Varied 1890 Paris death toll and strange nearby finds
The report notes that in Paris during 1890 consumption caused about a quarter of deaths with 27.2 percent of victims aged 1 to 20 and 60.2 percent aged 20 to 40. It mentions other items including an Alabama geologist near Decatur finding gold and phosphate traces, a Round Prairie man uncovering a large mammoth tusk in Logan county, and frescoes found on Pompeii‑era walls at Vesuvius with a Kaiser rumored offer for the find. It also cites European armies considering Boer‑model corps, and pension changes leading to a widow’s suicide.
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Paris
Alabama
Decatur
Boers Farms Targeted for Speculative Sale at Johannesburg
Pall Mall Gazette correspondent proposes forming a company to buy Boer farms and sell to English settlers. He claims farms are cheap because Moor prisoners of war will return to find homesteads burned and stock gone. Later, a Mount Joy church bequest case shows a church bond deed blocked by a court ruling.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Johannesburg
A New Mint Building Rises in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia mint plant nears completion with gray Mount Desert granite walls and a grand Spring Garden Street entrance. Interior work lags as contractor Charles McCaull forecasts May completion for the entire structure. The numismatic room will be the building’s highlight with marble and bas reliefs, while granite poses carving challenges.
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Mint
Philadelphia
Charles McCaull
Mount Desert
Spring Garden Street
New Mint
Important Blue Book Issued on Cape Colony Rebellion
A blue book of South African dispatches from January 3 to October 24 outlines Cape Colony rebels martial law and reveals strong eagerness among Cape Dutch to take up arms. It notes border Dutch and others joining the Boers willingly and cites Milner and Blignaut letters criticizing Chamberlain and warning of annexation aims.
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Cape Colony
Alfred Milner
Chamberlain
Weasels
Cape House of Assembly
Orange Free State
Natal
United States
South Africa
New Stock Exchange Building Planned on Wall Street
The new Stock Exchange home will rise in Wall Street, four stories high with marble walls and six Corinthian columns, on caissons with sixty foot foundations. It will cost about 1.5 million dollars and be electrified by the exchange’s own power plant, ready for occupancy May 1, 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street District
The
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Vesuvius Eruption Intensifies. Authorities Warn Tourists
The Vesuvius eruption is increasing in intensity as officials enforce cautions to keep tourists from approaching the crater. Hazelton girls refuse dances with miners who will not support the strike.
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Vesuvius
Crater
Hazelton
Our Nation's Wealth and Stomach Bitters Appeal
Our Nation's Wealth asserts iron as the nation's strength and compares wealth to a stomach. The ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters promising relief for overworked digestion, improved appetite, constipation, dyspepsia and biliousness amid a call for daily acts of love.
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C. McKinney
Alpine
Texas
Round Prairie
Logan County
Jeen
Oswald d'Aurmene
Mr. Kruger
M. D'Aurmene
Pompeii
Berlin Museum
Russia
Lorney JL. Salley
Freeport
Ind
Paul Reiecke
California
Gierra Nevada Mountains
Rocky Wilde
Mount Joy
David Conway
Conway
Netw York Stock Exchange
Cleveland and
Pittsburg
Beaver
Penn
Ohio River
Adam Casey
Albert Caughannauer
Express
Thompson
W.B. Thompson &Co
Perdido Street
New Orleans
McCay
Florida
Japan
Satsuma
Southwest
Plume
Driffing Bros.co
P.O
Eacksonville
Sawyer’s
Sawyer's
Chase
Chaie
N. 10Th Bt
Dk. M. M. Green's Sons
Box B
Atlanta, Ga
Bostom Chem. Co
Richmond, Va
Usegertai
Wren
C.B. Anderson & Co
Elm St
Dallas
Tex
Fhompson
Santa FE
W.N. U. Houston
Ste. Rash
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