Five million dollars spent yearly on football in Bopland
A fragmentary piece discusses large annual sums in the United States for football, then shifts to a long, satirical tirade about politics and society. It includes remarks on the Mannlicher gun, typos, and various observations on economic indicators, education, and a domestic vignette about Selina Meachum and her husband Tom.
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Bopland
Browns
Hannah Woods
Sam Carter
Selina
Tom Mecham
Hannah
Mrs. Brown
Tom
Coarsa
Fom
A Poem Vision of Youth and Aging by a Gateside Tree
The speaker longs for fairer days as sunlight floods a room and shadows weave through the season. A grand tree beside the gates grows toward a royal future while questions arise about who will enjoy its shade, its air, and the life it promises after the speaker passes. A distant mansion and towers loom as the poem contemplates fame, love, and art that outlive the poet.
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Kong
Rhyme
Patterned wall-pocket from Hosho book in attic tale
A narrator discusses looking at a Model Hosho pattern for a wall pocket, Selina plans to locate and send it. Tom hides a pig pen from the kitchen view while proposing a honeysuckle screen. The speaker mentions warning neighbors and a medium, hoping a moral fix will ease tensions by Saturday night.
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Oseph
Josaph
Tom
Selina
White
Beteay
Szhen
Betsey
Zazy
Medhamc
Joseph
Ito
The origin and meaning of the word jingo in British politics
This piece traces how the term jingo emerged during the Russo Turkish War era amid public calls for war. It notes a popular pantomime line and rallying songs, the 1880 Liberal victory, and how jingo came to label those eager for immediate war.
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England
Constantinople
Ruagiao Bear
Agua Pare Biasis
German Engineer Develops Bridge Noise Prevention Decking
German engineer Boedecker devised a noise reducing deck for iron bridges. A decking of 1 1/4 inch planks rests on 3 inch timbers with double felt underlay fired to the girder web. A timber joint cover and hooked bolts secure the assembly, covered by slag gravel for drainage.
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Boedecker
New York Sun
Life for a Life A Baboon and a Brave Traveler
A traveler recounts a dramatic midday encounter with a large baboon as fox terriers alarmed him near a wagon. He shoots the beast after his companion Pablo refuses to join, then learns of a vow by Pablo to spare baboons after a prior rescue. The tale unfolds with past hunts, dog battles, and a life‑saving moment when a baboon pulls another away, inspiring Nkosi to vow never to kill a baboon again.
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Pablo
Nkosi
Pahla
Pabla
Mia
Intimato
New York Recorder
Glint of gold and peril on a Mexican isthmus route
An English engineer recalls traveling by isthmus rail and smuggling gold coins hidden in a porous plaster sewn to his back. He recounts being chased by bandits near Oaxaca and Tehuantepec, shooting back with an American revolver, wounding two attackers, and continuing his journey with aid from a companion.
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Gordon Highlanders
Egypt
Luitpold
Bavaria
Thornton Decker
Pan American
Tlacalula
Mexico
Caxnas
Tehauhtepec
Tebauntepec
Isthmus
Texas
Oaxaca
Tehauntepec
San Carlos
Elettham
Thoda
Ooxrea
Heroic Tribune engineer spares fate of building
An Atlanta Tribune report tells of Bill Fitzpatrick, assistant engineer at the Tribune building, who braved escaping steam to locate a dangerous rupture. His actions halted a potential boiler explosion, praised by the paper as knightly and selfless, inspiring loyalty and courage in workers.
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New York Tribune
Bill Fitzpatrick
Tribune
Fitzpatrick
the Tribune
Roland
Lancelot
Atlanta Constitution
Train crew saves isolated family from fire near Mareehas Michigan
An engine crew halted a freight train near Mareehas Michigan when the house was seen in flames. The brakeman woke the sleeping family on the upper floor and helped them escape before the fire overtook the dwelling. Grace Colvin a Bristol Connecticut girl, nine, rescued a companion from a sand collapse by digging her out with bare hands.
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Mareehas
Mich
Grace Colvin
Bristol
Conn
Grace
The Electric Light Reveals Ailment In Body
The New York Press notes rapid growth of electrotherapy as a medical field. Doctors diagnose disease with electricity by illuminating the body and locate trouble with targeted electrodes. When activated, the current delivers medicine to the precise site, signaling vast potential for mankind's benefit.
