Joe Howard an enduring figure in American journalism
The passage portrays Joseph Howard as a legendary 62 year old editor known for writing Proclamation for Lincoln and shaping American journalism. His personality accompanies his work and he mentors young writers while maintaining a hard nosed, kindly demeanor.
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America
Joseph Howar
Metro- Politan
Th Times
Howard
United States
Tyro
Times
Joe
Tiore
Joe Howard
Joe Howard a Century's Voice in Newspaper Life
A tribute to Joe Howard details his rise from office boy to managing editor, his keen reconteur skills, and his influence on American journalism. The piece highlights his role in the Civil War era, his famed proclamation, and his rapport with readers, noting his unpretentious nature and dedication to the people.
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Lincoln
Joe Howard
New York
Howard
Ibsen is a Dandy
A short, vivid sketch notes that Henrik Ibsen, famed for exposing others foibles, is himself stylish and keenly dressed in Christiania’s fashionable promenade. He appears confident yet not Adonis like, with a compact frame and a visible sense of authority as he walks.
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Ibsen
Christiania
Adonis
Tapirs Mentioned In St Nicholas Piece On Bairds Tapir
The article notes Baird's Tapir and the South American tapir as rare in collections with only skulls skins and a few fragments known. It describes their color habitat and how locals hunt them for meat hide and salt-lick proximity along rivers and mountains from Panama to southern Mexico.
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Caida
Phewlnis
South America
Baird
Europe
Tapir
Panama
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
Mexico
Tropics
Frantzius
W. T. Hornaday
St. Nicholas
Novel Use of Brazilian Diamonds in Circular Stone Saw
A circular steel disk seven feet across uses filled steel segments with diamond heads set in countersunk screws. Arranged in eight groups per circle, the diamonds carve stone with a two cent per square foot cost and two and a half years of operation yielding 420000 square feet. twenty teeth have been renewed at about two dollars each.
Gen Buckner's log cabin home near Munfordville Kentucky
The Buckner family home, a century old log cabin near Munfordville, is where Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner was born and spent his postwar years. The simple antique furnishings reveal a plain, solitary retreat with no other houses in sight and a pistol linked to Aaron Burr and Hamilton.
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Gen. Buckner
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Kentucky Hills
Army of the Confederacy
Munfordsville
Burr
Hamilton
Republican Campaigner Questioned on Women’s Political Knowledge
A Republican campaigner faced questions about assumptions regarding women's knowledge in politics. The exchange centered on whether women are informed voters and how such beliefs might influence campaign messaging and targeting strategies.
Woman Leads With Grounded View of Practical Politics
Miss Helen Varick Boswell delivered the first speech by a woman on practical politics before a New York State political convention at Binghamton. Her remarks reflected a clear understanding of political processes and she expressed her own analyzed views on key political issues.
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Helen Varick Boswell
Binghamton
New York State
330Swell
Rerombies a Cowboy
Charles F. Lummis, a youthful writer of Southwestern life, resides in Los Angeles after starting in the East. He resembles a Mexican cowboy in a brown corduroy suit and large sombrero with a red Pueblo sash. He once lived in an Indian village to regain his health.
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Charles F. Lummis
Far Southwest
Los Angeles
East
Mrs Besant Emerges as Theosophist Leader After Blavatsky
The article profiles Annie Besant as head of the theosophists after Madame Blavatsky's death. It notes the belief in a secret brotherhood of enlightened religious teachers and suggests Besant may visit the United States again, signaling renewed activity in the movement. Besant is described as a strong woman with devout early family influences.
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Mme.Blavatsky
Annie Besant
Cone Point
Earth
United States
England
Humperdinck to Tour America with Hansel and Gretel
German composer Humperdinck aged forty one travels to major cities in the United States to present his fairy opera Hansel and Gretel. The work, based on Babes in the Wood, has found wide favor on the continent and Humperdinck is regarded as Wagner's heir. He studied in Cologne and Munich winning top prizes and later taught in Barcelona before settling in Frankfurt in 1890.
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Mansel
Gretel
Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel
Wagner
Cologne
Munich
Barcelona
Frankfurt
Cardinal Gibbons Describes ailing Pope in vivid portrait
The pope, in his eighty six year, appears pale and emaciated with a deathlike pallor from the white ecclesiastical garments. His bent figure contrasts with a bright eye and a clear mind, showing remarkable endurance despite age.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Great Undertaking Ship Canal From Bordeaux To Narbonne
A proposed public project envisions a Bordeaux Narbonne canal linking the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The 320 mile waterway would run 144 feet wide at the narrowest and 215 feet at the broadest points with an average depth around the text suggests.
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Bordeaux
Nar Bonne
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Beleaguered Social Reformer Besant’s Ferocious Path to theosophy
The piece chronicles Annie Besant’s life from early marriage to Rev Frank Besant, her break with religion, and searing social activism in London. It notes her alliance with Charles Bradlaugh, ostracism, and advocacy for workers, including reforms for match girls and organizing London’s working class, with a famous Trafalgar Square stand against bayonets. It also traces her tutelage under Huxley and her international lectures and world religious congress participation.
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Frank Besant
Walter Besant
London
Charles Bradlaugh
Mme. Blavatsky
Bradlaugh
Moncure D. Conway
Wiliam T. Stead
Besani
John Burns
Trafalgar Square
England
Details of a proposed canal with locks and towing engines
The plan describes a canal with twenty two locks ranging from twenty to sixty feet fall. Sidings about eight miles apart, each three-quarters of a mile long. Locks eighty feet wide and six hundred fifty five feet long. Towing by fixed engines. Estimated cost one hundred fifty million dollars.
