Christmas Day at Tredegar Hall A Glimpse of Balaklava Hero House
Special correspondence from Newport describes a Christmas Eve visit to Lord Tredegar’s mansion in southwestern England. The narrator tours grand rooms and medieval kitchens, views the Balaklava charge relic, and attends midnight mass before joining a festive house party with friends and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Kaiser
Lord Tredegar
the Tribune
Newport
Royal Academy
Bechstlen
Broadwood
Steinway
London
A. Gwddyd Thomas
Birmingham
Miss Driscoll
Emille Driscoll
Tredegar
England
Hereford
Madame Tussaud
George Washington
Balaklava
Gibbon
Gibbons
Oat Fret
Tpedegar
House of Tredegar
Rome
Santa Claus
English Christmas Day at the Union Workhouse
A family hosts a festive English Christmas for workhouse inmates with piano, violin, and wax works, plus a lively dinner, carols, and a Christmas tree. The writer describes the generous hostesses and the Boxing Day customs, noting football crowds and post-Christmas cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
States
Ann Corr
Pip
Dickens
America
England
Sadle BE
Kalser
Sailing Toward the Golden Horn
The Tribune reports a Pleasant Voyage from Marseilles to Constantinople via the Mediterranean. The article describes Marseilles, Corsica, Sardinia, Stromboli, Etna, and the approach to Constantinople, ending with a vivid view of the Golden Horn and Stambul from the ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Horn
Mediterranean
Bonifacio
Corsica
Sardinia
Ostia
Rome
Naples
Stromboli
Lipari
Etna
Welsh News Notes and a Welshman’s Monuments Medley
A collage of Welsh topics features a new Baptist hymnal balance sheet with 2165 dollars, local council contests involving a vicar, nickname culture in South Wales industrial centers, a Cardiff reform club secretary’s death from pneumonia, and debates over a Llewelyn memorial. A mix of poems, jokes, and brief notes on local figures and lectures concludes the clippings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Llawiyfr Moliant
The
Welsh Baptists
Penderyn
Breconshire
South Wales
Chadwick
Cardifft Reform Club
Bethany Chapel
Cardiff Psychological Society
Rhys
Celtie
Oxford
Earle
Farle
W. Morris
Treorky
Rhondda
Welsh Baptists’ Union
Vegetarian Federal Union
Church of England Temperance Society
Wilfred Lawson
Quaint Suburbs and Forts Around Quebec City
Quebec City and environs offer scenic drives from Point Levis to the Plains of Abraham. Forts built after 1667 crown the cliffs defending Quebec, with ditches, casemates, and magazines. Arnold’s 1775 march toward Quebec and the Chauudiere Falls threats loom in remembered history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec City
The
Tribune
Quebec
Point Levis Heights
St. Lawrence
Cape Diamond
Wolfe
Lower Town
Upper
Beneet Arnold
New England
Citades
Levis
Ishmael Church
Point Levis
America
New Liverpool and
Sillery
New Liverpool
St. Ronald
Lower St. Lawrence
Quelec
Silery
Jeans Marie
Church of St. Columba
Plains of Abraham
Ste. Foye
St. Roch's
St. Sauveur
Ecity
Genarus Levis
Murray
Outenan
Ste. Faye
St. Louis Road
St. Chatlea
Laurentides
St. Lawrence River
Cape Tourmente
Montmorency Falls
St. Louis
Jahn B. Richmond
An Overcharged Ozone
A man from the tamarack swamps goes to Kansas hoping for better air but after three years returns home. He recalls the trip with humor noting the air quality and cyclones as a reason he left and then came back to his mauve heath. He says Kansas has advantages but not as a steady thing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan
Prince of Wales
Henry Somerset
Dawson Burns
J. Elddon Jones
Lianrug
D. Lloyd Jones
Liandinam
Cymru
Drysoria
Jones Talyaarn
Prince Llewelyn
Llywola
Llewelyn
Abbey Cwm Hir
Cefn-y-bedd
Tamarack
Kansas
Bedelo
New Nose Debate Claims Smoking Defiles Olfactory Sense
An Austrian scientist denounces the nose as degraded by tobacco and crowd life. He praises large nostrils as better for smelling and blames cigarettes for olfactory decline, while noting London’s fog and public fears of fumes harming trees, vegetation, and animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cologne
Righteous Fate in City Journal
Aman complains of the cold as he walks down a busy street. He slips on the pavement, falls and breaks his pate, illustrating the righteous hand of fate in a brief City Journal moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aman
City Journal
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Merrie England
Ford O'Clock
Joseph Barnby
Bournmouth
Berliog
Faust
Roger Servis
Butler
Marseilles
Constantinople
Trinetary
Europe
Aegean
Dardanelles
Sea of
Marmora
Empire State Express
Marveilles
France
Notre Dame de la Guide
Marseilles Ia
St. Jean
St. Nicholas
Bassin du Lagzaret
Bassin de la Jolette
Messageries
Notre Dame de la Garde
Atlantic
Cape Faro
Scylla
Rhegium
Messina
Kalamata
Bay of Messenia
Pharae
Greece
Syra
Cyclades
Melos
Lipfanos
Paros
Delis
Apollo
Hellespont
Straits
Serasker Tower
Mohamed II
Stambul
Maenzin
Santa Sophia
Miles Tracy
Sheffield Telegraph
Africa
Wicer
Julia
Lienfant
Flosele
Noah
Tommy
Vinitor
Erastus Pinkley
Dundee
James
Hawhaw
Bosphorus
Washington Star
Clare
Chaudiere
Niagara
Chaudere River
Montmorency
Arnold
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