Lovers and a Forgiven Past at Coverdale Gate
A young couple visits Coverdale in Yorkshires hills for a honeymoon resuming travel toward Middleham. The wife, amused by old relics and social life, loosens toward a quiet, distant beloved Enid. the husband Wilfred hides a broken heart over past love. Enid forgives, then departs toward a quiet graveyard.
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Center of Population Shifts Toward Columbus Indiana
Walter Wellman notes the 1900 center of U S population lies near Columbus Indiana with a westward drift about 20 miles and a northward shift of 7 to 8 miles since 1890. The trend trails a diagonal toward Chicago as the nation’s population concentrates along the industrial belt from New York to the Pacific.
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Cardinal Gibbons to Open Southern Industry Session
New Orleans report states Cardinal Gibbons informed the officers of the southern industrial convention that he will attend the event and open the second day with prayer on December 5.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin at Pan American Expo to portray plantation life
The Shelby family loans the original Uncle Tom cabin for the Midway at the Pan American Exposition next summer. The display will depict a Southern plantation before the war with a mansion, slave cabins, cotton fields, tools, mills, and slave meals, with old-time songs and banjo music to enhance the authentic setting.
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Clock Once Belonging to Napoleon Returned by Canadian Officer
Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Pelletier, senior major in the first South Africa contingent, brought home from St Helena a clock given by Napoleon Bonaparte to the daughter of his steward. The relic came to Rev Father Danes, Catholic chaplain at Longwood, who urged its acceptance when Pelletier passed through Longwood with Boer prisoners.
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The Chinese Outbreak and the Boxers Siege Narrative
Chuan Sen, assistant professor at Imperial College, describes the Boxer uprising from within the siege of the foreign legations in Beijing. He explains Big Sword societies, beliefs in bullet proof bodies, Red Lantern girls, and the empress dowager's reluctant stance and failures to halt violence.
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Fall In Line Boots And Shoes Sale
Advertises a vast sale of boots and shoes with low prices. Items include duck boots at 3.50 and 3.25, rubber boots at 3.00, handmade kid boots at 3.00 and 3.50, and women’s shoes as low as 2.00. Promises leather soles, leather counters, and broad selection of ball brand rubbers and heavy calf skins.
Boxers burn foreign missions and terror spread in Peking
Eyewitness account details Boxers burning American mission buildings in Hal-Tai gate area and Teng-Shi-Kou, arson against churches and residences, and cries of killing as foreign powers advance. Reports describe placards renaming streets, rumors of Chinese victories, and the empress dowager seeking peace while Li Hung Chang is proposed as viceroy.
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Pass, Pass, Pass A Century Verse Admonition
Grace Denio Litchfield admonishes in Century that someone is overtaken by time and fate in a race of talent. The speaker calls for stepping aside for a faster successor, urging humility and resignation as a comrade with greater promise rises to take the stage. The poem contrasts effort, chance, and merit.
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American Acrostic Heralds Progress Across The Plain
Poetic lines praise a grand project built for human happiness. It extols American ingenuity and national vision shaping a landscaped landscape. The verse frames six months of unrivaled rise as a triumph for progress and delight in public improvement.
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