Ancient notes on luxury, roads and curious tales
A collage of anecdotes spans art gifts, Chinese wealth, reindeer mail routes, and a Parisian style of domestic care. It highlights J F Morgan’s $200,000 Greek ornament collection, Mrs Li Hung Chang’s vast expenditures, and a New York sheriff halting a long distance cycling bid. It recalls a wild mouse photo story, a road materials lab, and a curious wooden house carried around the Horn to Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Flerpont Morgan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Courting in Mexico and Admirable Men Across Nations
A historical column surveys Mexican courtship customs and the restraint of suitors, detailing the balcony gaze and parental mediation. It then cites remarks from European royalty on women’s admiration, purity, and the value of handsome or virtuous attributes, concluding with a brandy citrus dessert recipe and a proverb about fortune.
Grave of Cardinal Manning's Wife in East Lavington Not Marked
Early life notes recalled in Sunday Strand tell how Cardinal Manning’s wife Caroline Sargent, sister of Samuel Wilberforce, lived happily in Lavington parish from 1838 to 1860. The neglected grave in the churchyard has no stone, despite Manning’s wish to let time erase all. his biographer recalls a letter saying to let it be, a memory kept alive by flowers from Lavington sent for decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Manning
Weiter
Sunday Strand
Manning
Lim
Susseox
East Lavington
Cardinal
The
Pariah
Caroline
John Sargent
Samuel Wilberforce
Edmund Purcell
Lavington
R. G. Wilberforce
Mr. Wilberforce
Tovers
Létvington
Plague Visit to Glasgow and a Scottish Romance
The London Chronicle recalls 1645 Glasgow plague episodes and a tale of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray. Montrose defeated Covenanters at Kilsyth then taxed Glaswegians. a rose in Methven marks the girls’ burial site near the Almond. The story links love, tragedy, and plague in 17th century Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Marquis of
Hoath
Scotland
Almond
Methven
Beasia
Mary
London Chronicle
Dead Cause of Action in Louisiana Seizure Case
A creditor used an attachment to seize a debtor's property as he planned to leave Louisiana. The debtor died from the distress, and his heirs later challenged the seizure as invalid. Col. Froudfoot claimed the law permits seizure if a person intends permanent departure, and vowed to avoid similar cases if the person is not leaving the state permanently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Chicago Journal
Col. Froudfoot
New Lunatic Asylum Opens On Mount Lebanon Slopes
A new hospital for the insane has opened on the lower slopes of Mount Lebanon Syria near the Beirut Damascus road. Founded by Theophilus Waldmeter a veteran Abyssinia and Syria missionary the facility sits among fields of wheat olives and other fruit. It is described as Syria's first organized lunatic asylum addressing a great need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiyra
Firat Ganntio Asziam
Mount Le-banon
Syria
Beirut
Damascus
Ifa
Theophilus Waldmeter
Abyssinia
Long Existence of Band
A Honolulu Hawaiian band marks thirty years of continuous existence with Captain Henri Hergur as band master for twenty eight of those years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaiian Band of
Honolulu
Henri Hergur
Apples From Kamloops Exhibit At Kamloops Fair
Plymouth resident Dr. Insec L. Wood reports two Kamloops orchard apples, one measuring about five and three fourths inches around and weighing 23 ounces, the other nearly as large. He saw a Kamloops apple weighing 29 ounces at the agricultural fair, noting the single fruit could make a pie for a rural household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarn
Plymouth
Mas
Insec L. Wood
Kamloops
British Columbia
Wood
Warships for France and US agricultural funds report
The article notes rising cost and complexity of switchboards for electric power and reports on Ex-Senator Dawes in good health. It mentions over 910 million dollars spent in the United States on agricultural experiment stations in the past decade, with 7 million from the federal government. It also forecasts French warships in 1901 to 1905, including four battleships and seventeen submarines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
France
Another Reg of Great Auk Egg Discovery Reported
The Ibla notes a new discovery of a Great Auk egg and states the egg was sent to a dealer for sale. This raises the total known eggs of the extinct bird to seventy two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ibla
Latin Study Refusal Spurs School Board Action in Arm strong
A pupil at Arm strong public school refused Latin and was expelled. The father, a Methodist preacher, appealed to the board and won permission for option to study, changing the policy for the student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katia
Armstrong
Lato
A Narrow Escape A Grateful Woman
Mrs F J Lynch of Grand Rapids Michigan writes praising Peruna. She states a persistent cough vanished after two bottles, with rapid improvement and lasting health, calling the remedy a true friend to women. The note is addressed to the Peruna Medicine Company in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MNS
Pd. Lynch
Grand Rapids
Mich
Irs
F. J. Lynch
South Division Street
Peruna Medicing Company
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Peruna touted as cure for chronic catarrh in ads
An advertisement extols Peruna as a universal cure for chronic catarrh and related ailments. It claims catarrh affects all ages and organs, causes coughing, weakness, and disease, and asserts both patients and many physicians endorse the remedy. It offers a free guide from The Peruna Company in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heyptians
Peruna Ca
Columbus
Ohlo
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Kansas
Banbar
Ina Kiindred
China
New York
Mr. Miller
Alaska
Siberia
Li Hung Chang
Indy
Sherif
Martin Dodge
Etary of Agriculture
Office of Public Road Inquiries
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D
Hawaii
Greenland
Snen
Mexico
Tates
Hia
Portugal
Russia
Margherita of
Twaly
Henry of Dattenberg
Louis Globe-Democrat
Oreba
Perthshire
Scotand
Standit
Gastar Asa
Magnetic Starch Manufacturing CO
Omaha
Neb
Jaccard. Jewelry Co
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