World News Roundup Mixed with Local Reports
A garbled summary from Canadian and U S sources reports on notable figures such as Mr. Peterson and Big Bear, deaths in the North West rebellion, and economic notes from the United States including bank concerns, real estate, and rail. It mentions Niagara Falls uses, prohibition efforts, and varied international items from Europe and Asia with few clear dates or consistent details.
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Sault Ste. Marie
P. Peterson
Peterem
St. Lawrence Bridge
Tee Tiverton
Kincardine Review
Hegh Lament
Ena
D. P
Toroto
Sys
Tugheafee
Oege
Richard Oon Hill
Madoc
J. B. Chagc
Mark Powell
North Hastings
Big Bear
Thiendian
Frog Lake
Bear
Dor
Dewdney
Calgary
North West
Mica
Regis
Detroit
Dominion Ceer
Twenty Eight Miles On a Single Wheel Ride
Richard Schulz, famed trick rider, completed about twenty eight English miles on one wheel during Hamburger Bi elab’s run to Ahrensburg and back. He achieved a half hour mile pace despite rough roads, proving remarkable balance and endurance. Australia begins orange exports to England as a noted trade note. The Kremlin Grand Court in Moscow plans a $650000 viewing of the late Czar. A cartoon caption quips about a bat being worn and a joke on two banquets in two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal
Frances E. Willard
Prohibition Howe
Dover
N. H
New York
Mediterranean
America
Castle Garden
United States
Overstore
Germany
Hamburger Bielab
Ahrensburg
Richard Schulz
Australia
England
Kremlin
Moscow
Fresh Frontiers Movements and European Tensions
Germany readies for a potential French attack as front line movements intensify and fortifications at Kovno expand. Russia seeks a war loan amid shifting European finance with 15,000,000 roubles in Nicholas bonds and a possible 400,000,000 rouble loan. Swiss authorities discipline police over socialist safety concerns while Kaiser Wilhelm and Crown Prince Fritz show improving health. tracheotomy may be needed for the Crown Prince.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Frankfort
Russia
Kaiser Wilhelm
Gem
Schellendorf
Albedyl
Prince Bismarck
Fritz
Dr. Bramann
Bramann
San Remo
Howell
Krause
Fire Losses Strike Cobourg and Thorold Dwellings
A series of fires destroyed multiple buildings in Cobourg and Thorold. Mrs Walker’s frame residence on Blenheim Street burned with contents. loss insured. Thorold’s Brid Aver Avenue fire gutted a dwelling owned by W. J. Macharney. building and furniture losses reported with substantial insurance. Cobourg photograph gallery of H Fowler suffered near-total loss. several tenants insured. Appleby hides storage building in Cobourg burned. total loss about 9000 dollars with large insured coverage. arson suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Motherall
Comag Destrey
J. Motherall
H. Fowler
Lindsay
Teamen
London Assurance Company
J. Hethick
Barber
W. McCarty
Waterloo Mutual
Cobourg
A. B. Appleby
the Royal
Appeby
Hides
Transforms Rifles to Repeaters and March Post Arrangements
Orders issued to convert rifles for active Italian service and reserves. Parcel post rules between Canada and the United States take effect March 1. A Russian loan of 200 million roubles is to be negotiated by French Belgian and Dutch interests. British Columbia mails delayed Ontario. January imports rise by 3.76 million pounds with exports up 770 thousand. Court to hear six election cases involving six months limit.
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Canada
United States
British Columbia
Ontario
Rocky Mountains
Ie Gover
Cabinet Rumors Denied by Home Secretary Matthews
Home Secretary Matthews denies rumors of Cabinet dissension claiming unity. The remark comes as he praises his wife and her cooking, noting a personal stance on domestic support despite public scrutiny.
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Matthews
Debates on trade, politics, and world fairs in a late 19th century paper
Disjointed miscellany covers Butterworth on British trade, dueling culture, a Ballykerogue siege with hot water hoses, Ontario independence talk, Canada US fish rights, missionary activity in Africa and India, Spain's World Fair plans, and transit proposals for New York City. References to Mercier in France and Salvation Army issues in Quebec are noted.
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Biattie Ie
Benjamin Butterworth
Great Britain
England
United
David Foley
Ballykerogue
Col. T
Wexford
Ontario
Bobcaygeon Independent
Jill
Pis
Billy
Senator Call
Florida
United States
Canada
Atlantic
Uni States
Pacific
Africa
China
India
Turkey
Persia
Earth
Mysterious coin trick between Sadie and Willie entertaining readers
A New York World tale describes Sadie lending Willie a cent and Willie repeatedly coaxing for it back as gifts. He keeps returning partial sums until he owes her nothing, puzzling Sadie who accepts the outcome as correct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Sadie
Willie
New York World
Pearls of Truth on Courage and Public Duty
The passage urges patience humility and self forgetfulness as royal traits. It argues that action in danger marks courage, each man must be productive and contribute to the commonwealth, and truth has many facets like colors from one sun. It critiques self love and asserts responsibility to do one’s created work.
