Pearl worth two thousand found at Taylor's Falls
In Taylor's Falls Minnesota John Emery found a perfectly round, highly lustrous pearl in a river shell valued at at least $2,000, hailed by locals as the finest west of the Mississippi. Plus Belfast reports a typhoid and diphtheria outbreak with 98 new typhoid cases in ten days and 19 diphtheria cases in two days, prompting more medical staff.
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Taylor’s Falls
Minn
John Emery
Shy
West
Belfast
Memorial services span lands and faiths in praise of the late president
Across the Atlantic and at home, services honor the late president with favorite hymns. The choirs sing Nearer My God to Thee and Lead Kindly Light, resonating in synagogues and churches alike. Jews and Gentiles share in the emotional expression of mourning.
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Atlantic
Boer flag raised at Orange Hall in Dublin uproar
In Rutland Square Dublin a Boer flag flew from the Orange Hall roof causing a stir. It is believed some members, recalling their patron’s Boer links, used the gesture to show sympathy with the burghers fighting in the field.
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Rutland Square
Dublin
Orange Hall
River Judiio Floods Inundates Border Towns
Heavy rains caused the Judiio river along the Italy Austria Friuli borders to overflow. Towns Romans Medea and Varsa were flooded while alarms rang and villagers fled. Eleven people are reported drowned and extensive property and crop damage occurred.
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Italy
Austria
Friuli
Romans
Medea
Varsa
Discovery of Second Dead Sea in Thibeta Highlands
Sven Hedin reports a vast salt lake in the Thibeta Highlands with water so saturated with salt that life is absent. He and companions waded two boat lengths to reach floating craft, leaving salt crusts on legs and clothes as the lake bed appears entirely salt.
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Sven Hedin
Thibet
Tobacco in Education Described by Jorevin de Rochefort
The 1671 Paris publisher recounts a Worcester anecdote about French children carrying tobacco in their satchel to smoke at school, with mothers preparing the pipe and teachers guiding how to draw. The tale portrays a daily ritual where books are set aside to light pipes and learn technique.
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Jorevin de Rochefort
Paris
England
Worcester
France
Madison’s sentence halted by governor in West Virginia
Lud Madison, ordered to be hanged in Parkersburg for murder, had his execution stayed for sixty days by Gov. White. Madison contends he is already legally dead due to a mistaken record of his prior execution and plans to appeal to the U S Supreme Court.
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Lud Madison
Parkersburg
W. Va
Gov. White
Madison
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Knights of Pythias Denounce Senator Wellington in Maryland
At a Magnolia Lodge meeting in Sharpsburg, resolutions condemned United States Senator Wellington of Maryland for remarks about President McKinley’s assassination. The resolutions call his statements disgraceful, unpatriotic, and unbrotherly and demand his expulsion from the order. Mountain City lodge of Frederick passed similar resolutions.
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Magnolia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Sharpsburg
United States
Wellington
Maryland
Order
McKinley
Mountain City Lodge
Knights of Pythias of
Frederick
Cuban barber’s wife flees burning home with children
Mrs Theodore Pria carried her three-month-old baby in her teeth and held her four-year-old daughter as she fled two stories down a fire escape from her insane husband who attacked the family with a revolver. Neighbors recall he was once a prosperous tobacco grower in Cuba whose plantation failed, driving him to madness. They live at 745 Tinton Avenue in the Bronx.
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Theodore Pria
Pria
Tinton Avenue
Bronx
New York
Cuba
Great Scientist Rudolph Virchow Honored Worldwide
Celebrations marked the 80th birthday of Rudolph Virchow, hailed as a preeminent scientist. An authority notes his immense, world spanning impact on medical knowledge and pathology, with widespread tributes in Germany, the United States, Argentina, Australia, Europe, England, South America, and Japan.
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German Empire
Rudolph Virchow
Germany
United States
Argentine
Australia
Europe
England
South American
Japan
Virchow
World Honors Prof Rudolph Virchow
The article traces Virchow’s impact and notes a revolution in medical concepts sparked by his work. It lists his birth in Pomerania in 1821, Berlin education, and key positions in Würzburg and Berlin, along with the creation of his Archiv in 1847.
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Rudolph Virchow
Wurzburg
Berlin
Birds and Their Songs Ventri loquial talents of birds described
Naturalists note ventriloquism in birds like the pinnated grouse and Maryland yellow throat used to mislead predators. Ground birds such as blue-winged and Tennessee warblers also throw voices upward, with vivid examples from the winter wren. The piece weaves in emigration and the McKinley family saga in Ireland and Ohio.
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Chicago Chronicle
The M Kinleys in Ireland and Loyalist Legacy
The McKinley family ancestral seat stands near Coleraine in Antrim Ireland where a third Presidential martyr rests in Westlawn Canton. The text notes James I’s Ulster land confiscations and Presbyterian McKinleys facing persecution amid early 17th century Protestant settlement and later trade restrictions favoring English manufacturers.
