Era of progress and old habits clash in mixed notes
A kaleidoscope of observations and anecdotes moves from the Turkish sultan banning electrical devices to buckwheat production in the United States and China’s telegraph reach. It notes church density, wills, postal routes, Japanese cotton buying, and a New York woman who returned a lost wallet. Harmony Society in Economy, Pennsylvania, dissolves, with $2,000,000 in property to divide after decades of unity.
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New York
Harmony Society
Economy
Penn
Father Rapp
Sunshine in a World Full of Woes Poem Quotation
A quoted verse by F. J. Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution extols sunshine as a bright force through a world of woes. The poet praises light lifting dark thoughts and guiding steps, urging perseverance amid hardship.
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F. J. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Dewsford Daughters Defy Love in Forest Row
Lizzie Dewsford resists marriage to Charley Everett as her mother Mrs. Dewsford insists on the match for status and fern hunting. An excursion to gather fern and a cliffside mishap strain the family as a wagon departure ends with Lizzie torn between duty and romance.
Outrageous marriage demand on cliffside voyage
In a dramatic scene Charley Everett insists on marrying Elizabeth Dewsford before she will leave a cliffside escape. Mrs. Dewsford resists as Lizzie, reluctant but dutiful, is pulled toward matrimony by a bold condition. The plan progresses with the wagon ride home, leaving a shocked household to reckon with the outcome.
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Lizzie Dewaford
Lizzie Dewsford
Mia
Dewsford
Lizzie
Charley Everett
Teora
Mrs. Devaford
Mama
Charley
Elizabeth
Momma
Mamma
Mrs. Downford
Lizzie Dowsford
Mrs. Dowsford
Mr. Everatt
Mrs. Downsford
Mr. Everett
Charles
Charisa Everett
Mar. Densford
Charles Everattt
D Dewseford
Mrs. Dewsford
Elizabeth Ghosts
Magnasium alloys and science notes from the era
The article surveys multiple scientific tidbits. It notes light travel times, cosmic distances, and attempts to destroy rain on ships with carbonic gas. It reports on magnesium aluminium alloys called magnasium, improvements in metal casting, and speed of American power hammers. It covers magnetic needle anomalies near Kursk, and medical opinions on cold hands tied to circulation with home remedies and sunlight.
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Ludwig Mach
Tales of Place and Adventure. Ostrich Fight Retold
A South Africa story from a Soldiers' Christian Association official recounts a dramatic ostrich attack. With a pocketknife, the narrator and a companion wrestled the bird, nearly killed, then subdued it through a brutal struggle and eventual capture, praising perseverance and survival.
Dry-Land Swimming Lessons Inspire Academy Laughs
A fashionable instructor started a school for high society women to learn swimming on land. Lieutenant Farrow at West Point once proposed dry-land swimming drills, later testing cadets on a barge in the Hudson where a capsize and quick self-rescue followed, prompting panics but no drownings.
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Tan
8. Farrow
Weat Point
Yarrow
Cadeta
Hudson
Farrow
New York Press
One Way to Escape Household Cares in New York
New York residents seek apartment hotels with in-building restaurants to simplify living. A boarding house operator plans a long lease on an undeveloped home to create a high rise with suites, baths, and modern comforts, potentially dropping the boarding house label.
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New York
New York Times
St Louis Gar Strife Strikes City in Massive Riots
Citizens of St. Louis mobilize 2600 deputies and 1000 police amid a street railway strike turned violence. Rioters clash with officers, six killed and about two hundred injured. Losses mount to tens of millions in police costs wages and business. The city arms riot guns as transit workers and strikers clash at car sheds. Several hundred cars operate under protection while others are shut down.
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St. Louis
Posse Comitatus
Shem
Delice
E. Lasey Crawford
Stock Oroker
Cincinnati
Sherif
St. Louis County
Stone
Wiliam J. Stone
Amatturs
Postumaater Baumhoff
Hind
Street Bathway Union
Bluecoats
Tnal
Unian
Wy Nan
Spencers
Wil
Coaching Notes on Toe Clips and Cycling Safety
The article discusses toe clips aiding foot control in cycling and notes riders overcoming fear of toe clips. It previews a National meet in Milwaukee with several championship events, argues for maintaining current wheel sizes, and advises riders to inspect their bikes, carry repair materials, and use a flag with rope to stay safe on trips.
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L. A
Ae Monus
Theo
Atrong Atriog
Sidlog Homa
New York Democrats Name Delegates for Bryan
The New York State Democratic Convention at the Academy of Music chose delegates to Kansas City for the National Convention. Delegates at large were David B. Hill Edward Murphy Jr Richard Croker and Auguste Van Wyck. They pledged to vote as a unit for William Jennings Bryan and adopted a platform supporting monetary reform backing both gold and silver and urging direct election of US Senators while opposing foreign alliances supporting monopoly relief for the people.
