Ancient Egyptian sports rival Greece in antiquity
Professor Dusty Miller notes that boxing, baseball, racing and even craps were practiced in ancient Egypt long before Greek culture. Sketches from Lepsius Rosellini Maspero depict Egyptian soldiers at leisure in Thebes under Ramesses I and Ramesses II. The piece parodies cross centuries by claiming there is nothing new under the sun and likens Egyptian amusements to modern ball games.
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Athens
Greece
Egypt
Lepsius
Rosellini
Maspero
Moses
Israel
Sinaitic Desert
Solomon
Ramesea II
Kadesh
O’sarkon
Memphis
Si-Bast
Rut Ammon
Equatorial
Africa
Time
Chadwick
Spalding
Pyramids
Babylon
Dusty” Miller
Erasers Bring Her Fame from St Louis to Mississipp
The body of Mrs. Mary E. Houston, 35, reputed originator of rubber eraser tips on lead pencils, was brought to St Louis for burial after her death in Greenwood Mississippi from apoplexy. In 1859 she proposed rubber tips in a New York stationery store, and after her idea clerks and firm officials were consulted. The firm later advertised lead pencils with rubbers attached, though the firm refused to admit her role.
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St. Louis
Mary E. Houston
New York
Skirts Target In Clash In Youngstown Trolley Steps
The Woman's Club league of Youngstown urges council to require trolley cars lower their steps by eight inches. They say current steps are too high and embarrass women boarding or alighting. The company may argue that tight skirts are to blame, not car steps.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Woman's Club League
Origins of Nile Legends in African Volcanic Ranges
London reports Capt. E. M. Jack's lecture at the Royal Geographical Society proposing the Mufumbiro volcanic mountains as a potential source of Nile legends. He describes local religious practices Lubare or Nabingwe worship and a female spirit Nobingwe, plus lava landscapes, caverns used as burial and water reservoirs, and a fishless lake system contrasted with a fish-filled lake near Mount Mikeno.
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London
Royal Geographical Society
E. M. Jack
R. E
Africa
Ruwenzori
Jack
Nobing
Rukiga
Rusuenda
Mount Mikeno
Boy Found Sleeping in Morgue With Guard Dog
In Wilmington at Farnhurst State Hospital for the Insane a colored eight year old boy named Naud Harmon was found asleep in the mortuary chapel guarded by a collie. The boy said his father drove him from home and he slept wherever shelter could be found. He was suffering from exposure and was put to bed by Superintendent Hancker, with the dog climbing in beside him.
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Wilmington
Del
State Hospital For the
Farnharst
Naud Harmon
Hancker
Ashes to the Winds Cremation in Danbury
An aged Spiritualist, Mrs. Samuel T. Brown, will be cremated with no funeral service or mourning at her home. Per her directions, the ashes will be taken to a friend's field and returned to mother earth, embracing a simple burial in nature.
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Danbury
Conn
Samuel T. Brown
Mother Earth
Textile Mills and Related Industries in the First Annual Report
Extracts from H. M. Stanley's first annual report show detailed data on textile mills including cotton mills with 140 capital stock and vast material values, knitters and woolen mills data, numbers of spindles looms and machinery, employment by age and gender, weekly wages, and totals for mills, fuels and power sources, and overall manufacturing values across textiles and allied sectors. The report lists brick, tile, stone and terra cotta, cotton oil mills, fertilizer factories, breweries, foundries, and other industries with capital, materials, wages, and product values. It records total textile mills 177 with combined capital about 37.5 million and total employees around 32,600, plus broader industrial sectors and payroll figures.
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Iric
Pata
Wage Ranges For Skilled Trades In The Region
Employers gas plants report wage bands from six to twenty seven dollars for various roles. Leather workers earn eight to eighteen fifty, marble and granite workers fifteen to thirty five, moving picture operators eighteen to fifty, painters fifteen ninety to twenty four, printers seven to thirty five, and stereotypers fifteen to thirty five dollars.
Famed Apes of Gibraltar and Their Narrow Escape
Travelers to Gibraltar seek the famous apes of the rock, a rare wild macaque population. Once dominant on the upper rock, they dwindled due to cruelty and hunting, then were rescued by selective introductions. A bold new male once threatened people and faced life in London Zoo, illustrating the species’ isolation in the Barbary States and kinship to the rhesus and the Japanese macaque.
