Engineering feats and future rail and canal plans across continents
A long analysis discusses upcoming and proposed bridges tunnels and canals worldwide and in the United States. It highlights the Stevens Pass tunnel the Firth of Forth bridge and possible East River and Hudson crossings. It imagines vast routes from Chili to Denver and across Asia and Africa, plus US canal projects and irrigation concept ideas advanced by John L. Heaton.
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England
France
East River
Wallacurve
Stevens’ Pass
Ahfoosac
Firth of Forth
Brooklyn Bridge
Hudson
Narrows
New York Bay
English Channel
Chili
Denver
Russia
Alaska
Behring’s Strait
Europe
Asia
Batoom
Tiflis
Bakoo
Caspian
Samarcand
Calcutta
Hindoo Koosh
Joppa
Jerusalem
Japan
China
Black Africa
Congo
Nile
Zanzibar
Cape
Paris
Manchester
Bay of Biscay
Mediterranean
Bordeaux
Narbonne
Gloucester
Shakespeareland
Lincoln Fens
Humber
Massachusetts Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Lakes
Lake Michigan
Mississippi
White City
Holland
Zuyder Zee
Haarlem Meer
Lake Albert Nyanza
Egypt
Saharan
Gulf
John L. Heaton
New York Recorder
Unseen Grooming Spell Confuses Boy at Uncle Fred's
A boy visits his uncle's house and watches a shave for the first time. He asks why his uncle uses a small broom to wash his face and a knife to wipe it away, noting his father does not do the same. The moment shows the unfamiliarity of routine grooming.
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Fred
Two Horse Tamers Demonstrate Methods at Westminster
A trial of Leon of Australia and Sample of America opens in an adjacent theater to Westminster aquarium with a prize of £100. A committee of 40 to 50 officials will judge which method best suits humanity and practicality as horses are handled by both men. Only two horses per tamer were shown due to limited audience.
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Leon
Australia
Sample
America
Westminster Aquarium
Atkinson
London Telegraph
Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company
Toledo
Alexander
Northwestern Company
Findlay Cor
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Slave dhow condemned after 33 captives found aboard
A slave dhow captured by H. M. 5 Blanche near Pangani was condemned. Thirty three slaves from Mombasa Pangani Onyamwezi were found aboard. Three slaves examined in the prize court revealed famine driven sales by Arabs. Captain and crew treated by the sultan of Zanzibar. Slaves turned over to missionaries.
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H. M
Blanche
Pemba
Pangani
Mombasa
Onyamwezi
Curfew bell to guide Canada’s youths home
Canada revives an ancient curfew law requiring all persons under 17 to return home at the first tapping of the bell. Proponents say it will keep youths off the streets at night and away from bad company, with broad public approval and hopes for positive effects.
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Canada
Chicago Herald
Accident insurance odds yield huge profits in total country cover
The article notes that at £4 per person for a £1,000 death payout, insuring all citizens would produce premiums of £149,746,868 and death payments of £14,908,000. After expenses, the perceived profit would reach about £130,000,000, per London Tit-Bits.
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London
Prince Menschikoff’s Frozen Buried Body Largely Unchanged
The exhumed body of Prince Menschikoff, a favorite of Peter the Great, after 92 years in northern Siberia’s frozen soil shows hardly any decay. The report notes that corpses buried in hot sand mummify rather than decay.
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Prince Menschikoff
Peter the Great
Siberia
Washington Star
Osceola and the Seminole War at Okefinokee Swamp
A historical retelling recounts General Clinch’s 1830s expedition into the Everglades and the Seminole resistance led by Osceola. It notes the massacre threat, the 3000 braves, Osceola’s legend, and the swamp’s later transfer from Georgia to private sale in 1890, with Billy Bowlegs linked to the region.
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Clinch
Georgia
Florida
Everglades
United States
Smith
General Clinch
Iis
Washington
Fort Moultrie
Charleston
Billy Bowlegs
Billy
Okefinokee
Okefinokee Swamp
State of Georgia
Gordon
Atlanta Journal
Emerson and a college exhibit illuminate a famed thinker
Edward E. Hale recalls speaking with Ralph Waldo Emerson at a college show where a young man excelled. Emerson’s remark hints at resilience amid hardship, noting the boy’s father’s death and the mother’s Harvard-driven upbringing shaping the future strength and character of the youth.
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Emerson
Mr. Emerson
Harvard College
Sea of Galilee
Edward E.hale
How Suvoroff Met His Match in a Sentry Night
A Russian marshal famed as a jester, Suvoroff, once tested a sentry with the question of how many stars fill the sky. The guard calmly answered to count, and after reaching a hundred, Suvoroff rode away cold but learned the man’s name, earning his promotion the next day.
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Suvoroff
Russia
Suvaroff
Lippincott’s
Where Belgian Blocks Come From
The Rocks quarry four miles above Sellersville Bucks County supplies most of the citys belgian paving blocks. A large blast produced 35 000 blocks from a rock 85 feet wide 1214 feet deep and 63 feet long yielding about 1500 dollars for the quarryman.
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Belgium
Sellersville
Bucks County
Philadelphia
Roses Abound in Kezunlik Valley of Roses Tale
The narrative describes roses everywhere from hair to belts and jarred jam and syrup. A journey to Kezunlik in the Balkans is recalled as the famed rose garden of Turkey with vivid sensory detail. The piece blends travel, festooned imagery, and a lingering sense of abundance.
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Kezunlik
Valley of Roses
Balkans
Turkey
Blackwood’s
General Butler’s Famous Yacht Aboard Uncertain Fate
Yachting circles speculate on the fate of the General Butler owned yacht America after his death. Paul Butler doubts whether to retain the vessel, while Lowell residents doubt his decision. The general’s last cruise was with the New York Yacht Club sailing from Newport, with America challenging several new yachts. He then took short trips along the north shore. that was his final voyage.
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General Butler
America
Paul Butler
Lowell
New York Yacht Club
Newport
North Shore
Boston
Yearly Fire Losses in United States and Canada Rise
December 1892 fire losses totaled 12 354 450 with a yearly 182 704 700. Comparisons show 1891 losses 137 716 150 and 1890 106 998 345. Also notes four statues for the New York state building at the World's Fair Christophers Columbus Hudson Clinton and Roswell Flower. A Sedalia man killed fifty six copperheads on his fiftieth birthday. He believes it portends six years of life left.
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United States
Canada
New York
New York State Building
Christopher Columbus
Hendrick Hudson
George Clinton
Roswell P. Flower
Buffalo Express
Sedalia
Ile
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Papa
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Detroit Tribune
M. Gronsfelder
St. Louis
J. Mahone
Flaviwr
Dealke
Maynard’s Newbl
Maynard
Dresser
Formosa
Caskell
Taylor
Sumner Street
Maynard’s Block
Neil Currie & CO
Maynard, Mass
H.P. N. Dahl
Naylor
Nason St
Main Street
Concord
John J. Flannery
Bedford St
Maynard't
Maynard Loor
The
Hartford Safeties
Acton
Stow
Boxboro
Littleton
Tottles, Jones and Wetherbee
Smith Finney
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Hapgood
Anterprise
Horace Tuttle
W.A. Cunningham
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Mary Mullin
Michael Mullin
Cambridge
Maynard Enterprise
George M. Brooks
H. Folsom
Register
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