Old-time Cycling Memories and Auctioneering Oddities
The Duke of Agyll recalls early cycling in Paddington, noting pillion riding and modest attire. The piece then wanders through Stradivarius auction prices, Arctic bird nesting discoveries on Mount McKinley, and a former pupil converting land into a garden as a memory monument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Agyll
Cyclists’ Touring Club
Paddington
London
Hbuatteries Park
Uton
Coles
Windsor
Leo
Calo
Beehive Swarm Shuts Down Doncaster Church Roof
A half million bees swarmed under the roof of Rensington Church near Doncaster. The buzzing drowned organ and choir voices as an expert had to remove part of the roof. Smoke diverted the swarm, and the beekeeper faced furious insects guarding the area.
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Rensington Church
Doncaster
Wigs Through Ages: From Egyptian Mummies to French Courts
The article traces wig use across eras from ancient Egypt where mummies wore wigs to early Greece with both genders donning hairpieces. It notes nobles favoring dark hair, queens wearing many wigs, and fashion rising in France under Louis XIV with court influence. Pepys records spending on a wig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepys
Ant
Orphanage Founder Aged Ninety Five Runs Charity Sixty Years
A 95 year old woman in Southwark runs an orphanage without advertising for subscriptions, claiming money comes from prayer. The institution cost about £25,000 to build and now has several branches with around 2000 children, many becoming domestic servants. Neighbors inspired her to take in more, and though she recently bedbound, the girls receive farewell talks of care. Also included is a note on the birth of the navel orange and a historical reference to Ferrarri and Hume describing early orange varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwark
Pill
Tegen
Misa Sharman
Boothwork Square
Baptiste Ferrarri
Society of Jesus
Hesperides
Rome
Todd
Hume
From Pit to Pulpit Welsh Miner Becomes Educator
William Jones of Rhos, a coalminer since youth, leaves the pit for the pulpit rising to local fame as a coal miner preacher. A bizarre report describes a farm skeleton bound and found near Grantown on Apey, plus notes on Ramsay MacDonald’s son and a future Wembley project led by Donaldson Medal winner Mike Lonm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jones
Rhos
Jones
Pulpita
Praeher
Ancient Egyptian tomb yields queen’s gold and jewels
A desert excavation on the Egyptian side uncovered a queen buried beneath sand. Her tomb held eighteen bracelets nine gold nine silver five necklaces a jeweled diadem and a stone statue. Exquisitely carved furniture and piles of jewels accompanied the royal burial dated at least a thousand years before Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahora
Ome
Sphinx
Bu‘hark
Bneath
Also Mentioned on This Page
Canberra
Manteears
Excekien
Cvepooppedats
Oudt Sg
Wood Tire & Cunt
Thorpes
Thorpes Ltd
Sussex Street
Sydney
Lysaght’s
Australia
Yasaght Brothers & Co., Limited
Mead
Citt Street
Varramoti River
Dean
Marlborough Street
Harry Wills
Baekwele
Mra Birger
Fester-McClellan Co
Garmet
New York
New York Eimergency Hospital
Hein
Hosey
Weeterhom
Kent
Sevenoaks
Lucus
Norway
Viska
Dragser
Nummedal
British Ministry of Agriculture
Order of Frothtlowers
England
Tha Jiandel Brotherhood of
Bacon Aloworn
Englao
Slanley Baldwin
Strad” Violina
Stradivarius
Han
Tio
Mia Pulput
Piradlivarius
Venice
Serence
Mount M’kinley
Alawha
Millins of Bees
Crown Music
Dodd's Hotel
Mr. M. Ryan
Cooma II
Dimes
Omutane
Smith
H. W Smith
Murton
Dava Moor
Grantawn-on- Apey
Keleton
Irtan
Keatog
Allier
G. MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
Mike Lonm
Pacifkst
Hess
Orange
Laonden University
Wee
Donaldson
Macdonald
Britain
Hollywood
Wembley
Minayre
Hammersmith
Eastbourne-reai
Remaere
N.2
Queen's Desert Tomb
THE
Austral Box & Timber Coy. Ltd
Abattoir Road
Pyrmont
N.S.W
Hutler
New Zealand
Asprg Oe Sales
Creryshirg
Aspro Ives
ASPRO
Arthur Boots
Cilicr
Oweni
Hewalgia
Morelia
Adachi
Neurinis
Nerv Shock Ruby Gala
Psa Pains
Eculia
Lungagu
Eixnimum
Tost & Rohu
Martin Place
G.P.O. C
Gins Mat
Tortedebl
Gala
Noyes Bros
Clarence Street
Wate Street
Newcastle
Universal Distributing Company
Canperla
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