Bramwell Booth and Stead Fight White Slave Trade
Bramwell Booth and W F Stead led a campaign against the white slave trade, exposing abduction and trafficking of young girls. They faced arrests and trials, with Booth later celebrated for bringing attention to the issue and advocating ongoing legal reforms and international progress.
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Cramwell Booth
Canada
Williams Shad
Pall Mall €E
Prigsom
Pramwell
Vial
Mr. Stead
General Boots
Plais
Bramwell
Stead
Bramwell Booth
Holloway
Oneral Booth
Salvation Army
Elrs
England
France
Belgium
Firat
Continent
Gobé
Yiooth
Pall Mall Gazette
Bramee H. Booth
House of Lords
Commons
Rebecca Jarrett
Rebecca Yarrett
Framwell Booth
Jarrett
Booth
Lord Dalhousie
Puecas
Lord
Chancery finds and funds in the nation’s debt records
The article surveys Chancery’s vast unclaimed sums in the national debt reduction office. It notes millions in unclaimed funds since 1720, with many small claims and occasional large fortunes. It recalls cases from 1893 and 1909, and describes “Chancery excavators” who hunt for dormant funds amid court records, plus rare land and property transfers tied to Chancery.
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New WR
Chancery
Jeise
Tom Tiddier
Chancery Excavators
Hampshire
Notable Failures of Writing Across Figures of Note
A compendium of famous writers and leaders famed for poor prose. The piece recalls Baron Bramwell who wrote three unreadable hands and jokes about Lord Curzon’s college letters misdirected to a buoy and relative. An uncle’s amused decipherment highlights the awkward miscommunication.
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Baron Bramwell
Lord Curzon
Ignorant Talk at Authors Club on Art
Walter Emanuel of Punch fame argued that masses are greatly ignorant about art at a recent Authors Club event. He recounted a humorous exhibition moment where visitors misnamed a painting as a droning then an itching before correctly guessing it as a pastille.
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Authors’ Club
Walter Emanuel
Punch Fame
Impeachment Practices Shift From England to America
The piece contrasts England where private citizens like Dr Sacheverell and the Duke of Richmond faced impeachment for actions outside office with America where impeachment is limited to men in office for conduct while serving. It notes historic examples like Sacheverell and Jones and explains the American constraint on impeaching private individuals.
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England
Sacheverell
Duke of Richmond
House of Lords
Inigo Jones
America
Longevity Gap in British Pensions Reveals Female Lead
Government figures for 1912 show 603,380 women receive old age pensions versus 62,628 men. The data highlights the greater longevity and pension reach among women in the era.
Great Inventor Marconi Described as Open-Air Scientist
The article portrays Guglielmo Marconi as an unusually precocious child and a focused, practical innovator. It notes his late schooling in Ireland and Bo logia, early electrical experiments at sixteen, and his role in applying Hertzian waves to wireless telegraphy. It highlights his independence, business aptitude, charm, and modesty, despite wealth and fame.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi
Bedford
Bologia
Hertz
England
Ventor
Feathers Sparked Fashion Furor in 1795 London
A 1795 London Times sketch notes the feather craze among fashionable women. Feathers caused carriages to lose tops and luster. rooms were set aside in assemblies for donning them, and ladies could tap friends through space without hindering dancers.
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London Timés
Aristocrats Take to the Skies as Military Pilots
The younger sons of British nobility join the flying service. Lord George Wellesley and Lord Edward Arthur Grosvenor recently earned pilots certificates within a month of their first flights. Both are in the army.
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Army
Navy
Lord George Wellesley
Duke of Wellington
Lord Edward Arthur Grosvenor
Duke of Westminster
Siege of Gibraltar 1779 82 under Sir George Eliot
Pearson's Weekly recalls the great siege of Gibraltar from 1779 to 1782 when French and Spanish land and sea forces endured a prolonged assault. Sir George Eliot led the defenders who held out against overwhelming powers, marking one of history’s memorable sieges.
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Rock of Gibraltar
France
Spain
George Eliot
Pearson
Farthen Pots Passing
It remains customary for poorer Indians to carry water home on the head using earthenware pots. Aluminum vessels, now cheaper, are replacing them due to being easier and cleaner.
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India
Ughness
Lighthouse signals and new marine warning ideas
An old article describes lighthouse light types including revolving occultating and flashing, explains eclipse as the dark period, and notes Cape Wrath and other lights distances. It reports Cape Wrath rebuild on reef, a false apparent light, wireless fog navigation, and submarine signaling bells expanding from one to hundreds of ships.
