Fight for Love on the Spanish Route
Campbell pursues Marcia across Europe after a rejected proposal. A Madrid cafe memory and a rail crash drive him to protect and win her, with Marcia later finding and valuing a locket and a photograph as proof of his true intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell
Marcia
Pell
Paris
Southampton
Trojan
Piel
Haif
Marcia Bennet
America
Perhays
Waeter
Jack
Joose
Marela
Spain
Clocks and Gamble House Tale From Chicago Tribune
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, gamblers discuss avoiding clocks to keep players betting. They claim clocks would force departures and disrupt moves, noting delayed players misread times and often stay longer, despite consequences and risk of being caught in lies.
Fashionable Women and Antiquities in Art and China
The article notes that ancient tastes in fashion and taste for old china share lineage, praising Hogarth Lamb Sydney Smith and Balzac for depicting fashionable women. It highlights Lamb’s fondness for porcelain and his habit of seeking fine china when visiting great houses for art collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nile
Hogarth
Charles Lamb
Sydney Smith
Balzac
Tone
Varieties of Ivory and Ivory In Art History
The article surveys ivory sources from East Africa and Arctic mammoth tusks, noting color, transparency, and uses in Europe. It describes ball teeth for billiards, prehistoric ivories, blue patina from ancient tunics, and mentions T P Connor, Mr Shaw, and political connections to John Bull's Other Island and Irish questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trory Tgwencey Sean
Africa
Guinea
Europe
London
Gweiler
Dordogne
Naturalistsare
Pyrenees
Parte
T. P.cnnnor
Shaw
Mr. Shaw
Baifour
Jan Bull
Henry” campbell-Bank Berman
Montagu Feast Renamed May Day Holiday for London Chimney Sweeps
A historical tale notes Lady Mary Wortley Montagu starting a May Day feast for London chimney sweeps after her son Edward Worthy Montague ran away and spent time with the sweeps. The event, begun in 1722, transformed May 1 into a sweeping community holiday observed by Montagu descendants.
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Ory
Wis
London
Montagu
Portman Square
Mary Worley Montagu
Ensigh
Edward Worthy Montague
Westminster School
Coins and the Croce and the cross in coins history
The passage notes the cross as a symbol linked to earnest coins in Christendom, mentions sixteenth century practice of cutting coins for change, and cites phrases like He has it cross and He hasn’t a penny. Shakespeare and Marsinger are referenced for wordplay on cross and money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Marsinger
London Express
Old Love Letters Wanted by a Literary Man
A terse advertisement in The Sydney Morning Herald seeks old love letters without names. The bidder, a literary man, wants them for a possibly amorous novel or for vivid, fresh material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney Morning Herald
London
The Queens Picture Painted For Her Royal Portrait
A poet describes a painter making a grand image of the queen with jewels flags and ermine. The queen studies the work sees pride and disapproval in her face then the crown throne and riches are removed and her children are brought in to view a simpler royal portrait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hey
Win
Jewele
Nickel currency proposal gains wide support in Britain
The London Express reports broad approval for replacing bronze coinage with nickel. A bacteriologist warns copper coins harbor disease, while Mathias of Mond Nickel Co. notes nickel is British-made, mined near Sudbury and refined at Cardiff. Also covered are Indian adoption plans and a London Museum reading-room outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Express
Express
Canada
Mathias
Mond Nickel Co. Limited
Sudbury
Cardiff
Mas
America
France
London
British Museum
London Globe
Feaders
Royal Alfred Home for Aged Seamen Varsity of the Sea
A description of the Royal Alfred Home for Aged Seamen near London, housing about one hundred English mariners. It is funded solely by voluntary contributions with King Edward VII among regular subscribers. The home mimics ship life with cabin dormitories, shiplike bunks, and a sea atmosphere to ease aging sailors, under a house governor and nautical discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanu
Royal Alfred Home
London
King Edward
Tyranny of Golf and the Allure of the Links
The piece argues golf dominates as a tyrannical force across ages and weather, contrasting with cricket and football which suit the young. It says golf claims all, from child to grandfather, tolerates extreme conditions, and demands full devotion rather than half measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bodkin
C. B Frye
Progress in 30 Years Canada Agriculture and Commerce
A historical survey notes Canada over thirty years has expanded cultivated land to 39,000,000 acres and boosted exports in cheese bacon cattle coal fisheries and minerals. It highlights rising banking growth post offices postal traffic and insurance values, with Westward expansion fueling future prosperity and vast opportunities ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Great Britain
Yukon
Itice
Dts
Joan Companies
Thse
Arc Tn
Canaon
Preserving Butterflies and Insect Preparation Methods
The article describes amateur entomology practices for preserving moths and butterflies. It covers killing methods using ether or sublimed agents, careful spreading on pine boards, paper padding to shape wings, drying over two to three days, and storing specimens in a cabinet with cork bottoms. It also briefly notes Canadian Pavilion visitor traffic and mentions legal notes on revolver possession in Wisconsin, plus a ceremonial account of a Canadi an exhibit at the Liege Exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comstock
Paris
William Hutchison
Wistineston
Fo Howard Jones
Esgland
Howe Tard Jones
London
England
Counstry
Bere UN
Canada
Curry
God’s Own Country and the Dusty Mountain Rail
A fragmentary verse adrift in a rural mood asks if life’s burdens dim joy and health. It evokes travel on a dusty mountain line toward a promised land described as free and bright with campfire, stars, and a blanket, offering renewal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ema
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Abe
Erie
Cupid
Madrid
Earino Wen
Te Best
East Africa
George
Bernard Shaw
West
Dandurand
Raoul Dane
Cane
Sky Gee
Laken
Forand
Ottawa
Lawrence River
Yiahen
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