Parrot & Co and the Dustbound Road to Rangoon
Warrington, a strong silent American, and James Houghs, Eurasian bearer, trudge a two mile dust road toward Rangoon with a parrot in a cage. Warrington recalls Jaipur days and the bond with Rajah the parrot as two worlds collide on the Irrawaddy riverbank.
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Irrawaddy
Paddy
India
Burma
James Houghs
Heaven
Hell
James
Warrington
Inferno
Palladin
Scarlet Palace
Jaipur
Thor Therjone
Malacca
Jeany
Ahmaoe
Rajah
Parrot & Co
Parrot
Rangoon
Man With a Past On Irrawaddy Flotilla
A tense scene aboard an Irrawaddy flotilla depicts a suffocating night air and a lone woman at the bow shielding her face. Torches flicker on a crumbling riverbank while dust and heat overwhelm the passengers as they navigate current and tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cota
Bladiv
Irrawaddy
Dan
Archolas
Diary Fragments Show Early Romance and Teasing Dialogue
The text records intimate diary notes and letters describing a plain young man, a fiancé, and a honeymoon. It captures remarks on looks, character, and affection, with social banter about timepieces and gifts, revealing evolving sentiments and humor.
Free Cuticura Remedies Promise Clear Skin
Ad praises Cuticura Soap and Omitment for pimples blackheads and itching, offering a free sample by postcard request to Cuticura Dept V Boston. Also includes miscellaneous reflections and quotes on marriage and pity in a brief, period style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rample
Cutiura
Dept. V
Boston
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised By Reader
A Mrs Wins TAS of Elkhart Indiana reports fourteen years of organic inflammation and female weakness eased after four months using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She credits the remedies with lifting depression and pallor after six doctors provided only temporary relief. She invites others to write for confidential advice from the Pinkham firm in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn, Mass
Lydia E.pinkham
New York's Hoffman House to be Razed in Landmark Sale
BW York reports the famed Hoffman House on Twenty third Street faces demolition after sale for 3.6 million dollars. Albemarle will become part of the Hoffman site, replaced by a 16 story office block as Madison Square Garden remains the last link to the era of the Great White Way. The Fifth Avenue and Hoffman hotels hosted prominent Republicans and journalists forming the Amen Corner for strategy and dinners.
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York
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Bartholdi
Twenty-third
Broadway
Madison Square Garden
Albemarle
Hoffman
Twenty-third Street
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Joe Harold
Macgrath
Bagdad
Chapter
The
Bobbs-Merrill, Company
Fidences
Sahib
Janie
Sabib
Delhi
Rome
tH&t
Jones
Smith
Brown
B. BE
New York
Jack
George
William Allen Richardsons
Barry
aKnewi Hig
Figéoree
Cuticura
Senator Platt
B. B. Odell
Mark Hanna
Sam
Clythe-Holdie
J. W. Fuller
Denver
Sloan
Joseph Tamblyn
Conc
Perse Street
McKeesport
Newrassia
Sciatica
Earl S. Sloan
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