New Ideas in Boer War Debate on Causes and Tactics
The piece surveys the South African conflict noting its unclear origins and the involved powers. It compares English and Boer forces, leaders, train logistics, artillery, and tactics, highlighting mobility, defense, and strategic decisions in campaigns from Ladysmith to Kimberley.
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South Africa
England
Boer
Europe
Africa
Natal
Elandslaagte
Gneral Buller
Germany
India
Pretoria
Lord Methuen
Parifediax
Feats of memory praised by French writer Max O Rell
Max O Rell extols Americans as a vast thinking machine with superb memory and daily practical ingenuity. He cites hotel clerks, hat recall, and conductors as examples, praising schooling that trains memory and noting Americans’ precise recall of addresses and social calls.
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Max O’rell
Emerson
One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Street
Twenty-sixth Street
East Four Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street
Max O
Bees and waxen architecture at Baden-Powell home exhibit
A drawing room feature at General Baden-Powell's London home includes two glass-sided bee hives on pedestals near a large organ. Bees escape via a wind pipe, build honeycomb over wooden models like bicycles, and the waxy sculptures are displayed.
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Baden-Powell
London
Hyde Park
Baltimore News
Notable Gift Record in Tower Collection History
The document notes a single eminent gift in the Tower collection history, excluding Smithsonian accession deposits and Greene Hubbard items not yet transferred. It emphasizes that no monetary gift has been received in its entire history.
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Smithsonian
Diner Greene Hubbard
Coneras
Tower
Atlantic
Longevity in the Nineteenth Century
W R Thayer notes a century of rising life expectancy from about thirty to forty years in the United States and Europe. Sanitation medicine and industrial living improved habits explain longer lives, with government progress also aiding progress as the year 1900 arrives.
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United States
Europe
W. R. Thayer
Strand of Old Reveals Medieval Thames River Walks
The Strand evolved from an open country road beside the Thames with a few castles and mansions to a lined street of mansions and garden walls in Edward VI’s reign. Earlier periods show fortifications giving way to peaceful residences as yorkist and tudor eras passed.
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Edward III
Strand
Thames
York and Lancaster
Henry VII
Edward VI
Newcastle
Eng
German Acquisition and World Colonies Expansion
The text notes German gains over sixteen years with colonies five times larger than the homeland population, claiming the most fertile lands were preempted and that Germany followed scarce prized territories. Kiao Chao Bay is cited as an early rich prize among strategic holdings in Shantung, illustrating imperial aims.
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Kiao Chaa Bay
Shantung
Dual governments in Kentucky tied to historic U.S. uprisings
The article recalls recurring episodes of rival administrations in states like Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Rhode Island. It compares Kentucky’s 19th century divisions to Packard and Nicholls in Louisiana and Hampton and Chamberlain in South Carolina, noting federal troops and contested inaugurations shaped national outcomes including the Hayes-Tilden affair and the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Commonwealth
Rhode Island
Louisiana
South Carolina
United States
Francis T. Nicholls
S. B. Packard
The
Election Commission
Packard
Nicholls
Statehouse
Baton Rouge
St. Patrick’s Hall
Hayes
St. Patrick's Hall
Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
D. H. Chamberlain
Wade Hampton
Chamberlain
Columbia
Chamberlain Hy
Supreme Court of
House
Carolina Hall
Senate
Hampton
William C. Oates
Rufus Kolb
Oates
Kolb
Keib
Capitol
Thomas Wilson Dorr
Newport
King
Dorr
Providence
New Hampshire
Amateur Detective Theory in Holmes Style
A narrator explains how a character deduces lifestyle from clothing details. Holmes notes folds in trousers show travel habits, and a torn overcoat button suggests offhand repairs by a wife who sews in church parlors. the exchange mocks superhuman powers.
Man Elected to High State Office in Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Record notes a man once elected to a responsible state office in Pennsylvania. The report hints at his capable handling of duties and subsequent career in public service.
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Philadelphia Record
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Pietermaritzburg
Joulert
Buller
Kimberley
Cecil Rhoades
Modder River
Grand Central Station
Forty-second Street
Toronto
Oberlin
Ohio
John Smith
Savoy
Cecil Hotel
Leeds
Old Museum of Antiquities
America
Edison
France
New York
George Eliot
Fedora
Sherlock Holmes, Jr
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