President Praises Lee and Urges Memorial at Southern College
President Roosevelt attended the centennial of General Robert E. Lee at the New Willard in Washington and praised his military service and citizenship. He urged a permanent memorial at a southern educational institution to inspire future youth. Also in San Antonio, Temple joins the Texas Baseball League per a telegram from Ben Shelton.
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Washington
Robert E. Lee
New Willard Hotel
H. A. Hebret
Alabama
Cleveland
Roosevelt
South
Closi
San Antonio
Dr. Rob
Texas Baseball League
Ben Shelton
Temple
Locusts Threaten Uruguayan Plantations and Texas Oil Prices Rise
Locusts devastate plantations in Uruguay while a Texas oil firm posts a three cent rise per barrel. Cooke County farmers combat green bugs with lime as floods sweep eastern Kentucky uproots logs. In Houston an undertaker war leaves paupers buried free.
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Uruguay
Texas Company
Cooke County
Texas
Kentucky
Houston
Terrific storm and levee break flood Portsmouth
A severe storm drove Sciota floodwaters into the Ohio river at Portsmouth Ohio on January 21 forcing mass evacuations. Homes, sick rooms, and streets filled with frightened residents many on rooftops or in cars as rescuers aided afflicted families and more than ten thousand people were displaced.
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Portsmouth
Ohio River
Sciota
Daybrea Jt
Hartley Loses $6,060 in Pickpocket Heist
C F Hartley left Little Rock for New Albany Ind with $8,000 but refused a bank exchange fee. He split the money into two pockets, placing $6,000 in one and $2,000 in another. A pickpocket on a Rock Island train Sunday afternoon robbed him of the $6,000.
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Little Rock
New Albany
Ind
C. F. Hartley
Hatley
Rock Island
Vermont Sketch Captures Country Boy Portrait
A young New York artist on a Vermont sketch trip spots a picturesque country boy with a pole and fish. After arranging a pose on a rail fence, an old farmer comments that the boy’s quietness makes the scene. The tale appears in the New York Herald.
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New York
Vermont
New York Herald
Fashionable restaurants abandon writing orders for French menus
An old bachelor recalls how fashion distinguished eateries by written orders. He notes modern places replace writing with menus using French terms like ris de veau vol au vent and gigot, making the dining distinction vanish.
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Philadelphia
Burglars Strike Hickory State Bank Officials Fire Shots
Safe doors forced and the vault probed by burglars at Hickory State Bank in Hickory Iowa on January 21. Explosives used on the safe but failed to open it. Shots fired by the city marshal and the burglars, with no injuries reported.
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Hickory, I. T
Hickory
Frisco 8-inch shell bursts during break in
Hobart Oklahoma January 21 Frisco 8 inch shell was blown to pieces but burglars fled before taking any loot.
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Hobart
Okla
Christmas Angel Visits Suffering Children in German Hospital
A German hospital curtains a Christmas scene with a nurse in white bearing a fir bough, snow dust, carols, and a visiting angel who listens to each child’s wishes. Festive tables, Nativity tableaux, candles, and plays brighten wards including fever cases, offering drums dolls and candies amid holiday songs.
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Philadelphia
Love potions and social manners in old Europe and beyond
The article notes love potions among peasants in lower Austria and Syria using arsenic to enhance beauty, and describes a Hasheesh based method to dull a man's mind to make him see a favored woman as beautiful. It also shares a comic exchange about marital quarrels and a 1790 Handel festival notice banning hats and feathers for ladies.
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Lower Austria
Syria
Westminster Abbey
Clawhammer coat a relic of past fashion quirks
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes that the clawhammer or evening coat preserves many relics once essential. The cutaway front eased horseback wear, back buttons protected tails, sleeve cuffs mirrored unbuttoned sleeves, wide collars recalled collars turned up in cold weather, and overall the dress coat is a patchwork of relics now useless.
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Philadelphia
Webster's Fine Talk to a Fish in Grover Cleveland
In a Grover Cleveland sketch the Masipes Indian guide At taquin recalls John At taquin describing how Mr. Webster, after landing a trout, spoke to the fish with praise and admonition. The tale reflects Webster's famed fishing talks and his eloquent speeches and writings on nature.
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Mr. Webster
Mashpee
Grover Cleveland
Carlyle Rewrites After Manuscript Burnout
After lending his French revolution manuscript to John Stuart Mill a servant burned almost all the pages. Five months of work vanished leaving Carlyle in despair for weeks. He later resolved to rewrite and completed the work with renewed effort.
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Carlyle
John Stuart Mill
Mill
Hector
Marryat
Ruskin's witty portrait of Carlyle and Jane Welsh
Muskin quotes Mrs Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle with scornful amusement at the notion she is a martyr to Tom Carlyle's temper. He notes Carlyle's grumpiness and melancholy while admitting his own irritation. Scribner's cites Mrs Carlyle's voice as a trigger for his febrile flare.
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Muskin
Scribner’s
Photographer in the Smoking Compartment
A man in a train smoking compartment tells another passenger he cannot take people as he finds them because his business is photography. The conversation centers on the photographer’s profession and a curious remark about his standards.
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Cleveland Press
Laugh at me I do not know what electricity is
A student tells a Columbia physics professor he laughed at a friend who confessed ignorance about electricity. The professor replies that he also does not know what electricity is, posing the humorous exchange as a moment of shared mystery.
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Columbia
Dog sale joke slips into punchy purchase talk
In London Tit-Bits a humorous exchange shows a substitute buyer asking for a pedigree while the itinerant dog vender offers chain and collar instead. The witty repartee underlines a playful take on dog trade talk.
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London
Flattering Noise in a Philadelphia Inquirer Letter
A reader comments on honesty allegedly printed on their face and mentions the Grubb-Well case with probable typographical errors and a Philadelphia context. The note conveys a personal reflection rather than a reporting beat.
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Philia@elphia Inquirer
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