Remarkable eight year old Helen Kilmurry shines in arts and studies
Eight year old Helen Kilmurry of 32 Clarendon Street Boston excels in piano singing dancing and French prose while maintaining near top grades at Prince Grammar School She wowed charity audiences with her talents and continues to grow in music and dance under her parents guidance Two famous growlers including a nurse recount anecdotes about Tennyson and Browning adding to the era’s literary color
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Helen Kilmurry
Prince Grammar School
Miss
William Kilmurry
Clarendon Street
Boston
Helen
Camel Races Stir Algerian Sports Fans Far South
Camel racing thrives in southern Algeria with substantial prizes to improve the breed. Runners are bred to different standards, boasting speed and endurance far beyond ordinary camels. The piece contrasts slow, deliberate camels with high stakes racing and ends with a literary aside about Tennyson and Carlyle.
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Algeria
Latonia
Nawab of Rampore Celebrates by Deducting Officials’ Pay
The Advocate of India reports a unique celebration for the Nawab of Rampore whose new daughter prompted state rejoicings. In tribute, a week’s pay was deducted from every state official to mark the event.
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Advocate of
India
Rampore
Farquhar to Succeed Sampson as Rear Admiral
The record outlines Rear Admiral Farquhar’s forty years of service from his 1840 birth in Pennsylvania to graduation from the Naval Academy in 1859. He led on the Santiago de Cuba and at Fort Fisher, commanded the Trenton during the 1889 Apia hurricane relief, and rose to captain in 1886 before roles on the lighthouse board and bureau of yards and docks.
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Farquhar
Sampson
Cear-Helder
Africa
United States
North Atlantic
Fort Fisher
Santiago de Cuba
Charleston Navy Yard
Trenton
Pacific Station
Apia
Samoa
Lighthouse Board
Navy Department
Massachusetts Humane Society
Berlin White Pink Matrimonial Ruse Sparks Street Riot
A Berlin restaurant runs a marriage ad featuring a 238 year old woman seeking a husband. Young men flock in with white pinks, only to find their chairs filled by others, prompting an indignation meeting and a near riot. Police confiscate letters as investigators probe the scheme.
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Berlin
New York Times
Meccan for Paleontologists in Carson City Nevada
The Sierra Nevadas yield fossil footprints and bones at the state prison grounds near Carson City. Six series of human tracks show a two foot six inch stride. prints are in limestone once part of a lakeshore. Mammoth, horse, birds, deer bones accompany the finds and indicate ancient life in the area.
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Carson City
Nev
Sierra Nevadas
State Prison
Carson
Warden Garrad
Geological Museum
Washington
The H Dropped Comedy Exchange
The dialogue satirizes English speech as Mrs A and Mrs Z joke about dropping the letter h. They recall a cockney coachman overheard greeting visitors with the line The master is ill from over-eating and discuss its humor.
Fresh Actor and Manager Motto Cited in Dispatch
A Richmond Dispatch quotation features a manager advising a young actor to think before he acts. The exchange centers on a single guiding motto about careful consideration before action.
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Richmond Dispatch
Jim the journalist and the grizzly obituary miscue
A Cleveland Plain Dealer reminiscence recalls Jim a born journalist who mixed humor with obituaries. His obsession with the phrase the grisly hand of death nearly cost him his job when he wrote of a bear encounter ending with the line the grizzly hand of death has been laid upon our friend. The old man reacted with ire and Jim left the paper.
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Jim
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cub
George
Rockies
Jericho
Amber Mining Methods on the Baltic Shores
Amber, state property and found mainly on the Samland peninsula, has been mined by dredging and shaft mining since the 19th century with diving practiced. It occurs in blue earth, a green dry, almost black wet clay. Miners employ shafts up to sixty feet deep, some mines using nearly a thousand workers. inferior amber becomes ambroid after washing, drying, coating, and molding.
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Baltic
Samland
Scientific American
Start a Bank Account Sayings for Women from Demorest's
A businesswoman advises young women earning or managing households to "Start a bank account" as essential for independence and financial discipline. She highlights convenience of savings banks and checks, record keeping, and reduced errors, framing banking as a necessity for women with business affairs.
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Demorest
Child marriages in India cited by census figures
Government census data show 6,016,759 girls aged 6 to 9 already married in India, with about 170,000 of them widowed. The figures highlight a persistent practice across regions and its social impact.
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India
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Mr. Tennyson
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Carlyle
Light AS A Feather
London Daily News
Amber
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