The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-22
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the titles Of more than fifty papers mostly
lllustrated), by writers OF the highest merit.
Under the head Of
''Foreisn Travel
we have "a Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan "Saunterings About Constants.
nople,' by Charles Dudley Warner "Out
of My window at Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler! IAN American in Turkistan,"
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Nicholas Minturn,"
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Home Life and Travel"
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| MIR. Barnard's articles on various indus
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"Some Experiments in Cooperation "a
Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
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Household and Home ecoration"
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