Notable 19th Century Snippets On Commerce Hymns and Health
A compilation of varied opinions and notes from early 20th century papers. Topics range from New York foreign trade decline and terrapin concerns to cotton mill costs, army travel privileges, inventions in telegraph writing, advertising legacies, Mint gold deposits, the Monroe Doctrine, Isaac Watts’ hymn legacy, tea versus cocoa in British Isles, and public health warnings about contaminated well water linked to bicycle route towns.
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London Graphic
British Isles
Tord Wolseley
Corva
Forest Fire Brings Courageous Test Of Love
Ben recalls a summer terror as a forest fire closes in on a mountain hamlet near Lake Superior. Tessie battles flames beside him, shielding him with a silk parasol and driving the stubborn old horse through smoke and cinders. The blaze injures both, but Tessie saves him as he awakes to a frightened sister and a grateful wife.
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Essie
Tessie
Sarah Tore
Teal
Laura
Tess
Jennie Bingham
Cora
Teaste
Maononvre
Jack Manners
Jack
Tosa
Cupid
Tegsie
Oham
Tessia
Lake Superior
Dover Mountain
Ducre
Duluth
Tous
Joe
Tony Croix
Oasis
King
Tesa
Ben
Qeer
Boadicea
Thinga
Jonnie
Milla
New York Ledger
Ancient Costuivat Bean Trade Report
The text notes a strange bean called Costuivat Bean growing wild in Pupmotho and Misantla Mexico. It mentions beans sold for 1l 24 per 100, dried beans costing about Sh per pound, and that over 900,000 beans were imported. It also references telegraph wires owned by many nations and a bust of William Ewart Gladstone displayed at Parliament.
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Barth
Pupmotho
Misantla
Mexico
Drugaista
Living Tortoises and Women Pastors in 1898 Paris and More
The piece reports on fashionable items and social notes including jewel-backed living tortoises on Parisian dresses priced around $80, the Society for the Protection of Animals debates, and counts about 200 ordained women pastors in the United States across denominations such as Universalists and Congregationalists. It highlights Miss Lottie E. Wiggins as Toronto Endeavor Union president, Mrs. Cowden-Clarke’s active old age, and musings on dress parade and new evening waists with detailed costume descriptions. It also covers Burmah women traders, Turkish bath for women in London, and notable women in arts, law, and politics with various international references.
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Paris
Society For the Protection of Animals
Supreme Court
South Dakota
Louise Josephine
Sweden
Norway
Crown Prince
Denmark
Henry Somerset
Nauheim
H. H. A. Beach
Boston
Sarah Bernhardt
Eion Terry
Frances E. Willard
Lea Ahlborn
United States
To a Strange Land and Russian Nobility Shifts
The piece notes European ships delivering children as express parcels to relatives in the United States, citing five children arriving in New York including Itke from Russia and Tlonn with her sister from Russian Poland. It mentions numbered siblings Freda and Ganna and others with tags bearing addresses for relatives. It also discusses Russian noble losses to peasants and increases in population, followed by a brief note on a proposed workingman's hotel in London with 5 percent shareholder return expectations.
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Europe
Russia
Itke
Tlonn
Russian
Poland
Freda
Ganna
Austin Roth
London
Las
Maddanta Boo Burden
Evo Tenty
Geo
Chicaga Chi Suite
Grandmother Precepts on Love and Sewing Traditions
A nostalgic miscellany of grandmotherly maxims about courting, sewing, and patience, set alongside humorous quotes from various papers. It threads advice on wooing with a wary eye toward social tales, and ends by reflecting on enduring sayings about romance and prudence.
Denver Barbecue Stampede Ends Convention Deliberations
A Denver barbecue event ending the National Stock Growers' Convention drew 25 000 to 40 000 people to Union Stock Yards. Six tons of meat were served before tables collapsed and guards cleared aisles. Governor Adams and Mayor McMurray attended as crowds surged unsafely but without injuries. The executive committee of the Live Stock Association was named during the closing.
