A Graphic Description of Pekin's Streets and Buildings
A detailed portrait of Pekin as three distinct districts the Chinese city the larger Tartar city and the Imperial or Purple Forbidden City. It covers history starting before 222 B C and notes royal palaces temples and gardens within vast enclosures lacking modern plumbing and inviting vivid nightmarish cleaning imagery.
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Pekin
China
Yen
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Nankin
Foreign Office
Tien-Tsin
Tartar
Forbidden City
Heaven
Imperial Council
Imperial City
Cabinet
Treasury
Confucius
Kansas City Cop Spares Boy and His Dog Shep
A ten year old boy leads his shepherd dog Shep to the central station to request the dog’s death for lack of a license. Chief McFarland consoles him and declares he would not kill Shep for a thousand dollars, sending them home in tears of joy.
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Central Police Station
Kansas Ciy
Kan
Shep
Kansas City
Cement for Marble Fixes Carriage Putty
A historical note describes a cement for marble and putty used by carriage painters. Soak plaster of Paris in saturated alum water, dry and bake, mix with water and apply. It sets very firmly.
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Plaster of Paris
Expert Cowboy Vance Demonstrates Innocence With Shooting Tricks
In Alliance Nebraska Jack Vance a Butte Creek cattle ranch cowboy on trial for shooting at a Burlington brakeman claimed it was a pre arranged signal. He performed rapid marksmanship tricks to prove his innocence, the brakeman and spectators witness the demonstration, and the judge requested a recheck of the accusation.
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Jack” Vance
Butte Creek Cattle Company
Alliance
Neb
Burlington
Vance
Denver Times
Sight to Paris at Hippodrome tops 1900s spectacle era
Amy Leslie calls the Hippodrome in Paris the greatest spectacle seen with Vercingetorix. The venue impresses with architecture and lavish tableaux. 500 horsemen, Amazon riders, pantomime, and stage effects create an operatic, educational show far above circus fare.
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Hippodrome
Vercingetorix
Amy Leslie
Chicago
Paris
Searcher seeks the Duke of Abruzzi in Arctic hunt
Captain W Bade Di Wismar departs from Spitzbergen's east coast to join the search for the Duke of the Abruzzi who left Italy months ago in pursuit of Andree in the Arctic regions.
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Duke of the
Man of Action Drawn From A Lions Den Cartoon
A humorous Chicago Record quote features a father asking his son to show Daniel from the lions den and the boy replying that Daniel killed and ate all the lions. The snippet mentions Dr J H Rindlaub as a specialist in eye ear nose and throat.
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J. H. Rindlaub
Owarge, N.‘D
Daniel
Lions
Jimmy
Chicago
My Own Self Again Mrs Gates Writes to Mrs Pinkham
Mrs Gates from Johns P O Miss describes long illness with chills pains and weakness. After following Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound advice she writes that she is the old self again and praises the doctor. The letter includes dates April 25 1893 and October 6 1899 with thanks.
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Clara Gartes
Johns P. O
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Boyy
Baker
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Fergus Falls
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B. L. Rowan
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Wica
NDNU
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