Under the Midnight Sun in Gothenburg Sweden Hotel Gota Kallare Review
A Chicago News correspondent guides readers through Gothenburg, praising the Gota Kallare hotel and city sights. The piece describes canals through the Sodra Hamngatan, the Dutch urban plan, lavish hotel dining, Smorgasbord culture, and contrasts with London and Paris. It includes humorous asides about breakfast, local manners, and a digression on Du Chailly and midnight sun lore.
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Chicago News
Gothenburg
Sweden
Gota Kallare
Christiania
Chicago
New Zealand
John O’groat
Yorktown
Great Britain
India
Delmonico’s
New York
Making Mim Happy in Detroit Free Press
A tall stranger inebriated consoles a poor, disconsolate boy at Woodward Avenue and Congress Street by giving him gin, tobacco, a dime song-book, and a pledge to keep more items for another child, urging the boy to run home and be happy.
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Detroit Free Press
Woodward Avenue
Congress Street
Jin-bubby
Chrisslemas
Sonny
Salting and packing herrings origins in Baltic regions
Notes recount the 14th century origin of salting and packing herrings by Benkels of Bierviet in Flanders, his spread to Finland and the Baltic provinces, and a 1856 visit by Alexander II to Helsingfors for the first stone of a memorial to Benkels. It notes Benkels’ death in 1597 and later honors by Charles V and Veter the Great.
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Bierviet
Flanders
Finland
Baltic
Alexander II
Russia
Helsingfors
Charles V
Veter the Great
A Bearded Dowager in a London House Portrait
Visitors studying a grand painting of a handsome bearded man in rich dress ask the guide about the sitter. The keeper jokes that it is the Dowager Venus, then checks the catalogue and learns the Dowager Venus is actually the deme de lice.
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Foot Notes on Shoe Sizes of Actors and Athletes
New York Sun notes pedestals and heavy pairs for Brettle and Waldron, light six ounce shoes for Waldr on, plus training shoes with spikes. Shoemaker Maguire explains fit, arch and instep differences among actors, boxers, and American versus English feet and warns American women accept tighter shoes for quicker fit.
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New York Sun
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Bob Brettle
Tom Sayers
Jem Mace
Mace
Mr. Maguire
Waldron
Manhattan Athletic Club
Usnal
Fechter
James Wallack
John McCullough
McCullough
Forrest
Metropolitan Hotel
Lydia Thompson
Pauline Markham
Old Country
London
How the Policeman Got a Meat
A Cleveland Press humorous tale recalls a Rhode Island bank burglary where a night patrolman shares fuel with a robber who later flees with about $90,000. The witty exchange underscores a bold, cold night crime and the robber’s clever ruse.
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Cleveland Press
Autumn of life and memories in Nye's Boomerang
A nostalgic reflection on aging and lost youth from Nye's Boomerang. The piece laments the passing of bright earlier days, recalls memory of green fields and simpler pleasures, and notes the bittersweet truth that life’s best moments fade as one grows older. It recalls a youthful misadventure with three card monte as a memory fragment.
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Nye
Noted Costs of Odd Experiments and Personal Ventures
A list compares quirky expenditures with humorous labels. Items include experiments with mixed drinks at 2000 dollars, calling a large healthy man a liar for 50, and investigations into games of chance totaling 2500. Other costs cover watermelons guarded by dogs at 525, preventing baldness at 78320, lotteries at 90926, and obtaining 13 dollars of fame priced at 17550.
Night With a Human Ferret in Chicago Hotel Kitchen
A Chicago reporter visits Dick Toner the rat catcher at the Leland House to witness ferrets and a bagged rat hunt. Toner, a New York operator, explains training ferrets, catching methods, and a nightly haul up to 350 rats.
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Chicago
Leland House
Dick Toner
Children of Israel
New York
Perret” Toner
Carera
Toner
Water Street
Chatham Street
A Feminine Calendar Sparks a New Month Scheme
A San Francisco Post item mockingly details the Social Science Sisterhood’s push for a female centered calendar. It includes a playful sample calendar for “Bella Ann Jones,” with months renamed by fashion, social events, and personal milestones, plus a satirical note on Congress.
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San Francisco Post
Social Science Sisterhood
Congress
Geome
Julia
Skidmore
Annie
Maria
Charlie
United States
Bella Ann Jones
Diffenderfer
Emma
Seeees Duffey
Jane
Three Golden Balls emblem prompt pawn shop mysteries
A New York Times reporter explores the three golden balls symbol of pawnbrokers, tracing myths about heraldry to Salvestro de Medici and other tales while detailing pawnshop life. He witnesses a nervous buyer, notes broad clientele, and learns pawnbrokers claim a lawful, necessary service amid crime and stigma.
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New York Times
Times
Bowery
Salvestro de Medici
A Surreal Patchwork of Verse and Vignettes
A crowded page blends poetry and comic fragments. Quotations from Tennyson Emerson and Longfellow sit beside humorous incidents about a discharged Ohio officeholder and a snoring preacher. The miscellany includes humorous sketches about travelers and a lamp shop scene, all styled as a local newspaper verse-and-briefs collage.
The Lewis Fling in Olivette stage routine thrills crowd
A vivid account from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch describes Olivette’s Lewis fling in a Western production. The dancer executes escalating kicks as satin slippers fly, provoking shouts, encores, and a gas-lit curtain call as audience members praise the show and the new Grand Opera House.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Olivette
Lewis
Oho
Grand Opera House
A Tree Over Five Hundred Years Old at Morat
A Swiss oak near Morat town gate, claimed to be over 6000 years old, witnessed the Morat battle and Swiss victory. A messenger carried a leafy oak token to Freiburg, died in transit, and his grave bears the branch planted on it. The token branch still stands as a large European tree in its 405th year.
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Maxim
J. H
Hell
Morat
Switzerland
Charles the Bold
Freiburg
Europe
Brief Courtship Ends in Quick Canadian Elopement
A farmer near Omemee sought a wife after church attended six weeks ago. He spoke to a young woman, escorted her home, secured a license on Monday, and married Tuesday. On Wednesday he returned to find she eloped with the hired boy, about 19, who took a pair of his employer’s boots.
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Jack Cane
Paulina Markham
Markham
Louis the Good
London
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Ting
Wen
Lucy
Mamma
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Alps
Toronto
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Globe
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