Real estate listings offer houses and lots for sale
A long, mixed property ad lists numerous cottages, farms, and residences for sale or trade. Items include a cottage near 64 Franklin St with cisterns, several four to six room homes on avenues and streets, large farms of up to 480 acres, and multiple parcels in Brown and Caytors township. Sellers offer easy terms, partial cash payments, and trade options with city property.
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Franklin St
Bianetin St.-Thigs
Clay County
Ft. Worth
Botheca
Henrietta
Alhna
Ft. Woarte
Denver
County Property Co
East Colum
Imbles
Broga County
Devoted Monkey Cudge Struggles With Consumption
In Chicago a museum monkey known as Cudge, cared for by Animal Keeper Reed, fights consumption. Two weeks of illness show the other monkeys nursing him, with Pet the mate and a woodchuck aiding, while Reed notes the disease mirrors human consumption and may claim Cudge in weeks.
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Chicago
Reed
Cudge
Mr. Reed
Milwaukee Abandons Semicentennial Exposition Plan
Exposition to mark Wisconsin statehood in 1698 is dropped after a Milwaukee committee fails to secure outside support. Alvin P. Kletzsch’s drive raises 225000 toward a 400000 goal, but opposition from rural legislators ends the project. Instead a historical celebration at Madison is favored and a records publication appropriation is sought.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Alvin P. Kletzsch
Kletzsch
Madison
Misread Signal Sparks Humorous Exchange in Cavalry Drill
During Aldershot maneuvers a vedette system maneuvering cavalry relayed a front in force warning. A midway signal was corrupted by a line soldier who asked for tobacco and the captain replied with cigars. The major observed and sent back a light response about cigars.
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Aldershot
London
Midway
Nan
Man
Capain
Unconscious Scorching Incident Sparks Police Fare
A cyclist clashed with a policeman after he accused her of scorching as she rode at near six miles an hour. She protested the claim, threatened to report him to health authorities, and accused the officer of insult before a lamp flare-up warned of a potential fire.
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The
New York Journal
Board of Health
Precious Gold Cannon Captures Imperial Interest
A gilt and gem encrusted cannon on rosewood carriage, valued at £5000, is the Berlin army’s prized field piece. Presented by Hamburg Museum managers, the ancient weapon attracts Emperor William’s guarded display two days weekly.
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Ber Mn
Berlin
Hamburg
Empperor William
Emperor of China Chastises Taotai For English Gaffe
Report from the North China News describes Li Taotai of Nanking failing to handle English during an audience with the Emperor who tested his language by common phrases. The Taotai faltered, kowtowed, and was harshly rebuked, then ordered to study English with a book under his nose for three years.
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China
Liu
Nanking
Li Taotai
North Chine
England
Taotai
Manchn
Birds Driven from Parks by Bicycles, Says Officer
A Chicago Tribune report recounts an old South Park policeman lamenting that bicycles flood parks and drive songbirds away. He says once lively trees now host mainly sparrows with few thrushes robins warblers or other songbirds nesting in the bushes.
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Old
Jacky
Rivalry of Two Towns Foretells Bridge That Could Unite Duluth and Superior
The piece recounts a long rivalry between Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin at Lake Superior’s edge. A proposed bridge over the St Louis River would join the two towns, with Quay pressing for action and Vilas opposing, delaying the project as tensions run high.
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Duluth
Minn
Superior, Wis
Lake Superior
The
Senate
Washington Post
St. Louis
Northwest
Superior
Congress
Pennsylvania Ateel
Senator Quay
Senator Vilas
Superiorites
Phrygian Cap and the Knowt Reflect on Exile Policy
The North American Review notes France’s new alliance with the Phrygian cap to bar exiles from czardom, while spies reach Zurich and Lausanne under guise of Russian student ladies. In England proscribed Russians gain freedom, and reform-minded Russians like Stepniak move away from active terror. The piece suggests the emperor’s concession to representative assemblies could win over current opponents.
