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For no Particular Reason it’s China Rhymings ‘China in 1924’ Week – #1 Dig From New Orleans to Shanghai

Posted: December 12th, 2016 | No Comments »

I have blogged about the prolific Frank G Carpenter before (here), journalist and compiler of the lovely Carpenter’s World Travels series of books between the 1890s and his death in 1924. Here is Carpenter’s probable last dispatch back to the American newspapers from Shanghai which he predicts will soon rival New York. Interestingly he does suggest digging a deep hole downwards from New Orleans to get to Shanghai!!

Shortly after sending this report Carpenter travelled from Shanghai to Nanking, where he died aged 69.

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