Real Estate Bargains Offer Wide City Selections
A long list of cottages, farms, and vacant lots across Columbus area properties offered for sale or trade. Listings include three room cottages on Franklin and Washington streets, six room houses on Cottage Avenue, large farms in Brown and Clay counties, and several modern residences in Maple Grove with cash and monthly payment options. Some properties stretch near Fort Worth area landmarks and rail lines with bulk sales and special bargains.
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Washington
Jon St
Franklin St
Cistena
Clay County
Tees
Ft. Worth
Henrietta
Alma Station
Denver Ry
Bartholomew County
East Columbus
Aone
For Sale Local Bargains Feature Dwellings and Goods
Classified snippet offers a bed buggy for sale at low price and quick sale terms on a six year plan. Includes a four room dwelling with barn and large lot priced at 600 dollars, payable 100 dollars yearly. Also mentions a dwelling in Orinoco and several home goods promotions plus a dining special.
Monkeys Show Deep Care for Dying Mate in Chicago Museum
A sick monkey named Cudge at a Chicago museum, valued by Animal Keeper Reed, is dying of consumption. The other cage mates nurse and comfort him, a scene Reed calls pathetic as the illness progresses over weeks with no definite recovery.
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Blowly
Chicago
Reed
Cudge
Mr. Reed
Tet
Woodchuck
Milwaukee Abandons Semicentennial Exposition Plan
The 100 member committee drops plans to hold a 1898 Milwaukee exposition for Wisconsin statehood. Alvin P. Kletzsch seeks 400000 in Milwaukee funds, but opposition from outside Milwaukee sinks the project. A Madison celebration and legislative records publication are proposed instead.
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Milwaukee
Committee of
Wisconsin
Alvin P. Eletzsch
Kletzsch
Madison
Messages on the Aldershot line lead to tobacco mixup
During maneuvers near Aldershot a sentry line relayed a telegraph message about enemy forces and a private line drifted in asking for tobacco. The misunderstanding spread along the line until the captain received a reply about cigars, prompting the amusing exchange.
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Aldershot
London
Midway
Man
Gaia
Unconscious Scorching Sparks Ride Along
A New York Journal account describes a woman cyclist confronting a policeman after being accused of scorching. She defends her speed while threatening to report him, then notices a red hot lamp flare from her bloomers, ending the clash with embarrassment.
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Saya
New York Journal
Board of Health
Weu
Sundays at Fashion Restaurant Draws City Patrons
The Fashion Restaurant at 609 Washington Street features special Sunday dinners aimed at the fashionable crowd. Patrons praise past efforts and are invited to join in the current offerings while noting continued high satisfaction.
Taotai Bullied Into English Study After Embarrassing Audience
The North China News reports a Nanking Taotai named JA who boasted foreign affairs knowledge. At a imperial audience the emperor tested his English with phrases like How do you del and Are you well, leaving the official confounded and later ordered to keep an English book under his nose for three years.
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Hin
Liu
Nanking
Taotai
Li Taotai
North Chas
Rueland
Faotai
Yaotai
Birds and bicycles chase songbirds from city parks
An elderly South Park policeman laments the loss of summer songbirds in city parks due to the rise of bicycle crowds. He recalls past thrushes, robins, warblers and thrushes, now replaced by sparrows as nests vanish and birds hide from omnipresent riders.
Rivalry of Two Towns Duluth and Superior War Over Bridge
A lengthy piece recounts the Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin rivalry over a St. Louis River bridge. It notes the towns are distinct, the bridge would change regional status, and political debate delays legislation backed by Pennsylvania steel interests while Senator Vilas opposes moving ahead.
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Duluth
Superior
Inn
Wis
Lake Superior
Washington Post
St. Louis
Northwest
Caesar
Congress
Pennsylvania Steel
Senator Quay
Vilas
Superiorites
Meeting of Unrelated Kin in Mid-Ocean Aboard Essex
Capt Coombs of the American bark Essex tells of a mid ocean reunion with his sister's son Henry Fancy of the British ship Aeronaut. Fancy had not seen the skipper since he was a child and mistaken him for a relative before recognizing him on deck in port. The Aeronaut, from Santa Fe, encountered a storm, was dismasted and waterlogged, and its crew were rescued by Annie Burrill before transfer to the Essex.
