Bloodhounds in the South Track Criminals in Display
The piece highlights the use of bloodhounds in police work, focusing on Jude a 18 month old hound owned by Chattanooga Patrolman Phipps. Jude can follow 24 hour old trails and demonstrated her skill in a public chase through Hill City showing the dog tracks a fleeing man across fields to a river and a tree where the suspect was found.
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South
Darky
Chattanooga
Jude
Hill City
Louisville Courier-Journal
Foreign Notes Of Interest In England Inquiries
Marriage rates rise in England with a quarterly register surpassing any first quarter since 1553. Marquis of Lorne writes an opera libretto to be set by Hamish McCunn and likely premiered before the queen at Windsor. Coquelin-Cabaret plans an album of congratulatory letters after receiving the Legion of Honor. Turkish rulers order repair of Solomon’s aqueducts in Jerusalem, constructing a 4000 yard tunnel at £400,000. Sir Repririlary, Chinese customs inspector general since 1850, notes port expansion from three to thirty and a large European and Chinese workforce amid twenty armed cruisers.
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Marriace
England
Marquis of Lorne
Hamish McCunn
Windsor Castle
Coquelin Caper
Solomon
Jerusalem
Arroul
Reprir Lary
Foreign Echoes and Odd Facts From Abroad
An assortment of curious figures and notes including salaries for President Casimir Jenner’s staff at 240000 annually, foreign stock in Britain valued at 3819085000 with 145000000 in interest yearly, Lord Coleridge's habit of pacing to stay awake on circuit, and climate data comparing wind and rainfall across major cities. Also mentions a German scientist using mild electricity to stupefy bees without harm if not excessive.
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Katsern Wittenm
Tur
Casimir Jenner
Great Britain
Lord Coleridge
London
Paris
Manchester
Edinburgh
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Inventive Geniuses and Novel Inventions Noted
A survey of 19th century ideas includes Maxt TM's semi-lying machine and a pro plane that distances five hundred feet from its track before landing and smashing a car. Panis's pelure d'ognon shade. M Meyer’s fireproof indestructible paper. aluminum tubs cast in one piece. a treadmill-driven street car. and annealed glass with new transparent wire threads to hold fragments together.
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Panis
M. Meyer
Paris
Great Artists and Trials in Early Art History
Del Prono served in the papal court collecting a seal for papal ordinances while earning a living as he built his art reputation. Fresote began by decorating St. Mark’s convent cells in Florence, making the artist famous. Van der Weypen painted beggars with extreme realism by using the ugliest model. Monito died from a fall from a scaffold in Cadiz after admiring his finished work. Cano was tortured for murder, confessed under torture, and was posthumously found guilty.
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del Prono
Fresote
St. Mark
Florence
van der Weypen
Monito
Cadiz
Cano
Natural History Notes on Plants and Gems from North America
A Philadelphia collector reportedly has minerals second only to the British Museum, valued at $500,000. In Missouri A Vance owns a pearl from a mussel shell weighing about 451 grains, claimed as one of the world’s largest pearls. The note mentions a Surinam discovery named Lonna as a substitute for rubber, seven inch emerald twin crystal in St Petersburg, sundews that trap insects, and the Venus flytrap native to southern states.
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St. Petersburg
Surinam
Philadelphia
British Museum
A. Vance
Cross Timber
Bell's Island
Osage River
Turking of Greece and other notable notes
A collage of trivial curiosities mentions Turking of Greece as a strong swimmer and fishing enthusiast. The Earl of Dudley’s diamonds are valued at 2.5 million dollars. Papenewsstelvis reports receiving 50,000 photo and autograph requests. Real estate in Cleveland owned by P. M. Artuyn is assessed at 45,650 dollars, valued about 55,000. The French duchess d Uzès reportedly visits a cancer hospital weekly to replace an infirmary servant.
