Monte Cristo diamond field hailed as world’s richest mine
Australian mining veteran Captain Rogers, an octogenarian prospecting the Bingara field in New South Wales, has opened the Monte Cristo lease. Reports say the diamond-bearing drift yields two stones per load with a potential ton of gems, drawing attention from London Amsterdam and New York buyers and possibly Rothschild interests.
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Herdi
Victoria
Pall Mall
Earl Fisheries
Bingara
Horton
Newth Wales
Sidney
Monte Cristo
Byining
Rogers
Tava
Penang
Wattie Gully
Forest
Vienna
Caims
Rusalia
Rovers
Nin
Jft
London
Hazers
Amsterdam
New York
England
Sweethearts Still Telegraph Across Short Distance
In New York a man and woman who have been sweethearts for seventeen years and married fifteen, once courted by telegraph in New Hampshire. Now in a New York party, they imitate their old method by tapping a fork and glass across a table, rekindling long‑distance signals with shy smiles.
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New York
New Hampshire
Miscellaneous Squirrels of Wit and Wry Remarks
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from a bygone column. Jests about opera singing school, a child’s chores, mountain climbing, fiction plots, a delirium tremens story headline, river and bank boasts, May as an unlucky marriage month, and a barber's fate. Concludes with a life insurance gag and longevity regimen.
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Harry
King of Explorers Henry Layard and his Nineveh discoveries
The obituary reviews Sir Henry Layard ARchaeologist whose expeditions in the east led to the winged bulls at Nineveh and the royal library with cuneiform tablets. It traces his cosmopolitan birth, early travels across Albania and Turkey, and his rise in British museum circles, politics, and diplomacy. It notes his works on Nineveh and Babylon and his major excavations under museum auspices.
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Henry Layard
Ninevah
British Museum
Royal Library
Henry Austen Layard
Henry P. J. Layard
Ceylon Civil Service
Paris
Italy
Layard
Constantinople
England
London
Sir Henry
Nineveh and
Nineveh
Babylon
Armenia
Kurdistan
Desert
Ninevest
Geographical Society
Albania
Roumania
Turkey
Nimroud
M. Rotta
Mosul
Lcon of London Society
Mr. Gladstone
Madrid
Lord Beaconsfield
Henry Elliot
Cyprus
Grand Cross of the Bath
Novel French Method Promises Sugar From Gases
A French patent by M Pellegrini claims sugar can be produced by uniting carbonic acid and hydrocarbon gases with steam in a pumice stone apparatus. The process yields syrup containing about 25 percent sugar after half an hour, with claims covering various hydrocarbons. Experts like Maumene doubt the method’s viability.
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France
M. Pellegrini
M. Pellegris
M. Maumene
Burglar Confronts Woman in Brownstone at Early Morning
City clocks show 1 35 to 2 11 a m as a burglar with a pistol confronts a brownstone resident. A woman declares him her husband and vows not to be fooled, prompting the intruder to flee in fright.
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Detroit Tribune
Queen Victoria's Dairy at Windsor Model Farm
The article describes the Queen Victoria dairy near Windsor as possibly the largest in the world. It features porcelain tile floors, medallions of the royal family, marble columns, stained glass windows with floral borders, bas reliefs of the seasons, marble tables and basins, and a perpetual water stream inside the building.
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Queen Victoria
Windsor
Parish Priest’s Wine Prank Turns Pour Into Water
In Bergerac a priest’s parishioners funded a wine barrel by each pouring two litres from their own vineyards. At a dinner the tap produced water instead of wine, sparking laughter as all guests realized their identical ruse to dilute the blend. The fraud was clever but unsuccessful.
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Bergerac
Argonaut
Woods Hole Name Restored To Historical Spelling
The U S board on geographic names restored Woods Hole on the Massachusetts coast after a period as Woods Hall The village history cites Fay s 100 year monograph Tracks of the Norsemen claiming Norse settlement at Vineyard Haven but George Bancroft dismissed authentic evidence of Northmen in the region.
