Corea and Coreans. A people of hand labor and peculiar customs
An exploration of Corea describing its population of over 12 million in a small peninsula, the Mongolian origins yet Chinese and Japanese distinctions, extreme poverty, hand-based farming, paper making, and strict social rules including women’s exercise hours and officials using litters. The piece notes scarce reliable sources but profiles daily life and governance.
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Corea
Missouri
Corean
Tnd
Escaped convict Monroe Marshall recaptured in Atlanta
An 1873 chain gang escapee Monroe Marshall was found on Decatur Street and captured in Atlanta after twenty one years on the run. He had fled the Georgia camp in 1852 and lived in Texas before returning to Atlanta.
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Monroe Marshall
Fulton County
Atlanta Constitution
Marshall
Chain Gang
Decatur Street
Atlanta
Georgia
Texas
Last Night Song Sparks Sabbath Confusion
Mr Surplice confronts Miss Julie over singing secular tunes on the Sabbath. Julie explains she was singing a song titled Last Night, which she says made it Saturday in her view, causing a humorous dispute about the holy day.
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Surplice
Miss Julie
Julie
Signaling From Balloons and Preserving Books in the Tropics
War Departments show interest in signaling from high altitude balloons using incandescent lamps and Morse code to relay messages across country. Italian defense ministry may adopt similar balloons as experiments test light signaling for modern warfare. The article also notes field kit reductions, bicycle use for orders, and shifts in cavalry versus engineers ahead of a German army meeting.
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War Departments
England
London
Italian War Department
Cassier
Electrically measuring sugar in beer and library pests
The article describes a copper-based electrochemical method to gauge sugar by weighing a copper deposit on a platinum cylinder. It also covers library pest control in hot climates using naphtha, kerosene, corrosive sublimate, nephthaline, and poisoned paste, plus cavalry gear innovations and a one legged rider safety bicycle with hand-driven propulsion.
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George King
Indian Museum
Tropics
Tree leaves proposed as superior cattle fodder by M. Girard
A year ago M. Girard stirred agricultural circles with the claim that tree leaves offer high nutrition as cattle food, whether fresh or dried. European farmers, led by the French, are testing this diet with encouraging results using leaves from hazel, aspen, ash, elm and willow. Leaves are dried over 3 to 5 days, stored, and mixed with chopped turnips 24 hours before feeding to ferment slightly, producing nourishment comparable to prairie forage. Mild cows appear to thrive on this regimen.
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M. Girard
Magnetic field trial makes watches keep better time
English Admiralty conducted a ten day test with non magnetic watches placed a quarter inch from a dynamo pole with a stray field visible 70 feet away. Watches showed daily errors never exceeding one second, four days with undetectable variation, while under normal conditions six days never below half a second and spiking to four seconds. Different makers produced similar results.
Rubber combination suit for hunters on market
A new rubber hunting suit features light boots and pantaloons ending in a waist float like a horse collar. The float inflates and deflates as needed, aiding movement in swampy water and serving as a safety float. Optional paddles attach to the feet for steering in deep water while keeping the gun free.
Prof Henoch Reports Electric Treatment Heals Diphtheria Case
Professor Henoch details a grave diphtheria case treated with galvano cautery and ice water gargles. The painless procedure caused the false membrane to roll up and detach, with membranes not reforming and fever subsiding as the ulcer heals within eight to fourteen days.
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Henoch
Sextuple Lynching in Tennessee Near Willington
News reports six African American men were lynched near Willington two miles west of the Chesapeake and Ohio line after incitement through arson and unrest. Authorities had arrested Dan Hawkins Robert Haynes Warner Williams Ed Hall John Hayes and Graham White, then transported them for Wilmington where a mob of about fifty men halted them and killed the prisoners.
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Memmis
Tenn
Willington
Willington Fair
Dan Hawkins
Robert Haynes
Warner Williams
Ed. Hall
John Hayes
Graham White
Race War Threatloom in Harlin City Riot Fears Rise
Governor Tillman has word of an imminent race riot in Harlin City. The Santee Rifles are placed on standby by Trial Justice C B Whetzell. A black workers boycott over cotton prices provokes mobs and arrests amid rising tensions. telegraphic reports are scant.
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Columbia
S. C
Tillman
Harlin City
Santee Rifles
C. B. Whetzell
Morton Says He Would Faithfully Administer New York Trust
Hon Levi P Morton declares in an open letter to New York Republicans that he appreciates the importance of the chief executive office and would strive to serve the people with steadfast purpose if called to fill it.
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Juning Carr
N. Y
Levi P. Morton
New York
New York State
General Banks Dead at His Home in Aged Quietus
General P Banks, aged statesman and hero, died at his Main Street home in Aldham Massachusetts after a period of declining health. He passed away at 8 o clock yesterday morning, following illness that kept him near death since Thursday night.
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Altham
Mass
General _P. Banks
Main Street
Notable September read list with war tale and science pieces
Thomas Nelson Page introduces Little Darby a two part war story praised for Virginia scenes and sympathetic character depiction. Popular Science Monthly highlights James Sully studies of childhood imagination. The Scientific American August 25 describes salison foundation piers for a twenty story New York building. Midland Monthly Des Moines notes Weather Service director Sage answers do battles rain. Art Amateur August features Moran Walden Haquette Davis and Volkmar plates and water garden sketches.
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Thomas Nelson Page
South
Scribner's
Tha
Scientific American
Caisson Foundation
American Surety Company
New York City
Midland Monthly
Des Moines
Sage
The
Weather Service
Ella Hamilton Durley
Des Moines News
Julien Richards
Chicago Tribune
Edward Moran
Lionel Walden
Haquette
and Bellinger
Open
Theodore K. Davis
Mr. Volkmar
China
Doings of Congress Ends After Formalities
Washington dispatch notes both houses adjourned for the die at 2 o'clock after routine sessions. The text includes unrelated quips and jokes from a humorous aside, not part of official records, with mocking dialogue about love and daily life.
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Washington
Houses
Congress
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