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Turking
Greece
Earl of Dudley
Papenewsstelvis
Cuter P. M. Artuyn
Cleveland
Duchess d'Uzes
Tue
Germany
Michoacan
Turameer
Afghanistan
Abdurrahman Kahn
Russia
Ameer
Wabash Homeseekers' Excursion rates to 21 states Oct 9 1894
World copper output totals 803975 tons with 147210 tons from U S mines. Wabash Line announces Homeseekers' Excursion rates to 21 states in the West Northwest and Southwest for Oct 9 1894. Tickets valid for return in 20 days from sale with stopovers, apportioning via Kansas City Omaha Denver and other cities. inquire at local offices or Ed Swift Cincinnati.
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Wabash
Great West
Northwest
Southwest
Homeseekers
Kansas City
Omaha
Denver
Ed Swift
Southern
Carew Building
Cincinnati
Ohio
Buckeye Route Sells Excursion Tickets South
The Buckeye Route offers roundtrip excursions to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia on October 2 November 5 December 1 1804 at the lowest first class fare. Tickets valid 22 days for return and allow overnights south of the Ohio River. Write agents C. H. V. & T. Wy or W. H. Fisher for details.
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Buckeye
Alabama
Florula
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Oluo
Tor
W. H. Fisher
Columbus
Oliv
Harvest Excursions to the West and Michigan in 1894
The Buckeye Route announces harvest excursion tickets from Sept 25 to Oct 29 for western points Arkansas Colorado Idaho Iowa Indian Territory Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska Texas Dakotas Utah Wyoming and New Mexico at very low fares. Tickets cover or stopover privileges west of the Mississippi and are valid twenty days from sale for return passage. W H Fisher Columbus Ohio lists agents for details.
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Buckeye
ISU4
Harvest
Arkansas
Colorado
Idaho
Iowa
Lndian Territory
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Texas
Dakotas
Utah
Wyoming
New Mexico
Mississippi River
Nicknames of the Great and Their Bearers
Prepenick the Great known as Der Alte Fritz and the Philosopher of Sans Souci. Davin Garrick labeled Stage Atlas English Roscius and Vain Tyrant. Thomas Honnes called Lear for ferocious demeanor and swearing. Jean Sinastian Baca titled Father of Modern Piano Music for piano focus and thumb fingering. GouTone named Man of Many Medals for royal decorations. Grant nicknamed Old Three Stars Uncle Sam Grant and Unconditional Surrender United We Stand.
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Prepenick the Great
der Alte Fritz
Davin Garrick
Roscius
Little Davy
Proteus
Thomas Honnes
Lear
Jean Sinastian Baca
Goutue
Grex. Grant
Sam Grant
United States
Grant
Odd Local Fixes and Farther Flung Fragments
A second hand hearse with top cut off serves Milo poor farm wagon. Slater Missouri reports a ten year old boy riding a grown up bicycle by standing on one side with both feet on a pedal. Jim Crow a Native American boy from Mariette Wisconsin had his leg cut off while trying to save a dog from a train. Sam Coutter from Crawfordsville Indiana was an unreconstructed rebel who bought blue clothes after neighbors teased him about wearing blue at church. An Auburn Maine artist fell from a ladder with a hod of bricks but escaped unharmed as man and hod tumbled. he landed on a spring board and bounced away unharmed.
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Slater
Jim Crow
Marmette
Wis
Sam Coutter
Crawfordsville
Ind
Ohio Central Lines Excursion Fare To Cleveland
Ohio Central Lines offers one fare round trip tickets for the excursion to Cleveland. Tickets go on sale October 2, 3 and 4 with a limit of returning by October 6. Agents of the lines will handle the sale under the specified terms.
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Ohio Central Lines
Excursion rail fares south and land offers posted
The P Jtimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway announces Home seekers excursions to Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana at one fare round trip with 20 day validity and stop overs. Dates: September 4 October 2 November 6 December 4. Buckeye Railway also offers monthly south excursion tickets via N and W Railway with dates September 4 October 31 November 6 December 4. Also mentions land sales in the South from five to sixteen dollars per acre and provides agent contacts in Ohio Michigan and Indiana for details.
