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Saturday,
14 January 1905 |
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Saturday, 21
January 1905 |
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Wednesday, 1
February 1905 |
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- Crowley
distributes copies of his pamphlet "A Career for
an Essay" to announce a competition offering a
prize for the best essay, either hostile or appreciative, on
the works of Aleister Crowley across the campuses of Oxford and
Cambridge.
[Truth]
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Thursday, 2
February 1905 |
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Saturday, 18
February 1905 |
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Thursday, 23
February 1905 |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Truth |
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Location: Paris France.
- circa
late February, Crowley is staying at the Hotel St. James &
Albany in Paris, France.
[American
Register]
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News Related to Crowley:
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American Register |
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Current Events:
- Author, Arthur
Conan Doyle publishes The Return of Sherlock Holmes
after public pressure to revive his famous detective. |
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Diary Entries:
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Arnold Bennett |
Location: Paris France.
- Crowley has dinner at the
Chat Blanc restaurant, Paris, France. Per
Arnold Bennett "Aleister Crowley was there with dirty
hands, immense rings, presumably dyed hair, a fancy
waistcoat, a fur coat, and tennis shoes."
[232]
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Current Events:
- Albert
Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum
Theory of Light. |
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Location:
Boleskine House, Foyers, Inverness, Scotland. |
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Current Events:
- Author, Jules
Verne dies. |
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Location:
Boleskine House, Foyers, Inverness, Scotland.
- Crowley
takes a "vacation" from meditation.
[71] |
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Diary Entries:
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Jules Jacot Guillarmod |
Location:
Boleskine House, Foyers, Inverness, Scotland.
- Crowley
takes
Dr.
Jules Jacot Guillarmod on a "Haggis" hunt on the
grounds of Boleskine House. The hunt is, of course, a rude
practical joke played on Dr. Jacot Guillarmod by Crowley
where the part of the wild, dangerous, "Haggis" is played by
a sheep.
[196] |
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- Crowley
leaves England bound by sea for Cairo, Egypt on the P&O S.S. Marmora.
[198],
[Homeward
Mail]
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Location: Cairo Egypt.
- Crowley arrives in Cairo,
Egypt aboard the ship P&O S.S. Marmora.
[237] |
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Location: Cairo Egypt.
- Crowley is in Cairo,
Egypt visiting the Boulak Museum to see the stele of
Ankh-f-n-Khonsua.
[250]
- Crowley writes the poem "Said"
from
Gargoyles. The poem is said to memorialize a tryst
between Crowley and another man he picked up in Port Said or
Cairo after his arrival in Egypt on 23 May.
[237] |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Truth |
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Diary Entries:
-
Jules Jacot Guillarmod |
Location: Traveling by
ship from Port Said, Egypt to Bombay, India.
- Dr.
Jules Jacot Guillarmod receives a letter from Crowley
asking to delay the expedition to Kanchenjunga until next
year. Dr. Jacot Guillarmod refuses to delay.
[196] |
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Location: Calcutta,
India.
- Crowley arrives by ship
in Calcutta, India at 4 A.M. While in Calcutta Crowley
breakfasts and dines with his old friend
Edward Thornton.
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Location: Traveling
from Calcutta, India to Darjeeling, India.
- Crowley departs for
Darjeeling, India.
[237] |
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Current Events:
- The Summer Solstice. |
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Diary Entries:
-
Jules Jacot Guillarmod |
Location: Drum Druid
Hotel, Darjeeling, India. |
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Current Events:
- Albert
Einstein introduces his Special Theory of Relativity. |
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Location: Drum Druid
Hotel, Darjeeling, India.
- Crowley inspects
Kanchenjunga with binoculars and reckoning the highest peak
easily accessible by the col located west of it.
[237]
- The Agnostic
Journal publishes a poem by
Victor B. Neuburg entitled "A
Lyric". |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Agnostic Journal
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Location: Drum Druid
Hotel, Darjeeling, India.
- Crowley receives a
telegram from
Dr.
Jules Jacot Guillarmod that he has been shipwrecked in
the Red Sea.