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Coombs
Essex
Philadelphia
Aeronaut
Bante Fe
Argentine Republic
Rio de la Plata
Annie Burrill
Buenos Ayres
New Orleans
Henry Fancy
Henry’ Fancy
Capt. Fancy
The Camel's Bizarre Hoboken Rescue
A camel imported on the Dresden sat in a box for days aboard the ship causing distress. Upon landing in Hoboken the animal could not stand properly due to paralyzed rear limbs. A sling hoist and short air-time revived the camel, which then recovered and no longer sits.
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Hoboken
Dresden
New York Press
English applicant refuses to sign naturalization form
In Jersey City a British applicant faced an oath renouncing allegiance to the queen. He objected to the word forever and refused to sign, arguing he could renounce while in America but would not claim lifelong forswearing. The clerk noted there is only one form and he must sign to become American.
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Jersey City
Inglishman
New York Times
America
Short Charge From Judge Roy Bean In Lantry Texas
A telling line from Judge Roy Bean described to Leslie's Weekly as one of the shortest jury charges. He said to the jury that the defendant was a greaser in the box and a boss missing, then reminded them of their duty.
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Roy Bean
Lantry
Tex
Leslie’s Weekly
Electrical heater to revive clogged oil wells proposed
T W Young of Washington invents an underwater electric heater to melt paraffin and other refuse at the well bottom. The device, about three feet long, lowers into the oil well to radiate heat and free blocked pores restoring upward flow. The method aims to reclaim exhausted wells without torpedoes. A Antwerp exhibit shows a ring cut from a single diamond, a historic first, by M Antoine and lapi dary experts.
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T. W. Young
Washington
Antwerp
M. Antoine
M. Antoine, One of the Best-Known Lapidaries
Why He Didn't Kit That Time The Cowboy
In a rough saloon scene Dick defends himself against a barkeep who taunts him. He recounts that the barkeep solicited a life policy for his widow and promises to press him further, prompting Dick to plan a talk with the widow before trouble escalates.
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Widder
A Dramatist's Rejoinder to Colman’s Censor
A discussion on Colman’s expunging of oaths from plays and the value of quotations in writing and talk. The licenser defends some lines as essential while admitting many oaths should be omitted, and he likens memorable quotes to indispensable coins in conversation.
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Colman
House of Commons
New York Sertiser
John Bull
Measuring the Earth Through Astronomical Survey Feats
The United States coast and geodetic survey, in collaboration with international representatives, reports record visual sighting distances for earth measurement. The Uncompahgre Peak in Colorado stands at 14,300 feet and Mount Ellen at 18,400 feet, with a new 183 mile record between them. Earlier longest lines included 168 miles between Algiers. Pacific observers note signals over 190 miles but without sustained response.
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Colo
Mount Ellen
Utah
United States Coast
Saya
Philadelpha
Pacific
Shasta
Mount ‘Helena
Hintus
Percécasiona
Algiers
Greenwich
Washington
Vortall
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FOF Sale
Cottage Avenue
Ninth
Tenth Streets
Buiching Avenue
Mari Grove
Cnth
Highth
Swengel
Ohio
Brown County
Union Towns
Third Street
Big Four
Franklin
Jackson Township
Way- Mansus Ville
Clifty
Eighth
Wilson Street
Harrison Township
Sandcreek Township
Clay Township
Wayna
Matees
Fifth St
No. JR
Maple Avenue
Tenth Street
Maple Grove
Kimblen
Brec Ien County
Irwin
Columbius
Reed and
Seventh Streets
Columbus
Barsin
Orinoco
StahIhuth’s
Stalruath
Onkey
Fashion Restaunant
Washington Street
Lee
China
Siegele
Victoria
Schwartzkopf
Pruden
New York
Angela
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