Noisy world and foreign notes in a late century digest
A wide collection outlines wheat farming in India and U S contrasts, Japanese rights protests in Sydney, Monte Carlo bank budgets, curfews and youth arrests, debates on reading habits and publishing, a Newark case on noise and health, Washington Star views on Civil War lessons, and a call for stronger coastal defenses and navy expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saya
Boston Journal
Washington
United States
Furnace Mystery Brings Romance to Fifth Floor
Lucy Hildeburn and Mr. Sangster clash over a rumored quarrel while Mrs. Collins schemes to reconcile them. A midnight furnace mishap, a burglar, and a dramatic rescue lead to a secret engagement and a surprise wedding card announcing their marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Collins
Miss Jane Humphries
Jane
Lamb
Lucy Hildeburn
Lucy
Mr. Sangster
Novel wedding rings and fashion notes charm season brides
A ring hidden inside a plain gold band creates two linked circles when a pin is used, with engravings and a motto concealed when joined. The piece joins a trend of fashionable headwear, shoes care, and stylish outfits, featuring bonnets, toques, and fabrics for a refined season.
exotic red pipe stone quarry and rites at Siout Falla
Dispatch from Siout Falla South Dakota describes a remote red pipe stone quarry famed in local tradition. It notes Indigenous use for pipes ornaments and annual pilgrimages with a unique altar consecrated by Bishop Tare using red plapestone and honey for polishing. Also referenced is concerns over street food exposure and public health implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siout Falla
South Dakota
Tare
Hartford
John H. Lawson
Lombard Street
Philadelphia Record
Admiral Farragut
Lawson
Mobile Bay
Fields of Adventure and Daring Deeds Across Land and Sea
A compendium of perilous exploits and heroism from wartime balloon flights with General Porter and Professor Low to Abigail Becker’s lifesaving at Lake Erie surf. The piece recalls Chesapeake and Detroit area rescues, a farmer amid a snake den, and valiant acts aboard the Hartford and Maine Central Railroad, highlighting feats by undersea and air threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Washington Monument
J. M. Underwood
California
Star
Terra Firma
Professor Low
Yorktown
Fitzjohn Porter
Underwood
Porter
Richmont
Earth
New York
Abby Becker
Grace Darling
Lake Ewe
Henry Beckett
Amherstburg
Detroit River
Port Dalhousie
Lake Ontario
Welland Canal
Long Point
Ban
Caie
Abigail Becker
Borkett
Abiail Terker
Moon Portraits and Insect Wars in 19th Century Notes
Peary explains Arctic moon observations with extended horizon above the polar nights and long winter lengths. Professor Hopkins reports releasing millions of pine beetles in the Black Forest to curb pests, saving lumber. London’s Piccadilly Circus unveils an electric clock with synchronized time bands and electric stard fired at each figure for distant readability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. N. Peary
Arctic
Whale Sound
A. D. Hopkins
West Virginia
Piccadilly Circus
London
By & Company
Britain Builds Seventy-Eight Warships and 318000 Tons
A fragment notes Britain constructing eighty-seven warships totaling about 318012 tons with thirty four destined for foreign powers. It mentions Professor Mommeen of Balin recently turning eighty and a confused scene in Charlottenburg where he misread a bar and attempted to swim a canal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Mommeen
Balin
Las Étlesen
Chalottenburg
Ham
Epileptic Speech Recording in London and Global Notes