[237] |
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- The
Englishman prints a Letter to the Editor from
Crowley concerning the Kanchenjunga expedition. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Englishman |
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Diary Entries:
-
Jules Jacot Guillarmod
-
Alcesti de Righi |
- The
Kanchenjunga expedition departs Darjeeling with six servants
and seventy-nine porters from Darjeeling and arrives
at the Dak-Bungalow in Jorpokri.
[196] |
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Wednesday,
16 August 1905 |
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Wednesday,
30 August 1905 |
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Saturday, 2
September 1905 |
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Tuesday, 5
September 1905 |
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Wednesday, 6
September 1905 |
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Thursday, 7
September 1905 |
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Saturday, 9
September 1905 |
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Sunday, 10
September 1905 |
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Monday, 11
September 1905 |
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Tuesday, 12
September 1905 |
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Wednesday,
13 September 1905 |
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Thursday, 14
September 1905 |
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Friday, 15
September 1905 |
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Saturday, 16
September 1905 |
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Monday, 18
September 1905 |
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Tuesday, 19 September 1905 |
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Wednesday,
20 September 1905 |
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Thursday, 21
September 1905 |
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Friday, 22
September 1905 |
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Saturday, 23
September 1905 |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Times of India
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Current Events:
- The
Fall Equinox. |
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Monday, 25
September 1905 |
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Tuesday, 26
September 1905 |
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Wednesday,
27
September 1905 |
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Thursday, 28 September 1905 |
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Friday, 29
September 1905 |
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Saturday, 30
September 1905 |
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- Crowley
has a renewal of poetic creativity and composes a number of
poems, most of which were collected and published in his
book
Gargoyles. He also writes the material published in his
book the
Bagh-i-Muattar.
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Correspondence:
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Crowley to Gerald Kelly
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Thursday,
12 October 1905 |
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- Crowley
is 30 years old. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Englishman |
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- Crowley has an astral
interview with
Elaine Simpson where she is accompanied by a golden hawk
in whom Crowley later recognizes as one of the Secret Chiefs
of the
A∴A∴.
The conversation turns to the subject of the Great Work
which is defined as the creation of a new universe.
[198] |
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Location: Calcutta, India.
- On this dark night
Crowley sets out to find a district he had previously
visited in 1901—"a street of infamy called 'Culinga Bazar' "—He
feels as though his is being followed and turns down an alley
(Motts Lane) into which a group of men clad
in white robes follows him. According to Crowley he is
accosted by them and they try to rob him. He pulls the trigger of his Webley revolver and the first shot misfires. He then fires a
second shot into the group of men. As they flee, Crowley
stumbles out of the alley into the Dharamtolla Road and takes
a horse-drawn taxi to
Edward Thornton's home.
[237],
[287]
NOTE:
The newspapers Indian Daily News and The Englishman contradicts the date
this event is reported to have occurred in several
biographies of Crowley. According to
The Indian Daily News' 2 November article the
incident happened on Saturday night (28 October.) According to
The Engishman's 2 November article the incident
happened on Sunday night (29 October) at about 10:00 P.M.
Additionally
a follow up article of 9 November in the same newspaper
indicates that the two men shot did not die but rather went
to hospital and recovered. |
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Saturday, 28
October 1905 |
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Location: Calcutta, India.
- After Crowley's
misadventure the previous evening he suggests to
Edward Thornton that he should go to the police.
Thornton instead takes him to a Scottish solicitor he called
"MacNair" who advises caution.
[237]
NOTE:
The newspapers Indian Daily News and The Englishman contradicts the date
this event is reported to have occurred by several
biographies of Crowley. According to
The Indian Daily News' 2 November article the
incident happened on Saturday night (28 October). According to
The Engishman's 2 November article the incident
happened on Sunday night (29 October) at about 10:00 P.M.
Additionally
a follow up article of 9 November in the same newspaper
indicates that the two men shot did not die but rather went
to hospital and recovered.
- (circa) Crowley writes
the poem "Kali" which is
eventually published in his book
Gargoyles.
[198] |
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Location: Calcutta, India.
- Rose Kelly
and daughter
Lilith join Crowley in Calcutta, India.
Edward Thornton throws a dinner party in Crowley and
Rose's honor. After dinner Crowley finds that the single
shot from his revolver on the 27th had actually killed two
men and that he needs to leave Calcutta immediately before
he is found by the police.
