Persian Shah deposed. Ahmed Mirza ascends throne
Mohammad Ali Mirza, who had ruled Persia since 1907, was deposed on July 17. His successor Sultan Ahmed Mixa, heir apparent, was proclaimed Shah at a young age with Avad-U-Mulk as regent. The new ruler, though not eldest son, wept at leaving his father and mother, then bravely entered a carriage to depart.
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Sultan Ahmed Mirza
Molamad Ali Mirza
Studi
Persia
Sultan Ahmed Mixa
Shah
Sultan Ahmed
Fragmented notes on forests, seas and science era
A garbled collage of topics covers Freudenstadt forest funding and replanting, Japan horse breeding subsidies, Persian Gulf species, New York fire prevention, Great Britain reforestation plans, bird anatomy and evolution, Nile irrigation structures, and ocean wave explanations. The text mixes technical details, speculative science, and outdated terms.
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Freudenstadt
Persian Gulf
New York
Royal
Great Britain
Storm Waves Reach Great Lengths and Heights at Sea
A wind driven sea builds majestic storm waves that can reach up to 1200 feet crest to crest. The typical wave height correlates with wind speed, averaging about half the wind's velocity in miles per hour.
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Ion
South Seas
Vaughan Corniwg
Cape of Good Hope
Gage Town
Safety Shoes For Convicts Invention To Hinder Escape
A California inventor proposes a heavy leather shoe with a perforated sole and a second red-topped sole fitted with steel spikes. Upright riveted bars and springs lock to a prisoner's leg, with crossbars and a padlock, designed to prevent escape during transport by blocking movement and jabbing through holes in the leather sole.
Prisoner transport risks and deputy requirements noted
A fragment from Poplar Mechanics and Kan eu Choy Times discusses prison security during prisoner movement. It details spikes and springs as security in cells, the difficulty of transporting inmates, and the need for multiple deputies to prevent escapes.
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Goughi
Herm
Alli
Anch
Poplar Mechanics
Remembering the kerosene lamp and a home evening
In a tale from Youth's Companion a Mrs. Holland recalls her husband James who fondly remembers old kerosene lamps. He is gently teased for preferring a traditional glow while his sister notes his blindness to a magazine ad showing a modern family by electric light.
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James
Mrs. Holland
Happy Home Magazine
Mia Holland
Light-All Electric Company
Whale Strangled Self in Alaska Cable Salvage Tale
A Seattle bound account describes the Burnside repair ship encountering a whale tangled in a government cable off Cook Inlet near Sitka. The whale’s powerful jaws twisted the wire causing the vessel to struggle to haul the cable. The whale drowned, carcass eaten on the ocean floor, and the crew recovered a heavy whalebone load with a twisted cable.
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Seattle
Burnside
Alaska
Valdez
Sitka
Cook Iilet
Commonsense flying machine touted by Philadelphia inventor
A Philadelphia inventor works six years on a gasbag and aeroplane hybrid called the commonsense flying machine. A model will be ready for trial in weeks, promising simplicity of construction, operation, and safety, with the device listed as purely Philadelphia made.
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Count Zeppelin
Wright Brothers
Philadelphia
Ita
Peum Rom "Robinson
Hans Wagner Began Baseball Career and Early Struggles
A condensed bio tracks Hans Wagner’s early years from his first contract at $35 a month with the Pittsburg club to his rough start as a pitcher in Steubenville. It recounts his shift to shortstop, nightly practice, and gradual improvement before moving to Paterson and Louisville, then to Pittsburg under Barney Dreyfuss.
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Hans Wagner
Barney Dreyfuss
Pittsburg
Honus
Dutehman
Hana
Hans
Tim
Paterson
Louisville
The
Colonels
Berney Dreyfuss
Notable Milestones and Disasters from 1642 to 1908
A compact chronology lists events from 1642 to 1908 including Harvard’s first commencement, Boston shipyards, Savannah evacuation, Constitution sinking Guerriere, Mohawk and Hudson Railroad opening, iron steam ferry, Oregon Territory, and major 1908 building costs. It notes a Grandin town giveaway due to timber depletion by Missouri Lumber and Mining Company in Carter County.
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Harvard College
Sir Nh Phipps
Boston
Canada
Cordier Atone
King’s Chapel
Said
Gov. Hutchinson
Savannah
P’rancis TL
Austria
Georgia
South Carolina
Constitution
Amerlcd
United States
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Oregon Territory
Congress
Nicaragua
New York
San Francisco
Tuscany
United Kingdom of Italy
Vicetor
Emmanuel
Fremont
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
South
Mississippi River
Arequipa
Roma
Third National Bank of Baltimore
Grover Cleveland
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Terry
Justice Field
Lathrop
Cal
Martinique
Larned
Kansas
Minneapolis
Carter County
Missouri
Grandin
Missouri Lumber and Mining Company
Ber
Chickenology spring blooms and tender expectations
A fragment suggests a humorous or satirical piece about chickens and spring, contrasting tender expectations with a steel spring chink of reality, possibly in a local column or verse section.
Dow's Broken Heart Dog Story From Woodham Mortimer
A woodham mortimer fox terrier owned by John Rainsford died and was buried in the garden. The burial was witnessed by a collie named Bront diMouliy which refused to eat and never barked after the terrier’s death and soon died on the grave.
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Dow
Woodham Mortimer
Chelmsford
Eng
John Rainsford
Bront diMouliy
Colle
Crlefstricken
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Wallionrombo
Worvley
le Angineora
Ems
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Wuwestiomabity
Wan
Kaneu Choy Times
Fasling
Whale
Self
Clin Ree
Nature
Heaton
Philadelphia Flying Machine
Romaine
Hallstones
Hushand
Rominata
Chicago Record-Herald
Wagner
Liegnitz
Germany
Ike
Rock Island
Lincoln
Neb
Klondike
Turkey
Crete
Spain
Pekin
Nordenskjold
Stockholm
Frithjoford Northcote
Lordson
Enor
Australia
Panama Canal Company
Ainsworth R. Spofford
Congressionaibrary
Athens
Greece
Sureey
Chicago
Brooklyn
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