Excursion Tickets to Honolulu and Bridges of Steel
Advertisers offer round trip Honolulu tickets from Chicago at 225 dollars including state room and meals. The note mentions a nine day travel time each way if funds permit. Also reports a new Manhattan Bridge with six railway tracks and wide pedestrian walks, plus a North Dakota potato fuel anecdote and Indiana gas-fire complaints.
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Honolulu
Chicago
Manhattan Island
Long Island
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
North Dakota
Grand Forks
Indiana
March Winds and Weather Dreams in Winter’s End
A reflective piece on March’s harsh winds and shifting season. The narrator notes biting gales, longing for sunny climes, and the paradox of Boreas delivering one strong gust before summer’s heat arrives, capturing seasonal tension and hopeful anticipation.
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Boreas
Ex champion boxer John L Sullivan falls from moving train
While traveling with his theatrical company in a drunken state, ex-champion John L Sullivan fell off a train moving at forty miles an hour. He was severely knocked out and presumed near death before an M D patched him up. Newspapers mock the doctor for interfering with what some call providence.
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Tak
John L. Sullivan
John L
Arctic Balloon Voyage Aims for North Pole
The article describes a planned Arctic expedition using a silk balloon, with crew Andree Ekholm and Strindberg, departing Norskvarna near Spitzbergen around August 1. The crew plans to drop provisions along the route and rely on stores for return if needed, carrying photographic plates to report a rapid approach to the North Pole.
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Fridjof Nansen
North Pole
Norskvarna
Spitzbergen
N. P
Coroner's role waning and pay scrutiny grows
The passage notes coroner salaries as a rich source in some counties with terms securing independence. It cites Massachusetts abolishing the office and replacing it with physician examinations and official verdicts. It mentions New York considering similar reform.
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Indiana
Massachusetts
New York
Kentucky mob hunts for Troxell after failed lynching near Monticello
A Kentucky mob escorted Mr. Troxell to a rendezvous near Monticello at dawn with plans to suspend him. Troxell sought breakfast while the mob killed his partner in crime and has not reported his whereabouts. The mob fears he may have wandered into the mountains and starved, an unprecedented lynching outcome.
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Tnar
Kentucky
Mr. Troxell
Monticello
Mr. T
Crying as the best exercise for children prompts debate
A satirical note argues that medical science endorses crying as a prime exercise for children and even comments on similar claims about women. It laments men's lack of an equivalent tearful workout and jokes that crying could reveal a troubled soul when intense.
Complication in Waldoboro Wanderer tale and notable figures
A boy confides he swallowed a gold watch and fears who to tell while a Waldoboro Wanderer fragment shows a tense exchange about remedies. The piece also notes late Alexander Macmillan reading manuscripts late into the night and John Hays Hammond’s Pretoria arrest with a small fine for mockery of a policeman.
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Waldoboro
Alexander Macmillan
John Hays Hammond
Pretoria
Gold Reef City
Philosopher Proposes to Woman in Park Garden
A New York Press scene shows Gertrude torn between an exiled lover and a philosopher who offers marriage to save her from heartbreak. She wavers as twilight settles, weighing past affection against a hopeful future with the suitor who remains.
Park workers greet loved one amid crowded street
A buoyant worker strides through park crowds toward a window where a beloved figure stands. She cries out with joy and stretches, while the philosopher reflects that fortune’s sadness mirrors his wish. The scene hints at fate facilitating reunion despite hardship.
Civil Service Reform in Harrison's March Journal
Ex President Harrison attacks distractions of filling offices and praises civil service reform. He notes the rules removed many minor offices from political scramble, but appointment power still strains his authority and Congress. Maine fur trade items follow with Miller of Belfast reporting purchases and market prices, including muskrat and skunk trends.
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Harrison
March Ladies Home Journal
Cleveland
Civil Service
Washington
Congress
Maine
Banner News
I. V. Miller
Belfast
Waldo County
Real Mr Malaprop on Broadway Car Conductors
A New York Tribune item reports a Broadway cable car conductor misreading a fare due to two passengers remaining unclear in a downtown run. He asked if the two women were implicated, highlighting social questions in transit. A Chicago Tribune note adds a maritime rule: wives may not sail with captains aboard ships, forcing wives to travel on other vessels and freight lines often follow the rule.
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New York Tribune
Malaprop
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
Chicago Tribune
The Bladder-wort Fish Poacher In Fresh Water
A small floating water reed called bladder-wort preys on little fish. Its branches bear green bladders with tiny jaws that seize fish and digest them. This subtle poacher’s true nature was recently detected.
Bet on a man doomed to suicide turns to hope
A 23 year old farmerly man on a streetcar is confronted by a bettor who claims, If you die by your own action within a week. The man says he will try to live. He explains prior woes with sick cows, a broken heart, and a windmill issue. Now he vows to live a thousand years. The tale comes from the New York Sun.
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N. Y. Sun
Literary Queen Marguerite of Navarre and a Hidden Manuscript
The article notes Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of Francis I and grandmother of Henry IV, as a pivotal figure in French letters for the Heptameron and Le Miroir du Chrétien. Prof Abel Lefranc reports a mid sixteenth century manuscript in the National Library, no. 24,218, containing about 200 pages and 20,000 lines of verse, with two epic poems, ten epistles in verse, two didactic poems Le Navire and Les Prisons, plus many spiritual songs. The work includes a curious poem Le Navire where Marguerite likens herself to a ship after Francis I’s death when its captain is gone.
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Marguerite of Navarre
Francis I
Henry IV
France
Abel Lefranc
College de France
National Library
Marguerite
A Red Sunset
A bright four year old observes a crimson sky and confidently claims Dod's dot the nose-bleed as the cause, while companions doubtfully question the phenomenon in a playful exchange.
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Dod
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