Lowell Man Fights in Transvaal Letter from Ramsay
Lowell resident Alexander Ramsay, long known in the city, writes a vivid letter about his experiences since enlisting in the British army in the Transvaal. He recalls losing 12 horses and his unit taking 37 Boers prisoner with 11 killed or wounded, and describes escorting prisoners to Sir Walter Kitchener’s encampment before nightfall and a perilous moment when guides deemed them lost at 2 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Ramsay
Lowell
Transvaal
Ramsay
Quitewell
Sir Walter Kitchener
Letter from Damant's Cavalry Soldier Ramsay in Transvaal
Alexander Ramsay writes from Klerksdorp in the Transvaal about service in Damant's Cavalry during the South African war era. He recalls long marches, a farm house engagement with Boers, losses of three men, capture of two comrades, and a vow to describe the last fight in a future letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suniet
South Africa
Bre
Ramsay
Massachusetts
Klerksdorp
Transvaal
Ute
Dajmant
Alexander Ramsay
Review of a North American fish natural history volume
A new large volume on American fishes North of Panama by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann is praised for its thorough science and broad appeal to anglers and scientists. The 571 page work features over 100 life photographs, color lithographs, and many plates with detailed fish identification guidance plus a practical chapter on how to identify species. Published by Doubleday Page & Co. and sold by G C Prince & Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
Panama
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford
Barton Warren Evermann
United States Fish Commission
Life
A. Radclyffe Dugmore
America
Equator
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
Board of Health eyes antiseptic cleaning of city schools
The Board of Health met to discuss cleansing school buildings with antiseptic wash and to consider soap and naptha cleaning methods. Whitcomb noted improvements, while Gillow was absent. An antiseptic program, school inspections, and medical supervision of facilities were debated, and D J Pendergast won the vacancy election after ballots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Whitcomb
Gillow
Holbrook
McGuinness
Stephen Garrity
Garrity
Whiteomb
Knapp
Mr. Whitcomb
Dr. Holbrook
Lowell
Boston
Supt. Whitcomb
German man praises Chamberlain Pain Balm for wife
George Schaub of New Lebanon Ohio, a loyal Dayton Volkszeitung reader, bought Chamberlain's Pain Balm after his wife endured eight weeks of terrible back pain. He reports she felt “born anew” after a few days and the agony vanished before the bottle finished. The finiment notes sales by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schaub
New Lebanon
Ohio
Dayton Volkszeitung
Chamberlain
Our Great Bargains in Men's Hose
For three years we have taken all the mill seconds from a mill to offer seamless fast color men's hose. Blacks tans and mixed in all sizes sold at 9c a pair, three pairs for 2c. Basement A. G. Pollard & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Pollard & Co
Hillside College Names J W Monck President and Rail Official
J W Monck becomes Hillside Mich new president and treasurer of the Chicago and Milwaukee electric railway after resigning the University of South Dakota presidency to pursue railroad duties. Monck, a business man, brings railway leadership to the college post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillside
Mich.) College
J. W. Monck
Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railway
University of South Dakota
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr. satire review
A review condemns Wallace Irwin for adapting The Rubaiyat into modern slang in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Junior. It notes the work by Elder & Shepard uses ragtime style and slang, risking loss of deep meaning and elegant language, with mixed taste for readers who enjoy serious poetry lampooned by slang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omar, Jr
Gelett Burgess
Omar Khayyam
Wallace Irwin
Wider & Shepard
San Francisco
Cal
Omar Khayyam, Junior
Elder & Shepard
Fitzgerald
Irwin
Is King Edward Really Edward the Seventh
In the July St Nicholas Arthur John Evans ponders whether King Edward is truly Edward the Seventh noting Edward the Confessor Edward the Elder and Edward the Martyr. He argues the new monarch is the first Edward to rule Great Britain and his discussion preludes many English history anecdotes during coronation season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nicholas
Arthur Johnson Evans
Edward
Edward the Seventh
England
Edwards
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Elder
Alfred the Great
Edward the Martyr
Ethelred
Great Britain
Scribners July issues feature color art and modern prose
The July Scribner’s presents Will H. Low’s text and color pictures in In an Old French Garden, and The Martinique Pompeii with Dr. James Robb Church aboard the relief ship Dixie. Other pieces include Mrs. Everard Cotes’s Burma trip, works by Richard Harding Davis, F Hopkinson Smith, Arthur Heminy, John Fox Jr., George S Wasson, Marguerite Tracy, and a Yale athlete love story set in Paris in 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scribner’s
Will H. Low
Walter Appleton Clark
A. B. Frost
Low
Martinique Pompeii
St. Pierre
James Robb Church
Rough Rider
Dixie
U. S. Army
Everard Cotes
Lord and Lady Curzon
Burma
Kipling
Mandalay
Richard Harding Deyvis
F. Hopkinson Smith
Arthur Heminy
Abitibi Fur Brigade
Mountains
John Fox, Jr
Callahan
E. M. Ashe
New England
George S. Wasson