Blizzard Storms Through Minnesota Frontier in 1872
The narrator defines a blizzard as an ice dust cloud driven by cold winds and warns its approach is preceded by warm weather. He recalls the January 7 to 8 1872 blizzard near a Northwestern Minnesota prairie farm, when calm gave way to fury and shelter was lifesaving for man and beast.
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Minnesota
Great Northwest
New
Atlantic
A Petroleum Gas Engine Ship Trial
The article describes a petroleum gas engine measuring 23 feet by 5 feet 5 inches by 3 feet deep. It runs since January from Havre to Tancarville via a new canal at an average 7.5 knots. The engines operate independently with a horizontal flywheel and emit no smoke when at rest, with cold petroleum steam produced in a nearby receiver.
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Nature
Paris
Jane
Havre
Tancarville
Dante
The Next War Between France and Germany
An analysis argues France cannot be outnumbered and must win the first Meuse battle to deter German forces. It cites mobilization, rapid front transport, and Italian entry risks, stressing pluck over sheer numbers to secure victory and Strasbourg investment if Meuse is won.
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Aes
Toulouse
Green
Nagrouse
Meuse
Rhone
Turin
Grenoble
Metz
Verdun
Alps
Strasbourg
Opium Smuggling Ring Traced From Vancouver to Brockville
U S officials traced a shipment worth 25000 from Vancouver to Brockville where opium was moved by shed and rail to Redwood before capture by U S special officers. The cross border operation used C P R ships and seasonal river crossings with ferries sleighs and wagons. Insiders in Brockville were known to be involved in the smuggling chain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
China
Vancouver
Brockville
Redwood
U. S
Large Deer Forests of Scotland and the Winans Controversy
The article surveys Scotland’s deer forests from Mar Lodge to Inverness areas, notes rents of up to £600 per year and Winans ownership affecting sanctuary policy, cites a 1884 trespass attack at Kintail, and discusses rising estate values due to railway links and aristocratic hunting culture.
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Johnson
Prince of Wales
Mar Lodge
Fife
Prince Albert Victor
Scotland
Mar
Black Mount
Argyllshire
Reay
Sutherlandshire
Glinstrathfarrar
Invernessshire
Auchnashellach
Ross and
Cromarty
Inverness Ross
Winans
Baltimore
John Ramsden
Highlands
Saimon
Grileo
Aberdeen
Inverness
Perth
North
Britain
The Central Bank's Victims and India's Trade Rise
The piece laments bank failures harming the poor and workers, noting sore losses for a boy, a mother, and a firm’s collections. It questions accountability of wreckers amid delays and hints at broader policy debates on Ireland and India in imperial trade, citing India’s cotton growth and wheat exports.
Weather Lore Endures Amid Scientific Debate
The piece notes that about a hundred popular proverbs align with meteorological results under normal conditions, justifying rural preference for sayings over charts. It warns many maxims are false, yet moon influence superstitions persist as especially stubborn, resisting scientific critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meesrs
Abercromby
Marriot
London Bank Rates Cut as Socialists Clash in Trafalgar Square
Notes on Bank of England discount rate dropping to 3.4 percent, a Trafalgar Square Tory clash with London Socialists, and Russia weighing stronger Pacific forces. Also mentions Julian Hawthorne's new story The Fatal Letter and a Leicester centenarian Lydia Watson in good health. A London sewage plan using electricity to purify the Thames is discussed with early experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
London
Trafalgar
Russia
Pacific
Julian Hawthorne
Lydia Watson
Leicester
Mas
Gil
Thames
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NAWS
Sugar Trust
Barnum
Great Eastern
New York City
Fort Smith
Ark
Abercarne
Irwin
Dakota
Ohio
Washington
Chicago
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Kentucky
Spain
Mra. Cleveland
Cardinal Manning
Rome
Vatican
Gladetone
Tyrol
Warsaw
France
Wle
Fish
Fngland
Ismail Pacha
Naples
Constantinople
Duke of Cambridge
J. P. Moore
Japan
Afghanistan
Gladstone
Raginod
Bangund
Norway
Lespos
Reasia
Switzerkland
Haupt Schroeder
Zurich
Fischer
Herr Bebel
Foreign Office
Switzerland
Herbert Bismarck
Italy
Austria
Celona
Cate
Wash
Hewitt
Mercier
Ducitaccoone
Mowat
McShane
Star
Salvation Army
Quebec
Booth
French Canada
Utah
Pearls OF Truth
U. & Officers
Sceotland
Central Bank
Michael Hicks-Beach
Ireland
Lancashire
Bombay
United Kingdom
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