Seychelle Islands Land of the Forbidden Fruit
A Philadelphia Inquirer note describes the Seychelles 900 miles east of Africa as remote yet civilized, with 60 islands forming a former continent. It notes the coco de mer palm, dragon's blood trees, varied birds including the myna, and local Creole planters, with British rule and French language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seychelle Islands
Indian Ocean
Africa
Philadelphia Inquirer
India
Seychelles
Port Victoria
Goats and Coffee and Early Iron Furnaces
The piece recounts legends linking goats to coffee’s discovery via an Arabian herder and notes notable mentions by figures like Zoroaster Buddha and Confucius. It then shifts to the first successful iron ore furnace in the American colonies, erected in 1642 at Saugus Center near Lynn Massachusetts, with earlier Virginia forges and Penn’s English ironworks context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoroaster
Gautama Buddha
Confucius
Saugus Center
Lynn
Mass
Virginia
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Sussex
England
Monkeys and Tobacco in Historic England and Washington’s Suburbs
An essay notes a carved pre tobacco monkey smoking at Cawdor Castle Scotland as a curiosity. It then explains Washington DC has no towns within the district but many named neighborhoods such as Anacostia Georgetown Brightwood and Chevy Chase, all part of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cawdor Castle
England
Columbia
District of Columbia
Anacostia
Georgetown
Brightwood
Taloma Park
Chevy Chase
Benning
Brookland
Hillcrest
Congress Heights
Mount Pleasant
Petworth
Tennallytown
City of Washington
Italy Highlights Choice Fruits and Rare Produce
The article extols Italian fruits noting cherries as particularly fine and grapes plump, with plums as large as lemons and lemons as big as grapefruit. It mentions nespera a home grown plum apricot hybrid and sweet limes. It describes a Czech honey fragrance from lime trees and briefly defines a tapiris as a large mammal with a trunklike nose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Czechoslovakia
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Hastings
Nebr
Ayres Nursery
Aitkin, Minn
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Skook
Fraok Fey Markey
Patsy
Lala Palooza
Rube’ Goldberg
Frank Jay Markey Syndicate, Inc
By C. M. Payne
Missus
Angelica
I Tin
Bell Sv
NTY Service
By S. L. Huntley
J. Millar Watt
Bell Syndicate
Joneses
Eddie
POP Mom
Nell
Pyle
Nol
Noal
Kitty
Sony
Jerry
P. Carp. Leemnes
Hoban
Srocery
S Tushar
Para
Apenuts
AYCES
Tapiris
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