Marguerite Tracy
Yale
Faris
Edison’s storage cell powers long distance car travel
The July North American Review opens with Thomas A. Edison detailing a perfected storage cell enabling automobiles to run long distances without power renewal. Other pieces include Cramp on shipbuilding mergers, Wharton on The Three Francescas, and more on public health, gender economics, and postal system defects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North American Review
Thomas A. Edison
Chas. H. Cramp
Edith Wharton
Wolf von Schierbrand
H. Cust
M. P
Cecil Rhodes
H. A. Castle
Lewis M. Haupt
Isthmian Canal Commission
Notable feature highlights in The World's Work July issue
The July World's Work spotlights Commander Wainwright’s Annapolis naval academy profile with Frances Johnston illustrations. It previews Donald Murray on the world’s great cable systems, financial panic prevention in Wall Street, and concise pieces on Americanizing cannibal ancestry boys, liquor control, the President’s routine, frontier farming, Northwest border scenes, and portraits of living American historians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick” Wainwright
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Frances B. Johnston
Donald Murray
Wall Street
Middle West
Connecticut
C. H. Matson
Bailey Willis
Geological Survey
H. ‘Morse Stephen
D. M. Steeles
Charles Barnard
George Perry Mortis
The Woman's Side and Domestic Finance in Cosmopolitan
Rafford Pyke debates why marriages fail in The Woman's Side, a piece certain to draw wide attention from readers. The July Cosmopolitan also balances interest between men and women with An Experiment in Domestic Finance, a novel article aimed at women, alongside about twenty pages of content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rafford Pyke
Captains of Industry sketches illuminate modern leaders
The Cosmopolitan launches a series profiling leaders in finance, manufacturing, and commerce. Writers with exact knowledge present in depth portraits of these men, whose derivation, traits, and weaknesses shed light on rapid industrial changes and daily news.
The July Criterion Review Highlights Summer Fiction
The July Criterion features numerous complete short stories and prominent articles. Highlighted pieces include Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Gen James Grant Wilson and The Truth About Yellow Journalism by Samuel E Moffet with others on Longfellow Lowell Porter Holmes Whittier The Summer Life of the Diplomats by Walden Fawcett and One Century of Acting on the Comedien Francaise plus The Death of Dr Dreer a notable feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
James Grant Wilson
Comedien Francaise
Dreer
McClure's July issue sketches and stories feature Sampson and more
In July McClure's readers find sketches of Admiral Sampson by ex Secretary Long and Captain A T Mahan, an article Fighting Life in the Philippines by Henry C Rowland, Sterling Heilig on The Over-Sea Experiments of Santos Dumont, Miss Stone on Mme Tsilka's baby birth, Mrs Tsilka’s tale to come in August, Cyrus Townsend Brady on George Rogers Clark and the Northwest, Booth Tarkington’s The Two Wanderers, and diverse short fiction including Mrs Cuttling, The Fruits of Toil, Our Red-Headed Kid, Emmy Lou, A Ballad in Print of Life, and Mrs Shanklin's Ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Sampson
Long
A. T. Mahan
Philippines
Henry C. Rowland
Sterling Heilig
Santos Dumont
Miss Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Review of Reviews July issue surveys coal strike and world topics
The July Review of Reviews presents the coal strike from multiple angles with editorials on railroads and operators, an illustrated mining methods piece by Mrs Rosamond D Rhone, a general view by Dr Talcott Williams, and statistics on anthracite railroads by H T Newcomb. It also features Woodrow Wilson’s profile, West Point centennial reflections, Kansas farmers’ wheat labor solution, and editorials on South Africa peace, the Philippines, Cuba, isthmian canal, Congress, and crop prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosamond D. Rhone
Wilkes Barre
Talcott Williams
H. T. Newcomb
Railway World
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
West Point
Samuel E. Tillman
Corps of Instruction
National Military Academy
William R. Draper
Kansas
Philippines
Congress
July Era Magazine features broad mix of fiction non fiction
The July Era Magazine showcases continued stories such as Story of Marie Antoinette and Gabriel Tolliver, plus short tales by Clemens Millard and Hrichsen. Notable pieces include The Growth of Christian Science, Nathan Hale's Own Country, China topics, White House life, anthracite luxury, and poems by Gar rison Tabb Barker Dangerfield Stringer. A new feature Words Worth Weighing draws interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Francis
Marie Antoinette
Will M. Clemens
Bailey Millard
Hugo Hrichsen
Joseph Dana Miller
Nathan Hale
Findlay Sackett
China
Frederic Poole
White House
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
William Jasper Nicolls
Theodosia Garrison
John B. Tabb
Elsa Barker
Clinton Dangerfield
Arthur Stringer
Gabriel Tolliver
Joel Chandler Harris
Ainslees July Issue Highlights Rich Maritime Era Features
The July Ainslees is packed with illustrated pieces. Rich Linthicum surveys The Great Lakes, while G Stanley Hall writes Rest and Fatigue. Allen Sangree begins Luxuries of the Millionaire on horses. Other pieces cover smallpox, farming aristocracy, sleep, Copper King Heinz, Gen Lincoln, a Cumaean Sibyl tale, a sea adventure, and more from multiple authors.
