Miss Katherine B. Davis Named New Head of New York Corrections
Katherine B. Davis LL D longtime Bedford Reformatory chief is appointed head of New York City corrections overseeing Tombs Blackwell island and related facilities. A reform advocate with Berlin and Bohemia study, she promotes humane welfare and practical work programs for inmates. Her motto Make them happy guides reforms.
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Katherine B. Davis
Department of Correction
New York City
Davis
Bedford Reformatory
Rochester
N. Y
Vassar College
New England Association For the Higher Education of Women
University of Berlin
Leipzig
Bohemia
Journal of Sociology
Miss Davis
Manhattan
Blackwell's Island
Rikeux’s Island
Hart's Island
Brooklyn
Queens
Spring Coats Predict New Styles From Fashion Authority
A fashion authority notes coat length shortening and lengths averaging around thirty six inches with many future designs shorter. Fancy coats fall just below the waist, flare coats spark debate among manufacturers, and menswear inspired black and white check coats appear in women’s lines with tailored, near overcoat styling and varying flare.
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New York
Inventor of Tubes Sir William Crookes Honored
Sir William Crookes, eighty two, elected president of the Royal Society. A Londoner by birth and student of Hoffman, he led the Meteorological Observatory at Oxford at twenty two and later married, valuing married life for longevity. He discovered thallium, invented the radiometer, and Crookes tubes aided X-ray discovery. He pioneered photography and led several societies, earning Royal Medallist honors.
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Sir William Crookes
Royal Society
Hoffman
Royal College of Science
Meteorological Observatory
Oxford
William
London
Sir William
Crookes
Rentgen
William Crookes
The
Chemical Society
Institute of Electrical Engineers
Davy
Locust Swarm Invades South Africa Train Ride Scene
A passenger train crossing the Karoo is enveloped in a locust swarm that darkens the sky and coats coaches and rails. The swarm causes the train to slow, crushes thousands of insects on the tracks, then departs as suddenly as it appeared. Locusts threaten crops and mark one of the many disasters besetting South African farmers.
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South Africa
Victoria Falls
Karoo
Humorous Hospital Tale From Nightingale Biography
A Crimean sergeant carries a wounded comrade to camp and discovers the rescued man is a general who later visits the sergeant in hospital. The nurse Miss Nightingale records the moment with the quip about not recognizing his exalted status yet being glad to have saved him.
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Sir Edward Cook
Florence Nightingale
Miss Nightitgale
Steering by wireless torpedoes hailed as modern weapon
The article describes the Orling-Armstrong wireless steering torpedo able to be guided by ether energy, including its water jet propulsion for wireless reception, net-avoiding behavior, and the claim that torpedoes performed poorly in recent wars while mines caused ships to sink. experts see potential if explosive power improves.
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Archibald Williams
Armstrong
Williams
Viscount Becomes Curate In Isle of Wight
Viscount Mountmorres is ordained by the Bishop of Winchester and assigned to a curacy on the Isle of Wight. An Irish peer with no seat in Parliament, he led a varied life from Oxford to Congo fever near death, thenFleet Street journalism, Primrose League secretaryship, and other roles including poultry farming and lecturing.
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Viscount Mountmorres
Winchester
Isle of Wight
Lord Mountmorres
Oxford
Congo Free State
Mountmorres
Fleet Street
Primrose League
Liverpool Tropical Institute
Jamaica
House of Lords
Earl of Strafford
House of Commons
Westend
Marquis of Normanby
Manchester
Constantine Henry
Windsor Castle
Lord Scarsdale
Earl of Curzon
Fables of Fortune and the myths of sudden wealth
The piece recalls 19th century hoaxes of fortunes left by unknown relatives. It cites Miss Sarah Ann Davidson and Tunstall cases, where rumors of large inheritances collapsed. It notes the Midland town swindle of a woman who borrowed against a fake $500,000 inheritance and Violet Charlesworth who sought a fortune of $750,600, leading to jail.
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Yorkshire
Sarah Ann Davidson
Redmire
Yorks
Fawcett
Tunstall
Australia
Bolton
Midland
England
New Zealand
Violet Charlesworth
Oxford Latin Attacked At Reading Headmasters Conference
The discussion centered on Latin pronunciation at the Headmasters Conference in Reading. Rev H Costley White of Bradfield College urged reform to curb Oxford style with broad vowels and hard g. A committee was formed to seek pledges for adopting the Classical Association pronunciation.
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Reading, Inc
H. Costley White
Bradfield College
Oxford
Classical Association
Lions of Tsavo Terrorized Rail Camp in Nigeria
The Maneaters of Tsavo story told by Colonel Paterson recounts two man-eating lions that terrorized a Nigerian railway engineering camp during construction. They attacked by night and day, even boarding a train, halting work for weeks and prompting mentions in Parliament.
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Tsavo
Paterson
House of Commons
London Daily Chronicle
Egypt’s women gain sight through expanded schooling
The article notes a 1916 surge in female education in Egypt, with 2,867 kuttabs teaching 23,002 girls and 13 government kuttabs for women students now serving 2,080 female pupils with 42 trained women teachers. Over five years primary schools for girls increased 40 percent. A 1901 government program began European training for an Egyptian girl student who became a teacher in girls schools.