Reports from Guy's Hospital record daily EEG speech samples from epileptic patients for progress comparison. Global notes cover cotton seed industry growth, Seattle cotton shipments to Japan, Lundy Island lights and keeper relocations, indigo substitutes, copper wire telegraph expansion, insect behavior, earthworm effects on crops, volcanic island formation, Cherokee romance of Malone and Hildreth, and London Underground rolling stock and routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy's Hospital
London
South
Japan
Seattle
Lundy Island
India
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York
San Francisco
Ogden
Omaha
Union Pacific
McLachland
Wollhy
Munich
Germany
Professor Wollny
Richard Malone
Mary Hildreth
Caldwell
Kan
Malone
Miss Hildreth
Kansas
Nation Bank of Paola fails as examiner steps in
Treasury reports the Nation Bank of Paola Kansas has failed with surplus profits of 12500 and deposits 7456. Bank Examiner Cunningham is placed in charge amid a broad sweep of political debate in Washington. Senate debates Teller silver resolution and pensions bill while policy and naval readiness are scrutinized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Nation Bank
Paola
Kansas
Cunningham
Senate
Teller
Brown
United States Supreme Court
Gorman
Treasury
House
Bailey
Reed
Merriam
War Department
Klondike
Long
Roosevelt
Banata
Longstreet
Randall Hagner
Hagner
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Charles Burr Towle
New Hampshire
Saltillo
Moxico
Robert
Butler Mahone
Virginia
Naavo
Laredo
Mexico
Bergh
North Dakota
Gothenburg
Awedens
Gabriel Blo Havndal
South Dakota
Beirut
Syris
Cuba
McKinley
Congress
Havana
State Department
George H W. Murphy
Consular Bureau
Colon
Ashby
Dawes
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New South Wales
Sydney
Monte Carlo
Lincoln
Neb
St. Joseph
Denver
Col
del Monnca
Reform School
Washington Star
America
New York Tribune
Newark
N. J
Pitney
New Jersey
Ma Ort
Tam
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Soosow
Julian Frenci
Mia. Coliiia
Mra. Collins
Wor
Ius
Demorest’s
Geneto
Buffalo
N. Y
Ado Negi
Jessie Palmer Weber
Springfelt
John M. Palmer
Josephine Cleveland
Illinois Historical Library
France
Melvilla B. Wilson
Misa Virgina Montgomery
San Antonio
Texas
Alice M. Beckwith
Weld County
Colorado
Alice Marie Chirk
Centenary Collegiate Institute
Hackettstown
Noodhe
Woman's College
Baltimore
Mune Lone Benoit
Lowell, Mays
New York State
Sonyea
Lavingston County
State Hospital Service of
Migs VM
Frodsham
Teaming College
Cambridge
Moghul
Halloway College
Othe Pirst
Qreen Nathalie
Pil
Hea Sevyian
Agavat
Sey Creek
Sey Creek All Canaretir
Hune
Malviy
Belgrade
Alexander
Florence
Portugal
Lisvon
Bryn Mawrthia
Wade
Pablo Press
Delothe Pyedebt
Fields OF Adventure
Ako Erte
Lake Eiie
John Walls
Prima Hook Neck
Delaware
Walle
Walla
Sussex County
J. H. Wood
Maine Central Railroad
Newport
British North Borneo Herald
Mempikoi
Lumbidan
Thiy
Hag
London Underground Railway
Central Underground
Oxford Street
Holborn
Bank of England
Shepherd's Bush
Hudson River
Gaeson
Hudzon River
President Dole
Hawaii
Chicago
Julian K. West
Richmond Borough
New York City
State Board of Education
George Jones
Bart Griffin
Long Island
Jones
Grifin
Jacob Hing
Otto Diehl
Hinz
Brooklyn
St. Louis
August Wic'meyer
Rhidda
Josie Peterson
Key West
Fla
Maine
Lyag
Oregon
Noyo
Portland
Wash
Nansen
Ted” Sloane
Jonkey
Europe
Fort Ya' Kon
Alaska
Dole
Hamburg
Ludgert
Niagara
David Pratt Osborne
John D. Kimmey
Norwalk
Conn
Supreme Court
Garrison
Grand Jury
Camden
Embracary
Shaw
Jenkins
Srop
Grey
Daniel Dolhanty
Long Harbor
Staten
Ohio
Cincinnati
Indiana
Tennessee
Toroson
John Laird
Birkenhead
England
Alabama
Juan Delgado
Chile
Argentina
Ing
Marco Polo
China
King Humbart
Italy
Ragland
Nagasaki
Willapa
Vancouver Island
Commonwealth
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