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Gibraltar
Rock
Europe
Bruce
Morocco
London Zoo
Regent Park
Africa
Barbary
India
Rheumatism Relieved in a Few Hours by Remedy
N B Langley of Madison Wisconsin reports severe rheumatism for five months affecting his neck and body. After trying three doctors and various remedies he used Dr Detehon's Relief for Rheumatism. He says pain eased in a few hours and the rheumatism was cured in three days enabling him to return to work. Sold by Citizens' Pharmacy corner Clayton and Jackson streets Adv
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N. B. Langley
Madison
Wis
Detehon
Citizens’ Pharmacy
Clayton and
Jackson Streets
Sea Gull Steals Skipper’s Teeth Off Boston Bay
Tony Anisti skipper of a Boston power fishing boat reports a sea gull snatched his false teeth from the deckhouse near Governor's Island as he returned from a trip off Boston Light. Gulls trailed the craft hoping for scraps while he baited trawls.
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Tony Anisti
Boston
Tony
Governor’s Island
Boston Light
Kickapoo Worm Killer Ad Claims to Rid Children
An advertisement touts Kickapoo Worm Killer candy lozenges as a cure for worm infestations in children. It cites symptoms such as grinding teeth, sleeplessness, thirst, stomach pains, feverishness, and bad breath and includes a testimonial from Mrs J A Brisbin of Elgin Illinois. Product sold by druggists or mail order for 25 cents from Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co Philadelphia and St Louis.
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J. A. Brisbin
Elgin
Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co
Philadelphia
St. Touls
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Strength
An affordable 50c tonic claims to enrich the blood and build up the whole system to withstand the depressing effects of hot weather and summer heat. The advertisement emphasizes its strengthening benefits and palatable tasteless formula.
Manila a Model for China Pekin Wide Streets Ahead
The article argues China should emulate Manila’s civic improvements with straighter, wider streets and modern transit routes. It notes Manila converted crooked lanes into boulevards despite costs, suggesting Chinese municipal engineers visit to study rapid urban upgrading and transits through dense areas.
Prison Sinister 80 Years at Sing Sing Report Says
Albany dispatch details George W. Blake's inquiry into Sing Sing Prison under Governor Sulzer. The special commissioner calls conditions frightful dark damp and vermin infested with inmates crippled by rheumatism. He alleges political influence and bribery buy clemency and warns the state must act to reform a system harming mind and body.
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Albany
N. Y
Sing Sing
New York State
George W. Blake
Sulzer
Blake
Police Shakeup Over Tunnel Vibration Forces Transfers
Three members of the St. Louis traffic squad request reassignment claiming constant tunnel vibration from passing trains and streetcars leaves them seasick and unable to stand. The officers named are Frank Dempsey at Eighth and Washington, John Smith at Seventh and Washington, and George Stowell at Olive and Ninth, with stations near the Eads bridge tunnel.
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St. Louis
Frank Dempsey
Eighth Street
Washington Avenus
John Smith
Seventh Street
Washington Avenue
George Stowell
Gems Hidden In His Garter Sparks Seattle Arrest
Vancouver boot black J. Hunter was detained when his ship arrived in Seattle. Customs officers found in his garter diamonds and other jewelry valued at 1500 dollars. The seizure followed a search aboard the steamship and involved another itemized collection of gems.
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Seattle
Wash
J. Hunter
Vancouver
B. C
Ghosts of London Lie Beside Nightlife for Americans
London reports suggest ghost hunting as a pastime for Americans visiting the city. The shade of Judah P. Benjamin haunts the Temple, while the Tower of London allegedly hosts multiple specters from history. Eyewitness accounts cited by Eliot O’Donnell describe Queen Adelaide as a cylindrical apparition and a terrifying bear-like figure near the crown jewels.
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London
Judah P. Benjamin
Old Temple
K. C.s
Tower of London
Temple
Oliver Goldsmith
Anne Boleyn
Jane Grey
Earl of Essex
Benjamin
Doctor Johnson
Tower
Henry VIII
Eliot O'Donnell
England
Occult Review
O'Donnell
Queen Ade
Laide
George IV
Golden egg train aims to teach hens to lay in Wales
London. The Agricultural Organization and the National Poultry Organization Society sponsor a novel scheme to train hens to lay. A three coach "golden egg" train departed London and will tour North Wales for a fortnight, with poultry experts lecturing at each stop to local farmers.
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London
Agricultural Organization
National Poultry Organization Society
Wales
Baby Threw Money Away On Freight Train Near Philadelphia
Fernando Rusao a Harrisburg steelworker reports his family travelling from Philadelphia to Harrisburg on a freight train when his baby Jose Russo tossed his pocketbook containing several months savings from a window. The family, including his wife and children, were stranded after the loss.
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Newcastle
Fernando Rusao
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Jose Russo
Russo
New York
Jose
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H. M. Stanley
Commerce and Labor
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China
New Republic
Pekin
Republic of China
Can
Commissioner Blake
Ghosts OF London
Temple Bar
North Wales
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