Kruger tales show daring, wit and diplomacy
A London Mail profile highlights President Kruger's courage in chasing a buffalo and drowning the animal, plus his clever diplomacy with Uitlanders. Other anecdotes recall his disguise in Johannesburg, a coat joke with a German, and a Lions comment about Chamberlain.
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Johannesburg
Chamberlain
Gon Pau
Thanksgiving picnic saves Mrs Flanagan and inspires romance
In a New York City boarding scene, Middleton defies eviction by arranging a shared Thanksgiving with Mrs Flanagan and Canadian student Lily McKay. Ronald Fraser arrives, misunderstandings clear, and a makeshift feast unfolds. the group celebrates annexation of Lily to Fraser and Middleton’s circle amid social bustle.
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Siam
Guam
New York Tribune
Formosa Island
Tmile Bernard
Phebe Hearst
University of California
Bretagne
New York
Bernard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Paris
Mr. Middleton
Canada
Middleton
Mrs. Flanagan
Buffalo
States
Lillian
Ronald Fraser
Ronald
Mr. Fraser
Fraser
Miss McKay
Mrs. Latour
Contech
Lil
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Soldiers Face the Boers in Transvaal Fight
England sends its nobility to battle in the Transvaal with the Queen's grandson among the titled soldiers.
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South Africa
Queen Victoria
Transvaal
Christian Victor
Schleswig-Holstein
Duke of Connaught
Scots Guards
Arthur Paget
Paran Stevens
New York
Lord Rothschild
Clive Behrens
Royal Artillery
Lord Lansdowne
Lord Durham
Lord Beauchamp
Earl of Kerry
Grenadier Guards
Charles Fitzmaurice
First Dragoons
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Prince of Wales
Royal
BE. Baring
Lord Revelstoke
Banking
T. W. Braind
Viscount Hampden
Earl of Shaftesbury
D. Anderson- Pelham
G B. Portman
Earl of Derby
Lord Stanley
Canada
Lord Derby
Republic
Viscount Downe
J. Dawnay
Shacless of Portland
Dallas Yorke
Ninth Lancers
Queen's Royal
Edward Cecil
Salisbury
Willian Drysdale
Bloomfield Gough
C. H.C. Willoughby
Douglas Compton
Marquis of Northampton
Marquis of Dufferin
Frederick ‘Temple Blackwood
Devon
Buller
Barnstaple
Raleigh
Sirk
Forestier Walker
Cape Town
Mayfair
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