Horace Porter Sees Prosperity in Future Trade with France
Gen Horace Porter, on eve of departure for France, urges reciprocity to ease tariff tensions and grow U S trade with France. He cites Paris Exposition 1900, urges funding and appointment of a commission, and predicts a fall rush to prosperity as factories restart and railroads expand.
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Horace
Porter
France
United States
Congress
Gen
Gen. Porter
Blaine
Harrison
New York
Paris
McKinley
Sherman
Judge Sewall and the Public Penance Tradition
The piece recalls public penance across centuries and nations, highlighting Judge Samuel Sewall's remorse for witchcraft trials in Salem and Boston. It notes his penitence before his Boston congregation, his eventual remorse, and the respect he gained for his contrition over later honors.
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Rome
Henry II
Henry IV
Duchess of Gloucester
Jane Shore
Samuel Sewall
Salem
Boston
New England
Judge Sewall
Sewall
Stoughton
Outlook for the 1897 small yacht season and rule changes
An expert discusses bulb fins centerboards and long ends shaping a safer lighter class of small yachts. The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club overhauls rules to 15 20 25 and 30 foot classes. Trials on Long Island Sound and Lake St Louis prepare for August races with 20 foot boats carrying three.
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England
Atlantic
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
Wisconsin
Minnesota
United States
Long Island Sound
Seawanhakas
Oyster Bay
Giants of Britain and beyond in historic exhibitions
The article surveys famous giants from the 16th to 18th centuries, detailing Charles Byrne the Irish giant eight feet eight inches, Patrick Cotter “O’Brian,” Walter Parsons the seven foot seven porter, and William Evans seven foot nine. It notes Europe’s leadership in giant production, mentions Captain Bates of Tennessee, and cites two noted giant women Miss Scott and Pauline Wedde, with brief notes on origins and fates.
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Charles Byrne
London
Ireland
College of Surgeons
William Hunter
Patrick Cotter
O’brian
Byrne
James I
England
Walter Parsons
Parsons
Grover
Charles I
William Evans
James
Germany
Poland
Switzerland
United States
Great Britain
Captain Bates
Tennessee
Bates
France
Mrs. Bates
Miss Scott
Pauline Marie Elizabeth Wedde
Thuringia
Remarkable Global Sign and Drum Languages Across Islands
The piece describes Gomoro Island natives using a whistled language where each syllable is a tone, enabling distant conversations of a mile or more. Cameroons speakers use drums with multiple tones to encode language and speed message delivery between villages. East African traders employ a concealed finger speech during bargaining, hiding hand signals under garments to keep terms secret.
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Gomoro Island
Canaries
Africa
Keeping His Mind Bright
The article recalls Sir Alexander Cockburn who yearly worked out the first three books of Euclid to sharpen logic and avoid slovenly reasoning.
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Sir Alexander Cockburn
On the Roof of the World and the Marble Tomb
A narrator on the roof of the world at Easter looks over Rome. The Temple of marble lies quiet as marble hills glow A voice asks if He is risen and proclaims the stone must be rolled away for resurrection.
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Lego
Tiber
Bitter clash over consent in arranged love contest
In parts of Asia the lover and girl’s friends settle disputes through combat. If the lover’s friends win she is his free trophy. If her friends win he must pay a fixed price or forfeit the girl.
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Asia
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Horace Porter
John Hay
Gen. Grant
State Department
Bayard
Washington
Eustis
George Grantham Bain
Corinthian Lake Yachting
Lake St. Louis
Coerse
St. Lawrence
Ogdensburg
Buffalo
Massachusetts
Gress
Defender
Valkyrie NT
Canada
Glencairn
Uncle Sam
Harles A. Bramble
Queer Languages
Epi
M. Thomas
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