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New York City
Academy of Music
Kansas City
David B. Hill
Edward Murphy, Jr
Richard Croker
Augustue van Wyck
William Jennings Bryan
Chicago
New York
Campbell
State Committee
John T. Norton
Reneselaer County
Sual
Eliot Danforth
Lile
Committee On
Bryan
Democratic Party
Jefferson
United States
Kempf Lands Marines at Taku and China Threats
Admiral Kempf reports landing fifty marines at Taku near the Pel-ho River while the Cabinet weighs sending troops from the Philippines to China if needed. American missionaries in Pag-ting- Fu appeal for aid as Boxers resist. The Dowager Empress orders the Yamen to resist the world. Russia orders 2000 Cosanka to Pekin from Port Arthur.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Navy
Kempf
United States
Newark
Taku Forts
Pel-ho River
Kempe
China
Philippines
Pag-ting- Fu
Pekin
Steeple Jack Romaine Killed at Cala Spring
Steeple climber Stephen W Romaine twenty four of Yonkers died after a fall from the Methodist Church steeple in Cold Spring N Y He had climbed 250 feet to reach the ball that surmounts the steeple when the lightning rod gave way and he fell He lived about two hours after the fall He was hired to gild the ball and no work had been done on the steeple since its placement thirty years ago Also noted deaths and legal items including a banker’s forgery sentence and a Harvard student arrest The Senate ratified a Switzerland extradition treaty and a Pennsylvania representative’s widow left ten thousand to care for horses and a dog in Worcester Massachusetts The Turkish authorities grew alarmed as American cruisers neared demanding action from Washington remained unanswered
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Kursk
Russia
Moureaux
Ploto
Nolotinka
Dagrova
Morocco
Spitzbergen
Loyst
Moscow
Kotchotowka
Atory
Soldiers’ Christian Association
South Africa
Crewdson
Crowdaon
Crowdson
Arundel
Chicago
Inter-Ocean
Herolam
Frederick ‘Troves
Major Babito
Army Medical Corps
Colenso
Natal
Mr. Treves
Long
Babito
Donga
Roberte
Grenada
Memphia
Tudinus
California
Kanaay
Ifo
St. Louis
Decl
South Station
Doel
Mall Street
Charlestown
Boston Journal
Cala Spring
Cold Spring
Stephn W. Romaine
Yonkers
Gragg
Romaine
Smyrna
Pekin
Merry
San Jose
Costa Rica
Italy
France
England
General Roberts
Johannesburg
C. Lascelles
Berlin
Foreign Office
Cabinet
Ottawa
Ont
St. Richard Hebeden O'Grady Haly
T. H. Hutton
Milittia
Engileh
Simla
Tonge Island
Free Church Assembly
Edinburgh
United Presbyterian Church
Iver
Todia
Li. Jones
London
Lord Salbury
Cape Coast
Kumagssl
Ashantee
United States
Ambaseador
Horac Porter
Altoway
Bridgeton
Bay
Somer's Point
Lrge
Kimer
Peter Fisher
Frenchtown
Misher
Atlantic City
Cumberland County
May’s Landing
Cedarville
South Jersey
Gibbstown
Enna Sutton
Morristown
Charles Sutton
N P Vmanse
Wife Murderer Hanged for Family Slaying in 1899
William M. Hummel was hanged at Lamsport Pennsylvania for killing his wife and her three children on November 16, 1899. He had married a widow with three children, and eight weeks after the wedding he quarreled with his wife before fatally stabbing them as they slept. A separate note reports a burglary attempt at the Bank of New Lisbon in New Lisbon Wisconsin, where the vault was damaged and several thousand dollars stolen.
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Kimberley
Penkman
Peakman
Oliver Asho
Bango
William MH
Ehummel
Lamsport
Poeun
Hummel
Looto Bank
Bank of New Lisbon
New Lisbon
Wis
Edward Darrell
Florence
Mgr. Darrell
Isaac Harrie
William ‘Timbers
William Courskey
Burlington
Washington Items From a Turbulent Era
The itemized world news covers Iroquois voyage near Midway Island for cable station feasibility, a $64 million suit dismissal by the Court of Claims, Captain McGowan’s sentence reduction, Montanan Senate delay, subsidies for St. Louis Exposition, Cuban postal reforms, and upheaval from Samoa to Hawaii with relocations, arrests, and floods of reports on officials and international events.
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Washington
Honolulu
Midway Island
Court of Claims
Toba McGowan
Montana
Senate
Smith
Coda
State Department
Attacked Mother by Insane Son Shocks New Jersey
News of the State reports Samuel Moore son of Trenton Passenger Railway President Henry C Moore attacked his mother with a razor inflicting a serious neck wound. Mrs Moore recovered and the 23 year old Princeton graduate is sent to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane. Also covered are state tax on corporations a hold up and robbery in Florence County trolley progress etc, with multiple local notes and suicides across New Jersey.
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Nila
Samuel Moore
Henry C. Moore
Trenton Passenger Railway Company
Liamanner
State Board of Assessors
Hancock
Study of Wild Birds Opens New Observation Method
University professor Mas Now MMethod and Western Ro gerve University’s Professor Hurzick reveal a new approach to studying wild birds. The method uses a backward tracking distance of eighteen to twenty seven inches and a camera aimed at the bird track to capture valuable movement data. Larrick plans summer experiments in New Dogland to explore this technique.
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V. al. Hurzick
Western Rogerve University
Hay
Larrick
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W. C. Barker
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Whipple
Ohio
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Portland
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Newport
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Pitts Kimball Company
William 8. Taylor
William Goebel Srankfort
Franklin
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Matthew Jefferson
Camden
Eli H. Chandler
Chandler
Connell
Plainfield
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Lila Suvora
Wornelf
Mary Stevens
Firmer
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Gotelde
Harriet Barnes
Millville
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Mas
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