Sunken Gardens of Avalon described in tropical terms
An El Dorado style feature on Santa Catalina near Los Angeles portrays Avalon as a sunlit paradise. The writer extols Sunken Gardens rich with sea forest, vivid coral tones, and a 550 foot underwater tapestry of colors. It recalls famed catches and anglers on Pacific waters with historic figures and maritime lore.
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Avalon
Avalol
Neptune
Los Angeles
California
Island of
Santa Cataline
Bay of Avalon
Mediterranean
Niue
Pacific
Gardens of the Sea Thrill Avalon Bay Visitors
In Avalon Bay boats rise on the sea with large windows to view marine life. Tourists glimpse gold porches emerald fans and giant starfish among jellyfish and vibrant fish as engines and oars power floating gardens. The scene offers spectators a dramatic underwater world and dramatic fishing feats.
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Bay of Avalon
Juan
Jonke
Aas Foo
No Authority for Mer Dispute On Luncheon Usage
A quarrel over wording between Mr William Dean Howells and his wife ended with a trip to the Century dictionary. Howells favored "lynch 9a" while his wife defended "luncheon" and proclaimed victory after reading an extract supporting his stance.
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Mer
William Dean Howells
Ruskin Letter Refuses Gift Request In Autograph Feud
A story from the Ruskin era recounts a person in the United States sending an American edition of Ruskin's works to a friend in England. Customs seized the books, and a request for Ruskin's blessing was sent. Ruskin replied curtly that the gift was not an apology for intrusion. The books returned to America and the autographed copy remains unsold.
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England
Ruskin
Household Cleaning Tips From a Secret Notebook
Foe the Summer tookworm. To remove Inte stains dilute oxatic acid with water apply with a camel's halp brush and dry with blotting paper. To remove grease kalanae pipe clay rovere with blotting paper and a hot jyon. To polish old leather covers clean with a flannel mig rub with beaten yolk of an egg applied with sponge and pass a hot iron over the covers.
Thermometer Trade Quips Stir Rural Talk
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph style aside, Mr Manchester notes a German firm selling 3,000,000 thermometers and wonders about wealth. Mr Birmingham asks when the gold comes, as thermometer demand shifts with winter and summer.
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Mr. Manchester
Mr. Birmingham
Pittaburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Littlefield Succeeds Dingley in Maine Second District
Charles B. Littlefield, born 1861 in Lebanon York County Maine, rises from carpenter to lawyer and politician to succeed Nelson Dingley Jr. in Maine's Second Congressional District. His career includes state legislator speaker of the house attorney general and a key Maine delegation role.
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Charles , Littlefield
Mee Carpenter
Charles BE. Littlefield
Nelson Dingley
Maine
Ife
Carpenter
Mr. Littlefield
Lebanon
York County
Week's Mills
Rockland
Rice & Hall
Knox Counity Law
J. P. Chilly
Littlefeld
Arthur
Reliability of mail steamship routes between London and New York
The 1894 postal returns show striking regularity in transatlantic mail via City of Paris and City of New York. Distances London St Martin’s le Grand to New York pier total 3069 nautical miles. London to Southampton mail route listed. Outward travel averaged seven days six hours fifty-two minutes. inward seven days six hours fifty-six minutes.
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London
New York
St. Martin's-le-Grand
St. Paul's Churchyard
Blackfhare Bridge
Waterloo
Southampton
Paris
Ocean
Atlantic
Foreign exhibitors mock royal waxwork humor in England
A humorous column from England recalls two traveling acts. One manager, aided by his wife, pledged to unite their efforts now that his wife has arrived, boasting a larger ferocious animal collection. A native exhibit followed with a waxwork Queen Victoria invitation, playfully overblown as large as life with other curiosities.
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Joseph Chamberlain
Neil
Beng Terely
Mr. Chazberlain
Gratultona
England
Signor
Travellng
Queen Victoria
Marion City Fate Told In Dickens Inspired Vision
The text recounts a Dickens inspired plan for Marion City on the Mississippi riverbank. It notes floods in spring 1846 and a later catastrophic fire and storm that doomed the project. The river rose repeatedly, driving residents away and leaving the site in ruin similar to the novelist’s imagined destiny.
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Martin Chuslewit
Dickens
Martin Chusdlewit
Dew
Wheta
Marion City
Oty
Marion Bay
Miesisaippi
Death of an Austrian actor Emerich Magyar remembered
The Viena Imperial Court theatre mourns Emerich Magyar born 1847 Budapest, known as Robert, once second in popularity to Adolf von Sonnenthal. His career began in minor roles at a suburban theater, later rising after study with Lewinsky and appearances in William Tell. An odd tale from his youth and a stern landlord's rebuke color his early years.
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Viena Imperial Court Theater
Emoarich Robert
Adolf von Sonxenthal
United States
von Sonnenthal
Robert
Budapest
Magyar
Emerich Magyar
Vienna
Academick Gymnasium
Prince Sulkowsky
Lewinsky
Stalttheater
Laure
Laurie
Zurich
Arnold
William Tell
Schiller
William ‘Tell
Fogging frost protection wagon innovated by Ditzler
In Callifornia a fog generating wagon protects fruit trees from frost. A sheet-iron tank holds wet straw flooded by water, with tar burned at the bottom. A revolving fan pushes heated air through the wet material, creating a dense fog that envelops trees between rows. The driver sometimes must halt to free the horses from the mist.
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Callifornia
George F. Ditzler
Oldest Bread in the World on Display in Naples Museum
A Naples museum displays bread baked in August 79 A D at Pompeii, carbonized yet preserved. Loaves and food relics, including walnuts and honeycomb, show how ash and lapilli preserved the city. the bread’s age makes it the oldest known loaf, with implications about Pompeii’s destruction.
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Rofferera
Naples
Pompeii
London
England
Leiven
Pompeli
Vesusvius
Lapili
Pompei
Author Who Wrote Travel Books Without Leaving Missouri
A New Orleans bohemian recalls a man famed for vivid travel stories yet never venturing from Missouri. He relied on three books the encyclopedia consular reports and Wood's Natural History to craft precise foreign scenes. He spoke of places like Borneo or Afghanistan as if a true observer.
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Tad
New Orleans
Borneo
Wond's
Afghanistan
St. Louis
Actor recounts tragic miscue during Southern Texas show
An actor describes a recent performance in a South Texas town where a barrel hide reveal backfired. A hired hand found the barrel, the audience gasped as the villain listened in, and a swarm of wasps caused chaos, breaking the scene and shocking the cast and attendees.
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Southert
Texas
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