon explaining pain from wounds and amputations. They describe not realizing gunshot wounds at first, the differing pain of skin versus muscle, and that current bullets cause less pain than old ones. The piece argues most pain comes from skin injury rather than muscle or bone.
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Cuba
Spain
Shiloh
Harpera Weekly
Clergyman's Pun on Submersion and Converts
A veteran clergyman in a remote region notes Baptists have the strongest appeal. When queried about total submersion as baptism he quips that among the people it is not a super irrigation, underscoring the practical impact of faith in that community.
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New York Evening Post
How Queen Rules King Emmanuel
The Italian queen, in talks with Queen Mary of Great Britain, says she forgives many faults but not a man’s failure to smoke. She offers a pipe when annoyed, a cigarette for cheer, and a cigar to influence him, guiding him any way she wishes.
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King Emmanuel
Italy
Mary
Great Britain
Moment of Inspiration Behind Tennyson Poem Origin
The present Lord Tennyson recounts how his father wrote Crossing the Bar in minutes after visiting Solcombe near Bolt Head. He sat on the cliffs listening to a bar of the sea, and the lyric came like a flash of inspiration long afterward.
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Lord Tennyson
Solcombe
Bolt Head
Manila rises as modern port city shaping future in far east
Frederic J. Haskin notes Manila's transformation from a cholera and pestilence plagued harbor to a thriving modern metropolis. Five steel docks, a new hotel and warehouses, expanded water and sewer systems, and abundant transport mark a shift from old Escolta to a bustling seaport hub with immense trade potential for the United States and Asia.
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New City
Manila Bay
Admiral Dewey
Manila
Far East
Frederic J. Haskin
Chicago Daily News
Tondo
San Nicholas
Intramuros
Manana
United States
China Sea
China
Federated Malay States
India
America
Oriental Mercantile Marine
Suez Canal
Luneta
Luenta
Malecon
New Manila
Elks’ Club
Army and Navy Club
Bagumbayan Botanical Gardens
Hongkong
Cebu
Iloilo
Albay
Zamboanga
Hawaiian Islands
Cuba
Porto Rico
Stamps Earned by Crime At Milan Philatelists’ Congress
A Milan philatelists congress delegate confessed to obtaining two 50 franc stamps of French East Africa through legal breaches. A Ji bouti trader allegedly induced natives to commit minor offenses, accepting fines or imprisonment as payment. Upon release, the fine documents with stamps are sold to dealers then to amateurs for about ten times their value, inflating the rarity of such stamps.
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Milan
Congress of Philatelists
East Africa
Mountains Death Toll From 1912 Mountaineering Tragedy
A German paper lists 1912 mountain deaths total 95 in Central Europe as the season nears. Germany records 36 fatalities, Vienna area 26, Tyrol 29, with four in Switzerland and France. Three deaths occurred on Mount Blanc by a single party. Most accidents stemmed from inexperience and cheap gear among German amateurs who skipped guides.
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Europe
Germany
Vienna
Tyrol
Switzerland
France
Mt. Blanc
Speculator the Worse Off
The saying warns that a pig in a poke can still be a pig, but the speculator often walks away with nothing.
Make Allowances Even If You Think You Have Reason
The guidance urges practicing generosity by giving allowances even when tempted to complain. It emphasizes restraint and fairness in judgments, promoting a calm, constructive approach to conflicts and budget concerns. The message frames allowances as prudent, humane action.
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Wehrbellin
Windermere
Wehrberlin
Escolta
Don Quixote
Thomas A. Edison
Pasig River
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