Columbus shifts eastward as he nears Cuba and Puerto del Principe
The narrative follows Columbus turning east-southeast on November 12 to trace Cuba and the Bahamas coast, pausing near Cape Cuba and Puerto del Principe. He encounters headwinds, detours to the archipelago known as El Jardin del Rey, and tensions with Pinzon fuel doubts about leadership and course.
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Columbus
Old Channel
Cuba
Bahamas
Terra Lrma
Florida
Yucatan
Mexico
Cape Cuba
Babeque
Puerto del Principe
Pinzon
Spain
Point Cuba
St. Catherine
Protective Tariff League documents offered to readers
The American Protective Tariff League invites readers to obtain over 50 documents on tariff policy. Names listed include Blaine, Aldrich, Dudley, Porter, Dolliver, Perkins, Boutwell, Ammidown and others. Complete set available post paid for fifty cents at No. West Twenty Third Street, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Protective Tariff League
League
James G. Blaine
MecKinter
Ohio
M. Cullcm
Hii- Sen
Nelson
W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Thomas H. Dudley
New Jersey
Robert P. Porter
Eminem
Jd. BH. Dada
Agricultural ment at_Washog wm
W. H. T. Hughes
Nien E. Ayw
New York
Dolliver
Ounsa
B. Asnes Ve Halk Ce
Bos
Perkins
Kansas
B. P. Miller
Gee Denper
Mass
C. L. Bawards
Texas
Judeeum. Law
D. G. Harriman
Geo
Boutwel
Maxe
E. H. Ammidown
Enoch Lusley
Tennessee
Wilbur F. Wakeman
Sec’y
West Twenty-Third Street
Sioux Falls Divorce Colonists Attract Noted Figures
James Realf Jr promotes Sioux Falls as a refuge for fleeing spouses. Portraits by contributors appear in The Arena including Mrs James G Blaine Jr and Dr Thomas D Worrall among others. Realf argues public exposure of marital woes is ghoulish and cruel.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
James Realf, Jr
James G. Blaine, Jr
America
Thomas D. Worrall
Mr. Realf
How a Poet Writes Reveals a Life of Verse and Land
The piece notes Sir Edwin Arnold writes 8000 editorials and poetry appears unsought, drafted daily in rough form and polished later. It contrasts his creative flow with American editors and mentions Cherokee land tenure, Henry George, and a petition to divide 14 000 000 acres for individual Cherokee farms.
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Sir Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin
Arnold
Indian Territory
Uise
Henry George
North America
Ammonia Water Mixture Promises Efficient Steam Production
The inventor notes progress with a motive vapor by mixing fifteen parts ammonia with eighty five parts water. The volatile ammonia forms vapor readily, allowing rapid steam generation and claiming fuel savings of about half versus standard methods.
Odd Ammonia Fuel Claim Could Aid Ocean Steamers
A report outlines an ammonia fuel mix promising low storage needs and no boiler deposits, suggesting steamers could run at top speed cheaper, sparking hope for four day ship service and cheaper passenger rates. Also included is a biography of Miss Hannah Baker, a Kansas farmer who runs 140 acres with a debt free farm and a snakebite recovery.
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Lincoln
Kan
Kansas
Baker
Alliance
Hannah
The Hostess’s White Cashmere Luncheon Gown
A New York World description notes a Lenox-returned hostess wearing a plain white cashmere luncheon gown with a square neck bodice full skirt and satin trim. The gown, simple yet graceful, proves suitable for year round house dress. The same style in blue is also praised as attractive and less formal.
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Lenox
New York World
Opening Letters by Law Sparks Postal Espionage Debate
A Washi official notes that Mr Pell objects to opening a private letter by the chief of the secret service bureau. Post office inspectors may open suspicious letters under printed private instructions, a practice described as widespread and comparable to arrests on suspicion. The New York Herald cites U S mails as not sacred compared with foreign systems.
