Land of Gold and Abyssinia in Historic Perspective
A historical overview of Abyssinia under King Menelek, detailing geography, resources, and culture, including early legends linking Solomon and Sheba, the priestly Palashes Jews, and the region’s ancient trade ties. It notes Italian pressures, British interactions, and explorations by Dr. Cyrus Adler seeking new findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kush
Saba
Palestine
Sarah
Asa
Judea
Gordon
Lawrence Oliphant
Chicago Record
Abyssinia
Egypt
Soudan
Chartum
The
Nile
Constantinople
Jemen
Red Sea
Africa
Solomon
Sheba
Alfred the Great
Britain
England
English Society For the Conversion of
Stern
Theodore
Couse
John
Shon
Menelik
Russia
Rocky Mountains
Massawa
Cyrus Adler
Smithsonian Institution
Eccentric Mountaineer Reappears After Sixteen Years
Tennessee representative recalls Bill Bassett a mountaineer who vanished from his cave home after agreeing to earn $2,000. He drifted across states, settled in Arkansas lumber work, then returned with bark for his wife and children, sparking a village tale and a Rip Van Winkle comparison. His wife forgave him and he resumed duties, hauling wood when needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Representative Anderson
Tennessee
Bill Bassett
Bill
Green County
Pater
Arkansas
Rip van Winkle
University
Superstitions Today in Rhodemia and New York Charms
An article surveys modern superstitions in Rhodesia and New York, noting sixpences bitten by Cecil Rhodes as a luck charm and a range of talismans. It lists crooked sixpences, snakeskin, horse shoes, coral beads, amber beads, crescent watch charms, and rope histories, all carried or worn despite skepticism. It mentions a 13 Club table superstition and a New York tenement habit of horse shoes over doors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Rhodes
Iack
Rhodemia
Darma
Marwood
Fifth Avenue
New
Lighted bottles: Vienna lamp shapes and tiny battery
An electrical engineer in Vienna patents lamp forms from bottles to clocks and opera glasses. A six volt battery of three mini platinum zinc pairs powers a tiny incandescent lamp, with a cut glass knob reflector. The bottle holds a reservoir fluid and is filled after removing the top containing the battery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
A Dog Shopkeeper of New Orleans Keeps Honest Bank
August Abert, a New Orleans baker, owns Fifine the intelligent dog who runs a nickel bank on her neck for bakery customers. Shoppers may take a loaf only after depositing a nickel, with deposits equal to loaves taken if more than one. Fifine signals the master by bell rope when needed, and can teeth if necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Abert
New Orleans
Fifine
Abert
Filine
Salt for a Fresh Young State
A ministorm blew from Salt Lake City on January 2 and left Ogden area roads and telegraph lines coated in a saltlike substance. Analysis showed the coating to be pure salt covering everything for miles east of Ogden, suggesting an unusual atmospheric salt deposition rather than ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Ogden
Utah
Arc
Hicago Inter Ocean
Death by Laughter In Chicago Vaudeville Show
A vaudeville performer in Chicago outshines Grimaldi as his act provokes uncontrollable laughter in a patron. The audience member’s merriment escalates into a blood vessel rupture, and he dies before help arrives. It underscores how a comedian’s performance can tragically end in death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grimaldi
Chicago
Ill
Harshly Fragmented Seed Catalog Promises Promotions
A fragmented ad lists barley yields on various soils and high promises from the John A. Salmer Seed Co. It touts Teosinte and Clover varieties, offers 35 packages of vegetables for $1, and a postage paid sample pack with tea grain and grass samples. The text also mentions St Paul as Minnesota’s capital with a stated value and debt figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salaer
John A. Salmer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Pennsylvania
Modern Way Commends Its Pleasant Liquid Laxative
The notice promotes a pleasant liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, as a modern remedy to cleanse the system and break up colds headaches and fevers without after effects. It notes the product is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company and adds a line about Europe being a well armed camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Company
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Complete Cure
$100 reward offers for any cure failure as Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to cure catarrh a constitutional disease. Internal ingestion targets blood and mucous surfaces to restore health, with testimonials available and a $100 incentive. Toledo firm F J Conry & Co markets the remedy through druggists at 10 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Coenry & Co
Toledo
Tic
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Humbert
Italy
Menelek
Arabia
Gondar
Shea
Kingdom of
Harley
St. Paul
Minnesota
All
Europe
ERMAN
ALL & FS
Home Bureau
Nurses’ Registry
N. Y
Nurses’ Club
West Party-first Street
Oe Chemical Company
New York
Valentines
Paragon Val. CO
Vandewater
Aermotor Co
Estery
Rockwell and
Fillmore Streets
Culeteme the See
York Mercury
New York Daily
Chew Lau
New York Mercury
Park Row
New Yort
J. Fleck
Tim
Havie
Phen
Lebanon
Ohio
Walter Baker & Co
Water Baker & Co.Ltd
Dorchester, Mass
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