Illusions vanish with a visit to Apaches in Arizona
An expedition in Northern Arizona meets two midlife Apache travelers, Yu l i pa and Sat a lal, wedding in a bare camp near Mogollon ruins. The bride and groom, hungry and penniless, share a meal and gifts, while observers reflect on broken trails and shifting white expectations. Chief Charley Mojave invites them to a primitive Mogollon camp where a stark, squalid scene contrasts with romantic myths of the noble red race.
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Arizona
Beth
Fort McDonald
Yuma
Badegroom
Mogollon Mountains
Townsend
Ha fAinalls
Charley Mojave
Charley
Charlay
Woman in mens clothes lived as man for fifty years
Catherine Coome a Somerset woman who for fifty years wore masculine attire and worked as a captain's clerk painter and decorator aboard P&O steamers married twice to women and once to a man under the name Charles Wilson Her life on ship and ashore included disguises to evade a hostile husband and years in workhouses with tales of travel hunger and resilience
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Catherine Coome
Sunday Post
London
Catherina Coome
Aterner
Ted
P & O Co
England
Cheltenham
Perival Coome
Caplains
Catherine
St Margarets Church
Westminster Abbey
Charles Wilson
Annie Ridgeway
Campbell
Annie
Lfe
P & © Company
Australia
Tugal
Charles II
Catherine of Braganzga
Portugal
Siberian
Russia
Japan
Alaska
Toent
Laxman
Hakodate
Amusing tale of aunt Sarah dinner and Beets sugar debate
A narrator visits Aunt Sarah in Heetville and recalls dinner with cousin Josephine and widow Mrs Lacquerie. He lectures on beet sugar and cane sugar protection, then impresses peers with a speech at the club, while joking about coaching, golf, and social status. The scene blends satire of politics and 19th century social life.
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Silas
New York
Digcuns
Sarah
Heetville
Sunt
Josephine
Jack
Lacquerie
Bset Grinders’ Trust
Apache Princess and Camp Tales at Bright Angel
An Apache princess Chateka, light colored and powerful, shares life with a mining camp, selling beadwork to tourists and later marrying a young buck before a tribal dispute drove him away. At Big Bug a group of Apache women wail over a perceived spell requiring a money offering. Josie Station, an Apache belle, wears 700 yards of beads and plans to marry a tribal student who will likely abandon his schooling once tied to his people.
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Townsend
Chateka
Grand Canyon
Aha
Bright Angel
Buck
Big Bug
Josie Station
Lord Hugh Cecil Emerges as a Power in 1902 Politics
The Harpers Weekly portrait of Lord Hugh Cecil, youngest son of Lord Salisbury, highlights a frail, gawky appearance contrasted with a fierce, earnest intellect and striking eloquence. Despite a fragile frame and jerky delivery, Cecil conveys unwavering conviction and contagious sincerity, capable of commanding even a Gladstone audience.
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Sydney Brooks
Harpers Weekly
Lord Hugh Cecil
Lord Salisbury
Bismarck
Hugh Cecil
Gladstone
Love and a Turnout in a New York Scene
The narrator confesses deep love to Mrs Lacquerie as she listens intently under a parasol. He glimpses a possible bond, then plans to buy a turnout for 2500 dollars after a whispered deal with a turnout agent. He returns home in happiness, while Mrs Lacquerie moves aside for his cousin Josephine.
The Road to a Lost Love in New York Nights
A letter from Reuben recounts a night of pursuit and purchase driven by a restless passion in New York. A coach and four, a dealer's bid of four thousand dollars, and a gift of skating apparatus fail to win Mrs Lacquerie. She reveals she slept through the tree scene and rejects the proposal, leaving him heartbroken and bound for distant lands.
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Reuben
New York
Politeness the Mark of Japanese Diplomacy
A historical survey shows Japan’s strict, formal diplomacy in early interactions with Portugal England and Russia. Proclamations banished Portuguese from 1637 and forbid Japanese departure, while later Russian envoys faced curt, ceremonial refusals and blunt limits on trade and contact with Nagasaki.
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Obody
Japan
Charles 1
Portugal
Porta
Mike
Por
Russia
Matsmal
Nagasaki
Facts From Here And There Summary
A collection of antiquated science curiosities notes money from animal skins, Sahara size, and grounds of a world fair, plus varied items. It mentions Japan’s island archipelago, an enormous Venezuelan beetle, Russian jewelry habits, dangerous Russian railways, and a rough claim about air travel fatalities. It cites a Chinese dictionary, natural enemies of frogs, clover root depth, Balocchistan tobacco strength, and memory factors including summer versus winter.
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Sahara
Mediterranean
St. Louis
Flng
Japan
Venezuela
Dutch Guiana
Pacatehe
Oczeus
Balocchistan
Edentiate
August Path and Woods in Frank Walcott Hutt Poem
A vivid August verse from Frank Walcott Hutt in August Housekeeper invites a companion to walk the orchard lanes and glen roads. The speaker dreams of a larger life amid hillside, waterfall, and quiet paths, recalling childhood secrets and kinfolk joining on a pastoral journey.
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Orchard Lane
Glen Road
Frank Walcott Hutt
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Wall Street
Helen
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Mrs. Lacquerie
Helas
Agai
Alexander
Resanoff
Wesali
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