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French Republic
Anout
Czardom
North American Review
Zurich
Geneva
Lausanne
England
Stepniak
Russia
London
Free
Turkey
Alexander II
Its Quite Fashionable Sundays Dinners At Passien RESTAURANT
A local notice promotes Sunday dinners at Passien RESTAURANT 609 Washington street. It highlights specially prepared dinners for entertaining guests in hotels or residences and claims patrons have been highly pleased with the meals in the past and expect continued satisfaction.
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Passien
Farmer’s wartime pest remedy using sulphur in trees
A farmer describes a method for killing caterpillars by boring holes into the tree, filling with sulphur, and sealing. He claims sap carries the sulphur to all parts, killing the caterpillars, and asserts it has never harmed trees after years of use.
Meeting at sea reunites uncle and nephew after years apart
Capt Coombs of the American bark Essex reunited with Henry Fancy of the British Aeronaut at sea. Fancy, who had not seen his uncle since boyhood, recognized him aboard the Essex after the Aeronaut was wrecked and towed to port by the Annie Burrill.
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Coombs
Essex
Philadelphia
Aeronaut
Santa Fe
Argentine Republic
Rio de la Plata
Annie Burrill
Buenos Ayres
New Orleans
Henry Fancy
The
Capt. Coombs
Capt. Fancy
The Camel’s Experience In Hoboken Dockside Woe
A camel from the Dresden steamer arrival at Hoboken sat in a cramped box for days during heavy seas. Upon landing the animal refused to stand, its rear legs paralyzed from the long confinement. A sling rescue hoisted it upright, reviving the camel and ending its immobility.
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Hoboken
Dresden
New York Press
Buch
Bute
EnglishApplicant Refuses Naturlization Oath In Jersey City
An Englishman in Jersey City faced a sign or refuse moment in naturalization. He balked at a form saying he renounces allegiance to the queen forever and refused to sign, questioning the word forever and fearing it implies a permanent renunciation.
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Jersey City
New York Times
Great Britain and Ireland
America
Judge Roy Bean's Curious Charge In Texas History
A fragment recalls Judge Roy Bean from Lantry Texas who tried a Mexican for stealing torse and posed a jury charge quoted from Leslie's Weekly, illustrating his eccentric courtroom style.
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Roy Bean
Lantry
Tex
Torse
Leslie’s Weekly
No fair-minded dealer will coerce buyers to accept
An echoed pledge condemns pressuring customers and asserts no seller should push unsuitable goods or insist on unsatisfactory substitutes. The line hints at fair dealing standards and consumer rights within a transactional context.
Substitution Debate Clashes With Local Shops
Local merchants confront customer demand as substitution questions arise in town. Money saving sale now at the White House offers every article as a positive bargain. Dry Handle Factory wood advertised by Columbus Fuel & Ice Co. And promotions for Stallbuth’s fountain and Clarionte accessories are mentioned amid a flood of sale notices.
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White House
Colmbus Fuel & Ice Co
Telephone Columbus Fuel and Ice Co. ad note
An old classified fragment notes Telephone Columbus Fuel and Ice Co. related to ice sales or services. The brief item indicates a local business listing or notice without further context or details.
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Telephone
Columbus Fuel & Ice Co
Ice
Zone of Fire in Cuba Described as Ash Heap of Matanzas
The piece portrays Matanzas and western Cuban provinces reduced to ash by reconcentration fires. It notes five miles around Matanzas spared, then later decreed destruction of crops and property by Gen. Molinas. It highlights widespread helplessness, lack of organization, and looming famine and plague.
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Matanzas
Manana
Infallible Science and a Yale Lamp Shot
A Yale Divinity Hall student fired a toy rifle at a lamp. the shot pierced a professor’s window and lodged in the wall. The professor traced the ball to a colleague, who denied involvement until the student confessed, urging the matter be dropped.
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Divinity Hall
Yale
Hartford Courant
Few Americans Among Them in Hawaii Census
A recent census cited by the Manchester Union shows Hawaiis population largely Japanese and Chinese. Americans total less than three percent of the population and just over two percent of males, yet they govern after Queen Liliuokalani's deposition, fueling fears of power shifts amid calls for annexation.
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Hawaiii
Hawaiian Islands
Washington
Manchester
N. H.) Union
Liliuokalani
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