Henry De Windt's Siberia trek and royal rail habits
Henry De Windt begins travel through Siberia crossing the Behring Strait then via the Mackenzie to Winnipeg. A French scientist ranks military and naval professions as most brain-weary with lunacy rates. public figures, lawyers, doctors and clergy follow. News notes include Count Ernest boniface de Castellane’s humiliation, George Gould as guardian, and a rare $5,000 revenue stamp for large mortgages. Also noted are electricity drawbacks in India, proposed British West Indies federation, the Queen's private Gosport railway station, a sheep dentistry experiment in New South Wales, and postal exemption for soldiers and marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paris
Tendon
Paul Ernest
Boniface de Castellane
George Gould
Pilgrims Progress in Chinese with Peking illustrations
The China bound edition of Pilgrim's Progress features native artists and Chinese settings. Christian is drawn with a pigtail and the dungeon of Despair appears as a large wooden caravan. angels at the river are shown in modern Peking style. The piece reads as a curious celestial origin in a novel Chinese form. James B Dill, a New York corporation lawyer, owns a 12 inch strip of land after paying 500 dollars per the stamps on the deed.
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Pilgrim’s Progress
Pe‘king
Christian
Peking
James B. Dill
Corporation
New York
Paris Diner Plans Pocket Sized Gourmet Meals
A French chef announces a new concentrated food restaurant in Paris offering small, square meal portions designed for busy men. The concept aims to deliver a full course experience in minutes, easily carried for quick consumption.
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Paris
Birds of Prey in Chicago Divorce Scandals and Private Detectives
A Chicago feature critiques private detectives who prey on domestic strife. A physician conceives letters from a wife as jealousy stokes, leading to a confessional reveal. A faltering marriage collapses into scandal, jealousy, and ruin, ending with confinement and flight from the city.
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Chicago
Man
Mra
Jones
Mise Jones
Mra Jones
Sherlock
Alfred
Cloak Room Tales and the Ship of State
A Washington letter recalls John Sherman’s selfless upholding of party harmony in Congress. It recounts how Sherman yielded the Speakership to Pennington, praises Pennington’s integrity, and lauds Thad Morris and other youths who guided parliamentary procedure, plus vivid clips of late-night antics and bipartisan camaraderie in the House.
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Washington
Champ Clark
Missouri
House of Representatives
Clark
Ohio
John Sherman
Senator Harlan
Iowa
Harlan
Sam Randall
Carlisle
Kentucky
Randall
Sherman
Grant
Halleck
Pittsburgh
Fort Henry
Belmont
Fort Donelson
Pennington
New Jersey
House
Thad Morris
Arthur Pue Gorman
Menste
Maryland
Howe of Representatives
Sherman Paeie
Phad
Morris
Thad
Speaker Pennington
Senate
D. B. Henderson
Towa
Serger Atarms
Henderson
Dave Henderson
Congress
Hebderson
Orier
Howe
Poe
Fry
Fractured humor from old newspapers on engagements and wit
A collection of humorous quoted snippets from several papers. Jests about engagements, singing positions, and misheard lines pair with a thermometer gag and a letter about researching topics for a club paper. Notable names appear in scattered fragments.
Love making in Mexico and odd notices in Memphis
Reprint style sketches describe Mexican courtship rituals and scenes across balconies and parlors as observed in a Women's Home Companion piece. The column mixes cultural notes with brief urban vignettes from Memphis and Paris, highlighting social courtesies and everyday humor.
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Bottineau Courant
Britton
Henry de Windt
Iberia
Mackenzie River
Winnipeg
Bombay
India
British West Indies
Leeward and
Windward Islands
Gosport
Osborne
New South Wales
Hargreaves
Mudgee
United States
Birds OF Prey
Mich Barm Dope
Secret Service
Hinhabsts
Kankakee
Penniogian
Syracuse Heralds
Sharpe
Philadelphia Record
Yees
Gotrox
Jess
Tess
Philadelphia
Maude
Oprano
Ry Ree
Seventh Street
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Mr. Snaggss
Men. Snaggs
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Blanche
Laura
Dorthy
Yjdlanopalis Journal
Mexico
Benois Adelaide Vezquez Schiaffini
Woman’s Home Companion
Rio Grande
Thoes
Bucwanit
Carinatty
Court Street
Memphis Schmitan
Cluraner
Eiroapella Journal
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