Round the World Oxymoron News Summary Curiosities
A collection of world notes from 1913 detailing social, economic, and scientific items. Subjects include women in professions, Damascus cars, Denmark immigrants, Greenland census gains, Ghent Expo visitors, and modern technology like compass watches. Observations mention Copenhagen homicide rates, volcanic lava deposits, and wireless experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Grand Union
Germany
Greenland
Ghent
Belgium
San Francisco
Temeete F Ser
St Mark Called Reporter Among the Apostles
Rev Dr Frank N Palmer crowns St Mark as the greatest journalist before printing presses, noting his vivid sixteen chapters and action filled narrative. Palmer praises Marks viewpoint language and ability to convey climax and color in a sentence for modern writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mark
Frank N. Palmer
St. Matthew
St. Luke
St. John
Palmer
Mark
Flight of Life and a Suburban Garden Fadist
A fragmentary feature presents Goethe’s Egmont lines on fate and courage, followed by a vignette about a suburban garden enthusiast who bores friends with weekend visits to his two by four estate and showy garden curios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Yokohama
Japan
San Francisco
Pacific
United States
Lergest
Michahetles
Hamburg
Huroape
Manila
Bureau of Health
Goethe
Egmont
Golf links idea sparks quirky chat at garden folly
The host cheers a bold plan to transform a flower bed into a blooming golf links. The visitor agrees, suggesting strip about six inches and turf it over for a quirky backyard course noted by the New York Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Post
Separated In Death Elizabeth Browning and Robert Browning
Elizabeth Browning and Robert Browning are described as separated in death. Robert Browning is buried in Westminster Abbey between Cowley and Chaucer, while Elizabeth Browning rests in a Florence cemetery. The piece notes the irony of a devoted wife outliving her spouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Browning
Robert Browning
Venice
Cowley
Chaucer
Westminster Abbey
Florence
Baltimore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Round the
Damascus
Boston
Waldemer Jansen
War Department
Washington
St. Augustine
Norway
Copenhagen
Herculaneum
Porhpeli
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Western Australia
Chicago
Ebair
Philadelphia Bulletin
Earth
New York American
Bellevue Hospital
Clancy
Sorr
New York World
Aowa
Des Moines
Middle
West
Rock Island
Moines
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