Easter Mass Amid Carlist Prisoners On Spanish Front
In a rocky hollow high on Arichulegui, a priest militarily leads a mass as Carlist commander Cabecilla displays a double life. Republican carbineers wait in fear while Carlists offer feasts and threaten execution for those who cheer the king.
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Arichulegui
Miguel
Carlos
Cabecilla
Tareas
Clement
Els
Cebecilla
Republic
Navarre
Pyrenees
Hermanos
The Seventeenth Yearold Martyr in Defile Fire
A seventeen year old volunteer named Tonio Vidal awaits absolution in a defile before the Cabecilla orders his execution. A fusillade erupts at the entrance as the priest blesses the youth and the Cabecilla shoots him on the spot, ending the onrushing attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cabecilla
Cabccilla
Tonio Vidal
Puycerda
Republic
Padre
Albany shoemaker Lyman Potter wheels to San Francisco
In 1878 Albany shoemaker Lyman Potter known as the wheelbarrow crank claimed he could outpace O Leary in endurance. He wagered a 4,085 mile trip in 180 days wheeling a seventy five pound barrow from Dove street Albany to San Francisco, finishing October 6 after travel across the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter
Lyman
Albany
O'Leary
New York City
O’leary
Odors Stir Minds and a Sixteenth Century Banquet Spectacle
A physician links perfumes to mental traits inspiring audacity devotion or reverie while others provoke cunning taste or tenderness. The article notes aromas like geranium violet benzoin and amber shaping behavior and creativity. It then surveys Edward III era banquets with Lionel duke of Clarence hosting a lavish thirty course feast feeding a thousand based on fragments of the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward III
Lionel
Duke of Clarence
Voyage of Henry Hudson Document Describes Sea Monster Ship
A curio in the Royal museum recounts Henry Hudson, navigator for the Dutch East India Company, and his discovery of the river bearing his name. The document notes locals viewed the ship with wonder and believed such a vessel or people were unseen before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Museum
Holland
Henry Hudson
Dutch East India Company
No Sleep For A Mortgage Ringwood Leader Opinion
A Ringwood Oklahoma Leader opinion piece decries the mortgage as a self supporting but oppressive burden on farmers. It argues the mortgage demands constant payments regardless of weather or market conditions, crippling both farm and family life and threatening liberty and progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
Ringwood
Okla
Pearl shell diving at Jukucru atoll in the south seas
The Tacoma Ledger recounts pearl diving at Jukucru atoll where divers swim without suits. They enter the lagoon at sixty to seventy feet, study the bottom with a water glass, breathe air to inflate the lungs, then dive feet first to harvest shells with a coconut-fiber net.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Pacific Ocean
Jukucru Atoll
Tacoma Ledger
Tahiti
South Seas
Atoll
Surace
Busy Brain Workers Defy Age With Enduring Power
A Chicago Chronicle note argues that mental labor sustains vigor, listing octogenarians and nonagenarians such as Kant Newton Harvey and Titian who remained active into advanced age. It cites Lander Walton Hahnemann Fontenelle and Cornaro, plus 1897 figures Dr Du Boisy and William Reynolds Salmon, as aging yet productive icons.
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Chicago Chronicle
Colon
Sophocles
Pindar
Anacreon
Xenophon
Kant
Buffon
Goethe
Fontenelle
Newton
Michael Angelo
Titian
Harvey
Lander
Tzaak Walton
Hahnemann
Fontenoblle
Fuss as a Mark of Modern Civilization in The Lancet
A London Lancet essay argues fuss is a neurosis not vigilance or prudence, hindering work and initiative while preaching moderation. It spans global reach, noting fuss appears where educated outlook lacks reflection and self restraint, potentially becoming widespread. It contrasts two book extremes in the British Museum, illustrating the vast range of the library’s treasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Lancet
British Museum
Morocco
Birds and Landmarks See Home Direction From Distant Landmarks
The text notes the difficulty in judging how far a bird can orient toward home using landmarks. Trained pigeons navigate hundreds of miles. Shore birds and cliff breeders reach home after touching the coastline and are conservative in nesting, returning to several colonies at regular intervals.
Universal Poet on a Steamship Recital
A Constantinople to Marseilles voyage sparks a dramatic display of Longfellow’s reach as a Russian, an English soldier, a Scotch man, an American, and a Greek each perform famous verses. The captain ends with Excelsior, likening the moment to Tales of a Wayside Inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Spectator
Notable Loves in Legendary Romances Across Ages
The text contrasts Josephine at thirty three with Napoleon, noting intense love and jealousy in early marriage and claims she was his only true love. It also references Cleopatra nearing forty when Antony fell for her and Helen of Troy being beyond thirty during the Trojan wars, highlighting famed beauty and influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine
Napoleon
Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Helen of Troy
Mexican Justice Tale From Border Town
An American recalls a Mexican case where a cowboy found dead with $200 in gold and a silver mounted six shooter. The alcalde held a trial for weapon carrying and fined the deceased $200, matching the found gold. The story underscores borders, law, and local justice.
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Rio Grande
Justice of the Peace
Explosive Diamonds and Rose Diamonds Explained
It is believed that diamonds explode when heated due to rapid expansion of volatile liquids trapped near the center. Many stones remain unfinished with liquid drops not yet deposited as pure carbon crystals, sometimes visible to the naked eye.
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Howard Melvin Melvin & Johnson
Benj
Johnson
Eve
The
Indiana and Hudson
Brave Boy Divers
Longfellow
I Erin
Sandow
Dr. Pierce
Fidelity & Deposit Co
Maryland
N. W. Cor. Charles and Lexington Sts, Batimory, Mep
Edwin Warfield
Harry Nicodemus
Sec
Treas
Bond
U.S
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland
Deweese & Owens
Denton, MD
J. R. Wooters
Dover Street
Stotel Avon
Easton
Preston
Denton
Terois Cash
WM. A. Smith
Miss McHivaine
GEO. K. McGaw & CO
N. Charles St
Baltimore
Harvey M. Thawley
Contractor
Carpenter, &c
Henry Br, Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis & Goldsborough, Attorneys-At-Law
Caroline
Counties
T Pliny Fisher
Denton, Mp
Scar Clark
J Fletcher Clark
Baston
Cc. Deen
Fowling Creek, MD
Caroline County
James T. Sylvester
Red R R. Owens
FeoWin R. CochRan, Ur
Wilmington
Del
H.& Mason
Ohn
P.covey
Agner, MD
G. K. Ebling
Riddely, MD
Bnt
Chicago News
J. W. Stonebraker
Two Johns
Albert Howard
Jack OF All Trades
Nevins & Frampton
John S. Frock
Brick Hote
Grangers Mutual Insurance
Middletown
Oscar Clark
Edward Pels
Walter H. Coggeshall & Co
Continental Building
W.B. Smith & CO
N. Y. Consolidated Exchange
R. G. Garrett & CO
Pine St
Philadelphia
Anklam Mfg CO
Spengce’s
Smith & Wright
T. W.smith
Ridgely, MD
Ixyr
W. J. €. Delany Company
Baltimore, Md
Jtames
Cooper
Undertaker
Out, Dla
Vlad
John W. Causey
Paes
WM. Denney
S&C’y AD Treas
Kentr County Mutual Insurance
Dover
Delaware
L. Irving Jones
Greensboro
John T. Carter, Jr
Alex. Noble
Preston, Md
T. H. Evans & Company
Light Street
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