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National Stock Growers
Denver
Cal
Live Stock Association of the
United States of America
America
Union Stock
Burlington Railway
Adams
McMurray
Lynching of a Colored Woman in Victoria Parish
A mob captures Bho Wuos and Fobn Pekraon in Victoria La after an attempted assault. George Beard kills them after they shoot at him. Mary Pearson, mother of the slain man, is captured and killed by a posse with brutal mutilation described as a terrible death.
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Fobn
Harvey Pekraon
George Beard
Victoria
Young Beard
Ofcar
Mary Pearson
Posse
Private Jones a Hero at Lime Point Fort
Private John M. Jones of Battery I, Regular Army, native of Rogersville Town, saved seven men from exploding powder on California Jubilee Day at Lime Point Fort. A malfunctioning cannon load ignited a woolen bag. Jones leaped in with bare hands, smothered the smouldering bag, and dampened the singed edges to avert disaster.
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Regular Army
John M. Jones
Rogersville
California
Ban Francisco
Lime Point
Jones
Miners War Settled And Eight Hour Day Achieved
A convention at Chisago between coal operators and miners adjourned after agreeing to avert a general strike for over a year. The settlement includes a ten cent per ton wage increase for about 300000 workers and establishes an eight hour workday with uniform pay across participating states. Also noted is the marriage of Rev Lowell Harding and Mrs Angle Watrous in Binghamton New York. Harding, 83, and Watrous, 62, were wed despite objections from his children, with Harding transferring property valued at 100000 to them while retaining 10000 for himself.
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West Union Gazette
Puck
Princeton
Tiger
Dooby
Roxbury Gazette
Spendley
Johnnie
Philadelphia
Tao
Brown
Rakeap
Chicago
Norristown Herald
London
Old Foggs
Thomas
Jack Bachelor
Bob Blafler
Olf Duffer
Boston Transcript
Turope
Washington Star
Bmsinness
New York Weekly
Chisago
Sino Din
Linois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Lowell Harding
Angle Watrous
Old Ladies' Home
Binghamton
N. Y
J. H. Roce
Harding
Watrout
Naugatuck
Conn
United States Rubber Company
Common Council of
Trenton
N. J
William L. Elkins, Jr
United Gas Company of
Sickel
Ida Hancock
Brooklyn
Christian Science
Indiana
Greensburg
Thoma L. Thompson
United States
Rirect
Santa Roza
Onlaria
California
York Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
Bo Bany
Ainee
Adam Star
Milas Kate le Noir
Washington
Sturtevant House
New York City
Wilkenbarre
Penn
Shorts
Martin É
Gattiner
Hudson
Newbury
Atantic
Pacifica
Lawrence
Mass
New York Assembly
Weekes
Edward Nurphy, Jr
Sandy Hook
William Hi. Murray
State Senate
Albany
Edna May Chase
Miss Chuasa
Rodgers
Erin Speculation
Frederick Cook
Tontine Hotel
New Haven
Fontiskys
William Lindsay
Abraham Tebbitts
Boston
Masa
Bankery
Former Judge Wilhite Carpenter Mortally Wounded by Trap
Wilhite Carpenter, an eighty one year old former judge from Shepherdayilla Kentucky, was fatally wounded when a guntrap in his counter store exploded as he entered, forgetting the device. His right leg was blown off at the knee.
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Wilhite Carpenter
Shepherdayilla
Uneves
Strike vote in Fugland favors accepting employer force
A majority of Englesera in Fugland on a long strike voted to accept the employers. Precise figures are not released yet but insiders say about 25 000 favor acceptance to 11 000 against.
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Englesera
Fugland
S& Months
Acceptig
Oxno
Leiter syndicate claims control of surplus wheat in U S
In Chicago cash wheat prices rose to 92.10 as export sales surged. The Leiter syndicate declares it controls all surplus wheat, estimated at 15 million bushels, amid heavy selling pressure influenced by party politics.
