Globe Trotters New Year's Day Hardship Tales
A grizzled traveler recalls New Year’s Day 1897 at sea near Madagascar where a shipwreck left 20 men starving and adrift. A New Zealand liner rescued them after four days, and other globetrotter accounts cover Cape Horn gales and a Jamaica crocodile hunt turned public spectacle, all framed as survival tales from New Year’s Eve to Epiphany.
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New York
Jovet
Scotland
Ixhavic
Roen
Cape Horn
Valparaiso
Scotfish
South-Pacific Ocean
Capa+Horn
Manizat
Miragonne
Globe Trotter
Jamaica
West Indies
Negroce
Walla
Vonora
Travel Not Cheap in Russia for Tourists
Jerome Hart warns visitors entering Russia of high costs and confusing money. Kopecks and local coins create surprises as gratuities seem larger than they are. St. Petersburg and Moscow offer fine hotels with steep prices and limited English speakers. A two-serving portion of sturgeon in a St. Petersburg restaurant is listed at 3.60 dollars.
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Russia
Jerome Hart
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Europe
San Francisco
Woman Fights Lion In Barn Fire Tale
In a winter quarters blaze a lion escaped to a barn. The woman clubs the intruder with a balestick, the husband shoots into darkness, and the trainer arrives. The animal is frightened off. a likely damages dispute follows the mishap and a fainting woman.
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Samuel Hopking Adams
McClure
Ex-Governor Hugh Thompson of South Carolina remembered
The long recalled anecdote shows the ups and downs of politics. Ex-governor Hugh Thompson recounted a Gridiron Club banquet incident in which a waiter, once an ex-governor, offered a small cigar and a coin, prompting Thompson to face a revealing moment about memory and status.
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Hugh &. Thompson
South Carolina
Gridiron Club
Graujing
Mr. Thompson
Thompson
Richard L. Gleaves
New York Times
Rebuke at Chicago dinner over editorial changes
An editor at a literary dinner in Chicago recalls censoring George Meredith’s work by adding hundreds of words to a review. Meredith angrily responded, and a tale of an architect describing a bridge in Bootland surfaces, quipping that the editor’s bridge would not be in America.
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Chicago
George Mereau
Meredith
Bootland
America
The Golden Heritage of Song
A nostalgic voice recalls a mother’s scarce gold and shared songs. The speaker cherishes memories, noting a brother’s hair and a sister’s crest, but the lasting treasure is the mother’s music. Laments memory’s pull, longing for a voice that once filled their life with tender tones.
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Slater
Striking Styles In Hats And Velvet Fashions
The article describes velvet hats and dresses with rich color variations from pinkish yellow to burnt orange and brown. It highlights beaver and velvet materials, plaited waists, floor-length excess fabrics, and elaborate trimmings like toupes, ruchings, and Irish crochet. It notes new evening cape effects without sleeves and features gray velvet garments with steel embellishments and fur coats finished with similar trimming.
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New York
To Make Lace Girdle Braid Ties and Back Lacing
To Make Lace Girdle The newest girdle features back lacing with wide pom padour or floral ribbon in rich colors. Cut ribbon to exceed waist size by three inches then split and bone ends with whalebone to the desired depth. Sew edges toward the center keeping ribbon full length.
Crafting a Ribbon Girdle With Silk Ribbon Velvet
The text describes attaching ribbon at the upper and lower edges, securing with small rag rings along the bones, and buttonhole stitching neatly around the edge. It mentions threading silk ribbon velvet to fade and tying the ends of Luisara in large loops to hang halfway down the skirt.
Black Cloth Gown Described with White Tab Accents
Descriptive note details a gown in black cloth with white cloth tabs and round black buttons. The garment appears to be worn to below the knees with a sackcloth style, noted for its charming but understated design.
Dainty Nittle Cakes for Afternoon Tea Bakes
A traditional recipe describes dainty Nittle cakes for afternoon tea baked in fancy tins. The method uses equal weights of eggs flour butter and sugar, creaming sugar with butter, beating in eggs until foamy, folding in flour, and baking slowly to avoid toughness.
New Style Coat Described With Velvet Epaulets
A gray coat described as a vestment with a full length slit beneath the arms secured by buttons. It features deep velvet epaulets, gauged collar details, and embroidered cloth accents, including a narrow volant outlining the collar.
Evening Coat Fashion Description in Fox Fur Trim
A detailed description of an evening coat in black fox fur and pink satin, describing a fitted waistline, white embroidered pink cloth, four black fox bands on the collar, three black velvet straps as cuffs, lace trim, and a bow knot ribbon. The satin finish is decorated with rogehud patterns.
Smart English Top Garment in Scottish Tweed
The new London coats are picturesque and comfortable in heavy rough Scotch tweed with a wide red or blue check band. They feature double breasted fronts circular back belted waist and perfect tailor finish. A warm wrap for frosty mornings with a loose sleeve widening at the elbow.
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New London
Dust In the Hair Care Routine Mentioned
The text describes brushing hair for several minutes both night and morning to beautify and promote growth. It claims dust removal from the scalp prevents damage to hair roots and growth.
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Globe Trotters
Waost Indies
Hayti
Miragoune
Mantgat
Czar
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