Southern education growth and temperance notes across decades
A New Orleans paper shows the South's population up 34 percent over two decades while school enrollment rises 130 percent and school property value climbs from 16 million to 51 million dollars. Florida leads in education south of the Ohio with higher enrollment and 18 extra schooling days. The piece also discusses a legal case involving Mr. Sage and employer Laidlaw, plus long sober reflections on alcohol, coffee, tea, and sugar consumption trends from 1867 to 1895.
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New Orleans
South
Florida
Ohio River
Washington
United States
Edison
Counting the cost of a new 130 ton steel gun
An exchange notes that each discharge would cost 4 750 dollars and the weapon 195 000 dollars, useless after sixty shots. Most would not be willing to bear such costs in a catastrophe, making victory expensive and likely deterred by the price.
Ancient mirror claim challenges Roentgen's x ray discovery
An antiquarian in Butte Montana questions Prof Roentgen's X ray breakthrough, citing an 1832 London Philosophical Journal report of a Chinese mirror that projected images from objects placed behind it. The piece argues modern science has progressed, but concludes Roentgen likely made a genuine new discovery in his experiments.
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Butte, Mont
Roentgen
London Philosophical Journal
Confucius
Moses
Canaan
Prof
Charley Smith and the Whisky Barrels Mystery in Walnut Shades
In Walnut Shades Missouri Charley Smith wandered into a thicket and found three whisky filled barrels. He shared the discovery with friends sparking a wild revelry as locals fetched pails and jugs. A sheriff later seized the barrels leaving the crowd with little to drink and a cautionary tale.
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Missouri
Ozark Country
Charley Smith
Charley
Veni
Vidi
Vici
Sam
New York Supreme Court Affirms Damages in Siield Case
The New York Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling awarding A B Laidlaw $40,000 for injuries after being used as a shield when a dynamite blast aimed at Russell Sage’s businessman backer Norcross exploded nearby.
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New York Supreme Court
A. B. Laidlaw
Russell Sage
Siield
Norcross
Hoe Pickles and the Ham from New York World
Hoe Pickles narrates a tale of whitewashing for Mistah Simpson a groc ery store owner. He reveals being cheated a quarter by a transfer miscount and notes the ham incident shows his earnings. Parcel Delivery by Wire in Chicago outlines plans for a citywide parcel system using wires and cans for central dispatch and bicycle delivery.
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New York
Mistah Simpson
Chicago Times-Herald
Frank D. Prindle
W. J. Page
Grand Rapids
Mich
Council
Garrote at Morro Castle Portrays Cuban Executions
The New York World describes a 1896 Morro Castle execution by garrote for Cuban independence, noting the brutal apparatus and public fear. The image, praised by some Americans, is shown alongside commentary on Spain's justice system and U S responses. Included is a light Cincinnati Enquirer gag about people pricing items and betting.
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Spain
New York World
Merroene
Havana
Morro Castle
Sunday World
Presidential Brain Photography Memory of the Prison
London weekly column notes a long anecdote about a Southwell Nottinghamshire jail joke, Canadian premier Sir Mackenzie Bowell’s career start as a printer’s devil, and a humorous exchange where a patient jokes his whisky avoidance harms his eyes, with a closing quip about a house and windows.
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London
Dean Hole
Denver
Southwell
Nottinghamshire
Mackenzie Bowell
Miscellany of Curious Facts and Oddities
A collage of quick facts from history and geology. notes cover Barnstorming in Holton Kansas, a planned iron cage over a Daniel Boone monument, Egypt’s early fleets, France’s bottomless abyss in Vaucluse, corn cob pipes versus Nevada County pine burr pipes, Stonehenge’s Baal theory, Russia’s wartime manpower, Terra del Fuego naming, a Bracken County possum honey find, fish gill structure, and a New South Wales platinum deposit with a high lead ore content selling at six dollars per ounce.
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Holton
Kas
Daniel Boone
Crollton
Egypt
Red Sea
Mediterranean
France
Vaucluse
Jean Nauveau
Nevada County
Cal
Stonehenge
Wiltshire
England
Russia
Terra del Fuego
Fireland
Bracken County
Kentucky
Fitfield
New South Wales
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Carthage
Indiana
Sage
Laidlaw
Mr. Sage
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mr. Ferry
New York Sunday World
John Hall
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Congress
Cuba
the Inquirer
Texas Siftings
Toper
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