[237]
NOTE:
The newspapers Indian Daily News and The Englishman contradicts the date
this event is reported to have occurred by several
biographies of Crowley. According to
The Indian Daily News' 2 November article the
incident happened on Saturday night (28 October). According to
The Engishman's 2 November article the incident
happened on Sunday night (29 October) at about 10:00 P.M.
Additionally
a follow up article of 9 November in the same newspaper
indicates that the two men shot did not die but rather went
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Thursday, 2
November 1905 |
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Location: Rangoon,
Burma.
- Upon arrival in Rangoon,
Crowley installs
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith
in a hotel and goes off for a three-day visit to
Allan Bennett's monastery two miles outside the city
where he spends three days in meditation.
[287] |
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Wednesday, 8
November 1905 |
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- The
Times of India reports that one of the two men shot by
Crowley in an alley on 27 October was discharged cured from
the hospital. The other man is said to be progressing
favorably. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Times of India
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Thursday, 9
November 1905 |
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Wednesday,
15 November 1905 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Traveling
from Rangoon, Burma to Mandalay, Burma aboard the steamship
Java.
- Crowley,
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith depart from Rangoon aboard the steamship Java.
[71]
- Crowley tries an
experiment in taking opium.
[71] |
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Saturday, 18
November 1905 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location:
Traveling from Rangoon, Burma to Mandalay, Burma aboard the
steamship Java. |
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Saturday, 18
November 1905 |
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Location:
Traveling from Rangoon, Burma to Mandalay, Burma aboard the
steamship Java.
- Today is Crowley's 7th
"magical" birthday—The anniversary of his initiation into
the
Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Sphere |
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Tuesday,
21 November 1905 |
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Location: Mandalay,
Burma.
- Crowley,
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith
arrive in Mandalay, Burma.
[237] |
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Wednesday,
22 November 1905 |
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Location: Mandalay,
Burma.
- Crowley takes the
A∴A\
Oath of a
Zelator.
[8]
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Thursday, 23
November 1905 |
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Location: Mandalay,
Burma.
- Crowley takes the
A∴A\
Oath of a
Practicus.
[8]
- Crowley,
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith
board the Irrawaddy for Bhamo, located forty miles
from the Chinese border but their departure is delayed.
[237] |
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Saturday, 25 November 1905 |
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Tuesday, 28
November 1905 |
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Location: Mandalay,
Burma. |
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Current Events:
- Arthur
Griffith forms Sinn Féin in Dublin, Ireland. |
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Wednesday,
29
November 1905 |
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Location: Mandalay,
Burma.
- Crowley,
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith
finally depart Mandaly, Burma by boat aboard the
Irrawaddy for Bhamo, located forty miles from the
Chinese border.
[237] |
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Location: Bhamo.
- Crowley,
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith
arrive at Bhamo, located forty miles from the Chinese
border.
[237] |
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Current Events:
- The
British Government of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour resigns. |
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Current Events:
- Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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Saturday, 9
December 1905 |
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Current Events:
- Composer,
Richard Strauss' opera Salome premieres in Dresden,
Germany. |
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Wednesday,
13 December1905 |
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Saturday, 16
December 1905 |
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Location: Traveling
from Bhamo to Teng Yueh.
- Crowley,
Rose Kelly and their daughter
Lilith
leave Bhamo and travel to Teng Yueh. Lillith's nurse takes
off with a muleteer.
[233] |
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Current Events:
- Louis Wilkinson
is 24 years old. |
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circa
mid-to-late December1905 |
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Location: China.
- Just after crossing into
China Crowley's pony stumbles and he and the pony roll over
each twice and fall off a forty foot cliff. Crowley takes
the fact that he was not injured in the fall as a sign that
there is a special purpose to his life.
[287] |
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Tuesday, 19
December 1905 |
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Location: China. |
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Current Events:
- Gerald Yorke
is 4 years old. |
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Location: China. |
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Current Events:
- The Winter Solstice. |
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Current Events:
- Howard
Hughes is born. |
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Location: China. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Pioneer |
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Saturday, 30
December 1905 |
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