Explorer Dr. Bingham Reports Choqquequirau Treasure Quest
Dr. Hiram Bingham of Yale arrives in New York detailing his seven month 1000 mile muleback expedition across South America to Choqquequirau the legendary Inca treasure site near Cuzco He describes rugged ascent descent across a 6000 foot valley and a wire suspension bridge while noting possible fortifications graves and ancient waterworks at the elevated ruin near 13000 feet.
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New York
Hiram Bingham
Yale University
South American
Prince August Wilhelm
Hamburg- American Line
Atlas
Bingham
South America
Choqquequirau
Valparaiso
Cortez
Cuzco
New Ireland
New York Herald
Old Porch Memories Echo Across a Quiet Yard
A nostalgic poem recalls childhood scenes on a hillside porch with family rituals and familiar sounds. It contrasts haunted houses with comforting memories of growing up in a close-knit home and a sense of enduring connection beyond death.
Night Quietly Beckons With Moonlit Garden Imagery
Poetic portrayal by Edith M. Thomas of a lover approaching a window under a quiet night sky. The verse uses dew lit flora and night air to frame a tender embrace through a flowered path and a blind window.
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Edith M. Thomas
Sphinxes and a Foundling Change a Writer’s Fate
Wilfred Cunninghame, a struggling journalist, befriends a hungry orphan girl on the Embankment. He adopts her, then meets Miss Burton, editor of The Monthly Review, who offers work. Her investigative piece reveals his kindness and leads to a publishing career and marriage, while the child thrives with the couple in a hotel flat overlooking the Embankment.
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Mike
Wilfred Cunninghame
Cunninghame
Plsgalgb
Sphinxia
Foundling
Wee Sphinxia
Sphinx
Miss Burton
Ownade
Canningname
Monthly Review
Cunninghams
the Review
Cleopatra Needle
West End
Aleady
United States
London
Ireland
Atchison Globe
Austria
New York
Vienna
Welt Spiegel
Pila Osorio
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Maurice Lavallard
Wood by the Cord and the True Measure of Timber
The article explains that a cord equals 128 cubic feet and discusses how cutting length, splitting, and whether wood is chopped or sawed affects actual wood content and value. It notes losses from chips and sawdust, differences between hard and soft woods, and how moisture alters weight and volume measurements.
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United States Forest Service
Marital garnishment ruling and legacy court comments cited
The circuit court rules that a personal judgment cannot be rendered against a married woman for her husband’s creditors and that garnishment proceedings should fail. The record also notes a death from a street gas pipe accident and cites cases on undue influence and testamentary capacity. It closes with a reflective digression on inheritance and Italian fashion fantasies.
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United States Circuit Court
Allen-West Commission Company
Grumbles
Federal Reporter
Kirby’s Digest
St. Louis Court of Appeals
O’hara Vs. Laclede Gaslight Co
Southwestern Reporter
Conner
Joseph Skaggs
South American trade rules demand annual settlements
The essay argues American merchants misjudge Spanish American markets. It notes annual settlements, suitable goods, and packaging as essential due to vast distances, weak circulation, and local habits. The system shapes all trade, making new ventures rely on predictable payments and crops.
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United States
Central
South American
New York Sun
Mexico
Patagonia
Palmistry as a Science Proposed by Binet in Paris
M Alfred Binet, famed Paris psychology professor, argues palmistry should be ranked as a science. He claims hand shape and formation reveal intelligence and character, with finger harmony indicating mental balance and various finger types tied to traits such as volatility, idealism, or vivacity.
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M. Alfred Binet
Paris
M. Binet
Education as the sole interest of anxious minds
A mosaic of short items notes long historical data in science, industry, and society. Facts span Japan telegraphs and miles of wire, U.S. railroad mileage and capitalization, foreign birth rates, royal lineage, and rail and canal developments in Manchester. Reports on suffrage leaders and a German child prodigy painter. The tone blends trivia, statistics, and social commentary.
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Albert Richardson
Eskridge
Kas
Ile
Frances Balfour
International Congress For Woman Suffrage
Catt
House of Commons
Sofia Loellinger
Organization of Suffrage
Ies
New Yor City
Japan
United States
Arkansas
Central Station
Europe as a Woman Sees It A Bargain Shopping Tour
A travel essay likens Europe to a perpetual department store for the American woman. Naples offers coral and trinkets, Gibraltar broadens the bargain hunt, and Rome stands as a vast magazine of antiquities. The tone treats shopping as the central pleasure of a Mediterranean voyage.
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Europe
Naples
Gibraltar
Cairo
Rome
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George Allan England
Success Magazine
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Olympus
Ellis Island
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Wendell Phillips
Manchester Ship Canal
Manchester
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