Montana Briefs and Odds Ends From the Era
The column notes a Montana wedding rumor about an Illinois bride and the idea of barred attendees, then shifts to curiosities about spider silk strength it would take 28 000 spiders a year to make a pound. It warns of a St Louis debt death tied to suicide and reports a London leprosy case with no effective isolation. A Baltimore businessman proposes a Boer colony funded by 25 men to recruit Afrikaners to Maryland.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Irrigation Transforms Sahara and Other Notables
A showcase of human ingenuity features the Sahara turning fertile via artesian wells irrigation. Australian residents, twenty eight thousand strong, sign a petition to the queen seeking relief from grievances. Wellington forms a regiment of women called the New Zealand Amazons, drilled and drawing wide attention in the colony.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Advances in Water Filtration and Rice Cultivation Methods
The article notes widespread sand filtration systems in Britain reducing typhoid deaths, contrasts with limited U S use, and highlights a Louisiana bulletin describing flooding dry prairie lands for rice cultivation. It explains pumps canals and levees enabling mechanized harvesting with American machinery.
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Louisiana
Department of Agriculture
Guam Officers Report on Island Development and Finances
Capt Leary notes evaporating plant in excellent condition a steam saw mill erected ready to operate and a completed telephone link between Piti and Agana. Yosemite officers conduct topographical survey while a financial statement shows treasury balances and receipts for 1899 1900 with a Guam population of 8661 including 3128 males over seven 3680 women and 1858 children.
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Guam
Leary
Piti
Agana
Yosemite
Army and Navy Journal
Treasury
Elephant Tooth Extracted After Two-Hour Surgery
Two famed surgeons remove a twenty inch long molar from Columbus the Asiatic elephant of the Orrin Brothers circus in Mexico after a lengthy operation. The tooth decayed creating an abscess requiring six gallons of cocaine and various solutions. doctors earned 300 dollars.
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Orrin Brothers‘ Circus
Mexico
Columbus
Orrins’ Circus
Baroness of Rahden Lies Dying After Tragic Fall from Fame
The Baroness Jenny von Rahden, famed as Jenny Weiss in youth, lies in Nice blind and impoverished after a life of wealth and acclaim. Once adored across Europe for her beauty and horses, she now faces a silent decline as her past triumphs fade and debt claimed her stables.
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Jenny von Rahden
Nizza
Europe
Jenny Weiss
Baron von Rahden
Size of Audiences Drives Max O'Rell to Recovery
Max O'Rell, once too ill to lecture in the United States, has regained his health after returning home. He muses whether the large audiences may have contributed to his illness.
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Max O’rell
Indianapolis News
Death of Reginald Heber remembered in London church
The April 3 anniversary of Bishop Reginald Heber, author of From Greenland's Icy Mountains, was recalled with notes on his life and death. Heber, second Church of England bishop of Calcutta, died after a burst blood vessel in Trichinopoli. His hymn and mission are described amid colonial context.
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Heber
Greenland
London
Reginald Heber
Church of England
Calcutta
India
Ceylon
Burmah
Britain
Trichinopoli
Madras
Fort
St. John’s Church
Hodnet
Shropshire
Charles Kingsley
Chicago
Kitchener Offers to Do Any Work for Roberts
On a steamer to Gibraltar Lord Kitchener was approached by an officer who recalled a 15 year old message in which Kitchener offered to black Lord Roberts’s boots or take any job near him in the East. Kitchener affirmed the sentiment, saying he would do any mortal thing for him now.
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Lord Roberts
Gibraltar
Lord Kitchener
Col. Kitchener
India
A Wonderful Clock
The Royal Society exhib ited a clock controlled remotely by wireless telegraphy. Richard Kerregs proposes a system to synchronise all London clocks from a single master clock using a coherer receiver.
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London
Royal Society
Burlington House
Richard Kerregs
Monument to Grace Waterloo Ground by French Sculptor
French sculptor M. Gerome has been commissioned by a military and historical club to design a monument for the Waterloo field. It marks the spot where the last squares of Napoleon's army fell and will be the first French monument on the site.
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Waterloo
M. Gerome
Aged Literary Woman Julia Ward Howe Honored
Julia Ward Howe, once part of the trio known as the Three Graces in girlhood, is celebrated as a guiding Muse in later life and a significant figure in social progress of her era.
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Julia Ward Howe
Three Graces
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