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Chicago
Leiter
Murderer recounts crime in New York City
Alexander Ciaramello, labeled as Natalio Brogco's killer, told in New York City how the crime was committed though he did not implicate his cousin Angelo Carbone, who faces possible execution in Sing Sing's death house. A violent storm battered the Black Sea causing widespread coastal wrecks and heavy shipping losses at Odessa with damage over 100,600 roubles and multiple shipwrecks along the Tyne area.
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Alexander Ciaramello
Natalio Brogco
New York City
Ito
Angelo Carbone
Black Sea
Odessa
Tyan
Record of quirky county and distant anecdotes in 19th century text
A garbled county note from Konags County says Tinney County Kansas began the year with a dubious record for size and wealth, while a separate NY state annual report cites half of New York City residents receiving medical treatment. The piece meanders through politicians, birthdates, and imagined events with many misspellings and obscure names.
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Tinney County
Kansas
United States
Live V
New York
Hts
State Board of Charities
New York City
Trea
Washington items report varied political and military moves
The President nominated George M. Bowers to the Fish and Fisheries post and David Krog to customs in Natchez. A Honolulu gala honored President Dole. Fleet moves include Brooklyn cruiser West Indies and Mohican to Samoa. Klondike relief plans grow, and Army appropriations pass. House actions cover Indian and public lands, while multiple incidents from fire at a rubber plant to oaths and obituaries fill the page.
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Presiddent
Senate
George M. Bowers
West Virginia
Fish and Fisheries
David Krog
District of Natchez
President Dole
Hawaii
White House
Lester A. Deardaine Lax
P. H. Ray
War Department
Aingla
Klondiké
Congress
Brooklyn
New York
West Indies
Windward Islands
Mohican
Samoa
Dawson
Merriam
Klondike
Dyon
Chilkoot Pass
Pass
Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
House
McCailn
United States
Marblehead
Navassa Island
Treasury Department
Boring & Tilton
Ellis Taland
New York Harbor
Utah
Bont Felho
New Mexico
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John R. Roberts
Tacoma
Atlanta Constitution
New England
The
Treasury
Uncle Sam's Army
Spen
Savannah News
United States Mint
Colorado
Western Hemisphere
China
Central
South America
Isaac Watts
Belierers
Halo
Timas-eratt
Austin
Hungary
Belgian
France
Gemany
Great Babtin
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Switzerland
Gladstone
Etoniana
Parlement
Universalists
Congregationalists
United Brethren
Toronto
Ofice
Toronto Christian Endeavor
Lottie E. Wiggins
Miss Wiggins
Dry Goods Economist
Burmah
Boti
Burma
Marie Louise Benoit
Lowell
New York State
Craig Colony
Sonyea
Livingston County
State Hospital Service
Helen Lockwood
Peru
Ind
Frankfort
Yates
Illinois
Wao Ting-Fang
Witaxfton
Tussia
Atatistes
Ohiss
Granny
St Theo Gate
Stough Scare
Parson Phipp
Rehard Stillman Powell
Aerio Wethod
Getmans
Proclains Hobby
Pete
Es Collenes
Ammenen
Pittshbig
Chang They
eCeueen Wea
Uthonah
Fae
Dewey
Rhotto Beath
Private Jones
Euglncera
Dnck Sea
Konags County
Fromment
Deboe
Kentucky
Back
Rober
Seay York State
Lert County
Wine
Richard Croker
Engiamdies
Apa
Firmet Neus Warker
Benjamin Batteryworth
Mary Belloe
Gadstone
Elizabeth Hogheer
Petter Rindealph
Austria
Wal
Mnanouness Bis
Frederick QO Prines
Bos Tan
Dreshdtont
Bertin
de Pinapere
Sugusta
Vitorda
Lombardy
Nagasaki
Japan
Great Britain
England
Tallen-Wan
Germany
Chattung Peninsula
Emparor William
Sor
Salisbury
Chiu Hag
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