The Sea's Two Voices
Two friends wander by the shore hear two voices in the roar from memories. One man hears the sea as music of loss while the other hears it as song of love fulfilled, as if the waves speak differently to each. Harper's Bazar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Bazar
Nassau
Bahamas
James B. Townsend
Lillian
Watlings Island
New York
Rving
Faust
Ellen Terry
Marguerite
Bahama Island
John
Watkins
Bahama
England
Wrecker
Watlings
Maj S Bazar
Wreckers and a Bahama Island Love Tale on Watlings
On Nassau bound Watlings Island a London born Englishwoman recounts surviving a Caribbean hurricane and shipwreck. She stayed with a wrecking family, fell for a sailor named John, and now faces departure with a proposed marriage and a romance set on Watlings Island.
Ancient Egypt Reveals Two Unknown Resins in Medica
The article reports the unearthing of two resins in Egypt that may enlarge the Egyptian materia medica. One jar from Naucratis suggests the resin is Chian turpentine, dating back to the sixth century B C. The second resin, on a mummy cloth in Fayum, releases benzoic and vanilla-like vapors when burned, hinting benzoin or related resins were known to ancient populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Materia Medica
Naucratia
Holmes
Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society
Theophrastus
Solomon
Dioscorides
Medical Journal
The Maids and Menace of Names in Old Jokes
A mangled collage of comic lines and sketches appears, centering on wordplay about names that mean trouble. Bits from stage patter and character sketches mix with Irish and rural American humor, featuring observations on marriage, law, and society in a playful, old newspaper voice.
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Columbus
Medias Res
San Salvador
Cat Island
Spain
London
California
Isthmus
Tropics
Ancient Egypt
Dover
Funny Men OF the Press
Mud
Daly
Puck
George de Sappy
Toledo Blade
Mother
Clair
His
Willie
Roper
Bowling Green
Patterson
Bridget
Meech
Lraceller
Eskex
Noah Wey
Agnes
Amy
Poe
Ethel
Clara
Bummer
Wiggins
John. Crabley
Young A. Heferton Griggs
Mael
Jack
Boe
Linsey
Badinage
Sing Sing
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