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Bho
New York Press
Electric Bed Lamp Aids Invalids In Non-Electric Homes
An English inventor designed a two-candle power electric light for bedrooms, aimed at invalids in homes without electric service. It provides soft illumination and can be attached to the bedstead with the accumulator in a small box beneath the bed, allowing flexible direction.
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New York Mat and Express
Engineering Freak Spots Notable Branch Railroad Turn
A prominent railroad officer notes the Guerneville branch of the Donahue road as an engineering curiosity. The narrow gauge line features many twists and a redwood stump left on the surveyed line, around which the track curves, creating the only stump in the country that caused a railroad turn.
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Guerneville
Donahue Road
San Francisco Post
Roman horse gear and chariot fittings across ancient Rome
The New York Advertiser notes that Roman writers claimed Com foudins caused hoofs to be covered with WebbTést and fetlocks to be IGdEeRoro. White mules wore glatd shoes on their forefeet with silver behind. Poppar’s chariot team was shod in gold, as did other dignitaries in Rome’s riotous days. The piece also cites Macedonian military early in history.
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Poppar
New York Advertiser
To Thee Thou Art Remembered In The Churchyard
Poem fragment by Alfred Austic. The speaker vows to rise from the churchyard mold and worship as of old, despite time aging love. He contemplates aging and loss, insisting love cannot fade even as years move on.
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Ufo
Alfred Austic
Humorous Quotations From Various Papers
A collage of light verse and witty exchanges from multiple 19th century papers. Jests touch on courtship, fashion, and everyday mishaps with sly punchlines. Names and places appear in brief snippets, reflecting social foibles and banter of the era.
Thought Photographs and mind images intrigue readers
Amateur Photographer reports “thought photographs” in a staged experiment. A person focuses on a postage stamp for a minute then a plate placed on the spot records two impressions after twenty more minutes. Credible witnesses attest order as the idea of instantaneous thought photography raises startling possibilities for revealing inner sentiments.
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Spivatitio
Armenian Senate Passes Resolutions on Turkish Armenian Atrocity
After lengthy debate in Washington the House approved Senate concurrent resolutions on the Armenian outrages in Turkey by 143 to 26. The measure urges decisive action to protect American citizens and property, and asks the President to seek support from Britain France Russia and Italy. Strong opposition claimed the resolutions could commit Congress to acts beyond its duties while supporters urged firm measures to deter fanaticism and secure rights for Christians in the Turkish Empire.
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Nantly
House of Representatives
Washington
United States Senate
House Committée On Foreign Affairs
Senate
Arero
Reeceived
Quigg
New York City
House
Nambora
Hepburn
Towa
United Sates
Turkey
Hitt
Grosvenor
Sres
Adams
Pennsylvania
Mfontos
Tarner
Georgia
Congress
Turver
Constantinople
Siven-Eightba
Hill
Committee On Foreign Affairs
State Department
Berlin
Probable Compliance With Request on Armenian Policy
The text discusses the likelihood that Congress will send a resolution to the White House and that the administration, including President Cleveland and Secretary Olney, may approve. It notes prior talks between Senator Cullom and Olney, suggests broad assent, and mentions plans to inform Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Russia, and the Turkish Empire under the Berlin Treaty. It also cites Champerlain and Lord Salisbury discussions urging U.S. action in Armenia to press reforms and join an Anglo American demonstration.
