Newlyweds Leave Home for World Journey on $5000 Wager
California couple, W. T. Williams Jr. and his bride of a week, departed Los Angeles with no luggage money or food, bound to circumnavigate the globe in under two years earning all funds. The wedding gift voyage follows a $5,000 challenge issued by the groom’s uncle, with the couple starting amid cheering crowds at the Russ House. Their route includes San Francisco Seattle and the Orient, driven by curiosity and adventure as well as the purse at stake.
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California
Sam
W. T. Williams, Jr
Los Angeles
San Francisco Examiner
Williams
W. T. Williams
San Francisco
Seattle
Widow in Black Captivates Store Clerks in Atlanta
In a city store a stylish widow wearing black and a Gainsborough hat draws crowds as clerks fawn over her. A joking young man says widowhood would be his aim, while the woman selects an expensive dress item, leaving staff flustered by her charm and mystery.
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Atlanta Constitution
Gainsborough
Realistic Humorous Exchange on Patience with a Novelette
Farmer Hodge complains about the heroine Gladys Fitzaliwyn in a reading novelette. He mocks her exaggerated eye movements as the wife Mrs Hodge asks what she has done now. The farmer details scenes of her eyes shifting across rooms and lavished with dramatic phrases, reflecting a light domestic banter.
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Farmer Hodge
Gladys Fitzaliwyn
Mrs. Hodge
Dickens Memory Pie Shop Ordeal In London
An American admirer visits a London pie shop tied to Charles Dickens childhood hunger memories. A ragged group of sixteen boys, guided by a generous benefactor, buy pies while the astonished baker serves them freely for a quarter hour. Then the scene ends as the boys spread the tale through London’s lanes. Also includes low freight rail fares and event ads for St Louis Exposition travel in 1895.
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Dickens
London
Charles Dickins
Tel-el-Kebir
Cotton States Exposition Advertises Extensive Rail Access
Atlanta Georgia hosts the Cotton States Exposition from September 18 to December. Tickets are available until December 15 with option to ticket dates through January. The Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern lines offer daily through trains from St. Louis and direct connections to Atlanta. For information contact J Moros at the Cedar Rapids & Denver agency.
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Atlanta
Dee
Gow
CR & N
St. Louis
Callon
Reketa
Adaress
James Lane Allen A Kentucky Author And His Struggles
James Lane Allen author of Flute and Violin and A Kentucky Cardinal was born on a farm near Lexington in the Blue Grass region. Of Revolutionary stock, his family faced poverty before his literary career began after a ten year wait for success in New York. He moved there with little means and, within eight years, produced five volumes and poems including Butterflies, with a Harper's serial about a simple country boy and girl set in Kentucky.
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James Lane Allen
Kentucky
Lexington
Blue Grass
Allens
Virginia
Madisons
Paynes
Johnsons
Lanes
Clays
William Payne
Washington
Col
Payne
Times
New York
Messages Through Space Promises New Telegraphic Frontiers
Experiments in sending telegraphic messages through space advance the idea of practicable interplanetary communication. An island Mull to Oban link faced cable failure yet demonstrated a two mile gap could carry signals via shore conductors. Observers note Morse could outperform, while night noises on long lines spark debate on cosmic versus terrestrial origins.
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Mull
Oban
W. H. Preece
Earth
Greece to settle with bondholders for creditors’ good
Paris dispatch from the Times cites a Greek cabinet plan to address its debt by sending three ministers to Paris London and Berlin to negotiate with bondholders. The budget speech by Prime Minister Delyanni signals aims to secure an equitable arrangement and honor Greece to creditors by late summer.
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Paris
London
Times
Greece
M. Theodore Delyanni
Budert
Berlin
Chinaman seeks NY patrolman post for tracking criminals
Charley Fong Sing, American-born Chinaman, applies to the New York police civil service board for a patrolman appointment to do special duty in tracking Chinese criminals. He trained in San Francisco and closed many opium dens. He stands over six feet tall, athletic, with a long scar on his left cheek from a mast fall on the Jeannette voyage. Vesuvius lava could build all London and New York houses since AD 79, scientists say.
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Charley Fong Sing
New York Police Civil Service Board
San Francisco
Word usage lesson ends with amusing miscue
A country school examiner in England asks pupils to write sentences with the word dozen. A student replies I dozen know my Jesson revealing a humorous error. The notice mentions Colera Morbus and promotes DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure from La Grange & Co.
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England
Jesson
Colera
DeWitt
la Grange & Oo
Infanta
la Grange & [Co
Simmons Liver Regulator Promises Relief for Sick Headache
The ad claims Sick Headache stems from bilious conditions, affecting women most. a dose of Simmons Liver Regulator supposedly moves the liver to action and excretes excess bile, with relief in a few hours, noting men are less troubled.
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Simmons
Lawful study fuels genius more than sheer toil
The New Science Review argues genius arises from aligning work with natural law rather than labor alone. It cites Napoleon, Von Moltke, and Leonardo da Vinci as examples of trained minds shaping outcomes, while debunking the idea that disease creates genius. It notes flaws appear where genius was underused, not where it was overworked.
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New Science Review
Napoleon
von Moltke
Europe
Leonardo da Vinci
Florence
Dresden
China
Should F Patronize Home Beauties and Foreign Pleasures
Americans spend at least 75 million a year visiting Europe for pleasure while spending barely 1 million at domestic wonders like Niagara Yosemite and Yellowstone Park. Of Yellowstone’s 3000 visitors in the past three years only sixty were Americans. A Chicago alderman proposes opening council meetings with prayer deeming a prayerful start better than a criminal joke.
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Niagara
Yosemite Valley
Yellowstone Park
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