Turned traitor and the fall of Port Arthur
A Japan Gazette account explains the Port Arthur siege where a Chinese fort commander, born in Japan and long resident in China, allegedly betrayed his adopted land by directing shells to fall short. He died by his own sword before Japanese generals, while the attack exposed weak Chinese artillery and a doomed defense. The piece contrasts policy on opium with confessions of opium smokers in Massachusetts, including Li Sam’s tale of struggle to quit.
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Port Arthur
China
Japan Gazette
Japan
Hwang Chin
Wwang Chin
Higo
England
Massachusetts
Li Sam
New Bedford
The
Boston Herald
Princess Victoria's Daughter Bazaars With Humorous Dispatch
Princess Christian, famed for philanthropic work, browsed a bazaar stall to stall. Prince Christian slyly pocketed small parcels. A large item prompted the attendant to offer delivery. The princess requested it be sent to Buckingham Palace and quipped to address it to Mrs. Christian, leaving the staff unaware of rank.
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Princess Christian
Queen Victoria
Prince Christian
Buckingham Palace
Chicago Deaf Mutes Earn Honest Living Across Many Trades
The Chicago deaf community numbered six hundred to one thousand, with members engaged in printing, painting, cabinet making, shoemaking, wood carving, barbering, bookbinding, and more. Four deaf mutes worked in the post office, one was a lawyer and another a chemist. Women practiced dressmaking, millinery, printing, and seamstressing. Education is robust with four day schools, a Catholic boarding school, McCowan's private school, and access to Washington DC's college for the deaf. The Pas-a-Pas club provides social and cultural events, showing a lively, self supporting community.
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Chicago
City Board of Education
McCowan
Englewood
College For the
Washington, D.C
Chicago's Woman Bootback Leads Shoe-Dressing for Women
A Chicago Tribune portrait highlights Miss Edison, owner of the city’s sole women run shoe-dressing parlor on Dearborn Street. Five months in business, she expanded to larger quarters with male staff, serving office workers who store bicycles and buy cigars nearby. Saturday crowds reach a dozen.
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Chicago
Chisago
Miss Edison
Dearborn Street
The
Chicago Tribune
Safer Than Lightning Rods By Pneumatic Wheels
Daily advances credit the bicycle tire with insulation from earth when encasing a wheel in India rubber and dry air. This makes riders impervious to electric shocks, a claim the Wheel notes as life extending though some may doubt its significance.
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India
Dainty Sofa Pillow A New Inexpensive Design
A design for a dainty sofa pillow featuring India linen, two five inch ruffles with pink, blue, and yellow silk embellishments, feather stitching, narrow white lace edging, and a central floral motif. The opening runs top to bottom with a button and buttonholes, and it washes well with wash silks. L. L. Martin in Home Queen.
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Baels
L. L. Martin
The Cridal Garters And Other Oddities Of Dress
A column notes bridal garters as a traditional rite signaling marriage prospects, describing patterns from white silk bands to jeweled edges, and recounts anecdotes about Marie Antoinette and an English ancestress. It then moves to sewing tips for a satin duster case, a French medical ice remedy for colds, a doughnut frying tip with potato slices, and ends with Queen Victoria gifts repurposed for warmth by Swazi queen attendants.
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Marie Antoinette
Philadelphia Times
Cornmeal Holds Highest Nutritive Value Say Writers
A fragmentary editorial comments that cornmeal provides the greatest nutritive value among foods. Mentions low prices for corish and other staples like oysters and potatoes, noting nutritional comparisons and vague quantities in a 10 pound unit.
Early coinage and colonial currency curiosities
A historical note on Vermont issuing copper coins in 1785 and claims about Pulecheria as the first woman depicted on a coin. It mentions imaginary rei of Brazil, and translates colonial monetary practices with Maryland 1662 tobacco exchange and 1634 Massachusetts legal tender bullets for a farthing, citing Harper's Young People.
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Vermont
Pulecheria
Brazil
Maryland
Massachusetts General Assembly
Harper
The Sciences Factoids From An Early Science Page
The article asserts ten percent energy use in coal engines and near uniform ocean water composition worldwide. It claims an average oak releases 128 tons of water over five months of foliage. It notes only female mosquitoes bite, with its sting using five needles. it denies flies walking on ceilings, citing moist foot cushions and hooks for adhesion on surfaces.
Foreign notes on feuds and reforms in distant realms
A jumble of antiquarian and political items: Patna ruler shoots his wife then commits suicide, Parthenon restoration plans by Durm Penrose Magne, Coptic pope appeal for unity, a Teeland-Teeland artifact sold in London for 825 dollars, and Austrian hussars punished at Przemysl for murdering a cruel sergeant.
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Patna
Parthenon
Beamn
London
Teeland
Baron d’ Wumonvill
Przemysl
Galicia
Salmon caught with alder pole along Rogue River
A Carmova Maine fisherman landed a nine pound salmon using an alder pole and worm bait. Rogue River area in Oregon shows plentiful fish, with locals ably exploiting hides as a business. Emmy, wife of a Gold Beach rancher, joins drives to market proving herself a capable cowboy. A remarkable 11 foot long, 300 pound moose was killed near Darley Montana last week, the largest in the area.
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Rogue River
Oregon
Emmy
Gold Beach
Ove
Darley
Mont
Statue questions and art purchases at European sites
Fifty American women visit San Donato sketching art as only the sleeping Ariadne statue remains prominent among Vatican gems. Vieron House plans a Paris statue in a central square funded by forty thousand dollars. Baron Epsvonp Boruscmio bought and donated the Boscoreale silver treasure for ten thousand dollars to the Louvre, rejected by the Boston Museum.
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Frorenco
San Donato
Vatican
Vieron House
Paris
Epsvonp Boruscmio
Louvre
Boscoreale
Pompeii
Boston Museum
Personal notes on Hartford police officer and figures
Policeman Darten B Aner newly appointed stands 6 feet 7 inches tall. Con. Ropert G Ineersour rarely appears in court as lectures generate profit for his partner Robert S H Griffin. Hunger, per Carroll D Wright, has driven many into petty crime. Of 0,958 homicides in 1890, 5,100 involved men with no trades.
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Darten B. Aner
Hartford
Conn
Con
Ropert G. Ineersour
Robert S H. Griffin
Hunagr
Carroll D. Wright
Moments of spring and sorrow in verse and verse like prose
A collage of poems and quips from Harper's Bazaar and New York Sun noting spring imagery a cat poem and a playful cautionary tale of love and loss. It blends nature captions with reflections on life death and mercy and ends with a brief comic scene the Maiden and the Bike.
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Charles W. Coleman
Harper's Bazar
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In & S. Times
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Maiden and
Ries
Frank J. Welin
Detroit
Dirk
Charles Eugene Banks
Chicago Post
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Henderson
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Shreveport
Swift Specific CO
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Chuice Goode
New York
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Sears
Hargest
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Allegheny. PA
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Robert BP. Porter
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Grand Gentra Hotel
Andrew Schwartz
West State Street
Half Square
Cavitol
Columbus
Omio
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