Tom Gallon Leaves London for Sunnybank Rose Garden
Tom Gallon, famed for Dickens flavored tales, quits London to cultivate roses at Sunnybank in Godalming. He recalls writing while ill and dictating to a stenographer, fainting after sessions. He finished a novel at Sunnybank and plans to return to London for winter to seek new ideas in the city’s streets and eateries.
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Tom Gallon
London
Godalming
Sunnybank
Gallon
Chambers
Inns of Court
Regular Sunday Excursia Between Canon City and Cripple Creek
Regular Sunday excursion trains will operate from Canon City to Cripple Creek each Sunday leaving at 6 30 a m and arriving in the gold camp early for a day of pleasure. The round trip fare is six dollars offering a low cost outing with a full day’s entertainment.
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Canon City
Cripple Creek
Durben Port Fears for Mine Machinery Amid War Disruptions
The damp climate near Durben South Africa harms ironwork and alarms rise over machinery awaiting shipment to mines. Formosa and Japan show strong camphos output while Chinese and Formosan camphor supplies grow, with Formosa hitting 7 million pounds in 1896 and yearly yields above 6 million pounds for recent years.
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Durben
South Africa
Winseet
Formosa Saw
How To Gain Flesh Observations From a Saint Pennet Note
A compact, unclear excerpt notes health claims about flesh gain with phrases implying a dose response. It mentions Saint Pennet and a curious promise that small amounts yield larger effects, suggesting a health remedy or tonic. The source lacks concrete names, dates, or verifiable details.
Oldest British flint industry per Lingheath works
The piece notes flints and flint locks as Britain’s oldest manufacture dating to the early 15th century or earlier at Lingheath mines Brandon near the Norfolk Suffolk border. Flints are still handmade, chipped on the knee with a hammer. They are used for fire making in Spain and Italy due to high match duties.
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Great Britain
Lingheath
Brandon
Ber Gera
Norfolk
Suffolk
Spain
Italy
Devilish tortures of all peoples in Chinese justice
A sensational letter argues that Chinese torture methods surpass animals in cruelty during war, detailing brutal practices such as bamboo scourging, the cage or Cangue, bamboo slivers under nails, Ling-Chee slicing on a cross, and prolonged executions with swords, including death by reptiles.
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China
New York
Ling-Chee
Chicago Girl Captivates Maharajah in Paris Revels
Paris society buzzes as Miss Claudine Sharp of Chicago, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Sharp, captivates Maharajah Kapurthala during a lavish Elysee Palace Hotel dinner. Kapurthala, famed for wealth and elegance, hosts the event amid Paris’s splendor with Miss Sharp still in her teens.
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Chicago
Maharajah Kapurthala
Paris
Continent
Kapurthala
Orient
Daisy Lester
Curzon
India
Claudine Sharp
Miss Sharp
James Sharp
Mss Sharp
Avenue Trocadero
Elysee Palace Hotel
Burial of Countess Castiglione Reveals Eccentric Will
The Paris burial details of Countess Castiglione expose a bizarre will. Only seven people may view her body, with clothes and jewelry from a box labeled Clothing for my burial. Her embalmed dogs Tate Zig Joudoya and Casino were to rest at her feet in the coffin with period costumes.
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Paris
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Tate
Zig
Joudoya
Cas 10
Casino Goya
Casino
Countess’ Cipher
Stevenson Addresses Samoan Chiefs On Roads And Peace
Robert Louis Stevenson speaks to Samoan chiefs urging road making over war. He compares Roman road building to lasting public works, noting roads attract traffic and labor to maintain them, hoping future generations remember and bless those who built and repaired the path.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Friend of Bad Boys and the Westward Homes
The article profile describes B. J. Wendell known as the best friend of bad boys in New York. Every morning ragged children gather at his East Thirty-eighth Street home, with a rule that they may not ring until after his breakfast hour. Wendell has helped place numerous boys in homes on Western farms or villages.
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York
Evert Jansen W
M Wendell
Mr. Wendell
New York
East Thirty-eighth Street
Wendell
Chi
Letter Carrier Retires After 26 Years Of Service
A rural letter carrier in Luton England completes a 26 year career and is said to have walked a distance equal to three times around the world in pursuit of his vocation, never missing a round despite long service and retirement on pension.
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America
England
Ling-Chee
Luton
Hale's Pet Charity Leads Boston Floating Hospital Care
The Great American Philanthropies embraces the floating hospital run by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. He actively steers the charity, personally visiting sick babies aboard the barge that travels Boston Harbor. The vessel, staffed by nurses and doctors, aids thousands of children annually, funded entirely by voluntary gifts and tied to the Lend-a-Hand society.
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Boston
Floating Hospital
Edward Everett Hale
Dr. Hale
Lend-a-Hand Society
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