A rich man’s return and a reunion of old loves
In a California tale, Ella Thorne, an orphan, is reunited with her former lover Charlie Reynolds, now revealed as a successful Reynolds. Christie Burgess and Mrs Burgess learn that Charles is her half brother, a wealthy man, who offers support to Ella and Christie’s widowed mother, uniting the families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imay
Christie Burgess
California
Charles
Kris Burgess
Mrs. Wharton
Christie
Jane
Cleveland
Charlie
Iyas
Mra. Burgess
Mrs. Burgess
Janet
Minn
Isawa
Bilal
Mina
Biss Jane
Burgess
Reynolds
Mary
Ella
San Kavier
A Cruz
Menna
Horaca
Camp Grant
Ho Man
San Xavier
Tucson
Arizona
Santa Cruz
Unite States
Hart
Harper's Week
The Gulf Stream and Its Global Climate Impact
The Gulf Stream warms northwestern Europe and Britain. Dr Croll estimates the northward heat transfer equals vast energy daily, enough to heat equatorial regions and exceed air current heat. A stoppage would significantly reduce Arctic and North Atlantic warmth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Europe
Croll
Atlantic
Equator
O ‘Croll
Arctic
North Atlantic
Great Ocean River
Prisoner Admits Guilty After Judge Interrogation
Nevada judge questions a spectacled defendant about guilt or innocence in a courtroom scene. The prisoner pleads guilty after the judge notes the lack of counsel and mentions appointing a defense attorney. Dramatic exchange highlights court tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Counting Up the Coat and Women in Society
A collage of social observations on household costs and rising feminist activity. It notes the hidden cost of daily meals, outlines Queen Victoria’s era curiosities, and surveys women adopting healthier, active lifestyles amid evolving fashion and etiquette in Creole New Orleans and Arizona.
Scientific Scraps and Remarkable Facts From Many Fields
A compilation of brief science notes covers electric light photography, ear anatomy for sound localization, a planned Messina Strait bridge in Italy, and observations on health climate from Bell. It also reports a copper-cent drawing trick, the nature of minerals vs living forms like Huxley’s Buthybius, Eozoon debates, and a vivid note on President John Tyler’s marked grave in Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Virginia including family details and congressional monuments proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
Hhem
Huxley
Eozoon Gunadensis
Tyler
Richmond
Chicago News
Hollywood
John Tyler
United States
James River
James Monroe
Julia
Virginia
Congress
Ais
Washington
Interior Department
William Henry Harrison
Chinese Dishes and the Chinese Market in San Francisco
A vivid account describes San Francisco's Chinese market with exotic foods from soft amber cheese to chestnuts wrapped in cabbage leaves and dried meats. It notes turtles frogs fowls and fish prepared variously, seaweeds used to thicken soups and gravies, and the belief that Chinese and Japanese eat everything from the sea with noted skill and taste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Whitting Judge Mowe Whittling On and Off The Bench
The Chicago Times reports Indianapolis judge Mowe entertains himself by whittling at the bench. When faced with knotty cases he swipes shavings quickly, while in ordinary moments he works in a country store loafer fashion, carrying soft pine shavings and leaving carpentry in the court’s seating area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mowe
Indianapolis
Chicago Times
Obedient Husband Extracts Tooth for Queen of Complaints
An eccentric tale from a Manchester Courier snippet describes Lady Arden seeking dental relief fifty miles from Clydendints Castle. She would not endure an operation until witnessing it on another, forcing her husband Lord Aiden to have a tooth extracted as a demonstration, leaving her convinced she could not endure such a procedure.
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Victoria
William IV
John
San Francisco Chronicle
Crook
Oregon
Indiana
Old Fort Warner
Korea
Omaha
Arden
Edinburgh
Clydendints Castle
Aiden
Manchester Courier
A Bureau of Mending and a Solothurn Nest
A Philadelphia Call item imagines a New York style bureau of mending for bachelors offering 5 cent repairs and darning with messengers, noting waste of unmaintained wardrobes.另 Solothurn Switzerland exhibits a wagtail nest entirely of steel shavings, half a millimetre thick and twelve centimetres long, preserved in the Museum of Natural History.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Mending
New York
Philadelphia
Solothurn
Biwitzerland
Museum of Natural History
American Register
Florida tarpon fight with giant shark tackle tale
Thomas B. Asten of New York recounts yachting off Florida and a dramatic tarpon chase on the east coast. He and Lieut. Ienn pursued the mighty fish with heavy shark tackle, enduring long fights as the tarpon leapt, towed the boat, and tested angling skill, with a hundred pounder proving among the sea’s hardest game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas B. Asten
New York
Florida
Indian River News
Land of Flowers
Mr. Asten
Florisla
Tanixtec Fo
Arigie
Parrot Rescues Kitten From Water Trap
A ten year Hudson City revenue collector John Gaffney owns a parrot and a kitten. In a corner store dispute the kitten and parrot fought over a toy game. The parrot saved the kitten from a tub of water, then carefully lowered itself to release the kitten. Bystanders watched the rescue as the owner refused any payment for the pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gaffney
Hudson Ciy
Monty
Mr. Gaffney
Montgomery Street
Westside Avenue
Aga
Gaffney
New York World
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ameer
Afghanistan
Russia
Yashmal
Bedad
American ‘Female Guardian” Society
Turkey
Cairo
Presley
Patent Office
Bureau
Phelps
Iad
Thair
England
France
Germany
Austria
Mackerson
London
Matins
Cathtas
Susan Hartley Swott
Sir Nicholas
Doret
Ferguson
Cizhing
Lily
New Orleans
Wow
Tayor
Norfolk
Cobwigge
Bazar
West India
Hindoo
Samuel Sexton
Grenelle
Louis
Anon
Straits of Messina
Sicily
Italy
British Columbia
Whittlng
Jack Ellis
Williamsport
Penn
Jie
Tankennel
Mai
Tom
Board of Arbitration
Boston Courier
Fredge
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