Booth Led White Slave Probe Ended in Mixed Verdict
Bramwell Booth, General of the Salvation Army, helped expose a traffic in young girls linking England with France and Belgium. He faced trial along with W. T. Stead. Booth was acquitted while Stead was convicted. The effort spurred new laws and ongoing lobbying to suppress white slave trade worldwide.
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Bramwell Booth
Canada
Salvation Army
Enegfish
William T. Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
Cramwell Booth
Mr. Stead
Trafic
General Booth
Bramwell
Stead
Holloway
Booth
Balvation
England
France
Belgium
Sead
House of Lords
Commons
Rebecca Jarrett
Jarrett
Lord Dalhousie
Chancery Delusions and Odd Estates Through Time
The article describes how Chancery holds vast unclaimed funds and property, with examples from 1720 to recent decades. It notes claims recovered after long delays, curiosities like a missing wife’s estate, and "Chancery excavators" who trace funds. A Hampshire landowner once abandoned his farm after losing a suit, leaving a largely barren estate.
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Chancery
Tom Tiddler
Hampshire
Famous for Poor Writing and a Royal Anecdote
A humorous essay recalls Baron Bramwell's claim of three unreadable hands and Lord Curzon's college miscue with letters. An uncle's reply mocks Curzon's atrocious handwriting and ends with a money joke via a cashed check.
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Baron Bramwell
Lord Curzon
Ehum
Ignorance of Art Provokes Chuckles at Club Talk
Walter Emanuel of Punch fame mocked mass ignorance in art during a talk at the Authors' Club. He recalled a recent exhibition moment where a crowd misidentified a picture as a drawing, then an itching, and finally a pastille, drawing laughs at the misunderstanding.
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Authors’ Club
Walter Emanuel
Punch Fame
Impeachment Across Nations Through Office and Conduct
The piece notes differing practices: England once allowed impeaching private citizens for off duty acts such as Sacheverell’s sermon and the Duke of Richmond’s adjournment proposal, and Inigo Jones for tearing a church. In America impeachment is limited to public officials for conduct in office.
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England
Sacheverell
Duke of Richmond
House of Lords
Inigo Jones
America
Greater longevity of women in 1912 pension figures
The British Government reports 603,380 women received old age pensions in 1912 versus 642,628 men, highlighting longer female longevity and pension uptake among women.
Great Inventor Marconi Personal Portrait
A profile of Guglielmo Marconi describing early traits as a child who walked early and talked late, his open-air lifestyle, love of swimming and sailing, and his focused, solitary pursuit of physics. It notes his Italian banker father and Irish mother, schooling at Bedford and Bologna, and his pioneering use of Hertzian waves for wireless telegraphy.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi
Bedford
Bologna
Hertz
England
Marcond
They Liked Wall Feathers in Late 18th Century Fashion
A London Times excerpt from 1795 describes how fashionable women wore tall feathers at elegant assemblies. Rooms were set aside for donning plumes as carriages with tops could not support them, and feather lusters were removed for safety. Feathers were even carried in sword cases on carriage backs.
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London Times
Aristocrats Flying in Naval and Army Air Service
The article notes younger sons of noble houses joining military aviation. Lord George Wellesley, youngest son of the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Edward Arthur Grosvenor, younger son of the first Duke of Westminster by his second marriage, recently obtained pilots certificates within a month of their first flights while serving in the army.
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Army
Navy
Lord George Wellesley
Duke of Wellington
Lord Edward Arthur Grosvenor
Duke of Westminster
Siege of Gibraltar Under George Eliot Leadership
Pearson's Weekly recounts the 1779 to 1782 siege of Gibraltar by French and Spanish land and sea forces. Despite four years of intensive effort leveraging the era’s science and resources, the besieged under Sir George Eliot preserved a hard won defense celebrated as one of history's pivotal sieges.
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Rock of Gibraltar
France
Spain
George Eliot
Pearson's Weekly
Pottery to Aluminum in Water Transport Shifts
In India the poor still carry water on the head using earthen pots though earthenware is common. Aluminum vessels grow cheaper and replace earthenware due to their lighter weight and ease of handling.
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India
Lighthouse light types and new engineering feats
The article explains revolving occultating and flashing lighthouse lights, defines eclipse as the dark interval, and compares visibility ranges of St Orme's Head, Flamborough Head, Cromer, Cape Wrath, and Eddystone. It discusses Cape Wrath reconstruction, a tube-like lighthouse, fake apparent lights, wireless fog bearings, and submarine signaling with growing adoption.
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St. Orme’s Head
Llandudno
Flamborough Head
Cromer
Cape Wrath
Scotland
Eddystone
Trinity House
Sixty Nine Years Ago Train Travel Began In England
A historical note recalls 1844 railway laws requiring one train each way daily in England at penny a mile, average speed about 12 mph, with third class coaches lacking roofs and seats, forcing passengers to stand or sit on the floor, exposed to weather and sparks. Second class warned to wear gauze spectacles and keep away from the engine. No night lighting in carriages.
