Global Trends in Population and Industry Highlight 1890 Findings
The text notes England's population under 28 million versus U S totals of 105 465 Chinese residents in 1890 and 107 475 a decade later. It discusses sanitary science cautions, farm efficiency in England, brass bed furnishings, New Zealand sheep crossbreeding, vertical writing in Europe and America, Indian farm schools, freshwater mussel pearls, Mexican investments, and World’s Fair gallery concerns. It also mentions a New York policeman incident and global stock production issues in canning, horses, and stock marketing.
Sausage dispute stalls World Fair authorities in Chicago
A Chicago Herald note details a Vienna sausage vendor who secured a subconcession at the World’s Fair, struggled with payments, obtained an injunction, and still keeps selling sausages as authorities seek to locate the vendor’s exact whereabouts amid a legal muddle.
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Chicago Herald
Old
Vienna
Blue Danube
Aluminum misconceptions and alloy strength misreadings
The passage argues that aluminum is not inherently the strongest metal nor rigid, noting its low plastic limit. It claims aluminum alloys with copper or zinc create dense, strong bronze-like hardware, highlighting alloy strength over pure metal properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remy
Brozne
Summer Song of Praise in Nature by Walter Barber
A poem praising nature and gratitude for summer found in the Independent with lines celebrating bees birds and ripening fields. It counts God as good and urges readers to listen to nature’s voice and give thanks.
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God
Walter Barber
The
Independent
Tramp at Watch Hill Ties Fate to a Poison Plot
A ragged wanderer at Watch Hill befriends a frail woman in a deserted building. They plan to end their misery with poison, but a hopeful warning from the woman sparks a reckoning as a probate notice hints at a fortune and a possible second chance.
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Carabo
Frank
Nand
Cora
Diplomatic Life and Fashion at the Chinese Legation
The Chinese legation in Washington presents a vivid picture of cultural fusion with diplomats joining high society. They host dinners and balls, dance with debutantes, and even the doctor engages in sports and photography while adopting. Their attire shifts from European formal wear to native dress, reflecting evolving tastes in the post–1878 era.
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Washington
Japan
Korea
Legation
Yow
Tita
Boutomieres
Demorest
Blind Cyclists From Royal Normal College Ride London to Birmingham
A group of visually impaired students from the Royal Normal College for the Blind travel by eight linked tandem tricycles from London toward Birmingham to attend a new blind school opening by Lord Dudley. The riders, escorted by sighted steersmen, were photographed before departure and sped through Cheapside toward Aylesbury.
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London
Birmingham
Manaida House
Ous
Royal Normal College For the Blind
Upper Norwood
Lord Dudley
Ftirst
Norwood
Aylesbury
Heh-Woot Tree Timber From Fiji and New Caledonia
The Heh-Woot tree, native to Fiji IXunda and New Caledonia, yields valuable building timber. It exudes a milky sap that can cause severe pain and skin eruptions. touching its green bark can irritate the skin. The tree grows up to sixty feet tall, with wood that is white and easy to work, and a top that can inflict a painful reaction if pressed.
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Fiji Ixunda
New Caledonia
Budget of Fun Humorous Sketches From Various Sources
A collage of quips and gags from humor pages shows cartoons and jokes about marriage humor thrift and society. It features snippets from Detroit Tribune Truth Puck Judge and Washington Star with lines about marriage proposals thriftiness and a barber joke.
Doctors Laugh Over Wart On Nose And Piano Cure
A Boston Globe humorous exchange recounts a doctor claiming a wart on a patient's nose required the patient to stop playing the piano. The anecdote expands to a tale of medical advice and a carefree office boy, then shifts to notes on climbing plants like vanilla and other epiphytic species, including how they attach to trees and their growth patterns, as discussed in Longman's Magazine.
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Sawyer
Sawyer, Barr, Levy & Barwell
Palmer House
Replevin
Frank Ames
Ames
Daniel D. Bidwell
Godey's Magazine
Boston Globe
Longman's Magazine
Music as Medicine and the Healing Power of Song
A London article discusses the Guild of St. Cecilia applying melody to patients in hospitals. It cites ancient physicians who valued music for fever, plague, bites, and madness, and mentions a music box proposed to aid insomnia with caution about tuning and security.