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W. R. Draper
Neith Boyce
F. Aug. Heinz
Robert Harlowe
Minerva Small
J. C. Lincoln
Margarita Spalding Gerry
Norman Duncan
May Kelsey Champion
Zoe.Anderson Norris
The July Engineering and Outlook magazines reviewed
The July issue features The Engineering Magazine with a striking Hammond paper on Transvaal future and checks on Isthmian canal matters. It includes Cape Nome, locomotive, electric railway, and factory management pieces, plus a large Outlook magazine section with King of England tribute West Point history and bird studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transvaal
John Hays Hammond
Hammond
S. A. Thompson
Cape Nome
A. L. Queneau
H. P. Quick
C. R. King
W. W. Christie
Carpenter
Vacation July issue highlights gardens and wildlife
The July Country Life in America vacation number showcases outdoor leisure with features on Wyndhurst in the Berkshire Hills, Japanese Gardens in America, and Doorways of Old Salem. It includes articles on ponies, beagles, hummingbirds, camping, and summer fruit, plus tales by Howard Crandon and others and notes on Progressive American Cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Wyndhurst
Berkshire Hills
Old Salem
Nellie Blanchan
Arctic Circle
John Burroughs
Doña hoe's Magazine features varied Catholic essays and stories
Rev Matthew Russell continues Poets I Have Known with Rosa Mulholland as subject. July issue includes Colonial Capitals of Virginia by Catherine Frances Cavanaugh. Soldiers of the Cross by Rev J T Roche recounts Spanish pioneers in New Mexico. O 8 Brevier hides as Reminiscences of a Journalist. Mullany explains Catholic doctrines. Beadle on Catholic Free Libraries. O'Sullivan on Passing of Gratitude. Tibbot and Tonino's Garden offer short tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Russell
S. J
Donahoe
Rosa Mulholland
Virginia
Catherine Frances Cavanaugh
J. T. Roche
New Mexico
Brevier
John F. Mullany
H. M. Beadle
M. B. O'Sullivan
Nina Welles Tibbot
Tonino
Gabriel Francis Powers
Forum Begins New Volume As Quarterly Review
The Forum shifts from monthly to a quarterly format with nine departments led by specialists. The new series preserves the magazine’s high standard while sharpening its role as a review and outlook publication.
Tax Harrow Teeth in Real Estate Taxes
William Miller of Los Angeles criticizes Lowell tax policy in 1902. He argues property taxes favor movable goods, urges broader assessment of all valuables, and warns high real estate taxation suppresses city growth. He cites large real estate interest, parade excesses, and suggests encouraging light taxation to spur investment and population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Lowell Courier
Los Angeles
Woman's Federation of Clubs
United States
Maine
Massachusetts
Federation
Inn Lowell
Lowell
William Miller
Cal
Woman Seen At Divorce Court Sparks Speculation
A young wife sits as a spectator during a divorce court session prompting public speculation that she is accruing "points" for future use. The scene raises questions about motives and the social dynamics surrounding divorce proceedings.
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Cairns
Gorgona
Havana
Neea
Sooosok Literary Notes
Rooode
Scribner's
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Review of Reviews
Street & Smith, Publishers
the Outlook
Outlook
George W. Smakey
London Times
London
New York Tribune
James Barnes
Admiral Farragut
W. E. D. Scott
Princeton University
Scott
Bruce Horsfall
John R. Spears
Henry Litchfield West
A. Maurice Low
A. D. Noyes
Henry Harrison Suplee
John Corbin
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr
A. D. F. Hamlin
Ossian H. Lang
J. M. Rica
Charles Denby
Germany
Walter Besant
W. P. Trent
Country Life In
Cara Howard Crandon
Catherine Coll
Lavon C. Cheney
Leavenworth MacNab
Willard Dillman
Miss Held
Duchess
Ralph Bergengren
John H. Kirby
Texas
Henry Righter
Edward S. Bragg
Ellis B. Usher
Grand Rapids
Mich
Canton
Peter MacQueen
M. A
Manila
Harriet Osgood Clendenin
Frank Putnam
Edmond Rostand
E. S. Gross
Donahoe’s
the Forum
Lowell Man
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