A Bright Woman's Letter and Summer Occupations
The piece surveys a Michigan girl's Europe letters and a nurse in Massachusetts who runs a country summer home for children. It notes Royal Academy of Music appointing Miss Kate Steel as the first female professor since 1867 and sketches summer work from embroidery to photography and hotel entertainments to boarders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Royal Academy of Music
London
Kate Steel
Liverpool
St. James’ Hall
Royal Academy
Sig. Randegger
Vphd
Brooklyn
Boston Journal
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The
Atlantic Monthly
Port Huron
Europe
Papa
Mumuia
Paris
Irench
Louisiana
Italy
Detroit Free Press
Ancient Trees as Links to America’s Early History
The article extols enduring trees as living links to colonial and nationhood times. It highlights the Genesee Big Tree in New York, the Charter Oak of Hartford, and the saga of the hidden charter in the oak amid James II and Andross. It notes the trees’ ages, their cultural resonance, and symbolic memory across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Vegetable Kingdom
Olivet
Jesus
Cedars of
Lebanon
Solomon
Hiram
Temple
Jerusalem
Genesee River
Genesee
N. Y
Genesee Valley
Big Tree
Washington
Lake Ontario
Hartford
Conn
Hooker
James II
America
Edmund Andross
Connecticut
Andross
Capt
Wadsworth
Historic Trees Marking Revolutionary Era Sites in Northeast
The article recounts famed trees tied to the American Revolution and early history from Penns Treaty Elm in Philadelphia to Pope's willow lineage and Washingtons elm in Cambridge. It notes the Tory Tulip Tree near a North Carolina line, Jane McCrea’s pine along the Hudson, and a Stony Point walnut used by Mad Anthony Wayne, among others, reflecting legends of loyalty, battles, and notable figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custis
Washington
Abingdon
Virginia
Gates
Manhattan Island
Pope
Twickenham
Bunker Hill
Cambridge
Mass
Cambridge Common
Boston
North
South Carolina
Lord Cornwallis
Fort Edward
Sandy Hill
Hudson
Jane McCrea
New Jersey
Burgoyne
Jane
Canada
Gen
Wayne
Anthony
Stony Point
Hudson Highlands
Hell
Col. Johnston
Seaconnet
R. J
Seaconnet Channel
Sea Post Offices Put in Successful Operation on Vessels
Report details ten sea post offices in service bearing numbers and aboard ships. Since April 9 the Bremen Hamburg New York route has carried 800000 registered mail and 11000 letters, with stamps of both nations used for outward and inward trips. Clerks from the United States and Germany improved delivery times and reduced undelivered mail, with long voyages reaching eight to ten days and near daily dispatch readiness in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanamarker
West
of Vost
Bremen
Hamburg
New York
Railwa
United States
New York City
Railway
Sea Post Office
Columbia
Spider Use as a Rope Swing Capture
A narrator recounts watching a spider trap a fly on a porch. The spider spun the fly on a taut web line like a jumping rope, then tied the fly’s legs together and eventually the fly died. The observer asks if anyone has witnessed such a method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. M. Koll
Knives and Forks and a Unique Chinese Root Delights
A historical note details Catherine de Medici introducing forks to France and their spread to England while Ben Jonson mocked the luxury. It recounts a Greek emperor’s daughter using a golden fork and dying of a loathsome disease. It also describes the valuable Chinese root Khe ki-ye, prized by mandarins and priests, selling for many times its weight in gold, with rare specimens fetching high sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Catherine de Medici
England
Ben Jonson
Italy
Venice
Sea
Englan
China
Nanchuria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Capital
Mitchell, South Dakota
Itchell Printing Coo
Pune
Wen
Japan
Sir Edwin Arnold
Ue Filbert
Gov. Hill
Bowery
Hove
Weeping Willow
New England
Charles II
Worcester
Charter Oak
Kensington
Philadelphia
Penn
Smyrna
Charleston
Silas Talbot
Stonington
Gen. Lincoln
Henry Clinton
Tory Tulip Tre
Drummond's Pond
Moore
Norfolk
St. Mary
St. Joseph Rivers
Maumee River
Indiana
Miami Indiana
Little Turtle
Fort Wayne
Flushing
George Fox
Society of Friends
Jane M'Crea
the Sea Post Offices
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