The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-03-21

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the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
illustrsted), by writer's OF the highest merit.
Under the head Of 4ef
Foreign Travel
we have "a Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
nople.'by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
ofMy Window at Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler: "An American IN 1urkistaB,'
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eat Nicholas Mintnrn,' 81
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor,
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The scene OF this latest novel is laid on
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'Some Experiments in Cooperation IA
Scottish Loaf Factory in the November
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December. Other papers are, "The British
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Household and Home Decoration"
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