Tennyson recounts his impulsive father at a Russian dinner
The poet Tennyson shared with Captain M. Gordon McCabe a perilous escape tale from his father during a state dinner with Lord St. Helens in Russia. Accused of naming Paul’s murderers, the elder Tennyson warned to flee, narrowly escaping via a Scotch courier and a disguise aboard a Russian frigate back to England.
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Lord St. Helens
Russia
Czar Paul
Century Magazine
St. Helens
England
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Mikhailovski
Zohort
Benningsen
Pahlen
Count Pahlen
Zoboff
St. Peter and St. Paul
Odessa
Green
Unruly Harbor Tales and Women Doctors Share Nighttime Fear
A shipwrecked sailor in 1868 Australia is aided by two men in Bowen after awakening with amnesia. In Philadelphia a female physician recalls a perilous midnight walk with a rough escort who later followed her home. The tale ends with a violent neighborhood and a prior murder nearby.
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Philadelphia
Highth Street
Survivor’s strange trek from shipwreck to savage exile
Reading Marcus Clarke’s tale of James Murrell, marooned after the 1846 Peruvian wreck off Queensland, who lived among natives for seventeen years losing language and identity until a chance rescue, interspersed with a British squadron report of a Russian torpedo boat captain describing a Port Arthur escape and a storm seeking deliverance.
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Queensland
James Murrell
Marcus Clarke
Australia
Murrell
China
Russia
Black Sea
Port Arthur
St. James
Viking ship finds echo earlier Norse voyages
In Norway a newly found Viking funeral craft resembles a much older galley unearthed at Katwich and now on display at Christiania. The 1000 year old vessel, about the size of a Yarmouth smack, shows Vikings crossed to England and beyond to America and the eastern Mediterranean. Peacock feathers among Katwich relics suggest eastern journeys.
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Norway
Christiania
Katwich
Yarmouth
England
America
Mediterranean
London Chronicle
Autumnal foliage season in the roof garden of New England
A vivid portrait of White Mountain autumns drawn by a special correspondent. The piece extols the peak foliage season from Crawford Notch to Franconia Notch, praising the colors, air, and outdoor appeal for vacationers and travelers across New England.
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New England
Longfellow
White Mountains
New Hampshire
America
White Mountain
Union
White Hills
Lake Country
Franconia Notch
Washington
Concord
Echo Lake
North
Woodstock
Dog Legal Tender in Illinois Court Verdict
A Streator suit over a pedigreed bulldog and a ladies gown ends with the court dismissing Whigam's claim. Witnesses valued the dog at about $10 while Austin offered a bull pup in settlement. Whigam plans to appeal.
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Streator
Ill
Alexander H. Whigam
Samuel K. Austin
Whigam
New York
Whisami
Mr. Austin
Austin
Edward Myers
New York World
Scarabs Support Ancient circumnavigation Claim by Egyptian Explorer
Two scarabs examined by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres appear to be official voyage records from an explorer commissioned by the Egyptian king around 600 B C. Herodotus had doubted the sun’s position on the voyage, but the scarabs’ testimony is argued to corroborate the historic account.
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French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres
Africa
Herodotus
London Chronicle
Dog Dives For Fish Surprises Breen’s River Catch
Matthew Breen of Paris Illinois owns a mixed breed dog trained to dive on command for fish. On a Wabash River excursion the animal disappeared underwater for over a minute and surfaced with a twenty eight pound German carp.
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Paris
Ill
Breen
South
Wabash River
Danville
Chicago
Hay on Church Floor at Old Nestor Church
On festival Sundays at St Swithin’s church hay is spread across the floor as a long-held custom. A donor once provided a field to fund bread distributions four times yearly. the field tenant supplies the hay to quiet parishioners’ new boots and prevent squeaking, and hay was laid again this Sunday.
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Old Nestor Church
St. Swithin
London Standard
A Gay One Through the Florida Times Union
A columnist from the Florida Times Union muses on gay spirits and social subjects with satirical quips about Roosevelt, retirement on a March date, mistaken affection, and revelry around whisky barrels. The piece blends humor with social commentary.
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Florida Times-Union
Roosevelt
Global and Local News Roundup of the Week
A diverse set of overseas and domestic items includes a new Revolutionary monument at Fort Lee New Jersey the death of Fred D Yuengling in Belleview prison ward New York City and the merger of Andover Theological Seminary with Harvard Divinity School. Reports note Dr Robert Koch arriving in Washington for the International Tuberculosis Congress and a shipwreck off the Tasmanian coast with twenty lives lost aboard Loch Finlas.
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N. J
Fred D. Yuengling
Bellevue
New York City
Andover Theological Seminary
Harvard Divinity School
Robert Koch
Berlin
Washington, D. C
Loch Finlas
Port Pirie
Callao
Tasmanian
London
Shinohai
Tokio
Katsura
Prominent Figures Mentioned in Obituaries and Appointments
A life of Sir Henry Irving is to be published. Leslie Carter, former wife of an actress, died in Chicago. Andrew D. White visits Berlin post retirement. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. begins work at Hartford Carpet Works. Prof Frank Parsons of Boston University dies. Peary Club reports departure for the Pole. Lord Northcote arrives in Manila en route to China. George W. Wingate approves four Sunday playground openings. Dr Frank Huntington Snow dies in Belfield aged 68. President Roosevelt designates Pierce for Trans Miss Commercial Congress in San Francisco. Morosini will left $75,000 to a daughter. three other children receive $150,000. total estate about 62.5 million. Brigadier Scott Girard notes anti suicide efforts in Iowa and quotes preventive work.
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Leslie Carter
Chicago
Andrew D. White
Berlin
Germany
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Hartford Carpet
Thompsonville
Lord Northcote
Commonwealth of Australia
Sydney
China
Manila
P. I
George W. Wingate
Athlon Fields
Frank Huntington Snow
University of Kansas
Belfield
Kan
Fitchburg
Mass
Roosevelt
Interbank Pierce
Trans-Mississi
San [Je
Isco
Morosini
New York City
Giulia
Scott Girard
I Iowa
The
Yanteers of America
Uniform divorce law seen as slow reform in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that uniform divorce law represents a major reform. It warns that such reforms move slowly and the divorce question will not be settled soon, though it is inevitable in time.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore Sun Claims Politician In League With Satan
The Baltimore Sun characterizes a local politician as being in league with Satan, noting that Satan would not trust himself with some individuals due to their reputed influence and danger.
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Baltimore Sun
Satan
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