Vision in a Camera and My Sweetheart’s Face
A poetic fragment from the Chicago Record describes a camera’s instant capture of a beloved face as a lasting treasure. The narrator recalls Sir Capil’s art inspiring him to drink in beauty and write it on his heart, while the beloved sits framed by flowers and inspires eternal reverie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afred
Fenner
D.C. Smith
North Washington St
Rochester
N.Y
Win
BE. Brown
George & Redden
Ant
Sir Capil
Chicago
Northwestern Lancet
Norman's Woe Rescue On a Gale Tidal Run
Absalom Mincheever recalls Norman's Woe a tale of a dangerous August rescue off Briar Island. A Boston canoeist, trapped by a gale, is saved by Absalom and his sister Minnie in the Minnie Mincheever. The rescued man, George Bowles, thanks them as they reach Gloucester, while Bowles steadies a leg injury with a makeshift tourniquet. The episode reinforces Absalom's sea nerve and storytelling flair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Gloucester
Briar Island
Baels
Briarvishind
Ishind
Itis
Anid
Massachusettes Bay
Cape Ann
Botom
Mucheever
Beverly
Minnie Mincheever
Whsilein Mincheever
Absalom
Norman
Normaan
Gloucester Bay
Owis
Longfellow
Hesperus
Longfellows
Abe
Hiram
Pete
Mingo
Tun Rea Reef
Dory
Tina
Minnie
Briar—island
Tegs
George Bowles
Young Bowles
Dog Bar
Skipper Mincheever
Oldest Inhabited Dwelling In Britain Is Dunvegan Castle
The oldest inhabited dwelling in the British Isles is Dunvegan Castle in Scotland. Described as a massive fortress perched on rock rising from the sea, with walls nine feet thick and impregnable keeps. Its history spans a thousand years of fortification against pirates and foes, with limited early access via a secret rock door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
British Isles
Dunvegan Castle
Highlands
Scotland
Macleod of Macleod
Scott
Lord of the
Dari
Drear
Atlantic
Anecdotes and Scotch Humor From Sydney Smith
Sidney Sidl d anecdotes recounts a night at a Edinburgh ball where a couple discuss love's nature with a line about abstract versus concrete. A poacher and game keeper scene ends with a joke about a man climbing a wall and a pun on going back again. Sydney Smith notes a joke must be surgically implanted into a Scots head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Saild
Sydney Smith
Edinburgh
Margaret
Lord Donald
Sandy
Sleep theory and London Stone cited in period stories
The column collects assorted items from early 20th century press. A doctor signs a Christian note rejecting journals, a foreign scientist proposes a sleep fatigue theory based on water held by nerve cells, and a St. Louis paper extols London Stone as England’s central milestone. Also quoted are travelers and porter woes from Milwaukee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
London
Arthur Nesbit
Liverpool
St. Swithin’s
Britain
England
St. Louis Globo-Democrat
Milwaukea
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Philadelphia
South Bend
Oliver
Gale
Syracuse
McCormick
Richard T. Carter
Jeneral
W. W. Tunis & Bro. Lumber Company Manufacturers, Tunis Mills
R. S. Fountain
W. W. Tunis & Bro. Lumber
J. O. Tayler
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit and Produce Commission
Licut St
Baltimore, Mo
Maryland
E. M. Dean
Batc
Gluck's
Watt
Rudolph Anklam
Smitilville, MD
Preston
Cox’s Store
TL. Flamarty
W. Silk
Cox
K. LL. Pritchett
Whitely
BW. Wright
Mortence
Jas. N. Todd
Denton, Ma
Idlewild Milling Co
Federalaburg
Mad
U.S. Dental Association
North Charles Street
Baltimore
Washington
Ithand Data
George P. Tedden
IGIE
L. B. Towers
Denton Bridge
H.l.evans & CO
Bakikiers
Market and
Eighth Streets
Wilmington, del
Chicaro
New York
Eadh
Maving
M.B. Lloyd
Denton, Md
Thinacetra CO
Broadway
Russum & Lewis
Edward W. Thomson
Case of Christian Science
Wonaon
Dtone
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