Grand Trunk Road Tales of India From a Bygone Era
A vivid tour along the Grand Trunk road recounts wedding processions, massacres, and encounters with forts and bridges. It visits Delhi, Cawnpore, Rawal Pindi, Jhelum, Lahore, and Kashmir, notes tiger legends, haunted houses, treasure tales, mutinies, and a foundling girl raised by an English couple.
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Grand Trunk Road
India
Delhi
Cawnpore
Madras
Asia
Himalayas
Peshawer
Attock
Indus
Hassan Abdul
Lalla Rookh
Punjaab
John Nicholson
Aldershot
Murree
Kashmir
Jhelum
Googerat
Lahore
Jubbalpore
Tongas
Mem Sahib
Kamptee
Central Provinces
Olide
Walla
Dak
England
Mary Lindsay
A Winter Walk With Sheppy Through Virginia Hills
Emma Carleton writes of a winter hillside scene with Sheppy the dog guiding farmyard joy. The essay blends Thoreauvian outdoorsmanship, rustic farm life, and December landscapes as rabbits, kids, and fireside play illustrate hope, nature, and rural endurance.
Town Stories Highlight Downtown Christmas Gaiety
The piece surveys holiday street scenes in town including men on curbs attracting attention, Christmas toy sellers with wind up cars, and a municipal scavenger of curios collected by Michael Jefferson. It recounts assorted vignettes from pay-day debts flirtations to a Chinaman marriage license, ending with a steam launch parade on a dray through downtown streets.
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Harolds
Smithsonian Institution
State Museum
Jefferson
John McGregor
Moy Sam
Chicago
Moy
Indiana
Elliott
George Fate
Marion County
East Side
George B. Elliott
May Kee
Indianapolis
Fate
Sandard Pienso
Tn 3Iso
Chickering
Vose
Seeett
Ivers Pea
Pischert Cameron
Wuischner, Stewart, Braumuiller
Hallet & Davis
Stodart
Gate Receipts and Scandal in College Athletics
New York Times argues gate receipts fuel trouble and scandal in college sports. Harvard athletes reportedly cleared about $8 009 from receipts, suggesting profits funded more games and professional-like operations rather than amateur ideals.
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New York Times
Harvard
Honest Farmer Hesitates Over Encyclopaedia Purchase
A rustic judge-like farmer, Bentover, voices doubt about signing for a forty seven part encyclopaedia set. He jokes about the burden of payment and the effort needed to read it, noting the strain would leave him too tired to study. The aside mimics a speech with humorous misreads and rural vernacular.
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Delhi
Seoni
Jubbulpore
Robert
Dassdak Bungalow
Syces
Vari
Waal
Farmer Bentover
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Ben Bolt
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Sophie
Noys
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Frenchtown
Porrentruy
Floyd County
Clearbark Road
Marie Jerdon
Joan
Shepry
Grant
Emma Carleton
New Albany
Michael Jefferson
Aman
North
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the Journal
Alice Neilson
Adele Ritchie
Edna May
Anna Held
Lulu Glaser
Virginia Earle
Maud Stumm
Indianapolis Journal
Willie
Santa Claus
Pop
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