Historic British Homes and Gordon-Cumming Honeymoon
A survey of Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire and Gordon-Cumming residences in Scotland and Yorkshire. The article notes the eight year build completed in 1583, Elizabethan architecture, and the Gordon-Cumming family ties to Birdsall and Gordonston near Elgin. It mentions reform riots and the parklands surrounding Wollaton Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon-Cumming
Wollaton Hall
Lord Middleton
Notts
William
Pall Mall Gazette
F. Willoughby
Ancaster
Lincolnshire
Nottingham Castle
Nottingham
Birdsall
Yorkshire
Gordonston
Elgin
William Gordon-Cumming
Moray Firth
Altyre House
Gordon-Cummings
Alexander
Army Worm Joke Sparks Carriage Car Talk
A crowded train car erupts in laughter as a young officer jokes with a grim farmer about army worms and agriculture. An old professor from Podunk hints the pests were jailed for duplicating their pays accounts, leaving passengers roaring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
New York
Cantharis Vittate
Podunk Agricultural College
Forty Years Later A Benefactor Remembers Kind Shopkeeper
A wealthy New York statesman returns to North William Street and discovers a shopkeeper who once helped him find work as a youth. The man recalls the brief act that started his career, later thanking the retailer with lifelong gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Sun
North William Street
Woman drinks foot remedy in six doses
A town woman sought a foot treatment from a physician who prescribed a cold water bay rum and ammonia mixture. She drank the mixture in six doses and reports her feet no longer feel tired.
Terkion Fanatics Stir Unease Among Christians
A fragmented sentence notes growing uneasiness among Christians in the Levant over increasing fanatical behavior. The brief mentions signs of fanaticism without detailing specific events or groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terkion
Levant
Millions of stockings cost New York millions yearly
The piece estimates New York City women, girls, and children wear about 8 million pairs of stockings annually. It breaks down costs by material, from four cent cotton pairs to silk and all silk designer hosiery, concluding total annual hosiery expenditure near 2 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
New York
Philadelphia
Woman's Oddities in Downtown Offices Highlight Confusion
A humorous critique of women entering large office buildings. The piece notes their poor sense of navigation among bulle tins, elevators, and janitors, their tendency to ignore clear signs, and their instinct for finding items in drawers, contrasted with men’s familiarity with colleagues and offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Early Traces of Man in Europe and Scandinavia
The article discusses origins of humankind methods for dating early presence. It notes experts doubt the exact arrival time but cites tools in caves and peat beds as clues. It mentions mammoth era bones with tools in England and Danish peat bogs indicating man inhabited Earth thousands of years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Miller
Theresa Crofton
St. Nicholas
England
Denmark
Scandinavia
Learned Doctor Outwits Colleague in Lancashire Joke
A long anecdote recalls a lecture prank where Dr. Dale first spoke, then Dr. Rogers delivered the same speech to prove the ruse. The tale transitions to a Chicago lawyer’s quip about swapped babies, then moves through bits on health tonics, frontier army life, Charles Lamb, and a weather record by Walter Merie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Rogers
R. Dale
Birmingham
Lancashire
Dale
South
Dr. Rogers
Dr. Dale
Martis
Texas Siftings
Savage
Walter Merie
Bodleian Library
G. J. Ton
Merle
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the Townsend
Priday Morung
DSL
Onla
Townsend
J.C. Keucey
Historic British Homes
Uvenwmwark
Tasity
Chicago
Niut
J. R. Weaton
Regular Army
Charles Lamb
Martin Burney
Wordsworth
Hamlet
The
Christian Union
Dr. King
Dr. Kim
J. R. Weston’s
W. HE. Tierney & CO
Sasha
Bitters
Prickly Ash Bitters
Thos. Ruse Savings Bank
Yelena
Mont
Montana
Thomas . Ruse
J.orus
Wm. J
Reney
Thomas Cruse
John Pagan
Ana A Mec'y
Tevetees
William J. Cruse
Wiliam J. Sweeney
United States
Europe
Tod
Floreree
Elgrecce Mfc. CO
Acd Wholesale
Ofice
Belvidere
LOS Wabash Ace
Bread Street
Vicky
Lee
General Merchandise
VASA
Stevee
Jivbad
Establishment For Sale
Saint Paul
Alles Atend
Atremene
Levsare
Jeannel
Keeler
Boston
Secu
Santa Sera
Scientific American Agency For
Aan
Ed. EL. Huntley & Co
L. Huntley & Co
Toledo Weekly Blade
Diademy Guverne
Money Maker
Blade Blade Chima
Dianer Sete
Teclubromere
Blade
Reyes
Totepo
Great Norther
Mixasteta
Wilmer
Sioux Falle
Duluth, Watertown
Pasifo
Minneapolis, ST. Paul
Duluth
West Superior
Sioux City
Helena
Atlantic
Faepress
Partie
Fapress
Helena and
Butte
Prramr
Earned Cay Tocket
North Main Etreet
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