Murderous Elephant Romeo and the Boy Rider Parade Tale
A Wild West era recounting of Romeo the elephant who killed or terrified handlers, his bond with Arthur Searles who rode him in a street parade, and the boy spared by a keeper. The narrative blends a dramatic display with moral aphorisms about character and employment.
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Fomeo
Wes
Romes
Dellin
Joe Nobles
Pitsburgh
Frank Gray
Louisville
Calvin Porter
Indianapolis
Eile Oddie Smith
Yonkers
N. Y
Dutchess County
Archer Searles
Romeo
Arthur Searles
Momeo
Kor
Exhibition Grounds
Gowen
Cirena
Arthur
Searles
Ethur Searles
Tomeo
Dan Rice
Words of Wisdom Love Speech of McKinley at Tuskegee
President McKinley urges integrity and industry as essential personal possessions. He emphasizes that these traits cannot be given, bought, or borrowed and are earned by the individual through effort and discipline. The speech extols their role in personal success and human progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Tuskegee
Ala
Chicago dog banker Echo guards his hidden treasure
A humorous profile of Echo the dog at 113 Cass Street Chicago who hoards coin in a wall crack and demands payment before meals. He accepts nickels for coffee and pastries, hiding his stash in a wall hole, and even swapped a railroad president's silver cartwheel for a safe deposit.
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Frank Wright
Cass Street
Chicago
Echo
Siso
Trease
Capt
Kidd
Reade
Jack Robinson
Burgiare
Bowbow
Tie
Swedish firm abandons plan to raise ships at Santiago
The Swedish company hired to salvage the sunken Spanish warships at Santiago has abandoned the mission. The text notes that Swedes will learn another time than to undertake what Americans cannot do. A brief digression explains the shovel fish uses its snout to overturn mud on the sea floor in search of worma and small shellfish.
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Santiago
Emovel
The Columbia lecturer and a Brooklyn girl in darkness
A theater lecture sequence shows a waterfall view and canyon scenes as a Brooklyn girl and a youth from Columbia pretend to be Jessie and a suitor. Confusion follows when a late arrival, misidentifications, and a ring mystery build to a humorous reveal. The scene shifts from natural wonders to a playful flirtation amid the audience as lights come up.
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Colorado
Scott
Jessie
Brooklyn
Tyre
Uater
Jessamine
Fall of Columbia Ten
Rostémuna
Goat Baxter
Goat Iaxter
Columbus
Columbia
Barnard
Baxter
Gax
Lili
Sandy
Tal
Bod
Trish
Tia
Reep
Jess
X. Y. Sua
Novel St Petersburg museum features lunatic asylum models
A proposed St Petersburg museum would house models of famous lunatic asylums and related artifacts such as clothing and appliances used in asylums, along with brains in alcohol, books and photographs. Also notes stag growth and a London washroom serving poor families for five cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Islington
London
Swift Specific Company Cure Claims Remedy Power
advertisement text touts a guaranteed purely vegetable remedy that supposedly cures Guncer Eczema Serofule Rheumatism Contagious Blood Poison fetter Boils Carbuncles Sores and similar ailments, produced by the Swift Specific Company of Atlanta Ga claiming no mercury potash arsenic or minerals.
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Ensl
Sone Guy
T W Lee
Montgomery
Ala
Swift
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta
Man drops lunch on commute in comic suburban tale
A man in the suburbs loses his neatly packed lunch when his parcel splits on the sidewalk as a train whistle sounds. Crumbs and cake spill onto the car seat and floor, sparking amused smiles from passengers while the traveler retreat back into his paper and frustration.
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Chicago Chronicle
Mie
Light flashes from crystallizing sugar at meeting
A phenomenon described at the British Association meeting involved disks of leaf sugar on a lathe spun rapidly while tapped by a hammer, producing conspicuous light without heating. The effect, attributed to changes during crystallization, suggests possible artificial light production by yet untried methods.
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British Association
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Aticata Ca
Gures
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnatti
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C. P. McCarty
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Athens
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Pt Nce
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Miles’ Nervinte
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