The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-03-03
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the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
Illustrated), by writers OF the highes merit.
Under the head OF
Foreign Travel.
we have "a Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan 'sainterings About CONSTANT
nople." by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
of My Window ut Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler. "An American In Turkistan,'
etc Three serial stories are announced:
Nicholas Minturn,'
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor,
whose story OF "sevenoaks = gave the hig-s
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Monthly.
The scene o. this latest novel is laid on
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woman's apron strings" but who, by the
death of his mother, is left alone in the
world-to DRIFT on the current OF liie--with
| u fortune, but without purpose.
| Another serial, "His Inheritance" by
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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 Novembe
number, and TOAD Lane, Rochdale," II
December. Other papers are, "The British
| Workingman's Home, "a Nation OF shop
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Household and Horne Decoration"
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