Bebe Ewansas Canvas Villa and Mrs Sheldon Quest
A long account nonfictionly details Mrs. Sheldon bold African expedition from the Zanzibar coast into Misaji Tarveta region near Mount Nyiro. It highlights her hardships, the Masai reception, her personal notes and pictures, and the publication Sultan to Sultan with dedication to her late husband. The piece praises her pluck and notes ethnographic insights and dangers encountered, ending with a reflection on her place among famed travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bebe Ewana
Sheldon
Haggard
Allan Quatermain
England
Sultan
Peaty
Greenland
Zanzibar
Africa
Mrs. Sheldon
Misaji
Tarveta
Eili
Hunt for Her Tom Victim of the Fortune Teller
Lizzie Larter, a Detroit servant, sought her lost lover Tom Jones through astrologers and a fortune teller Madame Lodent. After police court testimony, Lizzie’s mind is described as turning to insanity from the fixation. Her case highlights danger of credulity and occult promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Layter
Joboon
S “Rasselas
Lizzie Larter
Detroit
Mme. Rodent
Lizzie
Mose Loient
Polee
George Wilson
Michigan Avenue
Sixth Street
Toronto
Tom Jones
George Devlin
Atme
Lodent
Mme, Lodent
Two Experts Run a Fist Fight Swindle in New Orleans
The firm Bush & Johnson of New Orleans faced a stunning setback when two seemingly naïve men entered their operation shortly before a major boxing match and won $11,000. The scheme unravelled as investigators traced the con to its core, revealing a planned game of luck and deception involving high stakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bush & Johnson
New Orleans
United States
Pigeon at the Engine and Other Odd Tales
A white pigeon joins a fast Richmond to Marion train crew, matching its pace with the engine and becoming a lucky mascot. A Chinese man vows to guard his mother’s grave for three years, living in a hut with rituals and meals provided by neighbors. The pirate tale of Captain Hawke and the Martha Kane describes brutal slave punishments and ghostly specters. Tuberculosis in cows is discussed with milk safety notes, and tropical fish poison alarms a mariner crew. Tiny hawks, friendly squirrels, a lifting stick, an elk encounter, a night-blooming sorrowful tree, skulls in an Indian graveyard, and Asa Gray’s spring study close the survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
Marion
Oace
Shanghai
Binkiang
Hawke
Martha Kane
West Indies
San Juan
Porto Rico
Captus Hawke
Peter
Sol
Bill
Peering the Dice and Thibet Tales Across 19th Century News
A scattered column covers crooked dice tricks in gambling houses with methods like loaded dice and peekage, including details of the “six and eight” dice and the little finger technique. It also mentions a dog trained to hold a horse, Thibetan filial piety, and a Bible found on a Union soldier after Chancellorsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wasal EL Morar
tus-Njaro
Thas
Mra Sheldon
Palanguin
Pethor
X. Waite
G. W. Peckham
Milwaukee
George W. Peckham
Dahomey
Yorkshire
John Littley
Grater’s Ford
Tom
Madame
Chicago
Lame
Daniel Webster
New York
Sime
Ledent
Peta
W. T. Delaplaine
the News
Frederick, Md
Romance OF the Sea
Marseillen
Rangoon
Lower Creek
Long Creek
India
South America
Louusisiana
Professor Gray
Asa Gray
Bush & Johnson's
Earth
Chancellorsville
Jesse C. Johnson
New York Regiment
Luryea’s
Johnson
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