Nantes Portrait of Coast People and Rooms of Art
The article surveys Nantes customs and coastal life, noting eccentric costumes of Morbihan fishermen and peasants. It contrasts Paris life with Nantes hospitality, praising local wines, butter, and table generosity, then guides through the city’s arts, museum, and castle as a reminder of its solid culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nantes
Morbihan
Brest
France
Noirmoutier
Farget
Van
Fem Rte Ava Tt
Paris
Anjou
Michael Angelo
Ters
Honne
Cholet
Poitiers
Nantes la Ville de Luxe
Italy
Europe
Tomers
Steen
Museum of Paintings and Statuary
Veronilles
Angers
Sore
Albert Siollitto
San Francisco Chronicle
Gulls Souvenir Shooed by a Dinner-Seeking Bird
A San Francisco observer describes a gull dropping a mussel on his head then using the shell as a tool to crack it open. The bird repeatedly dives from height, retrieves the unbroken shell, and finally leaves with its hard won meal, while the man watches the curious feeding behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Toon
San Francisco Examiner
Scythe Song From Longmans Magazine
A fragment from Longmans Magazine presents a lyric meditation on time and memory as a scythe speaks of lost summers and vanished sweetness. The poem questions where former joys have gone and whether people can meet again in an imagined garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scythe
Longman's Magasion
New York
Chicago
An Old Indian Fighter and His Grim Tales
A veteran recounts chilling deeds of battle, including the death of an Indian he describes with eerie calm, while noting the tenderness of a child and defending the man as not a brute. The piece contrasts his humane appearance with his brutal past and echoes broader wartime violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Tassin
Overland Monthly
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North Americans
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Western America
Arctic Ocean
California
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Raeburn
Western Australia
Kelley
Hoston
Gil
Globe-Democrat
Drinks OF All Nations
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Tokio
Japan
John Chinaman
Moscow
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Manes
Thomas Stevens
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George H. Swift
West
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C. E. Frederick
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Iron and Steel
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Studebaker
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Summerfield Bros
Summerfields
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H. K. Tweed
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Tombstone
Arizona
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Tal Hotel
J. Yonge
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Pinial County
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Brand HG
H.W. Hasseveres
Charleston
Cakb Co
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Denver
Cola
New Mexico
Congress
O. O’neil
Prescott
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Fifth St
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