News From Our Colonies and Far Afield
Dean Worcester recalls Gen Lawton aiding Imus villagers and teaching a local band to play the Star Spangled Banner. Honolulu life described playful wealth and cosmopolitanism amid cheap living and ladies’ clubs, with Negros called Eden by soldiers. Sultan of Sulu visits Singapore to protest tariff moves. Dialogue on Dialects and Cuban teachers’ Harvard course funds rise. Havana Board of Health resigns amid local opposition to its reforms. Puerto Rico port activity tallies 257 vessels in three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Worcester
Gen. Lawton
Imus
Schools and colleges in review and plans for women
The School Review notes only 41.51 percent of high school pupils are boys. Communities in lower Italy seek abolition of compulsory education. Trinity College near Washington builds for women's higher education with a Bryn Mawr style curriculum. Waltham to run a summer vacation school for children. Yale students fund earn via professional spall bearing at funerals earning one dollar per funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Trinity College
Washington
D. C
Bryn Mawr
Waltham
Maass
Floyd
Yale
Admiral Seymour Safe as Force Relieved at Pekin
Advices from Chefoo via Shanghai say Admiral Seymour’s expedition was relieved after failing to reach Pekin. The relief column reached international troops in time and Seymour’s force is returning to Tien Tsun with casualties light. Foreign legations and staff were brought to safety and the mission’s objective of protecting civilians was achieved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chefoo
Shanghai
Admiral Seymour
Pekin
Berlin
Legation
Lim
Tien"sin
Tien-Ksin
Tien-I’sin
London
China
Jen-Tsin
ien-Tsin
Tien- Tsin
Tien-Tsin
Seymour
Tien-T'sin
Miral Edward II and Seymour Face Harassment in Shanghai
Dispatches report Chinese mobs harass Miral Edward II and Seymour forcing slow movement while supplies remain scarce. Inland massacres of native Christians are confirmed as missionaries protected only superficially. converts face wholesale butcheries. Separately, the U S Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upholds a lower court ruling that a $2 per car excess charge at stock yards is not excessive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Anecdotes and Escape Tales From a Turbulent Age
A collage of levity and danger recounts: Thad Stevens’ servant Matilda’s sharp remark at a Washington buffet, Nye and Riley quips on stage, a Trafalgar sailor’s fearless prayer, Joseph Jefferson’s blunt wit with critics, and Gen Sir Herbert Chermside’s cat debacle in Constantinople. A dramatic escape tale ends with a calm return to safety after a perilous wilderness ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thad
Stevens
Washington
Matilda
James Whitcomb Riley
Bil” Nye
Riley
Nye
Trafalgar
Jack
Joseph Jefferson
Congressman Kahn
Falkland
Captain Absolute
Bob Acres
Walkland
Jefferson
Herbert Chermside
South Africa
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Herbert
Mohammed
Alfred Montgomery
Montgomery
Driven Mad by the Forests and a Strange Illusion
A narrator describes wandering in a woods where a trout stream leads to a lake. He reports a sudden shift in landscape, with the sun seeming to come from the north and the stream reversing course, triggering panic and an uncanny sense of altered bearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Monthly
Pastor’s Coal Offering Backfires in Chicago Church
A Chicago congregation failed to meet its coal bill as the pastor recited a meager total from the collection. He announced the Sunday total of 128 dollars, equating to a quarter of a cent per person, then left the pulpit. Disappointed parishioners responded the next day with a formal complaint and demand for accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American College at Nome Villa Remains and Orsini Memorials
The American villa sits on land once owned by Clodius and Titus Sextius Gallus. Only relics of the temple survive a paved lava road from the Appian Way. Recent peperino columns mark An Italian inscription for Prince Von Domenico Orsini’s soul on July 8, 1874, and another recalls Paolo Giordano Rodolfo Orsini’s mortal remains brought here on September 3, 1574.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American College
Nome
Clodius
Titus Sextius Gallus
von Domenico Orsini
Giacinta
Filippo
Giulia
Paolo Giordano Rodolfo Orsini
Orsinis
Catholic World Magazine
How Pens Are Made In Factories
Pens are manufactured by machines that seem to think. Steel is cut into ribbons matching a pen length and fed to machines that cut blanks shape them stamp them split the points and place the maker s name on the backs. After annealing the pens are counted and boxed. A machine now performs both operations.
Stationary Youth in Court Dialogue Sparks Laughter
A judge hears a humorous exchange where a rich father resists arranged nuptials for his 18 year old daughter while an impecunious lover laments waiting for years for her to age. The jot suggests a satirical scene about marriage, age, and social class.
Couch Bath Futuristic Sofa Features Hidden Bathtub
A novel furniture idea reveals a couch with a regulation bathtub built into its top, featuring a water tap at the pillow end. The design evokes whimsy about daily life while reflecting on how society forgets individuals after death.
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Daniel Case
Honolulu
Topeka
Kan
Honolu
Negros
Sam
Hfe
Sulu
Singapore
Hong Kong
Manila
Spain
Great Britain
Germany
Sulu Islands
Philippines
Luzon
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Havana
Cuba
United States
Porto Rico
Olleges
Pongolia
Arstwal
Kwek Chow
Honan
Hunan
Kpen
Chih
Pest
Sar Arsoun
Asehal
Shanghal
Taglsh Fleet
KiRin
Ana
Grom Fleet
Sherigan
Ree
Dee
Apiay ‘Ak
Wfanese Reet
Edwin Wildman
W York Journal
Northwestern
Mankato Junction
New Ulm
Minn
Erie
Joint
Western Passenger Association
Eastern Committee
St. Paul
Ilinois Central Trailroad
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Red Men’s Reservation
Dubuque
Sioux City
Illinois Central
Southwestern Passenger Association
New York
Eastern
Winnipeg
Duluth
Stahl
Imperial German Army
Orient
Vancouver
B. C
Perin
Ers
Gen. Stahl
Japan
Russia
Grip
Rev
Thomas B. Cheney
Washington Court House
Ohio
Chickamauga National Park
Lord Huntley
England
Oregon
Taku
Miral
Edward II, Seymour
Trensim
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