Ancient Explorers Probe Desert Secrets Across Empires
Read about European expeditions in Arabia and Mesopotamia, from Amra’s ghost palace to Nimrod’s ruins. Austrian and German teams chart battlefields of Alexander the Great, study mosques, and uncover inscribed tablets as Turkish digs yield marble records from Yemen and beyond.
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Mackground
Mexander
Iasus
Alexander
Darius
Cranikos
Yemen
Arabia
Cot Sheba
Kolamon
Queep
de Morgan
Suslana
Perela
Moreen Pepeditiun
Persia
Shell
Dinenverwd
Atone
Cabaan
Wwe
General Stewart Named Grand Army Commander
Gen Thomas Jamison Stewart of Norristown Pennsylvania, long time adjutant general of Pennsylvania and former Grand Army of the Republic officer, has been elected commander in chief. Born in Ireland in 1848, he served as a private in the 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers and has dedicated his career to the National Guard and G A R. He is unmarried and has Norristown roots.
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Thomas Jamison Stewart
Norristown
Grand Army of the Republic
State of
Pennsylvania
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers
National Guard
Grand Army
Stewart
Ireland
Bfe
White to be United States ambassador to Italy
Henry White, veteran diplomat born in Maryland around 50 years ago, is appointed ambassador to Italy. He has served since 1842 as secretary of the legation in Vienna, then in London since 1843 except for Bayard's four years as ambassador. Married in 1880 to Miss Rutherford of New York.
The Hairs of a Head and Their Numbers
The text notes hair counts by color. light hair ranges roughly 140000 to 165000 hairs, with men and women differing slightly. Dark hair averages about 105000, red hair around 20000, implying red hair is coarser and less numerous. It briefly mentions hair durability and a doubtful claim about shedding.
Priest Favors the Strikers Pastor Curran Supports Miners in Wilkes-Barre
Father J. J. Curran of Holy Savior church in Wilkes-Barre Pa backs striking coal miners saying he knows the cause. He began work early at nine as a state picker door tender and driver in the coal mines. His education came from night schools and private study before attending classical courses at several colleges. He pledged for workers on one of the mine’s social pleas, and was ordained in 1897.
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Father Curran
J. J. Curran
Holy Savior Church
Wilkesburce
Varius Colleges
Women Hitch to Plows on Siberian Frontier
A traveler returning from the Siberian frontier describes extreme hardship and pioneering labor. He recalls Gaifelins women hitched two to a plow and marching through tough ground, tearing up acres daily with a man guiding the implement. The women adapt to heavy labor as a matter of course, displaying endurance and resolve.
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Siberian
Ethel Barrymore in New Play Carrots as Youthful Peasant Boy
In New York last week Ethel Barrymore surprised theatergoers by appearing as a peasant boy in Jules Renard's Carrots, marking her first stage foray into a youthful male role. critics praised her delicate beauty but found the dramatic impact limited and the role misfit.
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New York
Barrymore
Jules Renard
Eve Bay
Vet Abe
Dalnelle
Abe
Unreadable OCR Crime Notice Inaccurate Title
Fragmentary OCR text describes a person Josaph H Komenthal, a waiting something, dying under unclear circumstances. It mentions possible motives or financial dealings and an unclear accident or crime sequence with reference to a mining, mining, and a hod many garbled terms.
Fairest Scene and Danger Across Continents and Lake
A literary fragment contrasts a poetic idyll with harsh reality in a voyage tale Missionary Forter recounts a perilous journey to Jow an Arab city near Jeru salem. He faces expulsion and an почти fatal fall during a storm, while Arab mobs threaten him. Separately in Minneapolis a cyclone storm tears down Lake Harriet’s band stand sending it across the lake with no injuries.
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Minneapolis
Lake Harriet
Ellery
Royal Italian Band
Egyptian Threahing-Floor and Ancient Footprints Found
An article describes an Egyptian threshing-floor depicted on ab ient monuments in Thebes ruins where grain was trampled by oxen. It notes footprints near the threshing marks and compares them to sandal prints. It also mentions a rock tiger artifact found in Cordobanes street, Mexico.
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Thebes
Stone Tiger Fame
Cordobanes Street
Mexico
Conn
Unfortunate Buried Alive Case Recalls 18th Century Death Doubts
A historical note recounts Richard Carson of Hay Herefordshire once deemed dead yet ordered not to be buried by a doctor. His relatives ignored the injunction, the grave opened by a passerby revealed the sweating body, but the man died soon after.
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Gentleman's Magazine
Richard Carson
Hay
Herefordshire
England
Carson
St Columba Footsteps At Kiel In Kintyre Scotland
In Kiel, Kintyre Scotland, a local legend describes a curious natural formation resembling the marks of Saint Columba. Tradition says the solid ranks and fort-like pillars mark relics linked to the saint’s see, rumored to overlook the site where an ancient fortress once stood, with a yard and beacon line noted in the account.
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St. Columba
Kiel
Kintyre
Scotland
Columbe
Tabors
Divers Mood Shifts Undersea Pressure and Boisterous Tempers
An Australian pearl diver notes recurring anger while at the sea bottom, easing upon surfacing due to air pressure effects on the lungs and brain. The contrast with climbers is explained by opposite pressures. A diver’s outburst escalates to a plan to strike the crew before he forgets his purpose at the surface. A Singular Iron Meteorite Is Plowed Up Near Algoma in 1887 and now owned by the University of Wisconsin. The shield shaped piece measures 10 by 6 inches and an inch thick, with a smooth convex side and oxide crust on the concave side. radiating lines converge on a central boss. Honey Bees Kill a Morse near Linden meyer ranch. bees attack horses en route to Fort Collins, killing one and injuring another, driver escaping with observer Ed Gibbon noting the incident.
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University of Wisconsin
Algoma
Wisconsin
Here
William Hall
Lindenmeyer Ranch
Fort Collina
Ed Gibbon
Laramie
Fnally
Fort Collins
Denver
Castleman bids to carry mail between Pleasant Hill and Aurgin
Gen Breckinridge Castleman seeks the Mercer county Kentucky route from Pleasant Hill to Aurgin promising a stylish service with a coach and four horses outriders footmen and thoroughbred horses. He owns a Pleasant Hill farm and says all will be in handsome livery if awarded the contract.
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Breckinridge Castleman
Pleasant Hill
Mercer County
Aurgin
Castleman
Primitive hack plow still used in Asia Minor
The hack described is a simple ben made from a bough stake protruding from a lower cut, a crude plow design. Such a basic implement survives in Asia Minor, illustrating early farming tools and rural practice.
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Asia
Minar
Fragmentary notice from distant valley hotel sighting via telescope
A garbled OCR fragment describes a distant valley hotel sighting with a young woman guided by a telescope. The text mentions a route five miles away and a cautious escort, but specifics are unclear, leaving only a hazy outline of a travel or sighting note in a remote valley setting.
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Zermant Valley
Bwilertiad
Cammly
Thronah & Telescope
Tolnelor
Baety
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