Foreign and domestic notes on ships and lands in 1890s
A collage of brief items mentions Captain Bates on naval costs, Britain’s weapon licenses, Irish and Welsh culinary quips, postal reform for rural delivery, and a detailed 1890s land report. It cites Li Hung Chang on Kiao-Chau, German actions, and the vast unoccupied public lands across western states with 591 million acres and 182 million reserved for military and public use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Kiao-Chau
Li Hung Chang
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Arizona
Wyoming
Idaho
Utah
California
Colorado
Oregon
North Dakota
Washington
Two Brides The Man Who Loved The Names Of Things
A poem fragment recounts a man famed for naming all things and the unseen guiding force beside him. Wisdom, his bride, leads him to map rocks winds seas and stars while people praise his knowledge. The piece contrasts two brides and ends with a nod to Walter Foss in the Independents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thront
Abo
Sho
Nan
God
Vic
Namolous
Bnm
Walter Foss
Independents
Winnie Warre a Grange guest becomes bride after ordeal
At the Marriot Grange a lively ward Winnie Warre becomes central as Louis Marriot conquers family opposition for an unequal match. Winnies illness followed by care from the Grange leads to an impending wedding and a new life in the west wing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange
Marriots
Bea
Ursula Marriot
France
Winnie
Ursula
Warre
Dover
Mr. Marriot
Winnie Warre
Louis Marriot
Louis
Mrs. Marriot
Marriot
Araula
Dssad
Winifred Warre
Waverley Magazine
Fashion notes and society chatter from a Paris and London period
A collage of fashion notes, society items, and cultured tidbits. Reports cover Turkish and Dutch women, Princess of Wales style influence, American travelers in Paris, and evolving dress trends with mentions of Empresses, writers, and clubs.
Man in Rockport Trades for Cent That Outlived His Life
W. A. Sylvester of Rockport offers to match a penny kept since boyhood with any man in Maine. The tale follows his lifelong restraint, sea adventures lasting fourteen years, a wreck rescuer saving his life, and a decades long journey across the country to California and the Great Northwest before preserving his single cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jily Viner
W. A Sylvester
Rockport
Tim
California
Indaha
Montana
Lewiston
Fields of Adventure and Narrow Escapes on Land and Sea
A Brooklyn Eagle account recalls Captain Charles Smith, a Boston diver, nearly crushed by wreckage on the Clara Post at Bridgeport harbor. He freed himself after a ten second ascent, recalling a lifetime of danger. An Au Sable Forks tale follows a rider crossing a decayed beam in darkness, proving a bridgeless chasm once crossed. Captain William Becker earns hero status for rescuing lumberman William Barnes from freezing water in Duluth, leaping 20 feet with coat on, then pulling him to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chasi
Charles Smith
Boston
Bridgeport
Conn
Brooklyn Eagle
Smith
Death's Door
Au Sable
The
William Becker
Redington
William Barnes
Scott & Holston Company
Duluth
Minn
Barnes
Captain Becker
Lunder
Promly
Dainarmland
von Erstorff
Count Esterhazy
Martini
France
Macjtovard
Mr. Pilkington
Uganda
Dreyfus
Paris
Plequart
Emperor William
Wilhelmina
Hague
Britain
China
Germany
Russia
Evans
Philadelphia
Madrid
Woyler
Barcosloan
Bittinger
United States
Montron
Canada
St. James
Bombay
India
Bulawayo
South Africa
Hartnell
Hypnotism tale ends in gun and lasso duel in Santa Clara
Reading like a sensational fragment a story recounts a man named Parker threatened by a gaucho in Santa Clara Argentina. A pistol shot and revolver fire save Parker as the gaucho falls after a lasso misadventure.