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Congress
White House
Olney
Turkey
Cullom
Deat
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
France
Italy
Russia
aJx
Berlin
Birmingham
England
Joseph Champerlain
United States
Armenias
Lord Balisbury
Cleveland
A & Note
Armenia
Daily Chronicle
Austria -Hungary
Italy-Spainand
Prussia
Rhvy Department
Grier
Long Island
Herbert
Beantor AI
Benate
da Jenking
Tre Heit
Washington
Medias
Johannesburg
Tenusyanls
Smorlegns
Cannon
Arthax
Bidwin
Per
Dtah
Coe ‘Syworn
Shepee Bana Renate
Afr
Mel Brown
Marsh
Yesso’s
Rover
Lilepee
Henate
Gaeta Hill
Jackson
Eeason
Bocest Tary
Hirteen
Billy
Hareion
Joan
Mason
New York
Internal Revenue
York
Senate
Senate Colomlites
Catonerto de Gadier
Caracas
Venezuela
Catalonia
Azores
Braunschweig
Eerinst Kogtish
Ee DS
Clyda
Lcotland
Belfast
Ambutsador Runyon
Ontario
Canada
Coleman
Lake Lacroix
Port Arthur
St. Petersburg
Lasker
Broinus
Pillsbury
Lord Leighton
Royal Academy
Japan
Tyne and Clyde
Weyler
Ogba
Spain
Bavana
Carabono
Garrizon
Makallo
Abyssinia
Wayana
Cuba
Maximo Gomez
Jacques Anatyte Franco
French Academy
Blissland
Madagascar
Guiana
Frederick Pollock
Corpusrofessor
Jurisprudence
Oxford University
William
Prince Higmarck
Pour
Epee
Ferdinand Schichau
Elbing
Eyre WV tragedy and pension notes span page chaos
A family altercation in Eyre West Virginia ends with Thomas Burns mortally shooting his stepmother and then killing himself. Burns's wife attempts suicide after grief. The column also reviews pension bills for five widows, imperial birthday news, a Wales mine explosion with dozens dead, and a sweeping U.S. debt and tariff recap from 1895 through 1898.
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Eyre
W. Va
Thomas Burns
Burns
Fragmented 19th Century News Summary From Dense OCR
Vulnerable items include murders arson and suicides across multiple locales. Coroner reports Baslty murder of a child in Pittsburg Poni. tragedy follows by fatal injuries to a mother Steale in another scene. Hudson River crop forecast bleak. bridge collapse and Ohio flood watch. Notable names include Remund J. Tucker and Miss J. Hart. various local incidents, court cases, and a presidential reference appear amid scattered notes.
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Island City
Hira
Will
Pittsburg
Poni
Brech
Mra
Saha
Rémund J. Tncker
Hudson ‘River
Jers
Bunyon Onnes
Foo Gorge
Maumee Rigar
Tore Tsai
Ohio
Theiloss
Tha J. Hart
Gaitte Sano
Trontington
Conn
EL. Goodwin
Alabama
New York
Ity
Albert ‘Tollla
Brook
Ind
Joli
Toluts
BOF
Rockville Centre
Boor
J. H. ‘Worman
Outing
New ‘York City
William 'Foster, Sr
W. Foster
Peter Retgen
Almaar
Lincoln
Brooklyn
Hoe
Bee Em
Uhster County
Waukegan
Daniel Gore
Ohn Dillon
Justice Bhotwell
Dillon
Joseph Ruchksti
Bor
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Observer
Tasle Bam
Vistarig
Mannifested
Svar ‘Eoare
Pratt
Chicago ‘Physicians'Club
Wiltson
Curtis
South
Chicago
Gotham
Asuers
Pulltfiga
Anticape
Bir
Walter Besant
Hall
Caine
London Daily Chronicle
Tam
Hall Caine
Myzelf
America
Que
Bendetrecte
Western
Northwestern
Middle States
Western States
Atlanta Journal
Susan Archer Weiss
Zino
Beling
Mei
Ake
Sud
Mire
Oiliday
Jom
Alias Peerkins
Tims
Miss Perkins
Tom Mechum
Tom Meachum
Leavenworth
Kan
Zululand
Switzerland
Admiralty
Julia
Dorr
Lycus
Gladstone
Earl of Beaconsfield
Ca Upaign
Peace Party
Pittaburg
Peter Schultz, Jr
Bascom
Mr. Schultz
Department of
Sefones
Macedonia
Christ
Roynie
Satia
Madge
Kate
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hoxbury Gazette
Tommy
Texas Siftings
Hamlet
Maude
Spenddon
York Evening World
Gussie
Smithett
Philadelphia ‘Telegraph
Boston Transcript
Flidgende Blochter
Sha
Indianapolis Journal
Jaysmith
McSwillgen
Philadelphia
Moore
Birdie
Chicago Tribune
Baroness
Fraulein Brocehardt
Feierabend
George
Scoundrsl
Spd
Willey
Shalley
Mayor Strone
City Hall
Goncur
Roly
Veprara Tare
English
Carroll
Frederick Bdhwatka
Frederick Dent
Doubleday
Kaiser Wilhelm
Wilhelm of
Pont-y-Pridd
Wales
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