Exiled Corea Prime Minister in Wartime Contention
MIN YEL SUN IN EXILE describes SUN Yei Sun, hereditary Corea prime minister, held as a political focal point in the China Japan war. Cousin to the queen, he wielded power surpassing the king, opposing the cabinet to back China, and was eventually deposed and imprisoned on an island. The royal family divided, with factional pressure and a royal guard monitoring plots to free him. The Min lineage’s historic grip on power looms as a potential postwar flashpoint.
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Sun
Corea
China
Japan
Coren
Min
Yei-Sun
Longevity Advantage for Women in Medical Statistics
The Medical Record reports women outlive men with fewer accidents and diseases. Dr Brandreth Symonds cites American Journal of the Medical Sciences data showing lower female mortality in infancy and early life, smaller climacteric risk for women, and eventual surpassing of male mortality after age 65. The text notes multiple female births as well.
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Brandreth Symonds
American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Ida Lewis and Lime Rock Lighthouse Keeper in Newport
Ida Lewis, keeper of Lime Rock lighthouse at the southern end of Newport Harbor, draws visitors who seek the famed guardian rather than the light. Now over 50, she remains capable at the oar, with a life of lifesaving including rescuing four boys after their boat capsized. Her salary stands at $750 and two tons of coal yearly.
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Lime Rock
Newport Harbor
Ida Lewis
Actress Trunk Trick Delights Customs Inspector
Miss Katherine Carlisle, a young actress, returned from England with trunks full of Paris fashion and a stuffed green snake placed on top of a trunk. The inspector, shocked by the sight, chalked the entire lot as inspected without further search. Carlisle later explained the snake was a joke from a friend to speed clearance.
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Katherine Carlisle
England
Daly
Carlislie
Felix
Miss Carlisle
London
Mirage at Buffalo mirrors Toronto across Lake Ontario
The Toronto mirage, visible between 10 and 11 oclock on August 1, stretched fifty six miles, showing Toronto with harbor and island to the south. About 20,000 spectators witnessed a third order mirage with the city rising above the water like a distant landscape without distortion.
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Toronto
City of
Tore
Buffalo
Lontario
Charlotte
Rochester
New York Central
Lewiston
Late Prof Samuel L Smey Smedley Will Supports Genealogy
The death of Prof Samuel L Smey Smedley reveals his earnest interest in genealogy. He leaves Gilbert Cope $5,000 to prepare an edition of 5,000 pages of Smedley family notes and descendant records, to be printed with illustrations and distributed to libraries nationwide at low or no cost. George Smedley, an emigrant from Derbyshire to Pennsylvania in 1682, is noted among descendants.
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Samuel L. Smey
Samuel L. Smedley
Gilbert Cope
Smedley
Samuel I. sarepLnyoro
George Smedley
Derbyshire
England
Pennsylvan
M. Margot
Avery Parent
France
Niger
duckson-Harris
Per
Mast
Tabs City
Juventus
Xen
Ainane
Capt Silsbee On Poets Lecture Delights Boston Club
Capt Nathaniel Silsbee aged about 77 lectured to a Boston literary club praising Shelley and poets while ridiculing Longfellow and Lowell. He recalled sea life with poems and read Sidney Lanier's Marshes of Glynn. An amusing account notes his strong views on poetry and a tale of once teasing Lowell. The world's gold yield rose to 26,222,000 dollars last year, up 2.5 million.
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Capt
Silsbee
Nathaniel Silsbee
Boston
Capt. Silsbee
United States
Sidney Lanier
Glyno
Longfellow
Lowell
Matador Tivureio’s Fatal Bull Fight Recalled by Boston Friend
In Chihuahua in 1852 a celebrated matador named Tivureio faced a bull guarding scarlet cloak. He were fatally injured when tossed by the animal and gored. The Boston boy Trexler, a friend visiting after years, recalls Tivureio’s career from a Durango mine trek to bullring fame and his final days in Durango.
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Winmar
Globe-Democrat
Mexico
Cipal
Chihuahua
Ingo
Away
Tivureto
Durango
Tivarcio
Tivureio
Ball
Henry
Boston
Trexler
Colorado
New York Eats Pie At A Frenzied Pace
A veteran baker asserts New York consumes half a million pies daily, far more than received, with Brooklyn and Jersey diners driving demand. He jokes about pies replacing bread and credits pie as a national staple, noting pie varieties and even English views on American pie culture. He quips that nothing tops a good pie, or two.
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New York
Gotham Town
Brooklyn
Jersey
England
Sayings and Doings from a Fragmented Civilian Specimen
A jumble of odds and ends quotes rail lines in London Lyons Lyons bridgeport and Manchester curiosities in Massachusetts a five page genealogy tree of John Locke and a curious Brazilian tree whose bark and wool contain silica The article surveys water usage efficiency across regions from Colorado to California and notes irrigation and mineral uses with many incomplete details and numbers.
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Scotan
Mansion House
Aldgate
London
Carnot
Cesario
Lyons
Common Council of
Bridgeport
Comn
New York
Boston
Manchester
Mass
George Locke
John Locke
Eng
Brazil
United States
Colorado
Italy
Utah
France
India
Spain
California
Scientific Matters on Wireless War Tech and Aluminum Use
A survey of wartime science notes electric transmissions and submarine sensing links in China Japan conflict. Aluminum discoveries aid glass engraving disinfecting stoves and hydrographic aluminum boats. Also covers aviation, rail, and naval tech, including Maxim gun demonstrations and atmospheric electricity experiments.
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China
Maanier
Hell
Pan
America
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