World’s boats show vivid types from gondola to proa
An observer surveys global watercraft from Italian gondolas to Chinese junks and Indian catamarans. The piece notes Venice’s canoes and gondolas, Samoan, Hawaiian, Siamese, and Siamese craft, and concludes that hundreds of distinct boat types exist worldwide.
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Italy
Coromandel
Madras
West Indies
South America
Fiji
India
England
Ireland
Portsmouth
Marmora
Aesgean
Why the Boy Was Baptized
At a luncheon before his departure for Europe to Joseph Cowen an English Zionist a story about apostasy is told. A wealthy New York Jew reportedly had his first child baptized to clear a supposed obstacle to the boy's progress. A Basle tale from Herzl is recalled about a precocious child asking if all become Jews.
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Europe
Joseph Cowen
New York
Basle
Theodor Herzl
Stockson Bonds
Russia
Seedy sociologist meets wealthy housewife in comic encounter
A bumbling traveler asks a wealthy hostess for hospitality and a hero wife, only to be rebuffed at every turn. He persists with talk of his sociological book and a meal or even a pair of shoes, then leaves noting the woman’s husband wears her old footwear. The scene ends with a sharp verdict from the hostess.
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Midland
Mrs Holdich Dies at 101 in Somer Sham England
Mrs Holdich died aged 101 in Somer Sham England. Born January 11 1808 in the village she grew from a frail child feared never to reach adulthood into a long life. Church growth in New York notes a church built roughly every 200 days since the Roman Catholic diocese was established a century ago.
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Somersham
England
New York
Greater New York
Catarrh Sufferer Credits Peruna Cure After Years
Miss Sophia Shittleson of Evanston Illinois recounts nearly twenty five years of chronic catarrh and a severe cough. She reports improvement after using Peruna and endorses the remedy to others. Peruna tablets offer the same medicinal ingredients in tablet form. Manufactured by the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company Columbus Ohio.
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Sophia Shittleson
Evanston
Ilinois
U.S. A
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus, Ohio
Landlord Knew His Capacity in Humorous Exchange
A tourist recalls Lawyer Hummel in a Lusitania conversation with a scarred German student about education. A Heidelberg visit, dueling talk, and a waiter’s quip about tapping a barrel spice the tale, ending with a witty exchange about landlord invitations. A Dublin traveler hires a cab. the driver remains brisk as they tour for two hours despite close calls.
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Hummel
Lusitania
Heidelberg
Romulus founding Rome and early city myths
A reminiscence on Romulus founding Rome without reliance on resources like oil or copper. The dialogue inserts Remus quipping about the city as a Butte while a Latin reader is cited. A later cartoon-style exchange features two cyclists discussing a band box and a puncture kit with a humorous disguise twist.
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Romulus
Rome
Remus
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John Chinaman
Venice
Islands
Pacific
Samoa
Siam
China
Issatamaran
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Ange 3
Aiye
Gun Ouula
Atlas
Sunday Magazine
Rennell Rodd
E. H. Egerton
Cincinnati
St Toulsville
Timothy Wa
Inmianavolis
Miss. Sophia Kittlex
Peru
Dublin
Dodds
BS Eoi Tam Ase
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