Mary Jane Flies Through Plymouth Tour of Land and Lords
Special correspondence from Phrmock England describes a hotel stay, sights in Plymouth and Saltash, and a tour of Old Plymouth including the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe estate. The writers note robust English women, obsequious service, and curiosity about nobility, with reflections on social class and local history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phrmock
Eng
Customis
Dickey
Solomon
England
Globe Hotel
Mary Jane
America
Plymouth
Saltash
Tamar
Devonshire
Cornwall
Devonport
Stonehouse
Plym
Eddystone
Boston
Sir Walter Raleigh
Napoleon I
Sir Francis Drake
Matthews
Earl of
Mount Edgecumbe
London
House of Lords
Orangery
Jake
Two Young Enitors Rise in Pennsylvania journalism
Special correspondence from Philadelphia notes that William Wirt Mills of Bethlehem Daily Times and A. E. Watrous of the Philadelphia Press are among the youngest editors in the country. Mills, born July 17 1867 in Dubuque Iowa, became Bethlehem editor February 10 after The Times was sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelfhls
Daily Press
Pennsylvania
William Wirt Mills
Bethlehem
Daily Times
A. E. Watrous
Philadelphia Press
Mr. Mills
Dubuque
Towa
Randolph
A. K. Stauffer
Reading
Lehigh University
Lehigh Burr
Richard H
the Times
Joseph A. Weaver
De Bausset Plans Pole Flight in Vacuum Airship
Adelphe De Bausset, a French physician and enthusiast, aims to voyage to the North Pole by a vacuum inflated airship built of steel plates. The craft would be 654 feet long and 144 feet in diameter, powered by eight atmospheric screws and electric pumps to manage ascent and descent. He seeks $130,000 and offers subscribers seats in the car for the June 10 departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Lere
North Pole
Adelphe de Bausset
Pole
Chicago
Adolph DE Bausset
de Bausset
Dr. de Bausset
Chicago Exposition
London
Paris
Yeddo
de Bansset
Colbert
Transcontinental Aerial Navigation Company
New York
Europe
Ignis Fatuus
Wellman
Asparagus Farms How They Are Conducted and Profits
Special correspondence from San Yon describes Long Island asparagus farms from ten to twenty acres with workers harvesting and bunching. Seed from Holland. beds last years with yields possible thirty to forty years. Bunches washed and packed for shipment. culls avoided as dishonorable. price per bunch ranges sixteen to twenty cents, this year eighteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Yorn
Long Island
Martinecocl
Oyster Bay
Holland
England
Martinecock
L. RB. CG
Visiting Cards in the Harem Innovations Reported
The St James Gazette notes that the padishah approves a new practice in the imperial harem allowing each sultana to receive a rug card. Women may now affix a copy of the card to the outer door of their private apartments, a change previously known only to the sultan and chief eunuchs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James
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Mary Janes
Asparagus Farms
David Shear
Warren County
White & Company
Wil
Beecher & Copeland
Icf
Mihalovitch
Fletcher & Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
M. Mead
Warren, Pa
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