Royal Outcasts and Exiled Monarchs in the 19th Century
A compact survey notes ex empress Everine living with Queen Victoria in England and Paris visits incognito. It recalls Mme Bonaparte’s movements after Napoleon’s fall, Isabella II’s exile in Paris, Count Mirabeau’s lettres de cachet, Louis Napoleon’s capture by Prussians in 1870, and Louis XVIII’s London exile with a dinner focus rather than war news.
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Everine
England
Queen Victoria
Continent
Paris
Napoleon
Mme. Bonaparte
Blois
Rome
Isabella II
Spain
Count of Miraneran
Louis Napo Eon
Chiselshurst
Louis XVIII
London
France
Natives of Many Lands and Royal Notes
A collection of brief items includes Prof Winerss contemplating permanent emigration to the United States. President Casimir Perier’s salary and allowances total 240000 dollars yearly. Reports claim the German emperor receives over 600 letters daily. Joan Moore and wife celebrate their seventieth wedding anniversary and receive three pounds from Queen Victoria. The King of Italy sends one thousand francs to a monument committee for Marshal MacMahon, with praise. Stramboulroff, a Bulgarian ex minister, once apprenticed to a cobbler and later made police prefect by prime minister appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winerss
United States
Casimir-Perier
Joan Moore
Ferrin
Italy
Marshal MacMahon
Strambouloff
Sofia
What Women Will Wear
Rover goods to fairly smooth for outdoor wear with big checks plaids and tartans. Silk blouses in sarah taffeta moire and Bhot fabrics offered in plain figured and striped styles. Describes collar lines shoulder drape stock collars corsage trimmings and bow accents with black ribbon details and tailored skirt cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rover
van Dyke
Ellen Osorn
Avesta Rye, Kansas Wheat and Crops Reported Totals
Avesta reports rye at 539 million bushels while Kansas wheat stands at 70.831 million. Last year hog slaughter reached 18.196 million. Lupra acreage is allocated across rice 27 million, wheat 18 million, other grains 75 million, sugar cane 1.6 million, tea 1 thousand, cotton 10 million, indigo 1 million, tobacco 300 thousand. From a corn bushel a dealer gains gallons of whisky with a 16 dollar retail price. Government takes 60, retailers 7, distillers 4, railroads 1, farmer 0.40. Florida pole crop is projected at 2,300,000 crates. acreage trends show rapid rise and 1895 output may reach 2,100,000 crates.
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Avesta
Kansas
Lupra
Railroads
Florida
Fragmentary 1900s text on signs and cartoons
Vague clipping describes a wine store window sign reading Cold platet punch twenty cents a quart and a dubious New Enoranp dictionary with awkward definitions. It mentions Cart Moors and missionaries arriving at thirteen ports, with disjointed railway and Broadway imagery and smoky details.
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Herz
Pleas
Mary Gibbs
Africa
Rom
Broadway
Music and Musicians in a Turbulent Era
A collage of notes on prominent figures in music. Enrico Masi, famed court violinist, dies in Rome. Theodore Havemeyer loves violin. University of Chicago President William R. Harper praised as a fine cornetist. Lucca widow keeps Wagner in Italy. Verdi’s new opera centers on Count Ugolino. Torso’s libretto for The Distiller targets Russian temperance, but interest wanes.
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Nny
Enrico Masi
Rome
Leoncay
Russia
Theodore Havemeyer
Mor
Lucca
Milan
Richard Wagner
Verpi
King Lear
Count Ugolino
Vincenzo Galileo
Torsto
The
Women and social spotlight span London to New York
The piece notes Miss Aenrs Rerp rer becoming a London literary figure with honors from Mr. Andrew Lang. It reports over twenty New York trained janitresses earning from four hundred dollars annually, the first janitor starting two years ago, and Juliette Cordon in New York preparing for a comic opera role. Mrs. Candace Wheeler celebrates a golden wedding with an affordable beauty showcase at Ontario Park Cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aenrs Rerp Rer
London
Andrew Lang
New York
Juliette Cordon
Bostonians
de Koven & Smith
Cordon
Candace Wheeler
Ontario Park
Catskills
European News Roundup From 19th Century Registers
The report notes French executioner Deibler confirms Santo Caserio died by the hands of Deibler. Budapest celebrates a hygiene congress unveiling a Semmelweis monument honoring antiseptic handwashing. Riccuso frescoes in Vatican, blocked by past popes, now funded by Leo III. Maupassant to move from Montparnasse to Pere Lachaise with a plain Breton menhir grave marker bearing his name.
