Burns Birthplace Tour Shows Fees and Folly in Ayr
Special Correspondent recounts a visit to Ayr and Mosgiel, noting Burns birthplace near the Doon, the old thatched cottage, and a turnstile charge for entry. He contrasts the poverty of Burns with the cost of sights including Kirk Alloway and the Burns monument, while a loquacious guide shares anecdotes and a supposed Burns descendant.
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Ayr
Kirk Alloway
New Yor
Burns
Mosgiel
Byr
Tom O'Shanter
Robert Burns
Johnny
Scotland
St. Giles
Edinburgh
John Knox
Walter Scott
Abbottsford
Tam O'Shanter
Tam
Monument
Thonas J. Topp
Twilight Encounters at Asbury Park Pavilion
A iSpecial Correspondence piece from Asbury Park New Jersey recounts twilight by the pavilion where waves moan and a young woman of nearly nineteen shares dreams and amusement with a solitary observer. She speaks of family, a “teckinboy,” and a hopeful future, while savoring the sea and the town as her world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
N. J
Reserve
Clara
Caroline
Master the surf and ride the Siasconset breakers
Special correspondence from Siasconset Nantucket on September 6 offers practical tips for safe surf bathing. Prentice Mulford urges swimmers to stay outside the curl, keep calm, and use wide arm flaps to ride surges, stressing practice to gain the so called knack while warning against panicked struggles and dangerous undertows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siasconset
Nantucket
Siasconset Beach
Atlantic Ocean
Rockaway
Lamar
Janda “Dory
Borband
Prentice Mulford
Mary Jakes Travels From Chamounix to Alpine Peaks
Mary Jang chronicles crossing the Alps via Simplon and Tete Noir on a summer journey. She describes snow, Alpine peaks, red rocks, and stone telegraph poles, notes Swiss honey, and jokes about a snowman on a glacier with Dickey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamounixe
Chamou Savoy
Tain
Chamounix
Americ
France
Aml
Switzerland
Hint
Dickey
Alps
Onte
Simplon Pass
Tete Noir
Tom
Gondo
Tye
Grace
Italy
Marseilles
Genoa
Mary Jang
Mammoth Cave Underground: Echoes and Ancient Works Explored
Special correspondence from Mammoth Cave Kentucky recounts a subterranean journey through Green River passages, saltpeter ruins, and a vaulted chamber. guides describe the vast chambers, water clocks, and acoustics while noting legends of lost travelers and a slave’s survival, ending with river echoes and natural wonders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mammoth Cave
Nature
Kentucky
Green
Methodist Church
Mammotheave
William Garvin
Willan Garvin
Banibek
Use for Waste Coal Piles
A proposed patent outlines turning waste coal culm from mine mouths into a gas like natural gas. Culm is milled through a hopper and air blast into chambers where it becomes a fine dust. The dust mixes with air oxygen to form a combustible gas that should burn with no smoke, but only works in a dry state, according to the reporter.
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Scott
Burns Cottage
Bonnie Doon
Mary Jane
Stiy Pal
Washington
Ghulstone
Bismaarel
Hall of Representatives
Wuide
Heaven
Harven
Reho
Worki Tb
Onderdan
Green River
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