28 Jan 1902
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Newspaper
The Tri Weekly Gleaner
Location
Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica
Date
Jan 28, 1902
Page
1
An advert listing goods including shirts blankets and denim offers and notes tariffs for fire policies. It promotes Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society with figures on costs and bonuses and lists agents and office locations across Kingston Linstead Port Maria Sav La Mar Port Antonio and other towns.
Seed catalog fragment lists diverse vegetable varieties like carrot celery leek and tomato plus flowers such as zinnias asters and verbenas with a note that all items are priced at 3d per pace and orders must accompany payment.
Aberdeen Journal prints letters from William Masson a Ban Righ crewman who joined for gold lace and high pay. The ship sailed under sealed orders from Antwerp loaded with gunpowder shells and cartridges and rumoured to head to Martinique while British crew possibly deserted.
Mr Cecil Rhodes recently arrived in London from Egypt plans to stay about a month in Ireland before returning to South Africa. He will inspect Dalham Hall near Newmarket in Suffolk, renovating it for use when in England, but has no plans for horse racing.
In a reflective note the author compares the Boer War to the Russia Sweden war and to Tsar Peter’s remark about Charles XII. A club discussion also recalls an Admiral’s claim about the 1812 war and supply missteps at Kingston Lake Ontario, illustrating historical parallels.
A look at how American librarians tackle limiting fiction intake in libraries. The St Louis approach uses a staged reading list from second-rate to standard novels to steer patrons toward broader literary tastes. Hartford counters by offering two borrowing tickets with only one valid for fiction.
Rome January 6 The Tablet reports a special Pontifical Commission to study Biblical questions has sparked Vatican displeasure as the Pope’s intentions appear challenged by church opinion factions.
An old advertisement promises a pure inexpensive treatment to clear crusts scales and dandruff from the scalp. It touts soothing irritated skin stimulating follicles and nourishing roots for luxuriant lustrous hair and a clean wholesome scalp.
A Vatican commission studies how to interpret scripture amid two Catholic currents. Some seek strict literalism and status for the text, others urge broader, moral and doctrinal readings. Earlier disputes involved Mgr d Hulst and Father Lagrange, with papal encyclicals and voiced protections shaping the debate.
A Town Topics note discusses the English judge in a case with Sir Frederick Milner and a Mrs Brady who touts American introductions to London society. It highlights a pervasive trade where American and English social climbers buy access, with anecdotes of duchesses, counts, and costly party collaborations that rarely reciprocate.
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