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Pell
San Domingo Shore Line Road
Secret Service Bureau
Post Office Department
United States
Russia
New York Herald
Fashion Critique Stirs Debate On Modern Menswear
A Fifth Avenue tailor laments extreme menswear trends including high collars and tight shoes and warns they cause discomfort and even baldness. The piece shifts to report Senator Stanford's proposal to expel 200 Palo Alto students after a car brake prank, halted by Mrs. Stanford's intervention.
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Fifth Avenue
New York Times
Stanford
Leland Stanford, Jr
University
Palo Alto
San Jose
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Why She Calls Herself Manola Stage Name Origin
Marion Manola wife of Jack Mason uses the name Manola chosen from a Paris study anecdote. A Spanish term Mano la meaning madcap inspired the masculine form Manolin. The tale explains the stage name adopted after a French tutor’s account.
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Manola
Marion Manola
Jack Mason
Jack
Paris
Mme. Marchesi
Manolin
Chicago Tribune
Yellow flowers bring ill luck and a costly blaze
At the Owensboro Register a superstition about yellow flowers is linked to a fire at an opera house. Miss Marie Greenwood admired yellow blooms at Dr. Todds booth, defied warnings from Guibertson, took them, and within an hour the opera house burned, costing her seven thousand five hundred dollars.
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Owensboro (Ky
Rock sighting near Pacific pinnacle shocks sea traders
Captain John Richards of the Cambrian Monarch reports a close pass within half a mile of a sea pinnacle in the Pacific, about nine feet wide at water's edge and larger beneath, with smooth seas and no discolored water noted. No soundings were taken and he doubts it is floating.
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John Richards
Cambrian Monarch
Topsail
Richards
Philadelphia
Wanted industrial and land sites across the Dakotas Minnesota and Montana
A long notice advertises WANTED flouring mills, jewelry stores, hotels and many other businesses across Reynolds North Dakota Maynard Minnesota Buxton Neche Wahpeton Grafton Crystal Waverly and more. It promises free sites and water power for factories and stock for locations plus free information from F I Whitney St Paul Minnesota. It highlights cheap fertile land in the Red River Valley with potential grain yields and Gov ernment land still available for homesteading along railways.
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Wahpeton
Grafton
N. D
Crystal
Waverly
Minn
Minnesota
Dakotas
Montana
America
Red River Valley
Remarkable fruit trees and world’s tallest trees noted
In Old Orchard Maine there are three apple trees that bear yearly loads of pears shaped fruit. The three tallest trees in the world are thought to be a sequoia near Stockton California at 325 feet and two eucalyptus trees in Victoria Australia estimated at 485 and 450 feet respectively.
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Old Orchard
Stockton
Cal
Victoria
Austin
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the Press
Republican Journal
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York
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Whee Dry Sales
Farmmple
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Iowa
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Propr
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Bingham
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Kee
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Read’s Market
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Y, Twenty-Third Street
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Puerto Santo
Alpha and Omega
India
Sly Max O’rell
Truckee
Seaman's Hospital
Greenwich
Mr. Burdett
Great Benefit Association
New York Sun
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Ind
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Adolphus Ochietree
Mary Prady
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WM. Ayres & Sons
Reynolds
Maynard, Minn
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Ashby, Minn
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St. Paul, Minn
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Sun
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Albia
Co. H. Ackert
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T. P. Barry
the Park Lumber Yard
H. L. Munn
City Park
Exallany
J. FF. McLain
Equitable Life and Endowment Association
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George D. Loud
North Side Main Street
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Box
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Humphreys’ Medicine CO
William and John Sts
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Vita Wea
Lark Eveework
Ae Pore Icine CO
L. M. Srideeeth
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Masa
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Pee Pei Anut Siolacream
Toledo
G. C. Bittner & CO
L. M. Bosworth
Scientific American Agency
Ebion
Munn & CO
BroaDwAaYt
New Ryppe
Bronans
Scientific American
M & Con Publishers
Broadway
Pure Work
Cardenas
Tex
Grand Palace Hotel
N. Clark Street
Chicaco
Court House
Fred Complate
Chid Uni League
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