Vast winter snowfall and 1889 Paris exhibition bids
The itemized notes cover Kansas winter snowfall totals, Paris exhibition monopoly bids of 275000 francs for 1000 seats and 89000 francs for 1889, a London plan to spend 10000 to shelter families after disease disinfection, New York unions moving halls, and remarks by J M Kimbrough on fodder waste. It also notes 1899 potato yield, Watkinson Library acquisition, a Guthrie Ok 5 cent lawsuit appeal, a meteor in British Central Africa, West Texas pearl work, a claremont knife set from the Mayflower, Swiss edelweiss dangers, a Richfield Utah clock, and a humorous anecdote.
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Kansas
London
Central Federated Union of New York
J. M. Kimbrough
Central
Georgia
Watkinson Drary of Reference
Hartford
British Central Africa
Mount Momba
Concho River
Texas
G. A. Andrews
Claremont
N. H
London Times
Switzerland
Edelweiss
Joseph Jensen
Richfield
Utah
Inattentive clerks and one man's counter strategy
A streetcar observer explains two encounters with inattentive clerks. One man uses calm aplomb to demand attention, succeeding after brief interruptions. The narrator tries the method, waiting beside a counter as a rude lady finishes her talk, testing the technique.
Illinois inventor patents resilient tire for heavy vehicles
A Chicago area report notes multiple recent patents including a heavy vehicle tire with an outer fabric tube and vulcanized rubber disks, a wallpaper applying machine, a wire device to shape Ascot ties, a cheaper attuned chime design, and a foldable book armchair rack with a swiveling rod clamp.
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Illinois
Ohico
Chicago
Stage Heroes Are Scarce and Heroines Plenty
Franklin Iyles argues in the Ladies' Home Journal that actresses outnumber actors in supply. He notes female roles are well performed in matinee trials while male parts lag, with many promising actresses available and few hero figures for male leads. He observes a surplus of capable actresses versus scarce heroic male roles.
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Franklin Iyles
Ladies’ Home Journal
Russian Wolf Story Twist Ends With Laughing Punchline
A red faced man recalls a chase in Russia where wolves pursued him while sleighing. He fires, kills one wolf, and the pack stops to feed, then advances again. After repeating the pattern, only one wolf remains, prompting a corner spectator to joke about the pack being inside the last wolf.
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Russia
London
Stuck to His Specialty in Capitol Horse Talk
In a Capitol committee room Senator Blackburn of Kentucky and Col Pepper discuss horses. Representative Crain of Texas interrupts about literature, naming Tennyson and Longfellow. Pepper drolly claims Longfellow was the greatest horse ever bred in Kentucky.
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Blackburn
Kentucky
Col. Pepper
Capitol
Crain
Texas
Tennyson
Longfellow
Washington Post
Diet and temperament in children sparks debate
In a discussion on child behavior experts note some authorities claim diet shapes disposition. They cite gentler rice-eating cultures versus more quarrelsome meat-eating children as evidence.
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Chi
D.eu
Mississippi Water Power Awakens Industrial Age
The article traces how the Mississippi River transformed from a primitive aboriginal waterway to a vast power source. It describes early log dams and small mills, later massive dam and mill complexes at St Anthony’s Falls, Little Falls, St Paul area, St Cloud, and St Croix. It notes pioneers like John Green and later Pillsbury Washburn Company, with dams generating thousands of horsepower, and highlights the river’s shift from transport to industrial engine.
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Dian
Mississippi River
Iisane
Fort Snelling
Mississippi
Minnesota
Minneapolis Mill Company
Palatine
H. H. Graham
Hastings
Minn
Vermillion River
Mississipp
Little Falls
James Green
Caleb
W. H. Woodberry
Inabor
Hennepin
St. Anthony's
Earth
St. Anthony's Falls
Pike
Schoolcraft
John Green
United States
St. Anthony's Falla
St. Cloud {S
Frank Steele
Falls of
St. Croix
Jeremiah Russell
Fitch
St. Croix Falls
Palmyra
Taylor's Falls
Wisconsin
Acetylene Gas Soot Promises Bright Ink Black
Acetylene flame yields a soot with high color quality for inks and lithographs. It produces three to four times more soot than mineral oils, is very light, and remains an absolutely black color free of brown tinge or tarry additives. The substance, bulky and suited for India ink, is manufactured in France under a patent for lithographic use.
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India
France
Curious birds draw crowds in a street window display
A Detroit Free Press item notes a shopkeeper in a 4&4 store attracting customers by a window museum style display. A big cage holds a remarkable bird labeled From Samoa, drawing curiosity as crowds gather outside the window, the scene unfolding over several hours.
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4&4
Samoa
Detroit Free Press
Insanity Among Half freed Indians Sparks Land Purchase
The article reports that the government bought 160 acres near Canton to build an asylum for insane Indians, noting the claim that there are no insane Indians of pure race and that inmates will be half-breed.
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Canton
D. D
United States
Jones
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Guthrie, Ok
J. A. Futrell
Bk. W. Depew
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mississippi’s Water Power
Great
Great Northwest
Green
Sa Wfils
W. D. Washburn
Pillsbury Dam
Minneapolis
Mississipi't
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