Calais Reimagined Through Thackeray and Dickens Era
The article revisits Calais as a historic English gateway, comparing Thackeray and Sterne with Wordsworth and Dickens. It notes vanished walls and gates, surviving Tudor and Perpendicular traces, and describes the harbor, railway links, and the Pluvier submersibles, contrasting old English rule with modern French development and inviting a revival of interest for English travelers today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calais
Sterns
Thackeray
Calata
Dessoln
Walter
Europe
Nest Company
Melorm
Calaix
Old Town
Germany
Italy
Benin
Riviera
Despein’s
Municaal
Rignolle
Casterne Des Dowanes
Petit Payadis
Hogarth
Et Pierre
Sterne
Guido
Neptune
Oxford
Muses
Rua de la Citadelle
Norwich
Camsbridge
Petit Paradis
Risban
Plage
Sangatte
Dover
Sas
Bro
Plu
Wordsworth
Dickens
Grand Hotel
Hotel du Sauvage
Deceln
Place d'Armas
Quines
Henry VIII
Durbars
St, Omer
Dunkirk
Calaisia
Dead Man's Return Sparks New York Mystery
The New York Times reports Barton Cruikshank once presumed dead reappears in Brooklyn as Donald Douglas. A National Guard officer and Potsdam school principal vanished after a canoe mishap on the St Lawrence. He allegedly lived undercover with a wealthy Long Island woman and later sailed toward Porto Rico before vanishing again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barton Cruikshank
New York
Daily Mall
Cruikshank
National Guard
Potsdam
St. Lawrence River
Verbeck
Brooklyn Engineers
Douglas
Mer Ginn
Mr Ginn
Canada
Brooklyn
Cruikshank Aceln
Donald Douglas
Long Island
Porto Rico
New York Sun
Forto Rico
Crulkehonk
Proposals for an Advisory Board on Historic Monuments
A British policy discussion urges a national approach to preserving antiquities. It proposes an Advisory Board on Historical Monuments to report to the First Commissioner, with public confidence, and outlines composition including royal, scholarly, and ecclesiastical representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Ireland
Caid
Daily Telegraph
Mattora
Tegrat
England
Scotland
Wales
English Commission
Society of Antiquaries
Bloomberg McDonnell
Omce of Works
Advisory Board On
Fir Bchomberg McDonnell
Society of Antquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
British Museum
Royal Institute of British Architects
Canterbury
York
Protesia
Gir Bhombera McDonnell
Bate
Autumn Coat Length in Black Silk Serge with Braid Trim
A garment described with a popular autumn length. The coat is made of black silk serge and features black braid jaity as the sole ornamentation.
Doctor’s Pedestrian Feats by Reverend James Cameron Lees
The Very Rev James Cameron Lees completed extraordinary walking feats while serving at St Giles Edinburgh. He walked ten miles daily on Sundays and over years covered the world’s distance twice. In 1910 he walked 200 miles Kingussie to John o Groats to Land’s End and back to Kingussie. In 1911 he aimed to mirror John o Groats to Land’s End and back, totaling 1444 miles. Since December 18 he walked thirty miles for a yearly total of 1664 miles at age near forty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Cameron Lees
B.D. K.C
S J. Giles
Edinburgh
Kingussie
John O
Millon
Wells portrait and plea for aid in literary introduction
The article discusses an introduction by H. G. Wells to a Lite band piece by William Paine. Wells reflects on his youth, searing memories of hardship and drudgery, and uses them to argue for philanthropy. He calls for readers to help the stifled, desperate, and marginalized, urging action to lift others out of darkness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viar
Pluviase
le Minck
Wordsworth
Calais
University Library
Cambridge
M&s
Richard
Oile
Billngsgate
M. Lennel
le Courgain
Naples
G. Wells
Ches
Early Dawes
William Paine
Wells
Kippe
Mr Paine
Brotherhood of Man
House of Mann
Paine
HM. G. Wells
Avery
Weber Nt
Cary
Trans
Lendy
Austria
Lont
Jost
Beautiful New York Wife Ends Life After Telephone Threat
A New York woman Mia Ulysses Grant Houck shot herself after luring her husband via telephone to hear her claim and his rebuff. He found her dead beside the phone with a revolver in her hand after a quarrel over suspected infidelity. The husband, a Department of Agriculture official, is in a state of mental collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Daily Mail
Mia Ulysses Grant Houck
Department of Agriculture
Country laborers face changes from machinery and bread
Marcus Woodward reports a rustic meditation on spring in the countryside. He contrasts the old strength of laborers with modern machinery and rising wages while recounting anecdotes of farmers, carters, and a Hampshire youth lifting weights and stories of farm life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus Woodward
Ike
diolFold Signe
Alwys
Sussex
Hampshire
Bla Banda
Jon
New York Boots and Bustle Debate in Free Country
A reader exposes a vivid British immigrant scene in New York detailing boot blacking norms and class tension. The account contrasts English manners with American freedom and features a cousin in service reflecting on mistress servanthood and independence amid bustling city life.
Railway fares and workers flee city life in Britain
An extended critique argues railway companies undercharge and keep trains half full, forcing workers to stay near London due to high long distance travel costs. It highlights outlying towns, poor service, and calls for cheaper fares to boost mobility and employment across Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stephenson
Howe
Gladstone
London
Kipling Bald
England
Britain
Lancashire
Blackpool
Margate
Belgium
Ahout
Conference on Voice and Speech Training Discussed Stammerers
At Bedford College in Baker Street London the Conference on Voice and Speech Training examined speech disorders. Dr J Campbell McClure noted 42 stammerers from the same family, all described as of high intellect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford College
Bakerstreet
J. Campbell M‘clure
Lory
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