Norway the land of green valleys and deep ravines
Special correspondence depicts Norway as unspoiled Europe with green valleys and deep ravines. It highlights Bergen as a vivid harbor, Norwegian ponies, rugged posting carts, wooden houses, bright interiors, and a hardy, hospitable people enduring long winters and dark seasons while maintaining festive traditions and communal dances.
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Norway
Arctic Ocean
Europe
Switzerland
Bergen
Glasgow
Scandinavie
Pontas
Cor Idora
British Antarctic Expedition Reaches Farthest South Point
The British ship Discovery reached a record latitude of 82.17 percent and longitude 163 west during winter 1902 near McMurdo Bay Victoria Land. Commander Scott Dr Wilson and Lieut Shackleton led sledging journeys, with severe hardships including dogs’ deaths and Shackleton’s life-threatening injury before returning to the Morning at Lyttelton New Zealand.
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South Pole
Nansen
North Pole
Discovery
England
Morning
McMurdo Bay
Victoria Land
Lyttelton
New Zealand
Littelton
Cape Adair
Cape Crozier
Scott
Wilson
Lieut. Shackleton
Embarrassing Postbox Misstep by Elderly Lady
An elderly woman waiting for a mail carrier at a city corner accidentally deposited her false teeth into a postbox while hastily mailing a letter. She sneezed during the moment, dislodging the dentures which lodged in the box. The postman returned the teeth and reassured her before she hurried home.
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Seventeenth Street
Monumental Avenue
Philadelphia Press
Turnip with human shape from German garden in 1628
A turnip found in Weldan near Bonn Germany in 1628 bore a striking human face and form. Leaves stood like hair or feathers and the round root showed nose eyes and a mouth while the entwined roots suggested limbs.
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Weldan
Bonn
Germany
He Punished Her. Man’s Holiday Telegram Tarnishes Pride
Brown traveled to Scotland last summer and asked a sub post office clerk about sending a telegram to London. The clerk dismissively replied with a sharp quip. Later the clerk was forced to wire a rude message: Arrived safe, Girl here ugly and bad tempered.
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Brown
Scotland
London
Was Barabbas a Publisher in a Jest of Sala
A Harpers Weekly note recalls George Augustus Sala gifting a Bible to a London publisher who faced a misprint in John xviii 40 changing Barabbas to a publisher. A reviewer misread Barabbas as a rotter or raters in misproofs, prompting interest in the publishing slip and its moral.
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George Augustus Sala
Budapest
London
Harper's Weekly
Barabbas
Misa Cori
Finlah
Curious Double Catfish Captured in North Carolina
A rare two headed fish, joined at the chest like Siamese twins, was netted alive at Cape Fear river mouth in North Carolina. The larger body appears to lead in life while the two share a single circulatory system through a hollow, flexible join. The specimen was once given to Prof. Silliman, an American scientist, and survives as a remarkable curiosity depicted in an old illustration.
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North Carolina
Silliman
Cape Four River
Jubilee celebrations span libraries and estates across Europe
Manchester prepares for a library jubilee while noting a fifty year span of book withdrawals. King Leopold of Belgium emerges as a major landowner on the French Riviera and controls estates near Villefranche sur Mer alongside Lord Salisbury.
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Manchester
England
Leopold
King Leopold of
Belgium
French Riviera
Villefranchowar-Mor
Lord Salisbury
Weather deaths in England and Wisconsin absinthe exports
The report notes about 200 weather related deaths yearly in England with around 140 from cold and the remainder from sunstroke and lightning. It also states Wisconsin absinthe manufacturers now export to Europe, creating French competition in their key liquor market.
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England
Wisconsin
Europe
An Austrian cavalry officer named beauty in Europe tour piece
In a light magazine feature on affordable ten week European travel Li on Bell says the most beautiful natural object would be an Austrian cavalry officer.
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Europe
Lion Bell
Ominous Phrase Sparks Tension At Market Exchange
A young man asks a merchant to stop calling him a trusted employee. He fears being viewed with suspicion after recent events, saying such labeling could seem improper given the circumstances and his position.
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New York Times
What the White House Represents to People and Politicians
In Century, Charles Moore notes the White House symbolizes the president’s personality to Americans, the political aims behind ambitions, and epoch defining decisions to historians. He adds the public sees the house as a place of entertainment rather than a workspace for the president.
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White House
United States
Charles Moore
To Warm Railroad Cars
A new system of warming the passenger compartments on a railway is being tried. It consists of reverberators charged with chemicals.
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Fielstein
Bergeneran
Lerfosten
Ward
Shackleton
Bach
Timsel
Guerdon
Freak OF Nature
The
Musc
St. Jacobs Oil
Curan and Price
Columbia Phonograph
Walnut
Kargas City
Tes
Hari Am Gol
Ie Faye
Ieine
Chas
E. Kites
Mars
Sawyer
Teakens
Thompson's
Union Metallic Cartridge Co
Bridgeport
Conn
Cuthura
Wiian
W. Nlu
Wichita
Winchester
Repeating
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
New Haven
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