Ohio barber claims national penknife carving title
Edward Weyls a barber of 114 West Mound Street displays wooden carvings made with a pen knife. He sculpts chains scissors wagons locomotives and machines from white pine with rapid precision. His shop contains panels including a Mark Hanna figure and he plans public exhibition per friends wishes.
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Ohio
Whittier
Edward Weys
West Mound Street
United States
Cer
Weyss
Pompeii Excavations Shift to Preserving Interior Details
Historic Pompeii digs focused on art and treasures with little regard for houses. New excavations reveal preserved or restored interiors, furniture, and wall decorations, offering a different approach to conserving ancient homes.
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Pompeii
Wire fencing device aims to speed field construction
An on wheel frame device holds three or more wire reels so all lines can be strung simultaneously. The ad copy also touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for liver trouble and various ailments, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets for colds, and Piso’s Cure for Consumption among other products.
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Georgia
Ranger
Kipe
M. A. Simmons
A.seer
How Japan elects its Parliament in the 1890s
The article outlines Japan’s two houses the Shingi-In and the Kizoku-In and explains voting eligibility and campaign methods. It notes three hundred lower-house members elected for four years and about two hundred upper-house members with hereditary seats and imperial appointments.
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Japan
United States
House of Representatives
House of Peers
Imperial Household
Judiciary
Police
Correction Department
New York Tribune
Nobles Case Heads To Governor As Hang Threat Looms
Washington dispatch reports Georgia Supreme Court upholds murder conviction of Mrs Nobles in June 1895 killing of her husband near Jeffersonville. Trial records show Gus Fambles Mary Fambles Dalton Joiner and Debby Nobles implicated. Debates over mistreatment and alibis stir public interest while mercy rests with Gov Atkinson.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Georgia Supreme Court
Nobles
Atkinson
Superior Court of the Oy
Gus
Mrs. Nobles
Debby Nobles
M Fambles
Dalton Joiner
Gus Fambles
Mary
Dalton
Mary Fambles
Ex-Auditor Guilty in Nebraska Embezzlement Case
Eugene Moore former Nebraska auditor was found guilty in Lincoln on embezzling 23000 dollars. Sentencing was deferred. Moore and counsel admitted the shortage but argued the money, insurance fees, belonged to the state treasurer by law. Judge Cornish overruled the defense and committed him.
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Eugene Moore
Nebraska
Lincoln
Moore
Cornish
Eleven Die In Warsaw Station Wreck At Terminus
A heavy freight train struck a stationary passenger train at the Warsaw terminus due to a pointman error. Eleven were killed and twenty two seriously injured in the blast of wreckage and collapsing coaches.
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Warsaw
Poland
Progress of the South Sees New Industries Reported
Correspondents at southern trade centers cite a satisfactory week with steady iron output and busy furnaces. New ventures include Bottling works at Birmingham, electric plants at Tifton and Boerne, a grain elevator at Galveston, flour mill at Lowryville, a stove foundry at Sheffield, Sanford Water and Light Co in Sanford, a Denison oil mill, Harper's Ferry Oil Co charter at Wheeling, and tannery at Big Stone Gap.
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Birmingham
Als
Tifton
Boerne
Tex
Galveston
Lowryville
Tenn
Leon
W. Va
Hypnotist Preacher Draws Crowds Near Brunswick
Reports describe a Holiness preacher in a tent at six mile crossing using hypnotic power to stir frenzied donations. Believers donated jewelry and money into a hat as a trance-like crowd swayed and shouted glory to God amid cold winds. A death in trance is linked to this revival.
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Brunswick
William Hickman
Train on Union Pacific Sets 519 Mile Time Record
A mail train from Cheyenne to Council Bluffs covered 519 miles in 559 minutes including stops. Delays included a burned bridge repair and a burst hose in Omaha yards. Engines were changed twice and a heavy government fine loomed if schedule failed.
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Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Council Bluffs
Medicine Row
Wyo
Sydney
North Platte
Julesburg
Colorado
Grand Island
Lexington
Missouri Pacific
Omaha
Evanglist Vanishes After Glynn County Rally
The hypnotic evangelist who created a religious craze in Glynn county Georgia disappeared Tuesday. Visitors to the grounds were disappointed after a cold windy trip to the scene, and the public shows the evangelist likely left the area that had brought him notoriety.
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Glynn County
Bankers Issue Call for December Atlanta Meeting
The Atlanta Clearing House association invites southern bankers to meet in Atlanta on December 15 to organize for reform discussion. A special Monday meeting approved the action and invitations were issued for the event.
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Atlanta
Bankers of the South
Atlanta, Ga
Clearing House Association
Beware of Morphine and the Pinkham Remedy Tale
A tale warns that morphine use can trap women in a cycle of pain and dependency. It cites a patient’s fear of examination, a physician’s cautious prescription, and a friend’s advice to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which the letter credits with restoring health after five bottles.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Keeping Warm in Oriental Lands Through Cozy Contrivances
The New York Mail and Express surveys cold climate comfort techniques used in East Asia and India. Pocket stoves worn in belts or skirts burn charcoal for portable heat. Foot warmers sleep-ready in metal boxes emit warmth all night. Fur lined garments and accessories such as pajamas cloaks and slippers provide cozy room heat. Fur lined socks offer rapid warmth for bare floors.
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China
Hindustan
Canada
New York Mail and Express
Frontier Tensions Echoed In Mock Dialogue
An African chief bitterly predicts encroachment by distant outsiders while a European diplomat cautions against strong language and hints at possible frontier rectification, reflecting colonial contact tone.
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Puck
Fragments Show Local Ads and Personal Notes in Scattershot Dispatch
A jumble of letters and boilerplate from a newspaper page includes personal notes and testimonials, product pitches, and dubious cures. The text references Terrenine of Hunter and right from Louisville Georgia, Catarrh cures, and tobacco ads, with names like J T Shuptrine and Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
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Wrens
Hunter & Right
Louisville
R . R. Kina
J. T. Shuptrine
Savannah
Hall
Couxny & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J Cheney
Bie i Watoino
Kirwanied
Hall Catan Cure
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Winslow
Piso
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Hood
Gravely & Miller
Danville, VA
DR. J
Teabelta Building
Payene
D. M
Providence
B. i
Busness
Uaness College Business Board
Esdalogue
Sexton
Ayer
Elizabeth Nobles
Evangelist
Bankers
Mrs
Pinkham
George
Boston Globe
Kali Works
Nassau &T
New York
Athens
Gence
Alonzo
Bliss Co
Washington, D
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