Limitations of a Constitutional Monarch in Britain
A pasted essay contrasts the king's powers under an unwritten constitution with autocracy. It covers royal prerogatives such as declaring war, pardons, and clemency, while noting constraints like financing, taxation, and legislative approval. It also discusses the king's limited direct contact with subjects and the practicalities of publicity versus privacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haroun-al-Rashid
Calif
Bagdad
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bageshot
Iran
Charles II
George III
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
England
Cornwall
Brittany
United Kingdom
House of Lords
Commons
London News
Making Ends Meet in College Life and Work
This June Century lead essay explores undergraduates who self-support through campus and local jobs. It contrasts Harvard and other Ivy findings with smaller colleges, noting how students transform into workers and back, the social and economic dynamics, and the varied opportunities and challenges across institutions. It highlights the democratic spirit shaping elite education and the practical grit of student labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice K. Fallows
Clifford Carleton
Boston
Harvard Square
Canal-Bay
Princeton
Williams
Dartmouth
Amherst
Leland Stanford, Jr
Chicago University
Columbia
Yale
Harvard
Col
Florida Razorback the King of Hogs and Its Remarkable Nature
A vivid portrait of the Florida Razorback hog praising its size speed and intelligence. The animal thrives across habitats from highwoods to marshes eats whatever it finds digs with a long snout fights for food with coons and even reads barrier fences. It is self reliant difficult to pen and always ready for market valued for lean meat and hardiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Nature
Borneo
Child's Battle for Life in 36 Foot Well
Mary Sunberry, eleven, of Shamokin Pennsylvania, fell into a 36 foot well and climbed out several times onto ice cold water only to slip back. Neighbor Henry Marquette lowered a rope with a noose which she used to free herself after an exhausting struggle. She was rescued and revived, saying her mother’s heartbreak spurred her to keep fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Sunberry
Shamokin
Henry Marquette
Marquette
Philadelphia Record
Alfred Milner
Lord Kitchener
Miss Houbhouse
London Times
Queer donation party gives minister chicken-house gift
Rev. J B Blisworth of Clifton New Jersey received a chicken-house with chickens as an odd gift from the Young Men's society. He remained unaware of the plan until the house was delivered and decorated birds waited at his door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Blisworth
Clifton
N. J
Young Men’s Society
Wealthy Chicago poker games test endurance for days
A Chicago club hosted a two week long poker marathon with 28 players who slept at the table between long sieges. Meals were eaten at the elbow and chips piled aside when players left, with fortunes changing as thousands were won and lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lisig Scas
West Side
Chicago Tribune
British distress fund appeals for relief to war’s noncombatants
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, chairman, writes on behalf of the South African women and children distress fund appealing to the British public on April 20. He describes vast camps housing women and children displaced by war, dependent on military provisioning, with heart-rending scenes of starving babies and sick children in tents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Dyke Acland
South African Women and Children Distress Fund
British Isles
Times
Belfast
Revenue of Ocean Liners in New York Ports 1890s
Samuel A. Wood analyzes transatlantic lines offices across State Street and Broadway, outlining annual rents, advertising and printing costs, insurance funds, dividends, and ship value estimates. Hamburg American tops profits, with North German Lloyd and White Star also strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
State Street
Lower Broadway
Line
White Star Line
North German
Lloyd Line
Bowling Green Building
American Line
Empire Building
Lloyd Lines
Cunard
White Star
American
Lloyd
Hamburg-American
Cunard Line
Hamburg- American
North German Lloyd
Red Star
Atlantic Transport
Samuel A. Wood
Ainslee
The First UK Savings Bank Opens in Wendover Church
In 1799 the door to Britain’s first savings bank opened in Wendover Buckingham shire. Rev John Smith and church wardens agreed to take weekly deposits from poor parishioners as low as two pence, with a Christmas bonus of one shilling if left until then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savings Bank
United Kingdom
Wendover
Buckinghamshire
John Smith
Bank For Savings
Fielding's Grave in Lisbon English Cemetery
A reporter visits the Protestant English cemetery at Lisbon to see Fielding's grave. He notes the cemetery's setting amid cypresses and olives, recounts Fielding's voyage to Lisbon, illness, and death in 1754, and describes the 1830 monument inscription praising the English novelist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Fielding
Bath
Duke of Portland
Ward
Bishop Berkeley
Rotherhithe
Portugal
Isle of Wight
Christopher Neville
Gibbon
Westminster Gazette
War on Mosquitoes in Campagna Reduces Malaria
Italian scientists led trials on two railroad lines in the Campagna showing strong protection against malaria when workers used screens on windows doors and wore protective cowls. In protected cottages malaria fell sharply versus high fever in unprotected homes, with families in protected areas largely spared and those unprotected suffering. The method extended to Castel Giubileo with similar results as researchers urged broader adoption to render healthy districts fever free.
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Campagna
Angelo Celli
Prenestina-Cervara
Pontegrara
Cervara
Celli
Cells
Castelgiubileo
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London
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Italy
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