An Unprofessional Model in a Norwegian Fjord Romance
A roaming artist meets Christine on Naerofjord shores and sketches her as a dreamlike model. She tells of a raun which mourns a vanished lover, and invites him to her grandfather’s cliffside home where tales of northern seas unfold. The artist returns, finds love, and marries the Norwegian maiden in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Christine
Naerofjord
Grandfather
Art Club
C. B
Boston Post
Racy
Miami County
Ohio Oil Company
Oil City
Loogootee
William Pope
Lucinda Cox
Washton
John Ellis
Upland
John Myers
Chili
Temple
John Lewis
Delphi
New Jersey
First National Bank of Richmond
Turner
County Board of Review
Greensburg
Napoleon
Osgood
Versailles
Madison
Ohio River
Nathan Lewis
Bunker Hill
Peru
Lewer
Expensive Omelet Trick Ends in Hat Ruin
A Georgia merchant bets a cigar salesman he can cook an omelet in a silk hat. The hat is shattered by eggs sent over a gas flame, leaving the Georgian rueful but relieved he did not win a costly wager. The episode occurred after supper in Atlanta with four companions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canal Street
Mobile Herald
Atlanta
Richmond
North Georgia
Qua Kinsmen the Boers
The piece argues a kinship between Americans and Boers, tracing Dutch roots in America to Holland and the Dutch in South Africa. It recalls Hudson, New Amsterdam, and colonization incentives, claiming a shared lineage and values between early settlers and the Boer farmers, noting intermarriage altered lineages on this side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Britain
Transvaal
America
Pilgrim Fathers
England
New World
Sjolland
Atlantic
American Commonwealth
Hendrick Hudson
Dutch East India Company
Hudson River
New York
Bay of Fundy
Florida
Hudson
New Netherland
Manhattan Island
Albany
New Amsterdam
Delaware
Connecticut
Dutch West India Company
South Africa
Four Hundred
Dom Paul
Fatal Electrocution Chickens Cause City Power Outage
A whimsical tale reports two chickens entering a power house and pecking at main wires. One rooster on a line touched another hen, completing a circuit and dying as a city blackout occurred briefly. Feathers burned as the kiss proved fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chandeleer
Biddy
Pearl fisheries in Ceylon and rose prices at greenhouse
The pearl fishing season in Ceylon lasts twenty two days with fifty divers bringing up 11,000,000 oysters. The modest violet commands the highest price per size among flowers at a greenhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceylon
Hold Your Breath at the Beach Lessons in Sea Survival
A Chicago Evening Post note recounts a Swimming waster advising beachgoers to stay calm and hold breaths to avoid drowning. He praises a determined girl named Volcan for learning to swim by controlled breathing and deliberate effort, warning against panic and breath-holding underwater during perilous conditions or shipwrecks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Evening Post
Beees Bear Boys: Student's Clever Sentence Emerges
A primary teacher assigned a sentence using the words bees bear boys. A bright pupil submitted a playful line "Boys bees bear when they go in swim min," reflecting a humorous mispronunciation and a clever grasp of phonetics. The story notes the warmth of the class and an older woman seeking recipes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bear
Uniform marriage and divorce laws gain push in Congress
The Roberts case sparks renewed push for a constitutional amendment to standardize marriage and divorce laws across states. House Judiciary Chair Ray and about a dozen Congressmen advocate submitting the issue to states, arguing current rules foster polygamy and cross state marriages. A Southern member previously blocked an amendment with a miscegenation clause to preserve state bans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roberts
House
Judiciary Committee
Ray
New York
Congress
Pennsylvania
Utah
United States
Resolution for separate schools in Chicago education plan
A Board of Education item proposes separate schools for boys and girls from fourth grade upward. Trustee Schwab backs the plan citing concerns about boys’ behavior in cosmopolitan schools and the need for better companionship with girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Schwab
Illinois Leads With Strong UMWA Showing in Indianapolis
The United Mine Workers session in Indianapolis, chaired by John Mitchell, drew about 700 delegates. Illinois reported the strongest local presence with Pratt City Alabama and Streator Illinois among the largest locals. Illinois recorded $112,000 cash on hand and over $550,000 raised in 1898–1899, with 91,010 paid members in 931 locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
John Mitchell
P. J. Keenan
Indiana
Pratt City
Ala
Streator
Illinois
W. D. Ryan
Ryan
Mitchell
Pittsburg
Order
Sake
Cuban census team in New York with 24 boxes of records
C H Olmstead and four Cuban statisticians and supervisors, who have worked in Cuba for months, have arrived in New York with twenty four boxes of census records sent to Washington. Supervisor Manuel Rasco did not go to Washington. About 1550 Cuban enumerators were appointed, many women served as enumerators, and the census may reduce the 1887 Spanish census by about 400000, placing Cuba’s population near 1200000. Government cost for the census estimated at 300000 to 400000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Olmstead
Cuba
New York
Washington
Manuel Rasco
Havana
Senor Basco
Tailors Form United Group Aimed at Industry Control
Chicago tailors to the trade unite behind a capital of 5 million dollars. Negotiations proceed to solidify leading establishments with capitalization of 10 million dollars or more. The United Tailors seek to dominate the wholesale custom tailoring sector, with Chicago as the pioneer and principal influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United Teilors
Fire hits Guerl and Ivorydale factories in separate blazes
Ninninger and Craven manage a Guerl Alabama factory fire causing about 13000 in losses. Ed O Griffey of Adairville Kentucky killed Dr M T Gay then killed himself. Procter and Gamble Ivorydale Ohio soap plant damaged about 2000 by fire. Louis Swartz of Chicago ran to greet his father and a wagon wheel killed a child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninninger & Craven
Guerl
Ala
Ed O. Griffey
Adairville
M. T. Gay
Procter & Gamble
Ivorydale
Ohio
Louis Swartz
Chicago
Indiana Editorial Association to Meet in January
The Indiana Republican Editorial Association will hold its annual meeting January 25 and 26 at the Dennison Hotel in Indianapolis. Secretary W B Campbell released a full program with morning and afternoon sessions on rural mail delivery effects on papers, foreign advertising, editorial dignity, managing circulation, and election of officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Republican Editorial Association
Dennison Hotel
Indianapoli
W. B. Campbell
N. 5S
Cragan
Patriot
Lebanon
A. A. McCain
Journal
Crawfordsville
Fred A. Miller
Tribune
South Bend
E. J. Marsh
Commercial
Portland
A. M. Willoughby
Review
Greenburg
Marshal Hacker
Republican
Columbus
R. B. Oglesby
News
Muncie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mer
Uncle Sam
Williamsport, Pa
Grit
Mines State Stempe
Fort Wayne Light Artillery Company
National Guard of
Adjutant General
Fort Wayne
James Hemphill
Rising Sun
New Lisbon
New Castle
W. H. Nation
Raff Bros
Martin Shuey
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Brazil
Shuey
Effingham
Egbert Carter
Adamsboro
Eel River
Carter
James A. Hill
Lawrenceburg
Alton
New Albany
Lick
Cave
Philadelphia
Republican Editors
H. M. Smith
Banner
Greencastle
W. W. Lockwood
J. A. Kautz
Kokomo
A.W. Tracy
Times
Hartford City
M. W. Pershing
Advocate
Tipton
A. C. Beeson
Winchester
W.s.barber
Courier
Madi
Son
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!