Skeletons aboard Marlborough found in Magellan Strait cave
New Zealand reports a British sailing ship Marlborough found off Punta Arenas in the Magellan Strait with 20 skeletons aboard. The Glasgow owned bark, missing since January 1890, was searched by a government cruiser but no trace found until now.
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London
New Zealand
Marlborough
Messrs. Leslie & Co
Lyttelton
Hird
Mid Ocean
Pacific
Horn
Patagonia
Punta Arenas
Magellan Strait
Glasgow
Cape Virgus
Cape Pillar
Society lights in costume at Garden City hotel masque
New York Count G von Bernstorff, son of Germany’s ambassador, attended the Nassau County hospital benefit in a Harlequin costume with Miss Elsie Park, a Long Island society figure, while she wore an oriental princess outfit in the masque hall at the Garden City hotel Garden City Long Island.
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New York
G. von Bernstorff
Germany
United States
Elsie Park
Long Island
Garden City Hotel
Garden City
Nassau County Hospital
EUGENICS AID TO LOBSTERS
Washington reports a heavy rise in lobster supply this year attributed to fisheries bureau efforts in artificial propagation. Fishermen along Maine's coast note more lobsters in markets with Rockland shipments averaging twenty tons daily from April to September.
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Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Fisheries Bureau
Maine
Rockland
Wind Jammers of Army Slang for English Soldiers
The piece lists Army slang terms with humorous definitions. It notes soldiers use more slang than England’s schools and explains terms such as Tom Clarke a kiss, a touch of the Lawrence, rimer for bread and cheese, saddle flap for meat, half a gauge for sixpence work, burg lar order for muffler wear, and wind jammers for bandsmen.
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London
England
P. le King
Second Life Guards
Household Brigade
Tom Clarke
Tom
Boston Woman Declared Alive After Long Absentee
Miss Mabel F. Allen of Brooklyn was legally dead by absentee statute after fourteen years missing. The Suffolk county probate court, the state supreme court, and the U S Supreme Court ruled on the absentee clause before she proved alive and received 32600 from her grandfather Jonathan Merry's will.
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Boston
Mass
Mabel F. Alen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Suffolk County
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Jonathan Merry
Merry
Grant
Miss Allen
Io the
Probate Court
Marmie Sues Wife for Divorce Over Street Car Flirtations
Charles F Marmie a coal operator files for divorce from wife in St Clairsville Ohio claiming she flirted with street car conductors including Harry Albough, harming his business and reputation. Marmie says he stayed home to curb her street car outings. Mrs Marmie admits some flirts but says she rebuked them.
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St Clairsville
Charles F Marmie
Harry Albough
Domestic Plan Signed by Young Married Couple
A plan drawn up and signed by Mr and Mrs Earle Maddock a newly married couple aged sixteen and fourteen respectively outlines household duties. The husband agrees to assist with evening chores while the wife pledges not to talk back in case of a dispute.
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Los Angeles
Earle Maddock
Imperial Porphyry Trail From Egyptian Deserts to Rome
The article explains the sourcing of imperial porphyry, detailing quarries in Gebel Dukhan in the eastern desert of Egypt, its arduous transport down the Nile to Rome, and why the stone vanished after the seventh century. It notes the stone’s rarity and the long distances that raised its price.
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Weigall
Egyptian
Gebel Dukhan
Red Sea
Peninsula
Sinai
Nile
Rome
Eadh
Kench
Memorial to 30 000 French at Moskva redoubt monument
A granite monument topped by an eagle on the Moskva plains honors 30 000 Napoleon era soldiers of the Grand Army who triumphed at Horodino on September 7, 1812. The Chevardino Redoubt memorial was recently dedicated in memory of the 30000 French troops.
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Moskva
Chevardino
Napoleon
Horodino
Food Taken in Lifetime
A humorous estimate of how much food a person consumes by age seventy five. It calculates practical totals for solids and liquids, including bread butter fish eggs cheese vegetables sugar salt and tobacco use over a lifetime.
Birds leased by the acre on South African islands
Cape Province farms rent seabird nesting grounds to private collectors who market millions of eggs. Islands in Saint Helena and Saldanha bays host pen guing and lapwings, with Bird and Dyers largest, plus an annual guano harvest exceeding six thousand tons paid to farmers for fertilizer.
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Acre
Cape of Good Hope
South Africa
Agricultural Department of
Cape Province
Saint Helena
Saldanha
Bird
Dyers
Top hat origins traced from Elizabethan cockade to modern form
Whitehaven in Cumberland hosts a famed gray and white goose named Barney aged twenty plus who wanders the docks and streets like a town resident. The piece traces the evolution of the top hat from Elizabethan cocking to the silk hat stage, noting small later changes in crown height and brim curl.
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Groens
France
Barney
Whitehaven
Cumberland
England
Dummy editor in Japan jailed for unfriendly coverage
A peculiar staff member called the dummy editor works to push suppressed papers in Japan. When a paper prints anything hostile to the government, the dummy editor is imprisoned and the real editor just renames the paper and keeps publishing.
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Santa Maria
Cockburn Channel
Cockbay
Falsa Cape Horn
Society
Washington City
Tower of Babel
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Colo
Old Barney
Japan
Rhodian Knights
Italy
Turkey
Aegean
Chalke
Knights of
Rhodes
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