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Santo Caserio
Deibler
Budapest
Congress of Hygiene
Semmelweiss
Pintur Riccuso
Borgia Apartments
Vatican
Gregory XVI
Pius IX
Leo III
Guy de Maupassant
Montparnasse
Pere Lachaise
Balzac
Gerard de Nerval
Farm and Barnyard Insect Diet and Feed Tips
The article stresses that soft food weakens digestion and raises chick mortality, compares mutton and New Zealand mutton prices, and notes nitrogen fertilizer cost. It urges soil renovation via clover and green manures, praises sunflower seed as an egg-producing feed, and gives cultivation details for sunflower crops including planting distance and seed per acre.
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London
Naming the Cities From Legends to Local Names
A compact survey of how US cities acquired their names. St Louis honors Louis IX of France via a trading post named by Pierre Laclede Liguest. Cuanceston South Carolina echoed King Charles Fort later renamed Charleston in 1743. Hackensack New Jersey derives from Haucquansauk meaning hook mouth. Hoboken New Jersey comes from Hobocan the pipes stone source used by the Tum Indians. Michigan City Indiana once linked to Annanam Jacon Lanetxo of New York, with a name change to leasing.
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St. Louis
Louis IX
France
Pierre Laclede
Cuanceston
S. C
King Charles Fort
Charles I
Charleston
Hackensack
N. J
Haucquansauk
Hook-Mouth
Orest
Newark Bay
New Jersey
Hobocan
Hoboken
Annanam Jacon Lanetxo
New York
Michigan City
Mich
Noted World Facts From Ancient Isles To Polar Ice
A collage of measurements and curiosities: Wafer thin polar ice thickness around six thousand feet, high altitude Buddhist Hanle cloister at sixteen thousand feet with twenty one monks, sea salinity figures for Dead Sea and other seas, a German man insured for fire after buying one thousand cigars and winning a payout on a suit, a new heat sensitive paint turning red at 220 degrees, and Babylonia wedding knot origins per the Jewish Messenger.
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Wrxpsor
Polar
Hanle
Thibet
Red Sea
Mediterranean
Atlantic
English Channel
Baltic
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Germany
Experimental Hay Paving Blocks and New Alloys
Reports describe experiments with compressed hay for paving blocks treated with drying oil claimed to render them indestructible. A Paris manufacturer's alloy of silver and copper is noted for strength and resistance to stress. Belgium reports ammonia freezing for quicksand shaft sinking. A sodium potassium liquid alloy thermometer measures extreme heat with a boiling point near 1100 degrees and freezing point around minus twelve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Belgium
France Earns 950000 Francs From Cycle Tax
France generated 950000 francs last year from cycle taxation with 132276 machines in service. The khedive of Egypt owns a lavish bicycle plated in silver. A French officer rode a bicycle to the Pic du Midi and back, a 540 foot ascent. Cincinnati Bell Telephone mounted thirty bicycle inspectors, displacing thirty horses and as many buggies. Petroleum powered wheels enter Paris at about one thousand dollars each.
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France
Khedive
Egypt
Pic du Midi
Pyrenees
Bell Telephone Company
Cincinnati
Paris
London Doctors Warn of Gas Light Health Hazards
A burning gas jet in a bedchamber is unhealthy, with one gaslight yielding as much carbonic gas as two sleepers. Sir Andrew Clark, a senior physician in London’s largest hospital, says seven of ten patients admitted to the building suffer ill health from drink. Dr Roux of the Pasteur Institute claims a serum-based cure for croup from inoculated horse blood. Dr Gorinsky, a Russian physician, reports cranberry juice can relieve thirst and vomiting in Asiatic cholera.
