Women Race Around World Shows Progress and Royal Decline
The piece contrasts Nellie Bly and the Bly Bisland voyage with rapid transport advances and notes irony in Verne’s fiction becoming reality. It critiques European royal stability, labeling many monarchs as weak or childlike and urges peoples to govern themselves, reflecting a skeptical mood toward monarchy.
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Bly
Bisland
Jules Verne
Nellie Bly
Miss Bly
Miss Assy
Ingersoll on Punitive System and Desert Island Experiment
The piece presents Bob Ingersoll opposing punitive policy and arguing criminals would self select on a desert island, creating a line between law abiding and criminal, while contrasting with a Canadian colony example. It notes a Calcutta physician touting cobra venom injections as a cholera cure, and acknowledges public skepticism.
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Bob”Ingersoll
Hasgit
United States
Canada
January Rail Disasters Highlight Carelessness In Railroads
The report notes eleven railroad accidents in January near Indianapolis and elsewhere where lives were lost. It attributes all incidents to carelessness, insisting proper track inspection would prevent broken rails.
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Indianapolis
Exodus of Negro laborers alarms Southern planters in Georgia
Readings describe Cedar Town Georgia as an exodus of African American workers to Arkansas inflaming plantation owners. White interest groups oppose emigration while ex masters resist loss of labor. A Nihilist society in New York threatens Col. D Arnaud in Washington with red ink letters and skull and crossbones.
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Africa
Cedartown
Arkansas
South
The
Nihilist Society
New York
Col. D. Arnaud
Washington
United States
Materials for dancing gowns vanish with simple texture
The article notes that the fabrics for dancing gowns must be light and delicate, typically simple in construction, and mentions that materials have disappeared without subtleties beyond trimming and dress details.
Old Song With New Tune From Peoria Daily Transcript
A fragmentary verse recalls a sleepless night with feverish imagery and requests for mustard for the back, a hot brick for the feet, arnica for aching knees, and ice for a severed lip as a narrator endures illness and sneezing.
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Peoria Daily Transcript
Heath
Arnica
Tlay
Mummys Bequest and Norah’s Vaal River Journey
The narrator recalls four years of diamond digging near the Vaal River in Africa, his romance with Norah Kildare, and a perilous expedition to the Victoria Falls. While exploring a cave near the Zambesi, they discover a well preserved native mummy seated in a rough stone chair, with ashes and dry air preserving the body.
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Vaal
Norah Kildare
England
Kildare
Norah
Zambesi
Angel
Gwani
Kraal
Victoria Falls
London
Jan
Baas
Adan
Geof
The Mummy Inkose Mummi and a Diamond Twist
In a perilous trek, Geof and Norah rescue a seemingly living mummy dubbed Inkose Mummi from a cave. The find becomes a traveling oddity traded to raise funds after a perilous night when the head detaches, later revealed to be a mouse causing the scare. A hidden gum hides a 100-carat diamond later sold for thousands.
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Geof
Norah
The Squadron of Evolution in a Boston Circle
A Boston literary circle member explains why the fleet is nicknamed the squadron of evolution. She says after long work on warships the best is what has been evolved, and friends accept her explanation as correct.
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Boston
Death of Walker Blaine Highlights Life’s Fragility
The death of Walker Blaine underscores human life’s fragility as his father’s long illness loomed. Though his father faced critical years, the young man’s brief illness ended his promising life, leaving a family in mournful shock while the father endures in grief.
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Walker Blaine
Memory of a Confederate Spy Within Union Camp
A man in a Federal uniform, claiming to be George Swift of Pekin, is arrested in a Wisconsin regiment’s camp while gathering intel for the Confederacy. He answers drill and personnel questions plausibly until a captain identifies him, revealing a hidden paper with figures in his boot.
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Sherman
Georgia
Wisconsin
George Swift
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ilinois
Illinois
Morton
Captain Morton
Swift
Pekin
White
Green
Davis
Oscar Jackson
Thomas Parker
John Pridgeon
Memory and a Hanging at Johnston's Army Camp
A Civil War tale details a Confederate trickster Swift who forged a paper note claiming artillery and infantry placements. He fools a general and sergeant by recalling names from a company roll, is challenged, confined, and finally hanged after a court martial.