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Gj. Orme
Llandudge
Kramborough
Cromer
Cape Wrath
Scotland
Great
Ee & O
Clithe&g
Mléer Brethrem
Trinity
Real properties on stage stir theatre fans and critics
An article notes that genuine art treasures, props and antiques have appeared in London stage productions from Christie’s auction room scenes to Tyrone and Barrie plays. It cites items like a $1,000 Aubusson carpet, antique lace, a silver spur set worn by Sir Henry Irving, and a priceless easel linked to Sir Joshua Reynolds, held by actors and stage crews.
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Drury Lane
Agers
Fae Watts
Christie
St His Majesty's
Gore House
Markheim
J. M. Barrie
Jeave
Peipy
Joshua Reynolds
Nova Scotia man named secretary of church finance board
The Rev. Robert Laird of Kingston is named secretary of the Board of Finance. A Queen’s University professor since 1905, he is praised as a born organizer and persevering leader from Nova Scotia. He also serves as prother and heads a Canadian Cash Register Co. branch.
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Board of Finance
Nova Scotia
Queen's Inn
Presbyteriah
Vancouver
Queen’s University
Maritime
Dominion
Pr Sby Eran
Finance Board
Presbyterian Church
Robert Faird
Laird
Canan
National Cash Feister Co
Canadian Courier
Sixty Nine Years Ago Railway Travel in England
An 1844 law required one daily train each way on every line, with passengers in covered carriages paying a penny a mile. Speed averaged eight miles per hour. Third class offered no roof or seats, forcing passengers to stand or sit on the floor in rain and sparks. Secon d class warned to wear gauze spectacles and keep distance from the engine. Lighting at night was not provided.
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England
J. C. Wright
Primitive railway signalling recalled in memoirs
In Kerr memoirs Dr John Kerr describes a signaling trick on the Banff branch. He was told to set fire to a newspaper on a siding to stop a train but wind prevented burning. a loud shout halted the train and Kerr boarded.
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John Kerr
Grave
Gay
Banff
Kerr
Bethlehem Asylum Roots and European Comparisons
Bedlam derives from Bethlehem the London religious house later an asylum for the insane in 1546. Many deem it Europe’s oldest asylum with a rival claim from a Spanish institute founded earlier.
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Bedlam
Bethlehem
London
Europe
Spain
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan described with vast area and borders
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan covers 984,520 square miles with about 3,000,000 people. It extends north to Egypt, east to the Red Sea and Eritrea, south to Uganda and the Belgian Congo, and west to French African colonies.
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Egypt
Red Sea
Italian Eritrea
Abyssinia
Uganda
Belgian Congo
Landmark Sydney harbor dock opens on Bowe Island
Reading as a historical note about Sydney harbor on Bowe Island, a protected ship berth is formed by rock. The land rose from water level to sustain a dockyard, then to allow graving docks, building slips, and shops, aiming for a uniform level about fifteen feet above high tide across the three acres.
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Sydney Harbor
Bowe Island
Peeypah
Servant Girl Wins Greek Scholar Prize in London
A servant girl, motherless since age ten and late to master English, won the Pret prize for New Testament Greek from The Sunday School Chronicle of London. She learned Greek from the Bible and English from scraps of paper in her pantry, teaching herself the alphabet before advancing in both languages.
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Sunday School Chronicle of London
Eng
Whistler Confronts Farmer Over Savage Bull
While walking through a field, Whistler encountered a rampaging bull charging toward him. He escaped past the fence and confronted the farmer owner, who calmly watched. Whistler demanded accountability, and the farmer quipped that telling him who Whistler is would not help against the bull.
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Whistler
Mr. Whistler
No Typewriters There Gret Typewriter Reference
The world famous cutlery firm of Joseph Roger & Co Sheffield England has not yet mated its Gret typewriter or telephone according to the partial OCR text.
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Joseph Roger & Co
Sheffield
Eng
Why Not Shorts Haired Dames
A London hairdresser advocates short hair for women claiming one in ten can grow hair well. He asserts a short cut marks emancipation and hygiene and urges women to try shorter curls to frame the face, despite his own stated lack of suicidal tendencies and a claim about a French family estate.
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London
France
Houses That Defy Skeeters in Tropical Design
An English designed tropical house features a concrete plinth and steel frame filled with strong mosquito netting. Perforated steel plates seal entrances, with spring doors and ventilated fibre cement roofing. The structure aims to resist storms and keep interiors cool while shutters secure the perimeter.
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Tropics
England
Haven
Annual Lion Sermon Recalls Sir John Gayer Deliverance
The Church of St. Catherine Cree in London hosts the annual Lion Sermon on October 16. This year the Bishop of Hokiang Mid China, a direct descendant of Sir John Gayer, preaches and three clergymen who are also his descendants attend the service. The sermon recounts the covert deliverance of the Lord Mayor in 1630 and preserves the yearly tradition.
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