Noted Chief’s Daughter in Detroit Art Circles
A portrayal of nette Macketebonessy an aspiring model linked to Detroit artists. The piece details her mixed Ottawa and Chippewa heritage, family background including relatives connected to Native priests, and her ambitions to reclaim Ottawa lands. It notes her athletic and musical talents and her stance on Native rights within Michigan society. It also references Lord Chancellor etiquette and a curious note about the woolsack outside the Lords.
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Hter
Nette Macketebonessy
Detroit
Pic Hawk
Lord
House of Lords
Great Britain
England
Lurgan
Sue
Additio
First Socialist Mayor Elected in U S Haverhill Mass
John Chase wins the mayoralty in Haverhill Massachusetts as the first socialist candidate elected by a city electorate. He leads six candidates with a plurality of 850 votes while three aldermen and three councilmen are also chosen. Chase, a New Hampshire native, worked in mills and unions before entering politics.
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Verhill
Mass
John Chase
Overhill
Jlabor Eireles
Bce
Canadian professor trains horses with novel methods
Prof Norton B. Smith, a young Canadian, boasts he has broken in over 20 000 refractory horses on world tours. His techniques include talking umbrellas for fear, drums on the head, and tin pans on the hindquarters to deter kicks, with harsh noises signaling failure.
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Norton B. Smith
Tim
What Becomes of Metals in Industrial Use
The article explains how lead is processed into white red and orange pigments and into sheets bullets and pipes with scrap returning mainly via pipes. Zinc is used for galvanizing brass oxide pigments and zinc dust with brass scrap as key source. Copper dominates in brass electrical conductors sheets roofing utensils and pipes. most mined metal never returns as scrap.
The White Man Who Scalps Himself
In Bent's Fort Belzy Dodd, a hunter known as the scalp-artist, astonished nearby Indians by shouting a war cry and tossing his wig to the ground, causing them to fear him as a scalpless ghost for months.
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Belzy Dodd
Bent’s Fort
Betty
Dodd
Forest Preservation in Bohemia Keeps Primeval Areas
Bohemia maintains near primeval forest cover as government policy requires replanting when trees are cut. Pine dominates the wood, with new saplings raised from seed and planted in mountain enclosures each spring. A bird on a woman's hat is worth a dowry in the bush to the milliner. A hypocrisy makes more trouble in the world than a fool.
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Bohemia
Extravagant Romans Dissolve Pearls and Feast in Anticipation
The piece recalls Cleopatra drinking a pearl in wine and Mark Antony’s lavish kitchen scenes in ancient Alexandria. It notes Cleopatra’s pearl wealth, Caesar’s valued gems, and Aesop’s supposed pearl drinking, then contrasts with Antony’s dinner-proud excess as eight boars roasted for a dozen guests. The tale ends with a surveyor and Jim debating town work and wages.
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Mark Antony
Cleopatra
Antony
Caligula
Julius Caesar
Brutus
Caesar
Rome
Aesop
Cecilia
Sylla
Alexandria
St. Nicholas
Giant atlas moth and natural science curiosities
The text describes the giant atlas moth as the largest known moth from China with nine inch wingspans. It explains leaf fall via tissue growth at leaf-stem junctions and how fruit ripening involves similar processes. It notes insect flight speeds, sea gull displacement by coast defense work, and giraffe camouflage mimicking dead tree trunks to avoid predators. Lions mistake motionless giraffes for trees.
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China
Ancient German Bible in Mount St. Marys Seminary Collection
The Mount St. Marys Seminary in Cincinnati holds a Low German Bible printed in Cologne in 1468, predating Martin Luther. Former pastor Rev. Edward Timothy Collins owned it and died August 27, 1865, bequeathing the volume and a library to the seminary as part of his estate.
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Mount St. Mary's Seminary
Cincinnati
Martin Luther
Cologne
Edward Timothy Collins
Ile
Fanning Man's Wages Lesson From A Storm
The Young People's Weekly recounts a tale of honest labor after a severe storm. A country town sees many men and boys shoveling drifts and earning a quarter dollar an hour, reflecting on work ethic and fair wages in tough conditions.
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Young People’s Weekly
Law and medical views in a mixed 19th century text
The excerpt discusses legal cases on fence height, damaged currency, worker hospital care, and mineral rights, and contrasts Old and New Curative Methods. It notes Letts vs Messler on trespass-like rights, a mutilated dollar as invalid currency, hospital care contracts, and how mining terms affect mineral conveyance. It also reflects a shift toward hygiene and nature in treating disease.
First Public Performance of Home Sweet Home Story
A tale recounts John Howard Payne being arrested amid a Georgia Tennessee dispute over a trading post. He hummed and claimed authorship of Home Sweet Home as an Indian grave ceremony unfolded, leading General Bishop to grant his release and the tune’s first public hearing.
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Payne
Bishop
Tome
Saturday Evening Post
Why Red Irritates a Bull
Red irritates oxen because it is the complementary color to freen and the cattle focus on herbage making anything red seem more vivid. Lady Birds May He a Pest Lady birds are imported into Egypt from New South Wales to guard fruit from parasitic insects and may become as troublesome as sparrows. Politicians believe they are fit for any office.
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Egypt
New South Wales
Germany Crown Prince Frederick William to visit America
A historical piece describes Frederick William, the Crown Prince of Germany, visiting the United States incognito and staying at the White House. It notes his youth at 16, physical frailty, and prowess in hunting, shooting, horseback riding, and rowing as he leads the First Regiment of the Guards.
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Rome
Ndrew Cr Ibid
Harbor Springs
Mich
United States
Washington
Ashood
Takno
Michigan
Frederick William
Inmperor
America
Emperor William
White House
Crown Prince
William
The
Guards
Wesley Preaching Pulpit at South Leigh Oxfordshire
In the Little Church at South Leigh Oxfordshire two magnets draw visitors the fifteenth century frescoes including the Judgment of Souls and the pulpit from which John Wesley preached his first sermon a brass tablet marks the historic moment in this small church admired for architecture and art.
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South Leigh
Oxfordshire
Witvn
Lgst
Gayety
Grinling Gibbons
John Wesley
FISH STORIES FROM THE NORTH The Great Abundance of Fishes
Vancouver expert H C Deming describes Alaska waters as a vast food supply with abundant cod menhaden herring and salmon runs. He notes massive herring shoals and seals and a black fish threat while salmon climb river falls and Indians with clubs and pitchforks harvest them. Skagit and Snoqualmie streams in Washington also show heavy banks of fish.
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Columbia
Yukon
Alaska
H. C. Deming
Vancouver
Bering Sea
Newfoundland
Skait
Snoqualmie
Washington
Mourning Robes and Jewels Mentioned in Historic Texts
A cryptic excerpt notes the black cape in courts and funerals as a symbol of mourning, cites Dudley Fossett on hooded funeral rites, and references church burials. It hints at opulent artifacts like a string pearl carpet jewel and a Mohammedan belle, with scattered mentions of Cincinnati and traps.
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Dudley Foslet
S Cox
Ely
Barnada
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St. Barnabas Hospital
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Germany
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Mig
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Lady Lurgan
Wesley
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