The Real Emperor of Old China and a Royal Yacht Meeting
A long narrative recounts Kuang Hsu's 1898 reformist moves including a university at Peking and Western-style schools, the abolition of certain exams, and naval and educational drives, followed by empress dowager resistance and alleged self destruction. the piece intertwines church influence, eunuch intrigue, and royal curiosity about Christianity and foreign technology. It also touches on the narrator's varied interviews with European royalty and a voyage scene involving a princess and yachting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Peking
Empire
Foreign Office
Kuang Hsu
Forvigt
Peking University
Bible Society
HALF AN HOUR WITH THE QUEEN
Rome August 6 I recall an audience with the queen of Naples then Italy. The princess Helene, daughter of Montenegro, arrived with mountain freshness and striking height. Her dark hair and eyes contrasted with scarlet veining. She spoke with her father in law King Humbert aboard a yacht, after a long courtship from 1894 to 1896 and a 1896 marriage.
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Rome
Gringess
Naples
Italy
Helene
Montenegro
Humbert
My Con Ata
Montenegrin Princess Helene and Naples King’s Yacht Romance
A historical portrait traces Princess Helene of Montenegro, later Queen Helene of Naples, from her humble Balkan upbringing to a high alliance with Victor Emmanuel III of Naples. It covers her Russia connections, engagement at Athens, and marriage in Rome in 1896, along with their life between Rome, Florence, and Monte Christa Island. Helene is depicted as a skilled yachtswoman and hunter, noted for a 26 of 28 birds score and a polar bear kill on Arctic trips.
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Russia
Balkans
Cettinje
Hishland
Czarina
Nicholas
Uebe
Alix
Hesse
Helene
Montenegro
Servia
Alexander
Victor
Naples
Athens
Europe
Venice
Humbert
Margherita
Rome
Florence
Monte Christa
Queen Helene
Arctic
North Coast Limited Schedule Details From Butte
The North Coast Limited timetable shows East No. 18 Pacino Ex from asl and Nissount river arriving daily and West No. 1h Copper City Casto parlies and all Const peter B. A. & P. depot daily. The North Coast Limited from Portland leaves Salty No. 18 Copper City St Hamilton and Portion arriving daily felepot. Departure from Portland OP 1:0 F, 7:00 A 1:06 Ae ee ad.
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Pacino
Asl
Nissount
Casto
Peter B. A. & P
North Coast ‘Limited
Portland
Copper City
St Hamilton
Portion
Felepot
North ‘Coast ‘Limited
People s Favorite Pietor Going East
The Union Pacific offers the latest and most sumptuous travel to Chicago with Dining Buffet Smoking Library Cars Pullman Palace and Ordinary Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair Cars through to Chicago without change. This line is promoted as the direct and favored route for eastern travel, with broad public support for the Overland Route.
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Union Pacific
Chicago
Scenic Wonders Along Union Pacific Routes Credit Utah Tours
The Scenery on the Union Pacific showcases Echo and Weber Canyons Devil's Gate Witcher's Rocks Devil's Slide Pulpit Rock and Green River Bluffs as major attractions. Detailed travel information for steamship and railroad trips is available from H. M. Clay in East Lake City Utah or H. O. Wilson in Butte.
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Union Pacific
Echo and Weber Canyons
Devil's Gate
H. M. Clay
Union Pacific Railroad Company
East Lake City
Utah
H. O. Wilson
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Butte,font
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bryters
Tuan
Old China
Isaac 8. Headland
The
University of Peking
Lu-Han
Jung Su
Liu Kun-i
Shanghai
Hankow
Olga
Greece
United States
Florida
Pearl of
Avoy
Black Mountain
Czar of Russi
North Coast Limited
Butte
Union Reals
People's
Ogden
Melta
Missouri River
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Peoria
Great Rock Island
W. H. Firth
Thompson
Topeka
John Sebastian
Santa FE
Detroit
Rio Grande Western
Colorado Midland
Rio Grande
W. Co. M'Bride
R. G. W. Ryn
C. F. Wahren
A. T
Salt Lake City
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