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England
J. G C. Wright
Primitive Signalling on Banff Branch Described
Dr John Kerr recounts a primitive signalling method on the Banff branch at Ordons siding. He was told to set fire to a newspaper as the train neared to halt the train, but wind prevented burning. a loud shout succeeded in stopping the locomotive and Kerr boarded.
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John Kerr
Grave
Gay
Ordens
Banff
Kerr
Bedlam's Origin as a London Lunatic Asylum
The term Bedlam stems from Bethlehem once a religious house in London later turned into a 16th century asylum for the insane. It is regarded as the oldest such English facility, though a Spanish asylum predates it by some claims.
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Bedlam
Bethlehem
London
Europe
Spain
Boundaries of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan
The Anglo Egyptian Sudan covers 984,520 square miles with about 3,000,000 people. It reaches north to Egypt, east to the Red Sea Italian Eritrea and Abyssinia, south to Uganda and the Belgian Congo, and west to the French African colonies.
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Egypt
Red Sea
Italian Eritrea
Abyssinia
Uganda
Belgian Congo
Real Treasures Appear On London Stage In Sealed Orders
A genuine George Morland is found among theatre props for Sealed Orders at Dury Lane. The painting will feature in Christies auction room scenes, with other authentic items noted in prior productions. Real bronzes carpets and furniture have appeared on stage, with actors wearing or using period items of true provenance.
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Dury Lane
George Morland
Christie
His Majesty's
Gore House
Lacy Blessington
Aubusson
Mouthern
Duchess of
Sir Henry Irving
Charles I
H. B. Irving
J. M. Barrie
Kirriemuir
Sir. James
Joshua Reynolds
Unique Ship Berth Created at Cockatoo Island Dockyard
In Sydney harbor the Government dock on Cockatoo Island features a rock hewn berth. The island’s rock rose 50 to 70 feet above water, initially unsuitable for a dockyard. Work cut back the rock to allow graving docks, then building slips and shops near water level. Two thirds of 33 acres now sit at about fifteen feet above high tide.
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Sydney Harbor
Cockatoo Island
Servant Girl Wins Greek Prize for New Testament Study
A London Sunday School Chronicle prize winner is a servant girl who learned Greek in her pantry after being motherless from age ten. She studied Greek from the New Testament while teaching herself English from the Bible, writing notes on scraps of paper between chores.
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Sunday School Chronicle of London
Eng
Whistler Faces Laughable Field Encounter With Bull
Artist Whistler escaped a charging bull in a field and confronted the farmer owner. The farmer coolly replied that Whistler should have announced his identity before the danger. Whistler demanded an explanation as to why the bull roamed free.
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Whistler
Mr. Whistler
No Typewriters There First Roges & Co Typewriter
No Typewriters There. The world famous cutlery firm of Joseph Roges and Company of Sheffield England has not turned to metal for its first typewriter or telephone.
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Joseph Roges & Co
Sheffield
Eng
Nova Scotian Robert Laird Named Secretary of Finance Board
The Presbyterian Church in Canada welcomes Rev. Robert Laird of Kingston as the new secretary of the Board of Finance. A noted organizer, he previously taught practical theology at Queen's University after ministering in Campbellford New Brunswick Brockville Ontario and Vancouver. The Canadian Courier notes his prominent maritime lineage and strong organizational gifts.
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Board of Finance
Nova Scotia
Queen's
Presbyterian Church
Canada
Robert Laird
Kingston
Laird
Campbellford
N.B
Brockville
Ont
Vancouver
Queen’s University
Maritime
Dominion
The
Presbyterian
Finance Board
Why Not Short-Haired Dames Says London Hairdresser
A London hairdresser argues that one in four women would look better with short hair and mocks women with long styles. He claims many crave being shorn but fear emasculation and jokes he would not harm himself financially by buying back estates in France.
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London
France
Houses That Defy Skeeters In Tropical Design
A steamlined English designed tropical house by T F G Mayer uses concrete plinth floor and wall with a steel frame filled by tight mosquito netting. Spring doors seal lobby ends while a fibre-cement roof and asbestos ceiling provide separation from the living space. Shutters are operable from inside and brick partitions may divide spaces if needed.
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England
T. F. G. Mayer
Annual Lion Sermon at St. Catherine Cree Church
On October 16 at the Church of St. Catherine Cree in Leadenhall Street London a sermon commemorates Sir John Gayer's deliverance in the Arabian desert. This year the Bishop of Shikieng Mid China preached and three clergymen named Ayer, descendants of the Lord Mayor, assisted in the service.
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St. Catherine Cree
Leadenhall Streat
London
Ao Lion
Sir John Gaver
Shikieng
China
Sir John Gayer
Ayer
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W. T. Stead
Felling
Pame
Gibraltar
Tre
Robt. Laird
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