A Pacific voyage tale of Chinaman humor and sea misadventures
The narrator recalls a San Francisco to Honolulu ocean trip aboard a Pacific steamer. He humorously describes Chinaman stewards in neat linen, pidgin English as a business lingua franca, and comic mishaps from rough seas and misread orders. Landfall near Molokai and a welcoming U S Navy training ship cap the voyage.
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Atlantic
San Francisco
Pacific
Sandy Hook
St. Vitus
Paris
A Critique of a Prayer for Infants
A Medico Legal Journal critique argues the nightly prayer Now I lay me down to sleep places death before a child’s mind. It worries habitual fear of death and suggests prayers should be joyous, uplifting, and life–affirming to build character.
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Harry Gaze
Medico Legal Journal
Harry de Windt plans Lapland expedition to Kola peninsula
Soon to Explore Lapland, Harry de Windt returns to London from Kirkenes on the Arctic Ocean. He prepares for a crossing of Lapland to the Kola peninsula, a remote region of steppes and mountains, with England departure set for January 1 and a six month expedition following via St. Petersburg Helsingfors Uliaborg and a month across Lapland to the Arctic Ocean.
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Harry de Windt
London
Kirkennes
Arctic Ocean
Lapland
Kola Peninsula
Archangel
Siberia
Mr. de Windt
England
St. Petersburg
Helsingfors
Uliaborg
Baltic
Siedn
The Boy Escaped
A boy in Liverpool was sent to a neighbor at 11 PM. The neighbor, fearing robbers, fired six shots through the window. The boy survived unhurt and claimed his mother sent him over to see if the man had any room. He remarked his father hurt his back.
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Liverpool
Bells Cast At Troy Forge Since 1828 Foundry
In Troy New York a long running bell foundry established in 1828 has cast more than fifty thousand bells for churches and institutions across the region. The prolific output marks the plant as a historic bell maker with enduring influence.
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Troy
Oral
Mammoths and Their Glacial World by G Frederick Wright
A detailed overview of mammoth biology distribution and survival through glacial periods. It covers anatomy tusks fur and size compared with elephants including specimens in Chicago New York and Petersburg museums. It notes post glacial fossils in Siberia Alaska Europe and the Americas and evidence of contemporaneity with early humans via finds in Siberia Europe and Wisconsin mounds.
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G. Frederick Wright
A. M
North America
Asiatic
Russia
Joseph B. Bowles
Europe
Asia
Mexico
Jumbo
Chicago Academy
Siberia
Arctic Ocean
London
China
Gobi
Yenisei
Lena
Indigirka
New Siberian Islands
Lena River
Pribilof Islands
Bering Sea
Alaska
Yukon River
Beresovka
St. Petersburg
Obi
la Madeleine
Perigord
France
Wisconsin
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Plata
Porter
Esquimaux
Honolulu
Tropics
Molokai
Father Damien
Alameda
United States Naval
Marshall P. Wilder
Africa
India
Gulf of Mexico
Mediterranean
Temperate
Missouri Valley
Adams
Benkendorf
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