Holding the Reins
A Somerville Journal reminiscence recalls a winter night when a woman asked to hold the reins of a sleigh horse beside her betrothed. The couple wed soon after and cherish their shared memory, though one thought still causes the husband discomfort.
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Culler
Somerville
Love and Jealousy on the Lodgings Pier
Cameron and Annie navigate flirtation and class tension over Miss Frere and a future as Annie contemplates becoming a nurse. Cameron blindsides Annie by questioning her mother, revealing his ignorance of her lineage and triggering a sharp, emotional confrontation. Cameron seeks a meeting with Mrs Hutchinson to explain himself amid looming family and social pressures.
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Temple
Cameron
Miss Frere
Annie
Lizer
May
Linda
Miss Hutchinson
Mrs. Hutchinson
Caise
Tippu Tib The Slaver King Of Central Africa
A Harper's Magazine noted narrative traces Tippu Tib the 19th century slaver who rose from debt in Zanzibar to a vast ivory and slave empire. He forged a royal persona in Mtotila, used lavish gifts to coerce obedience, ransacked regions for ivory, and expanded his influence along the Lualaba, facing Abed-bin-Salem’s agents as rival plunder intensified.
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Tippu Tib
Zanzibar
Nasamas
Mohammed
Unyanyembe
Tanganike
Rus
Nyangwe
Mtotha
Mtotila
Mtotla
Henry M. Stanley
Harper’s Magazine
Kasongo
Manynema
Manyuema
Abed-bin-Salim
Abed
Rashid
Lumami
Lualaba
Luama
Stanley Falls
Tippa Tib
Wane Sironga
Sirongas
Tippu
Umami
Abed bin-Salem
Falla
Rice in Carolina Origin of its Cultivation by Accident
The spread of rice in South Carolina began almost by accident when Thomas Landgrave Smith kept a small Madagascar rice in Charleston in 1694 then planted it in a moist garden spot. The crop grew well, leading to seed distribution among neighbors and eventual shift from high land beds to tide-lands rich in irrigation, abandoning inland plantations as swamp clearings expanded rice farming.
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South Carolina
Thomas Landgrave Smith
Madagascar
Charleston
Cook
Landgrave Smith
Named places near Cape Horn reveal Dutch roots
Near Cape Horn, Staten island has its double at the southern extremity of South America. The name, like that of the New York island, is manifestly of Dutch origin. Its near neighbor is Cape Horn, more properly Hoorn, named for a village on the Zuyder Zee. Not far away are the straits of Magellan, not of Irish but of Dutch discovery, and properly spelled Magalhaens.
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Cape Horn
Staten Island
South America
New York Island
Hoorn
Zuyder Zee
Straits of Magellan
Magalhaens
Customs and Superstitions Across Cultures
A collage notes the origins of playing cards in Asia and spread to Europe via the Saracens, cites a White Horse inn sign riddle, observes a basalt dyke at Port Arthur linked to Hiawatha, mentions France’s harvest stranger’s sheaf, and describes Mexico City funeral cars used by a street railway company with elegant mourner cars.
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Asia
Europe
England
Lake Superior
Port Arthur
Thunder Bay
Hiawatha
Manibozho
France
Mexico
Truns
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