Various 1899 Headlines Touch World and Nation
The article surveys 1899 events from Samoa cession to Germany and New York theater lost-and-found programs to Royal and political notes. It notes lynching figures, shipping, rabbits plague, gypsy moth costs, South Carolina liquor profits, and Kaiser Wilhelm’s gifts, with diverse global and domestic items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guiana
R Diess
London
Massachusetts
Nanos
Carona
Ringe
Eliot
South Carolina
Tugela River Landscape and Historic Sites Across Natal
Pall Mall Gazette describes the Tugela and Modder rivers in Natal as scenic and formidable. It traces the Tugela from Mont aux Sources through Colenso, Ladysmith, Estcourt, and Dundee to its mouth, noting tributaries, crossings, historic battles, and non navigability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Tugela
Natal
Zululand
Free State
Mont Aux Sources
Drakensberg
Kloof
Klip River
Weenen
Colenso
Bulwer Road
Klip
Ladysmith
Blauwkranz
Bushman
Estcourt
Biggarsberg
Elandslaagte
Charlestown
Newcastle
Ingogo
Umzimkulu
Pall Mall Gazette
The Boer Market Square and Dutch Auction
The center of Boer towns holds a dusty market square where farmers trade forage meals tobacco oranges vegetables wood and game. Weekly auctions draw crowds as horses furniture and other goods are sold with a skilled talkative auctioneer driving prices high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Transvaal
London Daily Mail
Queen Victoria Tea Scene With International Delegation
The Queen shared tea with delegates from the International Council of Women at Windsor Castle after a garden visit. Sir Arthur Bigge warned of the crowd, but Victoria declared the tea would be served regardless. The delegation reportedly sang God Save the Queen as she left. A Paris club plans to require gloves for handshakes, mocking domestic chores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
International Council of Women
London
Windsor Castle
Lady Aberdeen
Miss Anthony
Arthur Bigge
Queen
Humor of the Week: Odd Myths and Witty Quips
A collage of humorous exchanges from the era features cartoonish lines about bread costs in Kimberley, a Guadalajara English Spanish mock, a post office photo request, and jests about parrot clubs, hassocks at tables, and ill-fated marriages.
Vanishing Tasmanian Aborigines and Colonial Reactions
A lecture by Sir Philip Fysh describes the decline of Tasmanian Aboriginal people due to war, disease, and harsh colonial policies. It notes the black line cordon and the heroism of G A Robinson and Truganini, ending with the extinction of the last tribe member in 1876. The text also weaves in brief anecdotes about British attitudes and American political banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tasmania
Sir Philip Fysh
Whitehall Rooms
Pall Mall
G. A. Robinson
Hobart
Truganini
Robinson
Mr. Bonwick
Billy
Trucanini
Anecdotes of Wit and Slurs Span a Sea of Etiquette
A Baltimore man benches a blunt retort to Mrs. Drayton at a New Year function. A Russian tale recounts a purple robed priest mocked in court then punished with lashes. Georgia’s G R Glenn explains X rays to black students amid comic misinterpretation. Lady Randolph Churchill shows her wit inheriting Uncle Larry’s as a British politician reacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Society For the
Queen Victoria
Victra
Texas
Kaiser Wilhelm
Zietien Lussars
Wylng
Ile Lussars
New York
BE. W. Barrett
Birmingham
Ala
United States
Canada
South Africa
John
Harry Lehr
Baltimore
Berson
Russia
G. R. Glenn
State of Georgia
Squires Courts of Arizona Dismiss Justice For Laughable Fines
A satirical look at Arizona Squires Courts shows judges and juries delivering odd rulings. Examples include a new judge fining an insane man and a drunken suspect acquitted as alcoholic insanity. The piece contrasts legal theatrics with historic Westminster Abbey’s Edward the Confessor monument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Squires
Williams
Ariz
Oregon
Westminster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Westminster
Edith
Henry III
Confessor
Hair Donation Sparks Paris Convent Gift Tale
A Paris hairdresser received eighty pounds of hair from a convent near Tours. The tresses came from 300 novices who had their heads shaved upon taking the veil. A second humorous exchange from Brooklyn Life notes bread cast on waters sinking and not returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Tours
Brooklyn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Samoan Islands
Germany
Tutuila
Modder
Kimberley
Little Willie
Papa
Baltimore Times
la Gaceta
Guadalajara
Mexico
Parrot Club
Chicago Record
Uncle Jerry Peebles
Skedunk
Uncle Jerry
Chicago ‘Tribune
Indianapolis Press
Indianapolis Journal
Undertaker
Dorinda
Philadelphia Press
Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia Bulletin
Chicago Post
Miss Ogler
Boston Courier
Dawson
Fenderfoot
Cactus Charley
Baltimore American
Aguinaldo
Philadelphia
North American
Miss Goldrox
Spaghetti
Arthur
Goodwin
Chicago News
Mr. Blackboard
Dar
Disher Log
England
States
John Clerk
Lord Hidin
Edinburgh
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Thayer
Bryan
Chicago Times-Herald
Bryan—Bryan
Squires' Courts
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