New Year Brings Reunion for Carson and Leila
In a Bloomsbury boarding house, Walter Carson endures loneliness until a veiled visitor reveals she is Leila, his long lost beloved. She confirms his identity, and they reunite as New Year bells toll, planning to marry and raise their future together with his newfound family.
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Bloomsbury
Walter Carson
Herbert Wilton
Carson
Wilston
Mr. Carson
Herbert
Leila
Hopes of the Future and New Year Impulse
A Bulletin editorial reflects on the New Year as a source of renewed energy and belief in human progress. It cites Tennyson and the enduring power of thought to drive civilization, science, religion, art, and industry toward hopeful discoveries and improvements.
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Tennyson
France Faces Population Decline Warned by Writer
Cyrus C. Adams in Ainslee's argues that high celibacy and low marriage rates threaten France's welfare. He notes half of French men and women remain unmarried, immigration exceeds natural increase, and France's share of world population and power shrinks. The piece calls marriage essential to national strength.
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Cyrus C. Adams
Ainslee’s
France
Newark
N. J
Europe
Sedan
Rhine
Lon don man recalls love and loss in quiet sitting room
Alter Carson sits beside a fire in his Duke Street chambers recalling a past love. He pores over faded letters and a photograph of a child, musing on the loneliness of city life and a family rift that stretches back years.
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Atlantic
Guardian
Carson
Mr. Carson
Leila
Evangeline
Alter Carson
Duke Street
London
Big Ben
Green Park
Piccadilly
Dixey
Onug
Tie
Tutuila Inhabitants Praised For Hospitality And Self Rule
Commander Tilley submits his annual Tutuila Samoa report to Secretary Long praising the natives as gentle and simple minded. He notes popular US instituted self government, frequent melanga visiting parties, lavish hospitality, and costly gift giving that officials discouraged to curb hardship.
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Tilley
Benjamin F. Tilley
United States Naval Station
Tutuila
Samoa
Washington
Long
Tutuilans
United States
Russia and the East Linked in Telegraphic Jubilation
A telegram from Russian finance minister M Witte congratulates Tsar Nicholas II on the completion of the Asiatic railway linking Russia with the Far East. The note hails the milestone as one of the era’s greatest undertakings, promising far reaching effects on global civilization and trade. It notes Siberia’s past weakness now integrated into the empire and predicts rapid growth ahead for the vast region.
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Russia
East
M. Witte
Nicholas Ou
Sibaria
Rock Island El Paso Line to Open Soon
The Rock Island and partners plan to open a southwestern extension to El Paso Texas by January linking with Southern Pacific and Mexican Central railways. The 546 mile Liberal to El Paso section uses 80 pound rails and modern ballast and cuts Kansas City to El Paso distance by 222 miles boosting coal traffic from Dawson fields and competing with Santa Fe.
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Rock Island
el ‘Paso
Tex
Southern ‘Pacific
el Paso
Chicago, Rock Island & “Pacific
Chicago
Rock
Island
Rock Island Construction
J. H. Conlen
Chicago, Rock Island & Mexico
Santa Rosa
Carrizozo
el Paso& Northeastern
E Paso
Liberal
Western Union
Dawson
Beaubien and
Miranda Grant
Colfax County
N. M
Liberal Station
San Mieves
Mora
Colfax
Southern Pacific Railroad
B Paso
Rock Island 4
Kansas City
Santa Ife
Rock Island ‘Hine
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
Santa Fe
Rock Island-El
Paso
Hne
Chicago Tribune
Goethe’s Pockmarks Question Sparks Scholarly Debate
Breslau professor reports plaster cast shows spots on Goethe’s chin and left cheek resembling smallpox marks. Some scholars doubt if marks are real pockmarks or plaster imperfections. It is noted Goethe had smallpox at age six.
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Goethe
Breslau
New York Post
New Book on the Grand Canyon Previewing Opening Rail Access
A forthcoming Grand Canyon book highlights the railroad to the Rim and a new Harvey hotel at Bright Angel Trail. It features 128 pages with notable contributors like Hamlin Garland Charles Lummis David Starr Jordan J W Powell and others, anticipated for release before end of 1901.
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Grand Canyon
Arizona
Canyon
Bright Angel Trail
Land of Silence
America
Hamlin’ Garland
Charles
Lummis
Aof
Out West
Adobeland
David Starr
Jordan
Stanford University
John E. Steeldard
Charles“Dudley ‘Warner
J. W. Powell
Colorado
Harriet Monroe
Fitz Mac
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