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Calamity at Stanley Pool and 19th Century Treasure
The Baptist mission at Stanley Pool suffers a major fire destroying Withington station on June 24 and killing all goods for three upriver stations, with losses estimated at 15000. British supporters vow aid while fireset cause cited as annual grass burning. The report moves through religious notices from London to Boston praising toleration and funding drives for missions in Congo, Wales tithes debates, and reflections on ancient artifacts found in Pompeii era excavations, including Bakakhin’s palace items and a rare glass zodiac fragment now in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Pool
Friends of the Mission
Great Britain
Jewish Chronicle
London
Leighton Buzzard
Society of Friends
Leopold de Rothschild
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Minneapolis
Minn
Paris Missionary Society
Congo
M. Regalland
Holy Sepulchre
Methodist Episcopal Church
the Guardian
Wales
Llanarmon-yn-lal
Germany
Matthew Arnold
Japan
Boston
Bakakhin
Italy
Greece
Ta-Ankh
Boulak
Muesum
Petrie
Achilles
British Museum
Vespasian
Bakakhins
Harper’s Magazine