London Underground Railway a marvel of the age
Brooklyn Eagle outlines the London Underground system as a vast continuous burrow with no clear start or end. It details its construction under London clay, immense passenger volumes, and the rail network linking central districts with suburbs, plus station design, car classes, and strict management.
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Brooklyn Eagle
London Underground Railway
Poictiers
Agincourt
Hotet
London
London Underground
Underground
Whitsunday
Metropolitan Underground Railroad
Mishop’s Road
Farringdon Street
Moorgate Street
Liverpool Street
Far East End
Westminster
Cannon Street
Thames
Chelsea
Pimlico
Brompton
Piccadilly
The
Strand
Fleet Street
Cheapside
Cannon Streets
England
Surrey
Ball
Ingersoll Descends Mine Heat Trial At Ophir
Colonel Ingersoll and party toured the Ophir Mine in Virginia City. A 475 foot descent exposed him to extreme heat in a drift. A miner joked about hell as the group faced rising temperatures, the colonel joking he would write an obituary if not brought to the surface uncooked.
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Ingersoll
Virginia City
Ophir
San Francisco
Union Ground
Cate
Son
Eva
Chicago
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn
the Eagle
Postiedrum
A Dog Hospital and Its Unusual Keeper Tales
A New York feature visits a Greene Street dog infirmary run by an Englishman and his wife. It describes Rex the 325 pound mastiff winner of a $1000 prize, a busy sick room, varied canine care, and humane efforts to treat dogs from spaniels to bull dogs while critiquing horse slaughter and hydrophobia fears.
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New York Theune
Greene Street
Canal
Rex
L. M. Barlow
Glen Cove
America
Murray Hill
Fifth Avenue
Sean
Reading by Sound in Telegraphy From Early Pioneers
An interview with General Anson Stager recounts early telegraphy in Pittsburgh and across the Alleghenies. He describes Morse tape reading, the shift to sound reading, and how operators learned the system, including anecdotes about Weather Bureau precursors and the role of Mrs. McKay. He notes officers initially opposed the change but acknowledges sound reading vastly boosted telegraph efficiency.
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Detroit Free Press
Western Union
The
Free Press
Anson Stager
Telegraph
General
Pittsburg
General Stacer
Alleghanies
Philadelphia
Weather Bureau
McKay
General Stager
Erastus Crooks
Gazette
Brooks
New York
Register
Detroit
Buffalo
Cleveland
Saxe's Sorrows A Poet Loses Family in Two Years
The noted humorist John G. Saxe endures a long string of losses from 1874 to 1880. Dying relatives include daughters Laura 17, Sarah 20, Harriet 27, wife Sophia, daughter-in-law, and son John T. Saxe. Charles G. Saxe of Albany reports the poet is an invalid with a clear mind but shattered nerves. A national audience sympathizes with his bereavements amid recollections of past happiness.
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Iris
John G. Saxe
Saxe
Brooklyn
Laura Saxe
Sarah FE. Saxe
James
St. Albans
St. John G
Sophia M. Saxe
Sallace
Bridport
Sue
Auni
Harriet
John T. Saxe
Albany
James 8. Bosworth
New York
Charles G. Saxe
Are They Serfs The Inhumanity Of Slavery Revived
A sensational San Francisco Chronicle report by M Chlausen claims seven hundred Scandinavian laborers, lured from Norway by Captain L Orange to work on Hawaiian sugar, faced harsh mistreatment. It details degraded conditions on Maui and at Spreckles plantations, forced labor, poor food, and family separations by lottery, with calls for legal relief and protests among Scandinavians in San Francisco and Oregon.
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Sandwich Islands
M. Chlausen
San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
Drammen
Captain L Orange
Providence
Pacific
Captain L’ Orange
Peta
L’orange
Honolula
Hawaii
Horzon
Honolulu
Maun
L'Orance
Norway
Maui
Isia
North
Sandwich Istands
Everal
Spreckles
Chiansen
Europe
Chlausen
Nelson
Rest Christensen
Christensen
Culausen
L'Orange
Frank McCoppin
Chronicle
Eerees Anid
Wit
Steubenville Herald
Bric a Brac and Topnoody Cartoons Parade
A collage of comic items with verses on a dangerous cracker and a sailor-topnoody tale, followed by humorous vignettes about Alphabetical Astronomy, The Man Who Was Mixed, a streetcar conductor, Rev. Postiedrum, and assorted jokes from various city papers. A Sacramento criminal report and Beavermeadow misadventure round out the miscellany.
Crowd gathers to witness bizarre street performance
A Saturday night crowd formed near Sixth and L streets in Sacramento drawn by a wild display of antics and screams from a man described as having snakes in his footwear. The report notes the scene drew onlookers just before midnight with vivid, chaotic description.
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Sacramento Record Union
Sixth
L Streets
Gold Fever Grips Sonora as Ledges and Pockets Yield Riches
In Sonora, miners abandon vineyards for hillsides chasing pockets and ledges. Prospectors report yellow dirt processed to pay up to 200 dollars per ton, with quartz veins and oxidized pockets producing solid coin. A Stockton man, Lewis, boasts a $15,000 boulder from a surface ledge near Sonora and $610 from a quick mortar estimate.
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Stockton Independent
Sonora
Lewis
Stockton
San Francisco
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