Cullinan diamond rumors flare over four missing pieces
The Philadelphia Ledger reports renewed speculation that fragments of the Cullinan, found in the Premier Mine South Africa in 1906, may exist. Experts doubt any half exists. four pieces could form the unrecovered mass, with officials denying the second Cullinan.
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Philadelphia Ledger
South Africa
Zoutpansberg
Transvaal Department of Mines
Ledger
George Frederick Kunz
Tiffany Company
New York
William Crookes
Mr. Kunz
Lucky
Architect Behind His Own Destiny On Display
First Auditor remarks on the speaker’s self fashioning while the second notes unfinished plans. The exchange portrays a man shaping his future with rhetoric and perceived gaps in planning.
The cost of living's going down in Nineteen Ten
Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican notes a refrain in 1910 chatter about prices and farming. He contrasts claims of rising costs with calls for agricultural yield and railroad efficiency, envisioning a shift to lower living costs across Sagebrushville to Spotless Town in nineteen ten.
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Sagebrushville
Arthur Chapman
Denver
Republican
Cane Lands Like a Garden in Cuba’s Cane Districts
A Havana stringer describes Cuba’s cane regions with green fields in Matanzas 112 miles long and bordered by royal palms. He notes tobacco dominates Pinar del Rio and cane farther east, with lush, varied scenery that contrasts with bare hills near Havana.
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Havana
Cuba
New York Evening Post
Pinar del Rio
Matanzas
San Francisco Bay
Garden of Minas Campo Florida San Miguel Dairy Industry Scene
A descriptive panorama highlights dairy centers in Minas Campo Florida and San Miguel. Vivid green fields and bright red soils set against a blue sky create a striking, though idealized, rural landscape rendered in lush, harmonious tones.
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Minas
Campo Florida
San Miguel
Notable Portland Citizen Seeks Tailor Services
Wheelwright, a retired Portland banker, asks a local wit for a good tailor. The wit refers him to Ames and Harris, who later are found to make tents and awnings, not clothing.
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Portland
Ore
Wheelwright
Reed
Co. J
Ames & Harris
One View of Marriage Excerpt From Philadelphia Telegraph
ExGovernor Pennypacker remarks at a Philadelphia dinner that fewer divorces would occur if men like William Windle were fewer. Windle travels by excursion steamer toward Point Breeze and meets his friend Jackson on the upper deck asking if he is out for pleasure or if his wife is with him.
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Kunz
Cullinan
Frederick Wells
Mr. Wells
Wells
Philadelphia Telegraph
Pennypacker
Philadelphia
William Windle
Point Breeze
Jackson
Navy drops old monitors from fleet
The Pittsburg Post notes that the old monitors are being dropped by the navy. A conversational reader asks if they are obsolete, with the reply that they never had the right kind of dancing decka.
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Pittsburg
Navy
Mountains on the Moon and the Duke of the Abruzzi
An 1906 expedition by the Duke of the Abruzzi to the Ruwenzori range near the equator reached a high summit later named Margherita. The party included Swiss guides and scientists, faced mud fern forests and mist, and hoisted a tri color flag in honor of Queen Margherita and England as the ascent culminated.
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Philadelphia
Ruwenzori
Aristotle
Abruzzi
Equator
Egypt
Aeschylus
Ptolemy
Speke
Samuel Baker
Stanley
Lake Albert
Kavali
Stairs
Scott Elliott
Mr. Moore
Sir Harry Johnston
Duke of the
Margherita
Alexandra
Italy
England
H. M
Savoy
Order of garden hoe transforms Kansas City block through shared gardens
A Kansas City neighbor contagion turns backyards into one large garden plot. Three families pull down fences to unite borders and share harvests. neighbors trade produce and compete kindly. The movement spreads through the block creating close ties and a new community spirit.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Hill's Economy Warning from Henry Hill's View
A New York World piece on James J. Hill argues that rising taxes rents prices and living costs will push workers down the social ladder. It warns meat may become unaffordable for wage earners and predicts scarcity of staple foods as tariffs and privilege shape costs.
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James J. Hill
Mr. Hill
The Boy With the Feet From the New York Sun
A tiny boy on a crowded car begs kindness as his parents are dead and he travels alone to Aunt Anna in Brooklyn. He confesses envy of a stranger he wishes to belong to, prompting compassion from nearby women after his candid tale of loneliness.
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New York Sun
Aunt Clara
Brooklyn
Aunt Anna
Scrooge
Lip-buttons as a North Alaska Custom
A remarkable archaeological find links to Alaska’s natives who wear lip buttons or labrets. Boys aged 14 to 36 pierce lower lip holes and gradually enlarge them from wooden plugs to stone or ivory, with two distinct buttons. Visitors see these ornaments inserted as a sign of readiness, though they are removed at sleep.
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Alaska
Peary
Trial marriages among the Eskimos reveal customs and life
Robert E. Peary writes in Hampton's Magazine about Eskimo igloos and dirt, trial marriages, divorce by choosing partners, early marriages, female independence, and how native norms resist imposing Western marriage practices.
Oberammergau Passion Play faces looming travel crunch
Preparations for the 1910 Passion Play in Oberammergau run May 16 to September 25 with 19 Sundays and 30 total performances. The village is flooded with lodging requests as agents seek beds for visitors, while a lodging bureau sets fixed terms and prices. about 4,200 beds supply theater seats and 200,000 expected visitors include 40,000 English and American counterparts.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Oberammergau
London
Berlin
Munich
Herr.Bauer
Garmisch
Anton Lang
Christus
David
Marjorie Gould The Versatile Heiress Of New York Society
The 19 year old Marjorie Gould daughter of George and Mrs Gould is described as highly self sufficient with fluency in Latin Greek and multiple languages as well as needlework piano singing and vocal training. She designs costumes decorates hats and can manage dinners and household machinery showing a practical independent side praised by her mother Mrs Gould who encourages women to live busy useful lives.
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Viola Rodgers
New York American
America
New York City
Marjorie Gould
George Gould
New York
Miss Gould
Mrs. Gould
Ethel Kingdon
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