From Patents to Butter Routes and Fast Steamships
A scattered page item includes royal patent language about armorial augmentation for Sir James Reid, notes on winter butter imports from New Zealand totaling 3 404 800 pounds, a Wisconsin law authorizing state annuity life insurance, a Year Book finding record horse and mule stocks, Mrs. Harriman’s thrift doctrine, and travelers' Gazettes on Newfoundland to Europe sea routes and a Cape Charles to Liverpool fast line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antipodes
New Zealand
Byron
Wisconsin
Mutual Insurance Corporation
America
Europe
Travelers’ Gazette
Newfoundland
Cape Charles
Quebec
Cape Charlies
Liverpool
Women in Crete Pant Worn Garments and Headdresses
Fresco evidence shows 2000 B C women pinched waists wore flounced or accordion skirts with elaborate coiffures high heeled shoes and hats possibly from Paris while one wore a jupe culotte. Antiquities totaling 36 tons from ancient Egyptian cities reach New York via five Met Museum explorers, forming the finest Egyptian collection in the U S. Japan adds 46 gas companies total private firms with Yokohama municipal plant. 27 new plants rising empire wide. private capitalization exceeds 50 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C
Egypt
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan
Yokohama
Various 1900s Innovations and Local Notices Across Continents
The document lists diverse items including two research scholarships at Imperial College for aeronautics, sanitary cups for the Panama Railroad, monocycle jinrikisha use by Malay Chinese, June Herven winning a cup in a women aviators contest, palace taesters for state banquets, plans for elaterite and tabbyite rubber substitutes, debates on telephone exchange costs under different ownership, a Harvard graduate taking a grocery job, Mexico arming ban under an executive decree, a gold alloy composition, an automatic label pasting machine, and Melbourne’s population figure.
Mr Wysp and His Wife in a Noel of Old Friends
Isabel Wysp slips back to Gerald Gherkin in a dinner with her husband Henry as old feelings surface. Henry warms to the new Gherkin while Isabel battles a past romance, watching as the pair swap stories and plans. The visit ends with light chatter and liberated vanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel Wysp
Gerald Gherkin
Henry
Pickle
Isabel
Gerald Ghertin
Mr. Gherkin
Henry Wasp
Mr. Gerkin
Henry Wysp
Gerald
Gherkin
A Man With a Program An Interview With Governor Wilson
Henry Beach Needham presents Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey as a man with a program. The piece reviews his battle to push through reform, his stance on federalism, tariffs, and the money power, and notes Wilson’s push to win the 1912 Democratic nomination via the “back to the people” approach.
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Henry
Isabel
Pickle
Henderson
Gherking
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Henry Beach Needham
Wilson
Washington
Syite
Maine
Staten Island
California
Southern Pacific Railway
Pennsylvania
The Golf Ground By the Town Poem
A reflective poem laments fading clover and readying frost as the honey bee labors on the golf ground by the town. The speaker mourns the end of summer and bids farewell to the honey days and the bee’s toil before winter.
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Mualcal
Syrian Peasants Mistaken Image in Levant Travel Writings
A discussion challenges traveler stereotypes of Syrian peasants noting they own land and face taxes, contrast with Palestinian felahin and Egyptian peasants, and highlight educational disparities shaped by Western missions in Lebanon and broader Ottoman lands.
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Louise Seymour Houghton
Levant
Egypt
Palestine
Syria
German Established Churches. the Palley of Both Theme Last Has Been In Wwlabligh
Minchon
Lebanon
Inter Tle
Illiteracy Hint in 107 Villages Cited
A statement notes difficulty in locating even half a dozen illiterates among the 107 villages with American schools, implying widespread literacy or access challenges.
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Rians
Polling Places and Mona Lisa Views Merge in Commentary
Louis H. Pink criticizes New York polling sites for crowding and patronage waste while urging use of public buildings to ensure dignified voting. The piece also surveys Mona Lisa interpretations, noting varied theories and Forman’s Paris observations. It adds immigration statistics for Wille Island arrivals.
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Republic
Louis H. Pink
New York City
Poning House
Louvre
Walter Pater
Oscar Wildee
Justin Miles Forman
Paria
Mona Liew Ciloconda
Mystey
Leonardo
Forman
Paris
Wille Island
New York Harbor
International Horse Show in London Crowned by Coronation Year
Scribner’s notes the International Horse Show at Olympia London as perhaps the greatest ever, held during coronation week. The indoor display featured elaborate stables decor with Tudor village imagery, English hill scenes, and costly flower arrangements. Highlights included Elizabethan style stalls and bear-topiary displays costing around ten pounds each, later replaced for the king’s visit.
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Scribner's
London
Olympia
Kensington
Elizabeth
Old Cheater
Lake Country
Lonsdale
How the Russians Hunt the Wolf From the Wide World
The article surveys Russian wolf hunting methods including hound pursuit in moat fashion pit fall trapping and sleigh drives with rifles. It describes Kirghis steppes turtle tribes using dogs and trained eagles to harass wolves and warns wolves prey on Tarutar flocks.
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Russia
Toda
Ania
Kirghis
Trousers Button Aids Alpine Rescue Tale
A rugged alpine party misled on Mont Blanc by fog and a novice guide. A climber spots a trousers button wedged in a chimney, signaling a true route and averting disaster with a dramatic voice rising to deliverance.
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Alps
Mont Blanc
The Sleeping Car by George Fitch
George Fitch humorously critiques the sleeping car experience describing berths and amenities. He notes upper vs lower berths, costs, and peculiar etiquette, including travel rituals and the impracticalities faced by passengers and crew.
The Gas Meter Satirizes Modern Utilities and Society
A humorous riff on gas meters as perpetual, unyielding devices that haunt households. The piece lampoons patent secrecy, meter faith, and the meter reader yet praises their bold constancy and social reach, noting how meters shape routines, literature, and even courtships.
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Baron Muncheusen
Comic Opera as a Cultural Satire and Stagecraft
The article mocks comic opera as a costly chorus driven format tied to headlines and headlines builders, noting chorus wages, dancer training, and the comedian’s costume jokes. It criticizes reused music, lavish scenery, and the book as afterthought, while lampooning the genre’s connection to newspapers, fashion, and social satire.
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Antago
Preas
A Treatise on Friends Across Time and Society
The piece surveys friendships as social glue and political influence, citing biblical companions like David and Jonathan and Damon and Pythias. It contrasts utilitarian friendships with loyal bonds, notes dangers of flattery and elections, and ends with fragmented mentions of tunnels under a river and social duties.
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Han
David
Jonathan
Pamon
Pythias
Damon
Imiddera
Stone Walla
Leon Agamnat
Fidlog
Friend Ia
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ITER
Mountain Globe
H. H. Gundergon
Pub
Hulett
Crook County
Wyoming
James Reid
College of Arma
Tennyson
Tenyson
Department of Agriculture
Ted States
BE. H. Harriman
Imperial College of Science and Technology
South Kensington
Isthmus
Panama
Milo
June Herven
Comerce
Parle
Ter
Private Corporationa
Pt BB al
Boir
Harvard
Bia
Mexico
Melbourne
Australia
Mr.wysp
His Wife
Melena Smith Dayton
Outlook
New York State
Water Company
War Department
Staten {Sland
Jersey Corporation
George Fitch
William Stevens
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alsies
Gar
George Waahinennes
Gilbert and Sullivan
Aes
National Bank
Goa
Desseriioe
Mule
Ibe
Ornien
Bamburs
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