Prominent Kentucky women enter racing season
Three notable Kentucky women enter the racing season. Mrs Annie Lyle Bradley Barnes, Mrs Bally McClelland, and Mrs Ella D Pepper bring high society and racing connections. Barnes, wife of Col William S Barnes, has bred at Melbourne Farm and aims for major stakes with The Lady in Blue and other 2 year olds. McClelland, former Miss Sally Smith, comes from a blue grass farm background with a racehorse interest. Pepper, wife of Col James E Pepper, continues a distilling dynasty with turf ties.
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Kentucky
Annie Lyle Bradley Barnes
Bally McClelland
Ella D. Pepper
Barnes
William S. Barnes
McClelland
Byron McClelland
Pepper
James E. Pepper
Lyle Bradley
Thomas Bradley
Lexington
Central Kentucky
James A. Grin- Bread
Annie
Col. Barnes
Colonel Barnes
San
Sally Smith
Humors of gender in languages across cultures
Pail Mall Gazette notes that European languages show three genders while other cultures diverge. Daly River languages add verb gender markings and plural inflection, Basuto Kaffirs and Mullok Mulloks complicate agreement with nouns, and Armenians lack gender. The piece mocks linguistic complexity and colonial views.
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Daly River
North America
India
D. McKillop
McKillop
Pail Mall Gazette
The Neat Part of Life and Society’s View on Age
The piece discusses what life period is most enjoyable, noting veteran gossip and habits. It cites Mr Frith R A denying eating rules and porridge as a path to old age, while Mrs Keeley and Mrs Cady Stanton share views that life improves with age and better days lie ahead.
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Frith
R. A
Keeley
Philosophy of life and serene age in Windsor Magazine
The text quotes Windsor Magazine noting a woman enjoying life in the present and rejecting regrets, saying the future is sealed and the past cannot be remedied. It also cites Sir Charles Gavan Duffy praising his own tranquil years from sixty four to seventy two.
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Charles Gavan Duffy
Windsor Magazine
Lombroso on Tolstoi Portraits ailing Tolstoi
Italian criminologist Lombroso, visiting Russia, meets Tolstoi and describes him as ill and vain. He notes Tolstoi’s patched shoes with torn leather, worn to display his mendcraft, as observed at Tolstoi's writing table.
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Prof
Lombroso
Russia
Tolstoi
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Preservation Effort for Brandywine Area House
Philadelphia chapter of the D A R and Chester county chapter plan restoration of a 1724 Brandywine build ing used as General Fraser headqu arters during the battle of Brandywine. The site near Deborah's rock on Brandywine Creek will be preserved with aid from descendants of Revolutionary soldiers and the Philadelphia chapter. The article also surveys Austro-Hungarian succession, favoring Maria Theresa’s line and noting Franz Ferdinand Otto and Karl as potential heirs amid imperial politics.
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Philadelphia
Daughters of the American Revolution
Charles Carter Harrison
The
Brandywine
Chester County
Logan
Fraser
Washington
LaFayette
Deborah's Rock
Ablah Taylor
Archduke Ferdinand Declines Marriage Shaping Austrian Succession
Vienna dispatch reports Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen bachelorhood and intends for Karl, son of Archduke Otto, to inherit the throne upon Emperor Franz Josef's death. The plan faces strong legal and political resistance in Hungary and raises fears of a potential Austria Hungary split while the emperor weighs regency by Archduchess Marie Valerie.
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Charles VI
Maria Theresa
Archduke Charles Ludwig
Franz Ferdinand
Otto
Karl
Austria
Austria-Hungary
Marie Valerie
Francie Charles Salvator
Archduke Otto
Franz Josef
Hungary
Vienna
Archduke Oto
Europe
Austria- Hungary
Francis Salvator
Marie - Valerie
Skelihond
Venezuela's elephant beetle tops its species in size
The elephant beetle of Venezuela is the largest of its kind. An average specimen, with fur grown, weighs about half a pound.
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Venezuela
Was It Aluminum The Tiberius Cup and the Lost Metal
A tale from Pliny recounts a metals worker who showcased a bright white cup that proved metal was not silver. He claimed the alloy came from alumina clay, and when warned the secret would die with him, Tiberius had him decapitated to prevent the discovery. The myth links aluminum to ancient times.
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Pliny
Tiberius
Jupiter
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