People and Places in East Africa Under British Rule
An overview of Nairobi Kenya and Uganda Protectorate life describes the city’s growth from tin huts to stone buildings, local governance, and a cosmopolitan colonial scene. It notes cotton wealth, Swahili as a regional link, and Uganda’s shift from wild animal roams to developed towns and roads, with Buganda and other tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Kenya
Uganda
British East Africa
Prince of Wales
Nairobi
East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Zanzibar
Natal
Aden
Mombasa
Congo
Protectorate
Britain
Sudan
Lake Victoria
Tanganyika
Belgian Congo
New York State
Entebbe
Central Africa
Buganda
Manchester
England
Centurion Seizes True Bounty in Bold Boarding
Captain Fellowes leads a boarding party to seize the True Bounty after a tense mutiny at sea. Chater is killed in the struggle while Cara Inglepin and Ben Inglepin provide testimony as Fellowes searches for documents and a hidden letter. Coffee warns of juju while the raid continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inglepin
Captain Fellowes
Fellowes
Chater
Daon
Nimrod Sopher
Lawyer-Marine
Mr. Spencer
Tom
Inglepins
Coffee
Chaver
Bounty
Tom Grogan
Lion
Cara Inglepin
Ben Inglepin
Duenna
Funereal
Perenha
Cara
Ben
Tellowes
Sopher
Mr. Inglepin
Spain
Mars'r
Cuffee
Iellowes
Mars’r
Attic Find in Maine: Old Banknotes Rumored Bad Specimens
A 14-year-old Belfast boy found a cellar cache of bills in a century-old house attic. The Boston Globe says the notes, in 1 3 5 and 10 dollar denominations and totaling thousands, appear counterfeit. They bear signatures of a Frankfort Maine bank no longer listed by Maine authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Maine
Boston Globe
Frankfort Bank
State of Maine
B. Shaw
B. Johnson
Physics Instructor Tests Student Honesty At College
William Plumb, assistant physics instructor at Morningside College in Sioux City Iowa, placed a box of fifty pennies at the door for his class. Upon dismissal, the box yielded fifty three coppers, testing student honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Plumb
Morningside College
Sioux City
Iowa
Cole's Carbolisalve Heals Skin Diseases Fast
Advertisement touts Cole's Carbolisalve for quick relief and healing of burning skin diseases with no scars. Claims it is essential in every medicine chest available in 30c and 60c from druggists or J. W. Cole Co. in Rockford Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Il
Virginia Gazette Revival Returns to Williamsburg
The historic Virginia Gazette newspaper, once the first south of the Potomac, has been revived and relaunched in Williamsburg Virginia, reviving a notable colonial era publication for modern readers.
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Potomac River
Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg
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Oritammatica
Kenya Colony
Arthur D. Howden Smith
WIU Service
Marcelle
Marcelle Laboratories
G. W. Beggs Sons & CO
Chicago
Ilinois
Omaha
Paxton
Nebraska
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