Bart Kennedy Finds Fame in London Press and Essays
Bart Kennedy, longtime contributor to Leslie's Weekly, now resides in London. A two column portrait and interview appear in the London American, and the Sun has run several stories from his pen.
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Bart Kennedy
London
Leslie’s Weekly
London American
The
Sun
General Longstreet Shows Signs of Age in Philadelphia View
A Philadelphia newspaper profile describes General James Longstreet as aging with thinning hair a stooped posture and diminished fire in the eye. His deafness worsens and his attire contrasts with a traditional military look.
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Longstreet
James Longstreet
Lively Verse Fragment on a Bicycle Collision
A poetic fragment by Mary Lowthorp Henderson describes a near collision with a coming woman veering her bicycle into the speaker. The scene unfolds with startled balance and a dramatic, tender reaction as the woman speaks fearfully and kneels beside him.
Swindler J Johnson Found Dead After Arizona Scheme
J Johnson who claimed from Chicago offered 1 000 acres at 25 cents and a 1 000 000 syndicate share issue to yield 40 percent dividends disappeared. His body was found near Wolf Creek. a Wisconsin buyer allegedly came to retaliate. Local men buried him. no murder hunt is planned.
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Arizona Kicker
J. Johnson
Chicago
Great Western Grazing and Fruit Syndicate
Wolf Creek
Big + ranch
Wisconsin
How He Caught Them
A barber with a cigar stand installed a camera linked to a mag nesium flash to capture thieves at the display. Two neighborhood boys were photographed in the act, arrested, and sent to prison. An electrician claims new electric detectors render theft almost impossible.
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Momthly
Duke Mistaken for English Valet by Day Clerk
Yonkers clerk Gilbert at the Getty house misregistered the Belmont coaching party visitor. He mistook the duke of Marlborough for an English valet, prompting a humorous exchange about accommodations. The duke, Col. Jay, and Mr. Belmont joined the party in the cafe after the error.
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Gilbert
Getty House
Yonkers
Duke of Marlborough
Miss Vanderbilt
Col. Jay
Mr. Belmont
Clerk Gilbert
Green
New York Recorder
Limb Length Inequality Found In Skeleton Sample
In a study of fifty skeletons, measurements show the right arm and left leg longer in twenty three cases, the left arm and right leg longer in six, the right side longer in four, with remaining specimens showing varied limb inequality. Only seven of seventy skeletons had equal limbs.
Tree Toad Barometer in Plainfield Conservatory
A living barometer exists in a Plainfield New Jersey conservatory. A small tree toad is placed in a large glass jar with a water filled ladder angled inside. The toad remains still unless weather changes, signaling shifts in air density.
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Plainfield
N. J
Mr Dunn of Plainfield Named After Storm Tale
An odd tale from New Jersey describes a toad named Mr Dunn of Plainfield that descends a ladder as a storm approaches. The creature, gradually sinking, ends up half submerged in water just before the weather hits.
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New Jersey
Mr. Dunn
Plainfield
Traveling Schoolhouse Moves by Mules in Kentucky
A Philadelphia Record item tells of a mobile one room school built on wheels in Kentucky. Each day mules pull it to the trustee’s home and back, with water and wood supplied each morning. The teacher boards with the trustee and a bulldog guards the building at night amid threats to burn it.
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Kentucky
Philasdelphia
Worms Emerge From Nose of Ohio Girl in Peculiar Case
An 11 year old girl Richards of Niles Ohio is under a doctor's care after grub worms up to two inches crawled from her nose since May 1. About 300 worms have emerged. The girl believes a worm crawled up while she slept and laid eggs that hatched. She feels movement before recent worms appear. The case is being watched at Youngstown Hospital.
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Richards
Niles
Youngstown Hospital
Advice to Oregon Railway President Sparks Pass Debate
A letter urges goodwill toward patrons and argues for issuing passes to influential people with cogent reasons. The writer cites a prior request to Mr. Stone for a pass to Corvallis and recounts a curt reply about using the track to walk, urging a more friendly approach and a pass to Corvallis when convenient.
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Oregon Railway
Corvallis
Bismarck Kisses Fan Who Tries To Kiss His Hand
Dr Stefansson retells a tale of a Colorado girl who visited Kissingen to see Bismarck. After greeting him she asked to shake hands before leaving Colorado. He refused to kiss hands and kissed her on the mouth instead, as the great man’s affection was shown. Some claim he is blind to women’s charms.
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Bismarck
Stefansson
San Francisco Bicyclists Meet Park Rule Test
In Golden Gate park San Francisco cyclists who break the ten mile per hour limit are stopped by park police using lassos. The narrative describes officers expertly roping in violators like unruly cattle, enforcing the speed rule with precision and theatrical flair.
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Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Fastest Train Debate Ends With Comic Eclair
A French paper relates a humorous railway tale in which an Englishman and a Marseillais argue over whether the Edinburgh Express or the Marseilles Rapid is faster. The punchline has the Southerner claiming the Rapid as the world’s fastest after a station master at Avignon gets his ears boxed as the train starts.
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Marseillais
Edinburgh
Marseilles
Paris
Avignon
Princess of Wales backs Asolo lace school thriving
The lace-making school at Asolo, started by Barrett Browning’s memorial, is thriving after a large order from the Princess of Wales. Local artisans and the port’s son supplied designs and patterns as girls and women in the hamlet near the Pippa Passes setting study lace making, keeping the school full.
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Princess of Wales
Asolo
Barrett Browning
Pippa
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