Chinese ignorance noted by Pekin and Tien Tsin Times
A Pekin and Tien tsin Times writer laments Chinese inability to distinguish nations and peoples beyond Japan and Russia. The piece notes Africans and Europeans as barbarians to Chinese, while America remains vaguely understood amid boycott rumors. It highlights missionary and schooling efforts slowly diminishing such views.
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Japan
Russia
Rest
Earth
Pekin and Tientsin Times
Straits Settlements
America
South Africa
Prodigal Rothschilds Story On A Cab Ride
An anecdote contrasts Leopold de Rothschilds spendthrift son with his father. The son always paid the cabman half a crown, but when away, the driver received a florin. The driver notes the son can afford it, while an orphan could not.
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Leopold de Rothschild
Piccadilly
St. Swithin‘s Lane
Jehu
Tam
Impatience and longing in a Ceha Thaxter verse fragment
The lines express longing for a beloved, noting that without them the world loses scent, color, and joy. The speaker laments separation, imagines death as a release, and asks for reunion with the “print of your patient feet.” The excerpt is attributed to Ceha Thaxter.
Publicist problems and old theater towns in a scattered piece
A digressive slice recalls Hap Ward of The Grafter touring a Pennsylvania stopover and asking a hotel owner about the town’s show appeal. It shifts to William Chandler the publicist and ends with a note on Charlotte Brontë’s husband Arthur Bell Nichols and his approaching ninety wisdom.
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Pennsylvania
Hap Ward
Ward
Opery
Bill
William I. Chandler
New Hampshire
Senate
Chandler
Guarlette Breme
Musband
Charlotte Bronte
Arthur Bell Nichols
Faith of College Girls And Locking Up Belongings
A newspaper piece from Northampton Mass notes frequent dorm thefts at Smith College. It describes a culture of lax security among students who leave valuables unlocked and assume friends borrow items. President Seelye urges locking up, but habits lapse after a week, with thefts blamed on servants or male thieves until a female culprit is identified.
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Smith College
Northampton
Mass
Elizabeth
Genevieve
Seelye
Chanel
British Captain Survives Africa Rhinoceros and Elephant Attacks
Captain Chauncy Hugh Stegand of the British army was tossed by a rhinoceros and trampled by an elephant while hunting in central Africa near Fort Mancey. He sustained chest wounds and later killed the young elephant after regaining his rifle.
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Chauncy
Hugh Stegand
Fort Mancey
Central Africa
Stegand
New Plate Glass Method May Revolutionize Industry
Vice Consul Bock reports Belgian inventor Fourcault has sold a new glass plate method to a European syndicate for 952000. The process uses side by side rollers to form polished plates directly from molten glass, potentially transforming production at plate glass furnaces and shrinking traditional blowing and casting roles.
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Bock
Nuremberg
Fourcault
Plate Glass Manufacturers
Quinine as a Civilizer in Moros Lands
R L Bullard describes cholera’s arrival among the Moros alongside Americans and how a datto named Alandug bridged beliefs. He notes the spread of fear, the role of water boiling to banish germs, and the adoption of American medical theory leading to quinine becoming a trusted ally over reason or force.
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Alandug
R. L. Bullard
Atlantic Monthly
Macedonia and Turkey in Brailsford's new book
H N Brailsford argues petroleum in Turkey is valued for tin packaging used in slum housing utensils and says Oriental life shows poverty and slovenliness. He also notesTurks claim the civilized world’s good opinion matters less than rifles for freedom and cites a village tale of Armenian suffering.
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H. N. Brailsford
Macedonia
Turkey
Europe
Britain's Lost Land: Chalk Cliffs Melt Away with Alarming Speed
Dr. Andrew Wilson discusses rapid coastal erosion along Britain's east coast. He notes cliffs erode faster on soft materials, forming arches and sea stacks. Historic sites like Ravenspur vanish. Bridlington to Spurn loses about 30 acres per century, widening the historical land loss since Roman times.
