Great Du Chaillu Talks of Africa and Viking Age
The famed explorer Paul Du Chaillu, in a Montreal interview, discusses his new Viking Age romance and his Africa work. He defends his discoveries, recalls Stanley, Livingstone, and Burton, and notes American belief and press skepticism alongside his scientific aims.
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Africa
Montreal
Jutland
England
Scandinavia
China
Gottland
Baltic
Mr . Jar
Stanley
Livingstone
Grant
Peke
Central Africa
Burton
Glasgow
du Chaillu
New York
Columbus
Paul
Hunting With Blow Guns From Guiana Tribes
A historical account describes Guiana savages using long reed blow pipes and poisoned arrows. It details weapon construction, arrow making from palm leaf ribs, and the curare venom preparation by a medicine man, with testing on animals before storage in a sealed pot.
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Guiana
Borneo
Rhodes Dream of Cape to Cairo Telegraph Line
Sir Cecil Rhodes plans a Cape to Cairo telegraph across Africa with Zanzibar and the Great Lakes route. England backs the scheme as a unifying thread for a British empire in Africa, aiming to control the continent from the Cape to Egypt amid German retreat. Rhodes dominates Cape politics, pushing federation and imperial expansion, while English influence grows from the Cape southward to Egypt.
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Cecil Rhodes
Cape Colony
Cape
Egypt
Sir Cecil
Cairo
England
Africa
Zanzibar
Great Lakes
South Africa
Canada
Sir John Macdonald
India
The King Bails Peasants With 40000 Francs Loan
A Rome northern province hunting tale reports King Humbert meeting peasants who formed a land cultivating corporation. He learns of their 40,000 francs need and writes a cheque to fund a retirement pool instead of loan repayment. The anecdote contrasts with a separate bookseller tale about a Chicago order for Seekers after God.
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Rome
Humbert
Ghostly sightings questioned by skeptic Mr Brooke
English skeptic Mr Brooke doubts real ghosts while analyzing hauntings and suggests active investigation by a specialist. He recalls episodes on ships, in houses, and with animals causing noises, from coals in Newcastle to rats behind walls, and explains simple methods to locate and debunk apparent hauntings. He cites practical jokers, animal sounds, and imagination as drivers of fear.
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W. F. Brooke
Newcastle
Australia
New Zealand
D.T
Brooke
Unearthly Shrieks Heard In Empty House Narratives
A resident recalls hearing eerie noises attributed to a woman ill treated. After hours of searching, the sound led to a rusty chimney-pot cowl on a vacant roof. earlier reports describe footsteps in rain in Deptford traced to a blocked gutter and water tapping a leaden surface. Neighbors and former occupants corroborate the sounds.
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J’vye
High Street
Deptford
Kerrovans
Doss
Executions in Greece Shock Nation With Guillotinings
The text notes Greece with about two million people has an unusually high annual execution rate. It cites 100 condemned to death across prisons awaiting fate. In five days nine have been guillotined five in Athens four at Aigina and three at Naupilia, with a soldier shot recently at Dusslonghi.
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Greece
Athens
Aigina
Nauplia
Dlsslonghi
Fate of the Ben Douran Ship Missing at Lloyds
Captain Hatfield of the Gladys reports an iceberg tragedy near 39 30 S 31 40 W seen on July 4 with signs of recent human presence and five dead bodies. The Ben Douran, due around Cape Horn in January, is presumed to have struck a berg and foundered with survivors perishing on the ice.
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Glasgow
Ben Douran
Lloyd’s
Gladys
Hamburg
Iquique
Ben Duran
Hatfield
Australasia
American Pacific
Cape Horn
Jane
Extraordinary Grand Duke in Central Asia Faces Inquiry
Letters from Tashkend report General Baranok’s death suspected from poisoning tied to reforms in Turkestan. They describe Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovitch’s erratic rule, brutal discipline, a new palace, a worn robe, and 20 Ural Cossacks enforcing his orders. A doctor driven mad by punishment illustrates his tyranny.
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Tashkend
Baranok
Turkestan
Nicholas Constantinovitch
Central Asia
Central Asian
St. Petersburg
Uganda letters end suspense over ill Captain Williams
Private letters dated Uganda September 25 and received December 3 from Zanzibar report Captain Williams ill with fever but convalescent and hopeful to return to the coast. Major Smith to join soon. News praises Uganda peace, notes cooperation with Walfranza and Mohammedan factions, and says European officers and Soudanese refugees are well. Kaberega treats for peace as Busoga and Kavirondo disputes are settled.
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Lugard
Williams
General Williams
Pulbrook
Hants
Uganda
Hese
Zanzibar
Gerald Portal
Fortign
Kitara
Smith
Walfranza
Kabarega
Anzoro
Busoga
Kavirondo
Gigantic Turtle Venerable Icon of Port Louis Barracks
Report from the Mauritius era notes a colossal sea turtle kept at Port Louis during British cession in 1810. The aged reptile, about 200 years old, weighs roughly 150 kilograms and spans 2.59 metres across the shell, standing 0.63 metres high. It reportedly bears two men on its back with ease.
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Mauritius
Great Britain
Port Louis
Berlin dog walker earns a penny an hour
An exchange reports a Berlin man who earns by walking dogs for customers paying a penny an hour for daily airing and safe return home. The note questions who cares for the children of those families and whether they will all reach home safely.
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Berlin
Odd Facts From Various Lands and Times
A digest of curious notes on science and history including depth of Atlantic parts, life expectancy, a singer’s words on consumption, Rome’s first library, herring dominance, public health averages, a Bengal leopard’s prey tally, coal wealth in China, walking for beauty, the Royal Sovereign’s lights, and comparisons of ocean and land productivity. It covers armor, railways, coconuts, czar’s expenses, a Hungarian footpad and tame bear, white horses in army, Edison lamps, Alexander II monument, bicyclist health, the Notch in the Catskills, strange cats, dieting advice, the world’s largest heathen temple, rosewood name origin, Lady Brassey’s marble infant, Russian passports, Leap Day superstition, wish-batching in China, and Rome’s Monti di Pieta pawnbroker.
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Princian
Rome
Bengal
China
Europe
Argentine Republic
Buenos Ayres
San Martin
India
Russia
United States
United States Court of Appeals
Edison Company
Alexander II
Kremlin
Stony Cave
Catskill Mountains
Germantown
Seringapatam
Lord Brassey
Park Iane
Brassey
Montreal and national affairs spark wide reports
A fragmented set of notes mentions horse thefts and a proposed centralization plan in Ottawa, with Montreal trade and oil concerns, plus a Montreal wealth figure and a trio of political hints. Fire injuries, a legal case against Theo Hattie, and railway delays are briefly touched, while church arrivals, world fair pledges, and Comet medals hint at broader unsettled events across Canada and the Atlantic world.
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Moore
Washi Three Rivers
John Jacobean
Montreal
Ottawa
United States
Bern
Hall
Erty
Theo Hattie
Iidian Pacific Rail
Celay
Rocky Mountains
Cathol
Merci Courrier
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Dan Farrar
God
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Tture
London
Wales
Gladstone
Dublin
Pacific
Edwin Holmes
Henry S. Liter
Worcester
Salem
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