Palestine Aegypt and Europe Shape a Shifting Holy Land
A 1911 Bowles dispatch surveys Palestine as it faces mass emigration to America, American school influence, and new water jars replaced by Standard Oil tins. It contrasts American humanitarian work with European power politics and German led projects on the Mount of Olives, noting a rising unrest, colonial interests, and a notable American colony in Beirut. The piece highlights Dr. Mary Eddy, Mary Eddy TB efforts, and the Bethlehem exodus, with Russia France Britain and Germany pursuing strategic aims in Syria.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
America
Bethlehem
Syria
Lebanon
Zahleh
United States
Hammana
Asia
Rebecca
Sychar
Nazareth
Mary
Standard Il Company
Uaeside
Izmet
Turkey
Beirut
Mary Eddy
Empire
American Red Cross
Europe
Holy Land
Russia
France
Great Britain
Germany
Baalbeck
William
Abdul Hamid
Saladin the Great
Mount Hermon
Mount of Olives
Jordan
Holy City
Mount Nebo
Volcanic Lighthouse Shares Perennial Guiding Light
Albert D. Van Wyck extols a natural lighthouse on San Salvador Island near Acajutla. The volcano emits a steady flash every seven minutes and serves mariners without human keepers, with a lighthouse fee charged to vessels visiting the harbor.
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Albert D. van Wyck
San Salvador
Acajutla
Jews Flood Palestine After Ottoman Proclamation
The Palestine opening to Jewish settlement triggers a massive influx. Tens of thousands pour into Tiberias Jaffa Safed and Haifa while Jerusalem bears about 100000 Jews four fifths of the city. Persians and Russians join the flow as land prices soar in the Jordan valley and Esdraelon plain bought by Jewish syndicates. The world may soon wake to the scale of this change.
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Palestine
Tiberias
Jaffa
Safed
Haifa
Jerusalem
Persia
Russia
Jordan Valley
Abdul Hamid
Esdraelon
Distinguished Woman Invited to International Chemical Congress
Mme Curie, codiscoverer of radium with her late husband, has been invited to travel from Paris to America next year to participate in the International Chemical Congress to be held in Washington. Last year the Chemical Society of America elected Mme Curie an honorary member.
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Mme
Curle
Paris
America
Washington
Chemical Society of America
Curia
Language clash over clothing in South Seas mission dialogue
A missionary argues clothes are needed while a South Sea Islander questions health benefits. The exchange centers on affordability versus utility, reflecting tensions in cross cultural trade and morality debates.
Conductor-Move Forward on the Walkway Incident
A fragmented report notes a conductor and two bystanders involved in a tense moment on a walkway. The text references phrases like nickel Seig and a rough encounter but lacks clear details or names.
Birthday Gift Confirms Jealous Lovers Secret
Helena discovers Jack skipped her birthday party to visit Ned Speedle and Dogwood kennels. After a quarrel she learns Jack burned her letters, then Nora reveals a pink wrapped package containing a prize bulldog named Curly, ending with Helena and Jack reconciled by humor and love.
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Helena Brooke
Helena
Jack
Jack Henshaw
Bridget
Dorcas Wade
Frank Wade
Frank
Ned Speedle
Long Island
Ned Speedie
Speedie
Dogwood
Dorcas
Wades
Nell
Heléna
Mr. Henshaw
Nora
The Opera Day I Felt Like a Queen Portrait
Marie Bashkirtseff recalls a November 1875 opera day when she wore a white muslin outfit with a wide frill. She felt stunning during the performance and in the mirror homeward, lamenting she cannot draw her ideal self with pen scratches.
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Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Stuart
Extraordinary takahe capture marks rare New Zealand bird
An unprecedented takah e specimen capture highlights a rare flightless rail Notornis hoenstetteri. Size rivals a goose with blue breast and a large pink horn beak. First bird caught 1849 followed by 1851 1879 and 1900 captures.
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New Zealand
Notornis Hoenstetteri
Faiths Curative Power by Munyon Cult Leader
Professor J M Munyon touts a rising Munyon cure creed with over half a million members in the United States He claims vast cures powered by Hope more than medicine and says he offers free medical advice from Munyon Laboratories Philadelphia and other city specialists Address letters to Prof J M Munyon at 53d and Jefferson Sts Philadelphia and receive special consideration.
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Pepo Ee Oon
Munyon
United States
Philadelphia
53D
Jefferson Sts
Phila
J. M. Munyon
Monics Aim For Public Schools
A Cleveland Plain Dealer critique of mnemonics as a method to memorize facts in schools. The piece notes the approach helps recall dates like Lincoln's birth but questions replacing direct knowledge with memory systems. It underscores a preference for straight memorization over mnemonic methods.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lincoln
Not Knocking Slattery
A fragment from a Puck-typed quip features Mrs Coogan and Mrs Slattery with witty banter about appearances and laughter in a devilish image. The line hints at social satire and character interplay in a humorous sketch. The source emphasizes quirky dialogue over narrative consequence.
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Slattery
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William T. Ellis
Chicago
Eral G. Bie Ravendal
Joseph B. Bowles
Associated Literary Press
Modest Marie
Post
Postum Cereal Co., Ltdy
Battle Creek, Mich
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