Savage Beauty of African Charmer Captures Controversial Curios
WaSkIeTos reports from the National Museum exhibit of African items with vivid notes on Congo belt adornments and oversized jewelry. He describes Hottentot beauty, Korean fattish ideals, and heavy bracelets and anklets, including a four pound anklet, amid a cellar of curiosities and human finger relics.
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Distatoe
WaSkIeTos
National Museum
Africa
The
Congo
Venus
King
Museem
The World’s Women Beauty Across Cultures and Customs
A curator describes tattooing, nose rings, ear plugs, and foot binding among Kaffir, Aino, Burmese, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese women. It highlights adornment practices, body modification, grooming, and regional ideals of beauty, noting the painful origins and social meanings behind scars, tattoos, and foot binding.
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National Museum
Foochow
Far East
India
Crow Indian Picnic Described as Grand Fourth Spectacle
Helen’s Journal recounts General Brisbin describing a Crow Fourth of July celebration with 250 participants. They wore blue clay and canvas masks, decorated ponies, staged sham battles, and a dramatic scalping scene, thrilling the crowd yet shocking many spectators. The agent notes it may be the last such event due to its ferocity, but horsemanship impressed all.
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Alaska
Amos
Niblock
Navy
Himalaya
Japan
Kobe
Brisbin
New Safety Purses Aim to Foil Thieves
A Pall Mall Budget writer highlights safety purses that only their owners can open. Purses with silver mounts hide openings, and clever designs mislead about orientation. Sealskin without fur is a novelty, while the American purse offers band carry and copper storage for coins.
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Pall Mall
Alpine Peak Ascent and Swiss Sunrise Tour
Vernon August 9 recounts climbing Mount Pilatus near Lucerne, noting a steep zigzag path of 6 900 feet that demands endurance. The writer describes lake views, mixed passengers on the steamer, sun and cold at the summit, rough mountain huts, and humorous efforts to obtain mustard in German, ending with a slip and a cautious retreat.
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Vernon
Pilstus
Venice
Lucerne
Switzerland
Mountain Sunrise on Alps and a Frightful Accident
The narrator describes a 6900 foot ascent to a Swiss summit with two palatial hotels and high prices, cold nights, and a sunrise over misty lakes. A sudden accident injures a party of Austrians when a climber tumbles 400 feet and dies after hours without care. DeW. Scaflar offers cautious advice to climbers and reflects on the memory of the ascent.
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Niagara Falls
Eiffel Tower
Cummit
Dew
Scaflar
Indian Life on the Andean Plateau Details Potatoes and Slings
A long feature describes Peruvian and Bolivian Indians as industrious yet debt trapped, farming among stones on the high plateau. It explains potato processing, llama herds, and a rare view of customs, diet, social roles, and the use of slings as weapons amid markets and pri
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Adence
la Paz
Bolivia
Peru
Andean
Serrato
Silimani
Stont
Rings from the Shah and English Lady's Notable Notice
The illustrated News of the World describes a diamond ring sent by the Shah to Sir Algernon Borthwick MP. Delivered via Nawab Mirza Hasan Ali Khan, the ring comes with an autograph Persian letter. The text recalls companionship and memories from last year’s travels in the Shah’s neighborhood.
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Shah
Algernon Borthwick
Mirza Hasan Ali Khan
The Shahs Gift and Missing Lady Borthwick
A historic note describes the Shahs gift to Nasr aD Dix and the absence of Lady Borthwick. The letter expresses heartfelt regards and gratitude toward the family while noting the diary entry about their not meeting and the ring sent to comfort the missing Lady Borthwick. The tone is formal and affectionate, reflecting courtly exchanges and missing companionship.
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Borthwick
Swallows as Carriers in Dunkirk Experiments
Pall Mall Budget notes experiments at Dunkirk showing swallows are faster and more reliable than carrier pigeons. The report claims swallows can be tamed, though captivity dulls their bright eyes and sheen, challenging views of their natural freedom.
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India
Benares
Paris
Burmah
China
Siam
Bangkok
Pall Mall
Dunkirk
Stand Fast. A Novel Summary Card From The Dispatch
William Black crafts Stand Fast a Cotemporary life tale opened in Piccadilly with George Bethune and granddaughter Matshe. Plot threads include defrauded property claims, Bethune seeking aid from Lord Musselburg, Matshe maturing, Vin Harris veering toward politics and romance, and Mrs Ellison’s wary maneuvering as societal classes collide during introductions to a regatta.
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Piccadilly
George Bethune
Matshe
Lord Musselburg
Bethune
Joray
Malisre
Vin
Harris
Gir
Maishe
Ellison
Josiah
Ane
Hopson
Young Harris
Prince Musselburgh Dreams A National Patriotic Fund
On a moonlit Mendover night Lord Musselburgh outlines a plan to create a vast National Patriotic Fund to strengthen England’s navy. Vincent questions realism as Musselburgh proposes gradual naval growth funded by a public subscription, with royalty leading from the front and dukes to be courted for backing.
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Lord Musselburgh
England
Vin
Jedgee
Westminster Abbey
St Paul’s
Ngland
Europe
Vincent
Musselbureh
Tereh
Mendover
Canada
Australian
Cape
Westminster Hall
Danaea
Edgieteaven
National Patriotic Fund
Queen's Fund
Musselburgh
Eis
Bum
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Pat
Geme
Freake
Akorean Beauty
Beauty
Yexo
Osno
Orient
Burmab
Yum Yow
Venus of Burneb
Sbe
North China
Capitol
Canton
Bea
Yum Yum
East
P & Woman
Ortestal
Helens
Pilatus
Lake Lucerne
Fair Switzerland
LE OF the Disfator
Tmaney
Tom
Saint Mark’s
Boulevard Des Italiens
Gosta
Mount Pilatus
Scoh
Mt. Pilatus
Avstream
Shakespeare
Caucasus
the Mountain Hotels
Alpine Sunrise
Jungira Loth
Inn
Fennesterhorn
Schreckhorn
Silverhorn
Matterhorn
Lake of
Fannie B. Ward
Pen
Laos
Electric Light Company
the Shah
Illustrated News of the World
Dispatch
William Black
Thule
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