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United States Board On Geographic Names
Massachusetts
Woods Hale
Woods Hole
Woods Hall
Fay
Vineyard Haven
Seedy Customer Goads Clerk Over Free Headache Cure
Seedy Customer asks for a free headache remedy. The drug clerk recommends a fifty cent preparation and advises staying in bed to feel better by morning. The exchange ends with the clerk’s blunt advice and a practical solution.
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South Boston News
Not a Mercenary Girl in Chicago Record
Dialogue excerpt contrasts views on marriage for money with a caution about a husband’s finances. Maude argues against marrying for money while Mabelle echoes prudence about wealth stability in a partner.
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Maude
Mabelle
Chicago
Dialog Sparks Tension Over Gender Roles
A brief exchange shows Dudeley questioning Miss Bright about being a man, prompting Bright to respond affirmatively and triggering Dudeley to remain irritable for the day as implied by a judge.
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Dudeley
Evan
Miss Bright
Wall Collapse Kills Six in Detroit Fire
Fire at Keenan and John furniture store on Woodward Avenue caused a wall to fall, killing six firemen and injuring nine others. Chief Elliott faces criticism for ordering entry before wall stability could be ensured. Loss valued at 86000 stock and 25000 building with ample insurance.
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Detroit
Mich
Keenan & John
O’rourke
Priceman F. Stock
Prieman C. Cronrs
Carry
Thomas
Guay
Mike
Grace Hospital
Herta
Henry
Kimbery
McNamana
Leslie
Newet
John B
Elliott
Fire Department
Woodward Avenue
Young Men's Christian Association Building Burns in Nashville
Fire at an early hour destroyed the Young Men's Christian Association building in Nashville Tennessee. The rough stone structure valued at about 60000 dollars was covered by 20000 dollars of insurance.
Conference of Mormons Convened in Salt Lake City
The sixty-fifth semi annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints opened in the Salt Lake Tabernacle with President Wilford Woodruff presiding. He addressed the Cleveland proclamation granting amnesty to church adherents, and George Q. Cannon condemned card playing and round dancing. Joseph F. Smith reported on Sabbath school teacher training and the growth of Young Men's Mormon associations in Utah over six months. The conference will run for several days.
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Sal Lake City
Utah
Mammoth Tabernacle
Mormon Church
Wilford Woodruff
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Sainte
Tabernacle Choir
Woodruff
Cleveland
George Q. Cannon
Joseph F. Smith
First Presidency
Czar Infra weakness and marriage postponement reported
St Peters burg Oct 6 The czar is said to be extremely weak but not bedbound. If too weak to reach Corfu in December he will winter in southern Russia. Rumor suggests the czars marriage to Princess Alix of Hesse is indefinitely postponed. The imperial yacht Tsarevna sails to Piraeus by czar’s order while Polar Star heads to the Mediterranean around Oct 20.
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St. Petersspure
Corfu
Russia
Czarowich
Alix of Hesse
Tsarevna
Piraeus
Mediterranean
Farmers National Congress Adjourns with Mixed Resolutions
The fourteenth annual session of the Farmers National Congress adjourned in Parkersburg to meet in Atlanta next fall. An initiative to elect US senators by popular vote was indefinitely postponed. A resolution for restricted immigration was adopted. A proposal for free coinage of silver was defeated.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Farmers’ National Congress
Atlanta
Executive Committee
United States
One Bank Robber Captured Near Bloomfield
A search party in Bloomfield Indiana captured one of the bank robbers about five miles south of town around dark. He carried $200 his share of the loot and is jailed. Authorities expect the remaining suspects to be caught today and the Bloomfield bank plans to resume.
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BloomFielp
Ind
Bloomfield Bank
Bloomfield
W. C. T. U. Convention Closes in Marion Iowa
The Iowa state convention of the W. C. T. U. ended its session with a public meeting led by Miss Frances Willard. Resolutions condemned the mlici law as dishonest and incompetent. Mrs. Marion H. Dunham was elected president.
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Ww. Cc. T. U
Marion
Iowa
Frances KE
Willard
Marion H. Dunham
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