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Andrew Wilson
Britain
Gibraltar
Heligoland
Torquay
Phillips
Bridlington
York
Yorkshire
Auburn
Hartburn
Hyde
Hornsea
Hornsea Beck
Ravenspur
Ravensburhg
Hull
Edward Balliol
Scotland
Henry VI
Richard II
All True Lovers of Nature Verse on Anglers and Hunters
A collection of anecdotes elevates preachers doctors and actors as the best fishermen with lines about trout and life in the outdoors. Notables such as Dr Robert Collyer Bishop Dudley of Kentucky Joseph Jefferson and President Cleveland are cited as expert anglers in humorous lore about fishing and wit.
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Robert Collyer
Bishop Dudley
Kentucky
Joseph Jefferson
Cleveland
Jefferson
Joe
Grover
Fellows
Rip
Castle Yesterday in the Valley of Contentment
Poetic reminiscence of Castle Yesterday set in a sunlit valley with timeless morning, silver streams, and golden skies. Reflects on youth, memories, and the ache of passing seasons within a nostalgic landscape from Saturday Evening Post.
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Contentment
Saturday Evening Post
Yale Man in China Receives Major Imperial Commission
Yu Chuan Chang, educated at Yale Law School with honors, has been invited by the Chinese emperor to study Germany’s legal system. Chang has accepted and left for Berlin to prepare an official report for the imperial commission touring the United States.
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Yale
China
Yu Chuan Chang
Chang
Germany
Berlin
Imperial Chinese Commission
Yale Law School
American irrigation and desert transformation in the Southwest
The text traces ancient irrigation from Rome to American efforts in the Salt River valley and Arizona. It notes Coronado’s era, continued Pueblo farming, and modern government canals expanding across 10 million acres. Outlays reach 90 million dollars with annual harvests over 150 million and 2 million residents thriving where desert once reigned. Uncle Sam now holds vast desert lands, reflecting policy to settle and cultivate this vast area.
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Rome
South America
New England
Egypt
Coronado
Rio Grande Valley
Kansas
New Mexico
Pueblos
Salt River
Arizona
Massachusetts
Uncle Sam
Great American Desert
How She Always Knew in Meddybemps Village
Hannah Jane Spriggins lives alone on a hilltop in Meddybemps and never misses news. Opera glasses let her watch the harbor and hear about village events before others. Her niece Ellen sent the glasses five years ago, and she stays in touch with the world through them.
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Hannah Jane Spriggins
Meddybemps
Hannah Jane
Sam Whitten
Anne
Smith
Brown
Sam Ketsham
Tabitha
Hannah
Ellen
Johnny's Last Little Word
A child asks his father meanings of words during a quiet reading hour. The father scolds interruptions and defines plen teous as abundant. Johnny then ponders a pun about pie and the word pieous, ending with a playful query about perfection.
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Johnny
Papa
Mining Gold in Ireland Near Carndonagh in Donegal
The New York Tribune reports gold bearing galena near Glentogher valley close to Carndonagh County Donegal Ireland. A Belfast investor assays show about one ounce of gold per ton with 60 percent lead plus silver. A lease from Earl of Shaftsbury funds a 100 ton daily smelter and cleanup of historical workings.
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Ireland
Glentogher
Carndonagh
County Donegal
New York Tribune
Emerald Isle
Innishowen
Belfast
United States
Earl of Shaftisbury
FOOT RACES OF TEPEHVANES CHARMS LOCAL SPECTATORS
The Southern Workman describes village races with men and women competing in forward throws of a wooden ball and a maguey leaf hoop. Runners cover long courses, enduring lengthy stamina contests, with crowds guiding the path and bets rewarding the victor’s circle of friends.
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Trescott Bros
Choteau
Teton CO
Mont
CeHa Thaxter
Faith OF College Girls
Africa
Quinine
SEA
Flaming
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