English Village Life Delights in Rural Winter Pastimes
The Indianapolis Journal correspondent Henry Tuckley visits an English village to contrast London fogs with country air. He portrays village winter diversions, church schooling, bell ringing, public houses, a village reading room, and the shooting supper, highlighting feasts, parish life, and a local magistrates’ court.
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England
United States
America
M. P
Newmarket
Cambridge
Boniface
Edward VII
Trinity College
Newmarket Heath
Cambridge University
South Africa
Queen Victoria
Care of City's Monkeys: Park Official Details Custody
J Clyde Power, superintendent of parks, describes keeping four city monkeys and their care in Riverside Park by wintering them in Garfield Park greenhouses. He notes their tuberculosis risk, a fondness for crimson blossoms, and the need for tight security in winter quarters. He recounts a thiefing episode where a monkey hid a Waterloo medal, a silver flask, and a purse in a boot, then vows careful protection until summer reunion at Riverside Park.
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J. Clyde Power
Riverside Park
Garfield Park
Meum
Tuum
New York
Dundee
Waterloo
John Knox
Mr. Monkey
Gomd
The Mongol at Home No Real Distinction Between Nomads and Villagers
The Mongols show no clear ethnic split between village and camp dwellers. Nomads, often misjudged as wild and warlike, are social, brave, and capable speakers and leaders when restrained by modest governance. They excel in trade, possess a strong sense of honor, and maintain complex family and clan ties amid polyandry and polygamy.
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Mal W. c. J
Prejevalsky
Central Asia
Hoang-Ho
That ar boy o Rogers s in West tale recounted
In the Bismarck Tribune a reminiscence recounts a rough, red haired youth known as that ar boy o Rogers s. The speaker recalls the boy s mischief from school days to life in the West and notes how he rose through exploits and raids, becoming a notorious figure feared and admired in frontier lore.
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Rogers
Jack
Bismarck Tribune
Emerson as Defender of a Serene Gospel Revealing Limits of Transcendentalism
The Rev. J Cumming Smith argues Emerson’s influence is overestimated, noting a recoil from Puritanism and a wandering centerless thought. He portrays Emerson as a poetic seer who eschews logic, science, and explicit system, urging a return to rational religious development and structured interpretations of nature and God.
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Emerson
J. Cumming Smith
Mr. Smith
Shakspeare
Byron
Burns
Plato
Swedenborg
Darwin
Channing
God
Isolated Terbinen District Looms in Alpine Backcountry
A travelogue describes Terbinen in the Swiss Alps as a nearly forgotten district cut off for centuries. It notes 631 inhabitants loyal to state and church, a semi nomadic life, primitive wooden records, and daily routines tied to seasons from January through June.
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Indianapolis
Berne
Nov. C
Wisp
Sanserthal
Terbinen
America
Saaserthal
Wallis
Simplon
Bretschhorn
Breithorn
Itecif
Visp
Terbinentself
Ante- Columbus
Luther Days
Nature
Elisp
Switzerland
Tibet
Heaven
Huta
That frock and bonnet of the first realt h are the same
Quote from New York Evening Sun reflects on a Christian Scientist wife. The speaker muses that old clothes matter little to a Christian Scientist as thoughts can renew them, and sighs that there could be worse spouses.
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New York
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Babylon
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Thames
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Splenkop
Henry Tuckley
Swiss Alps
The
Christian Science Church
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