Mummies and Mules in Old News Commentary
The piece notes mummies shipped worldwide from France and X ray checks for authenticity. It contrasts women postal workers with historic posts in France and mentions the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company replacing mules with cars. Consul General John Goodnow, a Minneapolis native, is cited regarding Shanghai dispatches and Pekin reports.
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Delaware & Raritan Canal Company
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
John Goodnow
United States
Shanghai
Peking
Minneapolis
McKinley
Pretoria’s beauty blends old and new in Transvaal
Pretoria stands as the seat of the Transvaal government and is praised as the most beautiful town in South Africa. The city sits in a valley, showcasing a mix of low Dutch roofs, English architecture, and modern Dig government buildings completed a decade ago at a cost of $1,000,000.
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Transvaal
Pretoria
South Africa
Ina Valley
Distinction Between India Rubber and Gutta Percha
The text explains key differences between India rubber and gutta percha and notes they cannot usually replace each other. India rubber sources are widespread in tropical regions, while gutta percha comes from trees found mainly in Borneo Sumatra and the Malay archipelago.
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India
Borneo
Sumatra
Malay Archipelago
Lubec Man Rescued After Ladder Plunge From Schooner
A seacoast resident of Lubec Maine slipped between ladder rungs to recover a hammer dropped into shoal water. With the tide rising he became stuck for three hours before rescue, barely escaping drowning as water neared his mouth.
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Lubec
Captain Molly and Her Firelit West Point Service
An early West Point figure known as Captain Molly, wife of an artilleryman, stayed with American troops during the 1777 capture of Ort Clinton and Monmouth battle. She loaded and fired at the guns, earned a sergeant’s rank from Washington, and spent her life at West Point amid army gossip and official notes over keeping order and clothing needs.
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West Point
Molly
Ort Clinton
Mally
Monmouth
Green
Washington
Post Commissary
Secretary of War
Bry
Chicago Record
Quotations on Virtue And Duty From Classical Thinkers
A collage of maxims from diverse authors on virtue love of goodness and duty. Thoughts from Jerrick Mazaini Munger Beileau Gay Browning Johnson Truson Marcus Antoninus Virgil Cervantes Hazlitt Socrates and others. The excerpts stress prudence kindness humility and the inner motive of right action.
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Jerrick
Mazaini
M. Iwenry
Munger
Beileau
Gay
Browning
Johnson
Marcus Antoninus
Virgil
Cervantes
Self-preservation in animals and a witty dates anecdote
Several dozen cats sheltered in a wooden house during a Ottawa fire as surrounding structures burned yet the house remained undamaged based on instinct. The piece notes the superstition about cats and self-preservation and ends with a pun about Dr. Storrs receiving Turkish dates after an historical address.
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Ottawa
Plutarch
One Minute Telephones Cost Donated In Vorue System
The Vorue area adopts a one-minute telephone service aimed at reducing cost from the five-minute standard. The plan charges one-fifth of the five-minute rate with a minimum of fifteen cents per minute, and rates vary by distance, twenty cents a minute for 100 to 200 miles, fifteen cents a minute plus five cents per extra minute for thirty-five miles.
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Winona
Minn
Republican
Oxford Magazine Reader Questions University Fees
A letter from a gentleman to Oxford University asks the cost of educating his son and whether payment is required if he studies reading and writing in addition to rowing. The inquiry reflects early concerns about the scope of university charges.
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Oxford Magazine
Oxford University
Argonaut
Mission to Dutch soil threatening Bluebell and Moore
In a harsh desert pass Bluebell endures captivity with Gerald Moore guiding toward Dutch soil. She vows resistance to marriage, recalls Adair Rothes, and waits for a chance to escape as the treacherous journey continues under a blazing sun.
Search for Bluebell Looms as Rothes Pursues Moore
Doctor Rothes learns Bluebell Leslie is missing after a Boer raid and a fire at the Leslie home. Elizabeth Leslie pleads for help while Rothes vows to track Gerald Moore, a suspected spy and kidnapper, across British territory toward Ladysmith. He sets out with a Zulu boy and strong horse to begin the hunt.
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Miss Elizabeth
Adai Rothes
Bluebell
Moore
Sam
Kaiser
Rothes
Tugela
Gerald Moore
Elizabeth
Maritzburg
Kimberley
Ladysmith
Adair Rothes Learns of House Fire and Death in War News
Adair Rothes reacts to a messenger’s report that Mr Leslie’s house burned and he was shot by the commando as Ladysmith endures war. Doctor Rothes remains busy tending wounded in a town hospital as fighting rages and news trickles in.
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Adair Rothes
Cats That Sail Ocean On Great Passenger Liners
The New York Herald reports that ocean liners keep six to ten cats aboard to control rats and assist in ration records. Cats are promoted to first second or third class saloons by staff vote with some becoming celebrated on long voyages to India and Australia.
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India
Australia
New York Herald
It is the mind that maketh good or ill
A reflective aphorism from Spenser on how thinking shapes happiness, poverty, and well being.
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Spenser
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