Bleached oysters cause debate over quality and health
A New York World reporter investigates the fad of bleaching oysters to white out shells. Oystermen denounce it as unnecessary and harmful, noting no real benefit while warning of health risks from polluted waters and failed experiments. The piece also recounts a Connecticut incident of contaminated oysters linked to illness and death.
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Poe
New York World
North River
Connecticut
Ebsick
Nec
New York
Baltimore
Long Island Sound
New Jersey
Rampaging Rats Invade Karns Pig Pen in President Valley
In a rural Pennsylvania village near the 611 creek Karns oil family home, a sudden rat infestation overruns a pig pen. Henry Karns fires his gun to drive off the swarm as rats gnaw at pigs and litter the floor, creating a desperate battlefield inside the pen.
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Karns
Printer’s Ink Pranks and Old Atlantic Lore Across Notes
A jumble of historical anecdotes covers James Gordon Bennett’s erratic newsroom visits and his prank on an ink stained clerk, Tilghman Island canoe making, English pilot Will Adams who founded the Japanese navy, and wild tales from Africa and old medical reflections. The piece blends eccentric anecdotes with maritime lore and curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Adams
Japan
England
Ta Ji
One Queen in India and the foreign industry of rings
A long, stylistic description recounts a Brahmin maharanee secluded in the palace, her ornate attire, bracelets, and the strict law of Industre. It then shifts to a foreign industry piece about split key rings, noting Paris-made rings, Alsace production, and a New York Sun interview asserting U.S. manufacturing gaps and high import duties.
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Glenpatra
Maharajih
St Wlaw
Shea
Lint
Maharanee
Thdin
Tre
Mom Ahib
Notte Teth
Ius
Kenigal
Langalore
Sve
New York Sun
Automatic Writer Impresses London Royal Society
A new automatic writer prototype, shown in London to Royal Society members, prints speech like period figures using a word hopper fed with blocks of complete words. In ten minutes it produced a home rule speech in Gladstone style, Ruskin on political economy, a Meredith passage, and slang dictionary slang, to mixed acclaim.
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New York Times
London
Royal Society
Gladstone
Ruskin
Meredith
Crater Legends Of The Umatilla Shoshone Tale Recalls A Fatal Edifice
A Baker City Democrat account recounts a mythic war between the Shoshones and Umatillas in Crater Mountain lore. A maiden leaps into a turning crater to halt a volcano eruption, allegedly ending it as her father discovers her body near the camp, amid tales of ancient guardians and snowfields.
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Crater Mountain
Ssietent Thine
Baker City
Crater Swountein
Ome Bonuth
Armenia
Copa
Morbid minds and a perilous chimney descent into a glowing cavern
An unnamed explorer descends a 378 foot chimney to a vast cavern. He discovers stalactite-lit chambers, a hot sulphur stream forming coral-like incrustations, lizards frogs and two large rats. A snowy owl watches as the explorer contemplates escape and a perilous journey back. The text closes with a census-like note: 28,000 Chinese in U S cities, 94,000 in San Francisco, 2,900 in New York.
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Furs
Srage
United States
San Francisco
New Yorke
Notice to settle accounts for C A Barrett Co receiver
The court appointed Receiver C A Barnett requests all debtors to call and settle their accounts with C A Barrett Co. The undersigned Receiver asks all parties owing the firm to promptly pay or arrange payment.
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C. A. Barrett Co
C. A. Barnett
FREE Northwest agricultural weekly offer from Tuk Press
The Northern Pacific Farmer based in Portland Oregon offers 16 to 82 pages weekly on farming, horticulture, stock, and market reports edited by Frank Lee. New subscribers paying one year in advance, or back subscribers renewing in advance, receive a year of The Press free, a value proposition claimed to be the best and cheapest Northwest journal.
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Northern Pacific Farmer
Portland
Oregon
Northwest
Frank Lee
Granger
United States
Tuk Press
Tx Press
Great Northwest Journal
Executrix's Account Administration of Estate Named
Fragmentary OCR text outlines executrix duties for estate administration. Mentions alias names and legal terms such as executrix and account. details are incomplete and names/date are unclear. The readable portion indicates a probate related filing or notice associated with administration of the estate.
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Sonya
Kurna
Phy
James Gordon Binett
Halsey Greenman
James Gordon Bennett
Paria
Utica Observer
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Hays
Bennett Ead
Cando
Putea Island
Talbot County
Chesapeake
Maryland
Oscar Neumann
Bukoba
London News
Neumann
Manyamaland
Nyangwe
Tange Onyika
Ugego
J. P. Wilson
Brazil
Ind
Garocreate
India
Kunigal
Luzuru
Daguty
Beral
Alsace
Sing Sing
Tedtian
Gubter
Rastan
Eneema KO NO. 0
Oor
Guirey
Avi
Ganteat Sant
Angie Thom Bodaville
C. I. Mood & Co
Lowell, Maas
Hood
N.C
E. McNeill
Great Union Northern
Pacific
Spokane
Minneapolis
ST. Paul
Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
Athena
W. H. Hurlitt
Gen
Pass Gt
Oakes, Memry
Payne
B. O
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Northern
Chicago
Time Schedul
Fener Sega
Diesel
Executrix
N “Paragon Fm
Nothoe
Pteceeeray
Exweutris
Prioe
Tate
Fooreka Chemnben
la Crone
Wia
Taney Sagen
Pacific Farmer
Oregonian
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