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P Jtimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Valley of
O. P. McCarty
St. Louis
Buckeye
Carolina
Pleasure
Radford
Union Depot
Columbus
South
H. A. Wilson
D. P.3
Toledo
E. R. Davidson
Henry St
Detroit
L. Ww. Landman
Deshler Block
Illinois excursion to Shelbyville and Charleston Oct 23 1894
The Buckeye Route offers round trip excursion tickets to Shelbyville and Charleston at a very low fare on the October 28 excursion train. Tickets are good only going on that train and returning by November 23, 1894. Contact WH V T Ry or W H Fisher Columbus Ohio for details.
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Buckeye
Shelbyville
Charleston
Columbus
Shelby
Coles
WH. V
T. Ry
W. H. Fisher
G. P
T. A
Buckeye Route Excursion Tickets To Southern Points
The Buckeye Route offers round trip excursion tickets to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Tennessee at a single fare on September 4 October 2 November 6 and December 4. Contact agents CG H V TL Ly or W H Fisher G Po T A Columbus Ohio for passes rates and terms.
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Buckeye
Alabama
Florida
Georgian
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
W. H. Fisher
Volumbus
Ohio
Home Seekers Excursion Tickets From Ohio Central Lines
Ohio Central Lines announces dates for Home Seekers Excursion Tickets to the Northwest West Southwest and Michigan with one fare round trip plus 2.00, limited to 20 days for return. Tickets to the South Southeast including Virginia and Southern states south of the Ohio River are also offered with the same terms.
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Ohio Central Lines
Michigan
Virginia
Ohio River
History notes on wars costs and ships in old time
The record cites total costs of all wars since the Crimean War at 15.265 billion dollars, compares it to giving ten dollars to every person, mentions the Savannah as the first transatlantic steamship crossing in 1819 taking 25 days, and notes the Greenbush Massachusetts home of Samuel Woodworth as still inhabited by his descendants and Pennsylvania Historical Society’s extensive colonial laws collection.
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Samuel Woodworth
Greenbush
Mass
The
Historical Society of
Pennsylvania
United States
Charlemagne Towers
British West Indies
C H V T Ry Announces Seasonal One Fare Tickets
On September 4 October 2 November 6 and December 4 the C H V T Ry offers a one fare round trip valid up to 20 days for return to all points in Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and some points in Florida Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi and Virginia. Stopovers allowed south of Cincinnati. Lancaster Fair tickets Oct 9 10 11 12 and 18 sell at one fare for the round trip. Athens fare $1.35.
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C. H. V. &T. Ry. Atone
Alabama
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Florida
Kentucky
Lousianna
Mississippi
Virgina
Cincinnati
Lancaster
Athens
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Thom Te
Litta
America
Italy
Street Singers
Grand Boulevard
Natural History Notes
S.S.S
Irwin
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, Ga
Monters
Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
H. V
T. R
Kee Fisher
G.ree
Columbus, Ohio
Clevelan
Ohio State
Warient
Cline
Illinois
Nailroads
New York City
New England
Niagara Falls
Jas
Keystone Watch Case Co
HO Central Lines
Odeal Tbo
Obientrali
Peaterville
Lakeside Park
Washington
Port News Dome
Moulton Houk
G.P.A
Mre
Southwestern
Pullman Palace
Washington D.C
Baltimore
Uomat
York
Louisville
Indianapolis
Union
Pullman
St. Loui
W.R.R. L. H. Reutinger
Otto E. E. Patton
Trav
Chillicothe
W. W. Peabody
J.G. Rawn
Columbus ' Ocking Valle
Toledo Railway CO
Marion
Canada
Atchison
West
AJM. P.M. Pomeroy Ly
Middleport
Gallipolis
MenArthur
Bath
Nelsonville
Logan
Delaware
Prospect
Sandusky
Fostorta
Tooeau
Cccoe
Colst
Kilo River
W. J. Fisnex
P.M
Carey
Sand
Arion
Ory Columbus
Columbus LY
Bree
Hens Tees
Bob -Eseeot McArthur
Gailis
Wally
Muskingum Valley
Pittsburg
Zanesville
Dennison
Anapolis
West Bound
Cincinnati Matl
Cincinnati Express
New Lexington
Pine South
Trea
Yvain No
Junction City
C. M. Bennett
P.M. WoeIson, Gen Pass
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