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Andrew Clark
London
Roux
Pasteur Institute
Goriansky
Paintings and Artists Highlight Era of Creativity
Rosa Bonneer, aged over seventy, shifts from painting to photography to stay active. Datansal Fanvonser Banajer, an eighteen year old from Bombay, becomes the first Indian woman to study art in Paris with a work hung in the Paris salon. Alma Tadema completes a grand depiction of an ancient Roman festival titled Spring, bought by a Berlin dealer for one hundred thousand marks, featuring over one hundred figures and a temple procession.
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Rosa Bonneer
Datansal Fanvonser Banajer
Bombay
India
Paris
Alma Tadema
Rome
Berlin
Philadelphia Full Street Layout and Industry Scale
Philadelphia has 2000 miles of regular streets and 300 miles of streetcar lines. It produces $500,000,000 worth of goods annually. Dunham North Carolina, a top southern tobacco center, yields 300,000,000 cigarettes per year. Buffalo’s city hall cost $1,350,000 and over 90,000,000 bushels of grain moved east in a season. Our latest census notes a higher proportion of people in Brooklyn. Sconce the ae core.
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Philadelpia
Dunham
N. C
Buffalo
Brook
Notes on pests and planned ventures in 1890s Europe and America
The phylloxera pest prompts a 100000 dollar Spanish government response to eradicate the disease. Denmark undertakes a 1895 1896 deep sea Greenland Iceland expedition with a botanist. Nashville losses from boom schemes reach 10 million over ten years with minimal local spend. Jewish agricultural colonies in California show promise. Russia proposes a Baltic to Black Sea canal, with Dnieper and Dwina linked and Cherson named as Black Sea harbor option.
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Spain
Greenland
Iceland
Nashville
California
Orange Vale
Folsom
Porterville
Fresno
Russia
Baltic
Black Sea
Dnieper
Dwina
Cherson
Japan’s baths and motorized kimonos in empire life
The piece surveys etiquette under the Chinese academy, Hong Kong’s sex ratio of 366 women per 1000 men, and a Japan origin tale for the jinrikisha by Martha C. Fisner of Washington. It notes daily baths for workers, free street baths, and a system of constant cold and hot water douches for bathers.
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China
Hong Kong
United States
Japan
Martea C. Fisner
Washington, D. C
Interesting Bits From an Old Page
Fuchsia named for German savant Fuchs and discussion on spectrum light essential for plant growth. A Russian peasant signs the cross before meals. Moravians claim an independent Bohemian church by the ninth century. A language expert heard ten tongues on Brooklyn Bridge. Aqua ammonia offered as a bee sting remedy after attack. Windmills prominent in Dutch scenery may appear in India with pumps to drain Bombay flats.
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Fuchs
Bohemia
Brooklyn Bridge
India
Bombay
Unknown early American industry and daily life vignette
The text notes no cotton manufacture in New England due to seed separation issues. It describes New England as sparsely grain producing, cites heavy candlesticks that rim on rollers for mobility, and mentions tin gutters sending rainwater into streets. It also records lingering congregants after church services while the minister and family exit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Court notes and historical references in Connecticut ruling
The report cites court records from New Haven police as mandating daily shaving for patrolmen. It recalls Britain's 1590 transportation policy under Elizabeth. It notes Joan Dennis jailed seven days for stealing a farthing from a London bar till. Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors holds that boys and their trunks cannot be held for board. Yale students are linked to a related decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Great Britain
Elizabeth
Joan Dennis
London
Supreme Court of Errors of
Connecticut
Yale
Uncertain Fragments Highlight Oddities and Quotes
A cobbled montage notes a coop for stock with weather shelter saving erection costs in years. Randolph Maine 93 year old Uncle Henry Dow drives a trotting horse in 2 33. Berne Switzerland cnocoware factory uses honey instead of sugar. Scriptural prophecy referenced as political disharmony.
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Henry Dow
Randolph, Maine
Cnocoware
Berne
Switzerland
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