Revolution in China Threatens Manchu Rule
A retrospective on the Chinese rebellion shows rebels gaining control of multiple provinces, seizing money and arms, and capturing Hankow and Canton. The fall of Taiyuan, Shanghai, and Fuzao shift power toward the rebellion while Yuan Shihkai becomes premier. Nan Shih Kai rises as a possible leader, leaving China’s future balanced between rebels and the government.
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China
Wochang
Hupeh
Wreochang
Hankow
Molley
Wuchang
Hanyepe
Yankow
Kwangshnni
Ichang
Ghacesha
Szechuan
Hupeb
Wuching
Humon
Kiangsi
Yuri Shih Kai
Taung
Pu Yi
Yuan Shih Eni
Shun
Peking
Taiyuanta
Shanghai
Suchenn
Fuchau
Canton
Tientsin
Nan Shih Kai
British Sixteenth Lancers Break Sikh Squares at Aliwal
The Sixteenth Lancers, famed regiment of the British service, charged Sikh formations at Aliwal in January. They repeatedly broke through guarded squares, lances piercing shields, and forced the Sikhs to yield after a sustained, desperate resistance.
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Aliiwal
Aliwal
Waterloo
Onte Ve
Telegraphic account of early telephone rise and Thackeray notes
A brief history of European uptake of the American telephone system, highlighting initial British resistance and Kate Field's demonstration to Queen Victoria, followed by a London exchange and Theodore Vail’s export order. The piece also notes the Monte Rosa installation as the world’s highest telephone, and ends with Thackeray’s stylistic slips such as differ ent to and compared to and the plural Miss Potters.
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England
National Magazine
London
Kate Field
Kathleen ‘Favourieen
Queen Victoria
Bell
All England
Theodore Vail
Boston
Alps
Monte Rosa
Margherita
Rome
Thackeray
Miss Potters
Misses Potter
Mr. Potters
The Indian Fruit Cuckoo and Ceremonial Maces
A piece notes the Indian fruit cuckoo’s strategy against crows as it lays eggs. contrasts with the lea. It traces ceremonial maces to primitive clubs, shows chiefs’ carved symbols of prowess, and mentions the boomerang and shilalah as maces. Quotations from papers and snatches of verse are included.
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Lea
Parmament
London Standard
Phillidor and Early Masters of Simultaneous Chess
The article recalls 13th to 18th century players who moved without boards and the feats of masters like Buzecca Ruy Lopez Mangiolini Medrano and Paolo Boi. Philippe Philidor shows off three boards in 1783 in England and publishes Analysis of Chess in 1749 before dying in 1795.
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Buzecca
Ruy Lopez
Mangiolini
Ferene
Medrano
Leonardi
da Cutis
Paolo Boi
Salvia
Father Sacchieri
Pavia
Phillidor
England
Paul Murphy
Paulsen
Blackburne
Princois Andre Danican
Dreux
Louis XIV
Dryden
Danican
Philidor
Holland
Germany
Five antique dolls spark a rare collectable set tale
In a Paris window a dealer displayed five dolls each tied to a classic set: five senses four seasons three graces Adam and Eve and Agnes Borel. Buyers offered huge sums to buy single pieces, but the dealer kept the sets intact as historic curios.
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Paris
Monsieur
Adam and
Hye
Adam
Agnes Borel
Charles Vil
Noted Irish Speaker Warns of Thin Ice on Volcanic Ground
In a political debate a renowned Irish speaker warns he faces dangerous ground and admits skating on the thin ice of a burning volcano as he addresses risk and rhetoric.
Not What Ste Expected in Clare Verse
Dialogic snippet shows a tense exchange about dancing with other girls. The speaker comments on expectations, mentions a character Chartie-Well, and asserts a readiness to dance with various companions, revealing social pressure and reluctance.
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Ste
Clare
Chartie
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Kansas
Kansas City Star
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Coliler
Masters OF Ga
Billingsgate
Married Hive
Aration
Grocers
Walnut Street
Nutley, N. ‘J
Nutley
W. O. Davis
Passaic Ave
Chestnut ST
Franklin and Vreelard Avenues
Broadway
First Ward Shoe Store
Joe
Ciccone
Franklin
Ave
Kutley
N I
Freddie
Smafam
Yonkers
Nurseri
Centre
You Plano
Polistes
Alfi
Thomas
Nichols
Brookfield Avenue
Elm Place
Whitford
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