Incidents of the Cuban Blockade by Walter Russell
Walter Russell contributes an article to the Century recounting his blockade experiences aboard a four person dispatch boat crew. He describes sightings, encounters, and rival legends of theFlying Dutchman while detailing the era’s nautical lore and poetic musings on ghost ships and seascape imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Russell
Ruswell
Key West
Havana
Clark Russell
Pall Mall
Vanderdecker
Wordsworth
Giant telescope for Paris 1900 exhibition progress report
La Nature notes M Gautier the poptician reports progress on a giant telescope for Paris 1900 with a 1.25 m aperture and 60 m focal length costing about 1 409 000 francs. It will be fixed horizontally with a 2 m diameter plane mirror weighing 3600 kg and two interchangeable objectives.
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la Nature
M. Gautier
Paris
Hawaiian Girls And Their Music Heritage Details
The article describes Hawaiian girls as pleasant, light hearted and musical with good temperaments and a well developed figure. It notes education in government schools, English taught, the dying Hawaiian language, and three Hawaiian schools remaining. The ex queen’s musical talent is highlighted and hope that native songs become a fad at folk lore meetings next winter. It also mentions rival plant control by sowing rape to kill thistles and reports on Chinese interpreters to Osler from a Berlin seminary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osler
Germany
Kiao- Chen
Berlin
Oriental Languages
Begla
World Climate by Electric Cable Plan
Visionaries propose turning the globe topsy turvy with a giant electric cable around the Earth. An American electrician argues a world magnet could be created by powering a massive current from Niagara Falls to move climate, lean toward the sun, and regulate seasons for endless crops and famine relief.
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Greenland
India
Newton Harrison
Earth
Globe
Niagara
Tropics
Arctic
Antarctic
Saved His Cigarette and the Cliff Battle Heroism
A Ghurka siege in northwestern India years ago featured a young English officer calmly smoking as his right hand was shattered by a bullet. He directed his men from a hut doorway while the surgeon watched, then the flanking party broke the siege and routed the attackers. The officer kept his cigarette in his left hand as the right dangled injured at his side. California Hag the Biggest Bird and Old Work on Mathematics are also noted in brief entries: the California vulture now stands four feet high, with scarce eggs preserved. old British Museum Manuscript on mathematics is the oldest deciphered text of its kind.
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England
India
California
Cocopsah Mountains
Ehind
British Museum
Satly
A.D
Galles
Nazareth
Kanetele Seli
Doda
Bethabata
Nathanael
Bartholomew
Philip
Sessa
Jesus
Jeans
Sophocles
God
Mary
Martha
Tazarus
Marrial
Dedication Services at Cedar Rapids and Livermore Church
A multi session dedication weekend features Rev. T S Bailey presiding in Cedar Rapids and Rev. J M Greene leading in Fort Dodge with congregational song services, readings, prayers, and hymns. Bishop Leonard Smith assists on organ duties and choir addresses occur throughout the schedule.
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Bailey
D. D
Cedar Rapids
T. S. Bailey
Greene
Leonard Smith
M. E. Church
Pirate Chief Mockingly Tales Of Chicago Captives
The Cincinnati Enquirer recalls a pirate chief boasting to a yacht full of Chicago tictionaires about his crew’s boredom and his plan to make captives walk the plank. He suggests the Chicagoans’ habit of sprinting on slaughterhouse floors would bring excitement to his dull life.
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Chicago
Caribbenan Sea
Cincinnati Enquirer
Slaughter House
Cure for Rheumatism Promoted by Blood Remedy
An advertisement claims that mercury and potash-based prescriptions worsen rheumatism. It touts 8.8.8 as a twenty year cure, citing a Columbia railroad dispatcher who suffered two years and credits the product with permanent relief. The text argues rheumatism is a blood disease and condemns mercury and potash remedies.
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EB. Hughes
Columbia
Tam
Edisine
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta
Georgia
Long Untouched Silver Bars in Bank of England
A reader recalls a curious conversation on likeness and identity. Personal resemblance does not imply shared nature, and the author reflects on expectations when meeting a lookalike, recounting a youthful visit and the feeling of an imagined double. The piece closes noting silver bars in the Bank of England that have remained untouched for centuries.
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Bank of England
Foreign letter mix up at remote Spanish post offices
Dr Gadow finds post office delays and misfiling in Northern Spain. Letters are sorted alphabetically by postmaster, causing a foreigner to be misregistered and letters misdelivered. In Potes a letter to Cabezon was declared unlikely to reach its destination. At San Sebastian a registered remittance sat unseen for days until a consul intervened.
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Potes
Worthern
John Smithy
Dri Gatlow
Spain
Smith
Butohn Smith
Gadow
Petes
Cabezon
San Sebastian
Wagner in All Gay Moods
A Ladies Home Journal piece summarized by Houston Stewart Chamberlain portrays Richard Wagner as boisterously gay in private life. The excerpt notes his fondness for playful friends, rapid movements, athletic feats, and jaunty antics during youth and even near death, highlighting his agility and humor.
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Wagner
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Richard Wag‘ner
Ladies Home Journal
Appendicitis Not Always Requiring Immediate Operation
Medical experts state there is no universal cure for appendicitis and that some cases improve with rest and nonoperative care. Early treatment guides diagnosis and outcome within the first 12 to 24 hours, while rising urgency over 12 hours often signals need for surgery. Subsequent notes mention antique Havana furniture sales and a Tasmania frog whose croak resembles a lamb’s bleating.
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Physiciana
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Flying Dutchman
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Muasle
Dees
Fi B Clapp
Gloria
Chott
Anthem
D. M. Stiles
Baptist
W. J. Siuckow
Mrs
Grove
J. M. Greene
Fort Dodge
W, Clarke
de. T. S. Bailey
Congregation
Day
Song Service
Story of the Church
J. F. Berry
Livermore
Mr, Re, Vincent
Choi and Congregation
Nathan Feather
Union
J. B. Berry
Pressley
Burt
J. B. Clapp
S.S.S
Samson & Paine
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Grain, Feed and
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Algona
Wak
Danger Can
Tasmania
Canaan
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