Alpine Avalanche and Other Historical Snippets
A collage of brief notes: punishment for a cue incident in Alpine, a man wed for money faces a bitter pill, Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht club challenge, Allegany Pa streetcars require jack devices, Natal subscribers honor Baden-Powell with a silver shield, and royal household food rules stress punctuality and strict blackmarks for the prince of Wales.
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Thomas l Lipton
New York Yacht Club
Thomas
Khows
Pork Corner
Natal
Baden-Powell
Mafeking
Transvaal
Queensland maid advertises for laundry dairy post
A Queensland paper shows a curious hiring notice where a girl seeks a laundry or dairy job. She claims cooking and housekeeping skills and states only a respectable mistress seeking to keep her servant in uninterrupted duties should apply.
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Australia
Queensland
Wonders of modern commerce in distant Africa
Foreign trade shows picturesque features that lighten its cold commerce. The United States sent kerosene to Zanzibar, lighting up the dark continent. American locomotives head to Africa in large numbers, threatening elephants as ivory becomes scarce and earnest efforts arise to protect the herds.
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Zanzibar
United States
Africa
Pillbury to build home for poor girls in St Paul
Ex governor Pillabury and wife plan a house for destitute girls in St Paul offering food shelter and support. He says the home will provide a friend in need and deter despair. The Pillsbury statue by Daniel C French was unveiled at the University of Minnesota campus.
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Pillabury
Minnesota
St. Paul
John I. Pillsbury
Daniel C. French
University of Minnesota
Great Lakes population growth and commerce surge noted
The census reveals rapid growth in Great Lakes cities led by lit Lake cities Buffalo Cleveland Toledo Detroit Milwaukee and Chicago each adding over a million residents since 1890. Commerce has doubled in five years and Great Lakes canal traffic exceeds New York port vessels by half again and over twice Suez Canal tonnage.
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Great Lakes
Buffalo
Cleveland
Toledo
Detroit
Milwaukee
Chicago
Sault Sainte Marie
Pepper Adulteration Warns Consumers and Dealers
A proos dealer argues that fake pepper sold at low prices pressures honest sellers to raise prices for pure pepper. The piece condemns adulteration as an industry-wide practice and calls for government food inspections, compulsory labeling, and punishment of sellers of adulterated goods to protect consumers.
Hezekiah Wins Race With Horseless Carriage Feat
In Sun Prairie Hezekiah Grobba bets on a homemade horseless carriage to beat a blind mare. The crowd crowds the half mile track as the machine wheezes forward, the mare bucks and dodges, and Si drives for a dramatic finish amid wild cheers and anxious tension.
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Blarott Flower
Daily Story Pub. Co
Hezekiah Grobba
Hezekiah
Fane
Sun Prairie
Kerridge
St Tompkins
Hezekiah and the Invention Train Incident at Sun Prairie
A volatile scene unfolds as Hezekiah battles a noisy machine on a race track. A stranger pockets cash after praising Hezekiah, and fragments of the sulky litter the infield. Si recovers after two weeks, while the town keeps the invention as town lore.
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Hezekiah
Sun Prairie
Simpler Language Over Stilted Phrases in Everyday Speech
The article argues that formal wording in weddings funerals and legal matters adds unnecessary weight. It notes examples like united in matrimony holy bonds of wedlock and solemn burial service and shows how plain language is clearer and stronger. It cites a judge who rejects pass away and prefers died. The point is to use simple language for clarity.
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Episcopal Church
Pardee
Supreme Court
Hartford
Japan Loses Veteran Statesman Count Kuroda
Count Kuroda, pres ident of the privy council, died in his sixtieth year after a sudden brain congestion. Born in Kagoshima in 1840 he joined loyalists with Okubo to back the imperial cause. He served as minister of communications in 1892 and led the privy council from 1895, earning the Rising Sun and Paulownia order and later prime minister ad interim in 1896.
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Japan
Kuroda
Privy Council
Kagoshima
Tokyo
Ernest W. Clements
Chicago
Pierpont Morgans Costly Dog Sets World Record Price
The New York Letter notes Pierpont Morgan paid about 8500 dollars for a Scotch collie named Southport Perfection, reportedly the highest price ever for a dog. Previously Richard Croker owned an English bull pup Rodney Stone at 5000 dollars.
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Pierpont Morgan
Richard Croker
United States
Rodney Stone
New York
Lack of Telegraph Facilities in Manila Hinders Growth
A Manila correspondent for the Western Electrician reports that insufficient telegraph links between major towns hinder progress and development in the region.
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The
Western Electrician
Manila
Woman’s nervous collapse cured by Lydia E Pinkham remedy
Mrs Hartley of 221 W Congress St Chicago Illinois suffered nervous prostration indigestion fatigue and insomnia from irregular courses and womb issues She was cured entirely by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Her portrait is published to warn others and confirm the remedy's effectiveness
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Hartley
Congress St
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
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R. ©. McKinwry
Alpine
Chan Chi Tung
Allegany
Prince of Wales
Jay
Als
Hesekiah
Oak
Mas
A. Hantiey
Ldouglas
W. Douglas
W. L. DF
Douglas
Bruce Mion Mana
B. Thompson
Pal. McCay
W.B. Thompson &Co
Perdido Street
New Orleans
Ents
Southwest
Florida
Texas
Driffing Bros.co
P.O
Jacksonville
F. N. Uu
Houston
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