Insurance Dispute Over Rollin Estate Draws Court Action
In 1887 Milwaukee, Benjamin Rollin and his wife died after eating toadstools. Mrs Rollin left a life insurance policy of 2620.35 to Northwestern Mutual Relief Association. A will directed debts be paid and the remainder divided among relatives. Joseph Lavarisway sues to collect the policy and invalidate the will. The executor concedes payment for creditors. Jessie Rollin seeks administration on her father’s estate claiming he inherited the entire amount. The insurer asked the court to hold funds pending decision, a receiver was appointed, and about 2524 was released to the company. A November trial is awaited amid the dispute and interest.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Benjamin Rollin
Mary
J.P. ‘Thomas
Jessie Rollin
Insurance Company
Supreme Court
2000s Equal Rights Ball Delights New York Report
A Syracuse Standard item recalls a New York ball where 1200 young women danced freely in nearly identical dresses to avoid displaying wealth differences. The floor was full with no wallflowers, and managers ensured partners for all. The event aimed to showcase female independence, conceived by several working girls groups with a coordinating committee of women.
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Syracuse
New York
The Paypack Creek Monster of Pike County
In Paypack Creek Pike County Pennsylvania residents recount a six foot reddish brown creature with ape like head square shoulders and clawed limbs. It has a fish like tail and a mane around the head and neck. Excitement grows as locals stake out the water hoping to capture the beast.
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Pike County
Paypack Creek
Pennsylvania
Spiders Exhibit Savage Spousal Rivalry in Taxing Court of Nature
London News reports on spider behavior where Mme Spider dominates her mate, beating and mauling him and sometimes killing and eating him. The piece notes the harsh gender dynamics, likening it to a harsh jurisdiction that would keep magistrates busy if spider courts existed.
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South Seas
Mme. Spider
Spider
London News
Relic Hunter Tales and Hair from Jefferson Davis
A discussion with Burke, owner of a New Orleans relic shop, reveals how he markets battlefield relics. He claims vast collections from distinguished figures and exposes relic hunters as easily duped buyers, noting he sells hollow bullets marked to attract purchases while replacing them in a drawer for repeat customers.
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Charles Howard
Burke
New Orleans
Mr. Burke
Jefferson Davis
George Washington
Kenesaw Field
Atlanta Constitution
Gift of Gab and the Power of Words
George Stephenson, a strong thinker on science, lacked fluency in speech. An evening dispute with Buckland left him silent, but Sir William Follet and Sir Robert Peel helped him see the argument. Stephenson later mused that no power surpasses the gift of God.
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George Stephenson
Buckland
Stephenson
Sir William Follet
Sir William
Alk
Robert Peel
Sir Robert
God
San Francisco
Argonaut
A Good Ghost Story from a Vision of a Trousseau
A New York World tale describes a sleeper's vision of smoke forming a bridal dress and an apparition of his aunt. The aunt later dies in a nuptial ball fire with five others, matching the trousseau and wedding events seen in the vision.
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New York World
Trousseau
Europe
Kaiser's daily bread varieties at breakfast and dinner
The Kaiser favors a variety of breads for meals. He begins with a salt bread called a salt bun, then a half penny bun named Luccaeye, and a sandwich bread from fine Vienna flour baked dark. For dinner he has broth sticks from an Italian recipe used by the court bakers.
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Vienna
Man Sets Fire to Dog in Springfield Incident
Tom Norris of Springfield Ohio saturated a poodle with coal oil and set it on fire. The burning dog ran to its owner Mrs. Conners home and set her clothing ablaze, seriously burning her. Norris was arrested and jailed as reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Springfield
Tom Norris
Mrs. Conners
Norris
Cincinnati Enquirer
The History of Butter and Ancient Use
The article traces butter from ancient times noting Herodotus as the earliest mention and Spartan use as ointment. It mentions a Spartan wife smeared with butter and credits Scythians with teaching Greeks about butter before the fragment ends.
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Herodotus
Plutarch
Deiotorous
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