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Coleraine
County Antrim
Ireland
McKinley
Westlawn
Canton
James
Mary Stuart
England
Ulster
McKinleys
Pritch
Li Hang Chang and the Venerable Interpreter
Mr Barrett, ex minister to Siam, visits Li Hang Chang with an elderly missionary interpreter. A prior falling out exists between Li and the interpreter. Li greets Barrett and bows to the interpreter, then asks if the octogenarian is Barrett’s son.
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China
Barrett
Siam
Li Hang Chang
Puget Sound Surpasses San Francisco as Foreign Shipping Point
Figures for June 1901 show Puget Sound clearing sailing cargoes totaling 28 325 tons, up from 27 922 tons in June 1900, while San Francisco cleared 27 476 tons, down from 40 474 tons in 1900, signaling a shift in shipping dominance to Puget Sound.
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Puget Sound
San Francisco
Royalty to visit US aboard Leopold II yacht
The Belgian king Leopold II may tour American waters this winter with planned stops in New York and Washington. He travels unguarded, enjoys Paris society, and is linked to the Congo Free State. His sister Carlotta is said to be the ex Empress of Mexico.
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Leopold
Belgium
New York
Washington
Annarois
North
South America
Paris
Africa
Congo Free State
Carlotta
Mexico
Maximil
Lightning Superstitions in French Rural Beliefs
A survey of peasant lore in France during thunderstorms describes beliefs in immunity from lightning by skin, snake-skin hats, and silk garments. It notes a Chateauneuf-les-Moutiers church incident where silk-clad priests survived while others were struck, and cites practices like sleeping on mattresses, sheltering in cellars, and milk left outside souring with thunder.
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France
Cevennes
Chateauneuf-les-Moutiers
Debts Owed Reflect On A Doctor's Career
A veteran physician nearing 70 says his ledgers show debts totaling 104000 dollars, and he would accept 14 cents on the dollar. He notes public pity for unpaid care but argues many owe him while some ride by in carriages.
Birds of Ireland and Iceland a birding snapshot
Iceland hosts 103 species per Henry H. Slater with 3 residents 27 summer migrants 21 occasional visitors and 18 rare stragglers. Land birds few 7 residents 5 summer breeders. notable species include northern wren great northern dive and Iceland falcon. Ducks geese 16 birds of prey 7. rock ptarmigan sole game bird.
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Iceland
Henry H. Slater
Milan to Varese Rail Link Breaks Speed Myth
The 50 mile stretch between Milan and Varese is traversed in 50 minutes by a third rail system, marking a notable transit claim.
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Milan
Varese
Italy
Lost Household Arts Economies of Former Times
A public critique notes that English cottage training in domestic arts has vanished. It laments that servants now require constant supervision, and few cottage women can make shirts or cook without modern conveniences. The piece argues tinned foods and drift from home life have eroded practical skills and dignity.
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England
Miss Swetstones
Life Span Lengthens as Death Rate Falls Since 1900
The 1900 death rate drops to 18.6 per 1000 in large cities from 21 in 1890, with tuberculosis deaths falling from 245.9 to 190.5 per 100,000. Experts say improved disease knowledge and prevention drive gains totaling millions of added life years and heightened national vitality.
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United States
Economist
Leslie
Lincoln and the Fire Department Assertion
A Lincoln anecdote recalls fires in Washington prompting northern cities to offer fire brigades. Philadelphia presses the President to accept aid, but he cuts the long interview short, remarking that he is not head of the Washington fire department, just the President.
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Lincoln
National Capital
Philadelphia
Washington
The
United States
The Right of Defense in Court
A judge quotes legal principle that a defendant has a right to defense under both divine and human law. He recalls a remark attributed to a learned man noting even God asked Adam and Eve to defend themselves before passing sentence.
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God
Adam
Paderewski and His Favorite Hobby Billiards
Paderewski, famed pianist and composer, enjoys billiards as a daily hobby when time allows. He says the game sharpens his eye and hand, keeps them in training, and fuels his delicate artistic sensibilities used in piano works like his favored Chopin pieces.
Fort Knox Bucksport Old Gibraltar on Penobscot River
The Gibraltar of the Penobscot, Fort Knox at Bucksport, Maine, guarded by a single Ordnance Sergeant, was once a mighty coastal fortress built for 1.5 million dollars. It housed up to 300 guns, saw limited Civil War action, and was briefly manned in 1898 during the Spanish American War before being stripped of many guns for cemetery monuments. Torpedoes blocked the Narrows during fears of Spanish fleet incursions.
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Bucksport
Gibraltar
Penobscot
Fort Knox
Bucksport Narrows
Atlantic
O'Rourke
Atlantic Seaboard
Congress
Down River
Connecticut
Maine
Bangor
Slaughter of the Chamois in the French Alps Threatens Species
The chamois faces possible extinction as it vanishes from the French Alps. Scientists urge protective measures similar to Italy where a large reserve safeguards the animal. The species hides in inaccessible elevations from 2,500 to 11,500 feet yet is hunted relentlessly.
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French Alps
Italy
France
Rag Time Song Teaches Pharaoh Lesson in Sunday Class
A Baltimore American item notes a Sunday school teacher prompting children with a Pharaoh and Moses joke. The class responds puzzled, then the teacher insists the Pharaoh told Moses to go away and sit down.
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Pharaoh
Moses
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