Boer Exile Franz Van Rhyn Recalls Deadly Escape Tale
The account recounts Franz Van Rhyn and Col. Charles Cooper amid a deadly chase in 1902 as Boer and British forces clash. Van Rhyn says he fought to aid Kruger’s cause, surviving by skill and luck, while Moritz dies of fever in the United States after a perilous ride from Lilyfontaine to the German border.
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Franz
Charley
Franz van Ruyn
Charles Cooper
West Province Mounted Rifles
Chum
Sam
Col. Cooper
van Rijr
Lie
Cooper
Wilson
Donga
Franz van Rhyn
Cape Town
Leo
Albert Maritz
van Rhyn
Pranz van Rhyn
Koczas
West Africa
van Rleyn
Kruger
Franz van Rleyn
United States
Moritz
America
Marita
Chicago
Lilyfontaine
Gamies
Denver
Colorado
Cecil Rhodes
Tree as an inquisitor in Madagascar legends
A Malagasy belief ties the tangen tree fruit to divination. Prisoners eating the fruit were judged innocent if unaffected, guilty if the fruit killed them. Despite political influence aiding some, many died from the poison. The practice is now obsolete but the tree remains feared. a French naturalist failed to obtain samples.
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Madagascar
Hats Parade in Summer Millinery Fashions
New York correspondence describes summer millinery with large wide hats heavily trimmed with birds, feathers, flowers, fruit, and lace. Ribbons in blue lilac and orange tones appear amid varied shapes, from dented rims to crowned low hats, with net and chiffon interplays and delicate ostrich plumes for dressy occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
The Curbstone Jewelry Trade and Credit Practices
The article describes trust in the jewelry business akin to stock brokers. It notes many manufacturers allow curbstone brokers to hold large memoranda stocks, minimize fraud risk, and sell to distant buyers. It emphasizes credit-based wholesale dealings and payment only for sold goods.
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Stock Exchange
Curthstone
Wall Street
Curbstone
No Cash About Him: A Gossip on Men of Means
The column riffs on male character and business men as seen through Jones-Hamilton and Brown. It notes Jones-Hamilton as a fine example of a capable businessperson while poking at Brown’s careful, methodical ways and long noonday lunches. The piece also mocks men who keep change for future wealth but fret when their wives ask for small sums.
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Jones—Hamilton
Brown
Boston Transcript
Pulpit Plea for Home Life as Center of Society
Edward Everett Hale argues that strong states and peaceful nations grow from large, loving homes. He stresses home life as education through lived example, not formal instruction, and calls for mutual care, shared burdens, and a nationwide spirit of service taught at home.
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Edward Everett Hale
D. D
Mary
Robert Burns
John
Jed Robert Stevenson
Mamma
Lear
St. Paul
Murdered Wives and the Duty of Faithful Love
The sermon argues marriage vows demand lifelong fidelity and condemns neglect, abuse, and infidelity as murder by slow harm. It critiques drunken husbands, societal tolerance of vice, and divorce, urging justice for wives and adherence to Christian teaching on marriage and adultery.
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J. H. O. Smith
Board of Health
Perdition
Jesus
Sermonet tis Progress and Modern Advances
Sermonettes urge progress in secular and religious affairs while noting that revelation cannot be measured by automobiles wireless telegraphy skyscrapers and modern conveniences. Church energy and zeal produce some good yet half the population remains outside churches and largely unaffected by their teachings.
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Daniel Russell
Presbyterian
New York City
United States
W. H. Ramsey
Episcopalian
Louisville, Ky
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Bate
Were
PBL Pulpit
Dorcas
God
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