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Guild of
St. Cecelia
London
Thales
Aulus Gellinus
Doctore
Bucknill
Tako
G. Blackman
Household Frying and Home Syrups from American Agriculturist
A digest of kitchen techniques and recipes covers frying at high heat with a test bread cue, European utensil cleaning methods, and preserving fruit syrups. It includes strawberry, grape, currant, and berry syrups, plus warm weather lunch dishes such as veal breast preparations, chanfroid of chicken, and cheese soufflés with practical steps and temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sesson
Couriers Journal
Labor Unrest and Union Facts Across Nations
The report surveys unions and labor actions from England to the United States. It notes strikes, wage rates, conventions, and governing laws, mentioning unions with thousands of members, imported workers, and attempts to regulate labor conditions amid wage disputes and long hours.
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Louis
St. Lavra
Turex
Massachusetts
Inpraxarozis
Ind
Tarar
Tauar
Beooxrix Musical Onion
Lancashire
England
Fanu River
Mass
Hoi
Spain
Cooper
Promapectora
Lynn
Maca
Br. Louis
Liverpool
Federal Labor Union of
Portland
Alabars
Denver
Col
Rossis
Poland
Massacucaerts
Rhode Island
Knights of Labor
Altgold
Fare River
Mills
Soue Concord
N. H
Strask
New York
New Haves & Hawtrory
Imperial Commission On Labor
Global unrest and crops dominate western wires in 1893
Reports from Spain and Mexico touch politics and subsidies while Wyoming endures crop destruction by crickets. Canals, rail subsidies, grain prices, and tax debates ripple across North America and Europe as agricultural, fiscal, and transportation issues unfold.
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Spain
Liam
France
Paris
Wyoming
Tor
St. Louis
Ben Laflore
New York
Tas Secialature
Vera Cruz
Mexico
New York City
Cariaco
Boston
Nicaragua Canal
United States
Timothy
England
National Grand Army
Indianapolis
Ind
Grand Fally
Explosion at Williamsburgh rubber factory kills four
An explosion at George W. Campbell’s rubber and cement factory behind 211 Walworth St Williamsburgh N Y, killed Campbell his fourteen year old son Charles Joseph Kaoee engraver and laborer John D McCutcheon and injured Mrs Campbell. The blast wrecked the building and caused about 2500 in fire damage with suspected naphtha vapor ignition.
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George W. Campbell
Walworth Street
Williamsburgh
N. Y
Charles
Oseph Kaoee
John D. McCutcheon
Campbell
Hannah
John
Knee
Mes
Campbells
Jos
Tragedy at Bon Aqua Picnic Leaves Three Dead
A fight at a Bon Aqua Tennessee picnic among young men led to three deaths. William Wooding, an assailant, fled after the melee and was later linked to two fatal wounds. Yates died almost instantly and another victim, name unknown, perished from injuries. The body of Wooding was later found in nearby woods.
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Bnan
Modding
Nashville
Redding
Baying
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New Orleans Picayune
New Zealand
Europe
New York Recorder
Madras Presidency
India
New Jersey
Ohio
Tennessee
Republic
San Francisco
Scientific American
Detroit Free Press
Nancy Hanks
Australia
Canada
Marcassey
Germany
the Provident Savings Bank of
New York Independent
Metropolis
Alarcon Hna
National Museum
City of
Morelos
Big
White Hornss
Green House
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
World
China
Uruguay
Siberia
Philippine Islands
Finland
Caucasus
Australis
Sweden
Russia
Asia
Africa
South America
Palestine
Jerusalem
Norway
Curacao
Castermost
Atlantic
Walla
Anatus
Ana
Tlora
Tin Pert
Dakota
Montana
Francis
Chicago
Sony
Justice of the Peace
Heh-Woot
Detroit Tribune
Jack
Alwaya
Wodkins
New Yorkly Weekly
Puck
Banting
Larkin
Amono the Enemy
Washington Star
Nobert
Robert
Atranga
Colonial Party
Lady Dixon
Yale
Alois
Uarper
Amt
Detrouit Free Press
Piano Cure
Watts
Detroit
Etreat
Ynaomata
New England
See Manufacturers
Willarmsburgh
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