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Egypt
Clayton Sedgwick Cooper
Ministry of Education
Europe
Harvesting Reed Thatch On Norfolk Suffolk Broads
In England a December harvest begins on St Thomas Day and continues past Christmas. Reeds grow in Norfolk and Suffolk broads and are cut with a short-bladed, long-handled scythe when frost colors them. The reeds dry in straight sheaves and are used for thatching roofs and filling horse-collars.
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England
St. Thomas
Norfolk and Suffolk
East Anglia
Medicine and Caste in Indian Life
A writer in The Gentle Woman notes how sympathetic women learn remedies but recounts an India tale. A woman mixes a dose for her native butler and tastes it, then offers the cup to him who, bound by caste, refuses to drink from a vessel touched by an unbeliever and discards the contents.
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India
Gays
Sunshine in Egypt Charm and Enchantment
The piece extols Egypt’s magic and sunlit allure describing how visitors feel near the fountain of youth. It notes Cairo’s mosques and bazaars, and the unique blend of beauty history and mystery on the streets of Cairo.
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Egypt
Cairo
Duke of Sutherland and naval interest in waste lands
The late Duke of Sutherland aided reclamation studies and toured the United States with war correspondent W. H. Russell who chronicled the trip. A Dunrobin coal pit anecdote recalls the duke driving his own engine on a private line and burning his own coal to notable effect.
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Duke of
Amiable Maori Witness in Stratford Inquest
A Maori woman who testified at a Stratford New Zealand inquest displayed notable amiability in the witness box. She made a remark interpreted as a wish that health wealth and prosperity might endure for the jury both individually and collectively, repeating the wish after finishing her testimony.
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Stratford
New Zealand
Copyright in Book Titles and Courtesy Etiquette
The Book Monthly notes no copyright exists in a book title but courtesy guides others to avoid altering a live selling title. If a book fades into obscurity, its original title loses practical protection, though courtesy historically preserves respect for enduring works.
Origin of a Common Word
In 1881 an Irish landlord Captain Boycott treated peasants harshly. A movement arose to refuse goods and society with him, and the term boycott entered common usage to denote such actions.
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Captain Boycott
Bonehead Stick and the London Times Memoir
The late Moberley Bell of The London Times used a gruesome walking stick made from a bone of his own body. While crossing a railway in Alexandria an ankle injury forced an operation, and one joint bone was removed. He mounted it on the stick as a handle to counteract his limp.
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Moberley Bell
London Times
Alexandria
London
Barrie’s Edinburgh Eleven Celebrates Explorer James Thomson
Sir James Barrie praises Joseph Thomson, the Dumfriesshire Scot who pioneered Livingstone’s path in Africa. The tribute recalls Thomson’s bold ventures and even a famed tale of carrying brandy to the heart of Africa and returning with it intact.
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James Barrie
Edinburgh
Joseph Thomson
Dumfriesshire
Drills Driven North by Magnetism in South Africa Wells
Investigation of deep drill holes in South Africa shows most wells deviate northward from perpendicular. Experts conclude the drilling devices were influenced by magnetism during construction.
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South Africa
Poacher’s Quip Amid Night Hospital Duty Tale
At a Church Army meeting Prebendary Wilson Carlile shared a tale of a Mayal Army Medical Corpse orderly warned by a nurse not to sleep on night duty. He replied with a wry smile that he was once a poacher before joining and there is no fear of darkness.
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Church Army
Wilson Carlile
Stratford Memorial Theatre Opening Noted By Signatures
At the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opening in Stratford on Avon a concert was held and William Shakespeare the noted singing professor signed the visitors book A Cockney visitor mistaking the signature for a joke added Oliver Cromwell in his own name
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Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
Stratford-on- Avon
Wiliam Shakespeare
Oliver Cromwell
Children Fashionable Sparks Society Trend in London
Not long ago London’s smart married women avoided displaying their children. Now it is fashionable to showcase offspring with miniatures or name diamonds, to drive with them, narrate about them, and continually photograph them. A devoted mother reportedly ran a $250 bill for eleven month old photographs.
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London
Old Church in London Faces Demolition Threat
The church of St Margaret's, Lothbury, near the Bank of England, is under threat of demolition. The site is extremely valuable per square foot, making it the richest church site in London. The original church dated to Edward II, was burned in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wrea.
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London
St. Margaret’s
Lothbury
Bank of England
St. Margaret's
Wrea
Gateway of the East Port Said welcomes travelers with bustle and scams
A traveler’s glimpse of Port Said on entry to the Suez Canal describes few streets, crowds of varied faces, and a lively scene of coaling rituals. The piece notes touts, beachside bazaars, and the distinctive Eastern color as ships pause before entering the canal.
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Birkenhead
Bombay
de Lesseps
Port Said
Suez Canal
Port
Liverpool
Europe
Ives
Egypt
Simon Arzt
Simon Arat
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