Cecil Rhodes The Diamond King of South Africa
The article profiles Cecil Rhodes, called the uncrowned king, detailing his rise from a clergyman’s son born 1858 to leading the De Beers company and the British South Africa Company. It covers his wealth, empire building from Kimberley to Mashonaland, royal charters, and his influence on southern Africa politics. It notes his health, education at Oxford, and controversial methods including force and strategic diplomacy.
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Cecil Rhodes
South Afric
Beim
England
Amercan
W. T. Stead
Rome
Cesar
Loyola
Corpsus
Bishop’s Stortford
Natal
Cecil
Oriel College
Oxford
Africa
de Beers Mining Company
South Africa
de Beers Company
Rhodes
Kimberley
British South Africa Company
Duke of Abercorn
Duke of Fife
Mashonaland
Parnell Parlamentary Fund
Cape House of Assembly
Cape
Bechuanaland
Sir Gordon Sprigg
Cape Colony
Zambezi
Germany
Portugal
Orange Free State
South African Republic
South African Federation
Dr. Jameson
General Gordon
Mr. Rhodes
New York World
Turkey Crash Breaks Belton Opera House Glass
A country man driving turkeys to Belton Texas drives onto the courthouse square and a loose turkey crashes through a thick pane of glass at the opera house. The turkey moves on after the break and is later captured uninjured aside from a few lost feathers. The incident is linked with a period note about theater and early American stage history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belton
Tex
Opera House
Philadelphia
Eliza Whitlock
Portia
Staff Tops of Church Scepters Preserve Sacred History
The article notes the disappearance of Bamble from sacred sites while his staff survives in London church vestries. Knobs on the staffs range from plain pears to elaborate silver carvings of buildings, crosses, crowns, medallions, and figurines. Historic examples include beddle's staff of St. Giles in the Fields used during Arch bishop Laud in 1623 and a 1698 gift to St. Giles Cripplegate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bamble
London
Beddle
St. Giles In the Fields
Laud
St. Giles, Cripplegate
New York Herald
Unattended Services at St Philip's Amid Private Meditation
The speaker notes daily service existed at St George's but none attended when begun at St Philip's. A colleague was interrupted by a stranger seeking private meditation, who stated it interrupted him, as recalled in the work Fifty Years by a Reverend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue Garland
Charlie
Sue
Detroit Free Press
St. George's
St. Philip’s
Infanta Eulalia Pipe Becomes Chicago Collector’s Treasure
Chicago society notes that Mr Ho bart C Chatfield Taylor highly prizes a pipe smoked by Infanta Eulalia during her 1893 Chicago visit. The French drier wood pipe, made in Paris, has a 7 inch stem and a large bowl. The princess reportedly favored Cuban tobacco, and the pipe rests in a glass case with a fraised letter from the Spanish royal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor
Infanta Eulalia
Chicago
Paris
Our Lake
Chatfield-Taylor
Professor Warns American Forests Face Near Extinction
Professor Runnebaum of Berlin, sent by the German government, reports waste of Pacific coast tinder resources and warns that without protective laws the end of American forests is near. He contrasts European efforts to replant with American cutting and fires, warning of lumber possibly shipped from Germany to Puget Sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runnebaum
Berlin
Pacific
Europe
Germany
Puget Sound
Oregon
Washington
America
New
Orleans
Picayune
Lightning statistics from the weather bureau findings
The report shows Thunderstorms peak in June and July with yearly activity recorded in most months. It cites an average of forty storms in a region, an average US lightning death toll of 24 annually, and property losses over 1.6 million dollars. Urban residents face lower danger than rural areas, and dense groves offer protection at edges or clearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Bureau
Louisiana
United States
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
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British South Africa
Herbert Rhodes
Gowanda
Buffalo Courier
Plate Glass
Turkey
Urban Bowers
Holden Block
Hudson
Eulalia
Abovy
W. A. Haynes & Co’s
Iowa
Wk. Haynes
Bi Maynard
Punta Roos
N. B
C.d.holmes
Maynard, Mass
Wat
L. T. Jefts
KK. M. Stowe
Caleb L. Brigham
Hudson, Mass
Canada
Geo. C. Keith
Boynton
S. R. Burroughs
U. S. Hoar
West Acton
C. Keith
Concord Junction
Henderson
Glendale and
Acton Sts
Maynard
Maas
Mass
James T. Foote
Charles E. Watson
Summer St
D. Dilmore
David Henderson
James Mullin
Manayrd
Emily Robinson
Emerson College of Oratory
Emerson
Miss Robinson
Naylor
Quincy
Concord
Barre
Scotch
Granittee
J. Sheehan
Bedford St
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Benest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
H.P. N. Dahl
Riverside
Maynard Mase
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