World canals and lengths chart the grand water highways
The article lists canal lengths across empires and regions: Chenab irrigation canal at 200 feet breadth and 450 miles main channel with 2000 miles branches plus 4000 miles future village branches. longest is 4472 miles from Ching to St Petersburg. Astrachan to St Petersburg at 1434 miles. Bengal Canal 900 miles long costing £2,000,000. total Indian irrigation canals 14,000 miles for 8,000,000 cores. Canal du Midi 148 miles. Caledonian Canal sixty miles. Suez 88 miles. Erie 360, Ohio 332, Maui and Erie 374, Manchester Ship Canal 85 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chenab
Northwest Provinces
India
Ching
St. Petersburg
Astrachan
Peter the Great
Bengal
Ganges
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Scotland
Postage stamp color changes under new international agreement
News notes color changes planned by the Post Office Department for postage stamps. One cent to green, two cent red, and five cent blue, with shades tied to engravings of Franklin and Henry Clay. Possible new stamps for the Trans Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha. Also mentions a gold casket for the King of Siam with elephant motifs and a view list of London landmarks. A Baltimore visit by Rev. Tuchad Henry Poynter near the Old Moot Hall in Elston Green, Bedfordshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wales
Whitechapel
Ireland
London
Paris
Postoffice Department
Franklin
General Grant
Postolice Department
Shuto
Corporation of London
Siam
Guild Hall
London Bridge
St. Paul's Cathedral
Tuchad Henry Poynter
Baltimore
Old Moot Hall
Elston Green
Bedfordshire
England
Dobu Bunyan
J.M. Buckley
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesleyan University
New York City
Herman P. Faust
Allen Street Presbyterian Church
Manies Cambon
France
United States
New York
la Gascogne
Dawes Bag
Chestnut Street National Bank
Philadelphia
Frank Kirby
Camden
N. J
Kirby
McCusker
Queen City
Burlington
Hauck
Terra Haute
Ind
Grosvenordale Company
Grosvenordale
North Grosvenordale
Conn
William J. Bryan
Chicago
Senator Storwart
Nevada
O. W. Broymer
George Manshanda
Elizabeth
Rosell
Mary Davis
James 0. Pitts
Summit
Dwight L. Moody
Carnegie Hall
Alaska
Business Men's Democratic Association of New York
Savoy
Grover Cleveland
Richard Croker
Adlai E. Stevenson
Alton
Parker
Cantor
Perry Belmont
James B. Eustis
Hogg
Texas
Bryan
Robert Taylor
Tennessee
Clark
Braden
American Express Company
Tasiog
Charles Dayton
Engst St. Louis
Bhen
Jock” Darling
Lowell
Kid" Murphy
Corona
Tacoma
Wash
Fort Presidio
Skagway Trail
Washington Items and Civil Service Debate Update
Civil Service Commissioner Rice announced his resignation as the debate on Civil Service Reform closed. The House passed the Appropriation bill without change while the Hawaiian annexation treaty moves to the Senate. Treasury tightens sealskin rules amid traveler harassment and funds. Dowles seeks rapid dry dock repairs in Brooklyn. Bryan delivers Jackson Day oration in Chicago as politics and finance swirl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Service
Rice
House
United States Senate
Beerat Long
Annapolis
Treasury Department
Chandler
McKinley
Cornelius Herz
State Department
Naval
Dowles
Naval Committees
Congress
Brooklyn
Civb
Treasury
Tts
Nien
Central Pacific
Also Mentioned on This Page
William H. Bates
British India
Union
Tilden-Astor-Lenox
Boston Public Library
Chicago Times
William. Rogers
New York ‘Herald
United Kingdom
New York Times
Topeka
New York Sun
New England
Postoffics Department
Harper's Weekly
Urania
the Grange
Winifred
Anmmona
Thase
Tinay
Granga
Mia
Maniol
Herr Gustav Wendt
International Geological Congress
Andrusson
John Murray
George Stoker
Phrenological Journal
Pringo Maximilian
Rapperstweller
Alsatian
Frigade
Holland
Indies
Spa
Torkiah
Bosphoris
Egypt
Mussulmah
Parie
Neaher
Pansao
Lve Ain Paria
Siftice
Harper’s Bazar
Qora Dow
Cincinnati
Murnane
Brushy Fork
Jessie Palmer Weber
Springfield
Inl
John M. Palmer
Lnte Misa
Josephine Cleveland
Trinoin
Senator White
Edna Whitney
Kansas City
Ramsay Gibson Maitland
James Ramsay Gibson Maitland
Edinburgh
Elizabeth Rider Wheaton
Austria
Achilleion
Corfu
Achilles
Imperial Palace
Vienna
Ellen Nussey
Charlotte Bronte
Gomersal
Miss Nussey
Charlote Bronte
District Court
Fields OF Adventure
Jerome Parker
Argentine Republic
Pampas
Santa Clara
Lis Horge
Pancho
Zach
Utp
Adirondacks
Chicago Limes-Herald Telly
Thusllane
Atv v
T .E World
Tanna
New Hebrides
Shorncliffe
Third Hussars
Cairo
America
Peking
Captain Reading
Berlin
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