Fragmented 1900s miscellany spans politics and romance
A garbled 1900s column surveys politics, economics, and social tales. It notes farm mortgages in the West, a long speech at a Boling commission, Finn emigration, and a Simla archery episode where Kitty Beighton wins a bracelet after a dramatic contest with Barr Saggott and Cubbon in attendance.
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Mies Berglton
Lina
Annandale
Migs Beighton
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Cubbon
Bart Sagcott
Barr-Saggett
Younes Crbbon
Barre Saggott
Hocées
Kitty
Misa Kitty
Myre
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Depot of Content and the Ox Team
A poem asks what men seek in a hurried modern world. The speaker contrasts slow ox teams with rushing palace carts and steam railroads. He imagines a future depot of content where simple travel by ox is as valid as rapid transport in pursuit of happiness.
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Iast
Sleaur
Steon
Sam Watton Hoss
Tea from a woody shrub used in Mongolia and Thibet
The passage describes a five pound elinyie brick tea sized nine by six by three inches. It is not from the usual plant but from a large woody shrub. Twigs and leaves are steamed dried and ground. The powder is mixed with tea to form a sticky mass rammed into molds.
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Mongolia
Chine
Oggs
Silk from Wood May Reform Silk Industry In U S
A lengthy review discusses a wood pulp method to produce silk threads as a substitute for silk worm products. It traces early Paris Exposition experiments, improvements, and a Beoriginated process now used in Beenicon, with ammonia washing and collodion threads ready for weaving.
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United States
France
Muluo
Aho
Beenicon
Fragmented OCR Narrative From Globe-Democrat Describes Turbulent Scene
A garbled Globe-Democrat fragment recalls a brutal Turkish Russia border incident. The narrator speaks of beheading, a heavy executioner, and a red thread on a ship's neck as a cleaver strike ends a life in a vivid, if unclear, dispatch.
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Jonco
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Globe- Democrat
Russia
Amun
Pheop
Thibetan tea practice and odd drink methods described
An excerpt describes a teapot and butter churn used with a brick fragment, creating a tea like infusion with Urdo salt. If tea is unavailable, oak bark, roast bars Joy, pras, wild mulberry leaves or wood chips are used for color. After sipping, parched barley and sen leaves form boluses for tired people.
Circumstances After Caves
Fragmentary text from New York Weekly shows dialogue about love marriage and fortune with garbled phrases. Key names and full context are unreadable, leaving only partial lines referencing Miss Do Pink-Why and Sunapee Verss without clear events or outcomes.
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New York Weekly
Crafting Novel Utensils From Bamboo and Coconut
The article describes shaping bamboo and coconut into various small items. It mentions a panholder, four adjoining slices, a central section made into a pinto Putt, and leftovers forming items like poker chips and buttons. This excerpt appears as a quirky, instructional note from the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia
Electric cooking grows in waes and tech eras differ
A compilation of curiosities notes electric cooking growth, a 41 foot high Paris barometer, an electric carriage in Chicago, and sea life claims. It covers industrial progress, river cable construction, alum usage in sewage, and concerns about sanitation and water works in Cleveland, along with silk cold storage effects and silk pricing insights.
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Paris
Youghiogheny Name Pronunciation Through History
The Youghiogheny name, a creek in western Maryland and Pennsylvania, challenges accurate pronunciation. Native speakers emphasize the second syllable with a blue accent, while outsiders struggle with the old spellings like Yoghy yos gliganta.
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United States
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
Murders and storms color late news roundup
Italan killer Barione Wanreia was electrocuted in Pannamera NY for Parello's murder. Court dismisses Laidlaw damages suit over a shield. A severe New York rainstorm causes deaths and heavy fire loss in Brooklyn. Mobolis arrives in Chicago amid crowds. A whirl pool accident in Boundary City injures two men. An Army officer is mortally wounded at Fort Sherman. US accepts Mahony resignation as minister to Bucador. Russian extradition treaty published. A ship explosion near Borneo causes five deaths.
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Milan
New York Tribune
Jupaz Anpazws
Eupreme Court
New York
William R. Laidlaw
Russell Bago
New York City
Brooklyn
Tre Infonta Mobolis
Chicago
Serry
Alexander B McCloud
Robert Anderson
Boundary City
Wyoming
Brxoxaxr O'Leany
United States Army
Roberts
Fort Sherman
Idaho
California fair plan mirrors Chicago exposition
Michael H. De Young of the San Francisco Chronicle proposes a California exhibition to follow Chicago’s fair. The idea would select the best exhibits on display at Jackson Park and stage a commercial world fair in California if supported by the California Columbian Club on Michigan Avenue.
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Chicago
California
Michael H. de Young
San Francisco Chronicle
National Commission of the Fair
International Enterprise
Jackson Park
Doctor Elderkins Death and Related Double Tragedy in Chautauqua
A doctor killed himself after wife of a patient died of heart failure in his home at Chautauqua. A note claimed he would die and leave a will found beside him. In Georgia, Barns Wallace fatally shot Manuel Rosenberg over unsatisfactory shoes.
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Midville
Manuel Rosenwerg
Peddier
The Markets Late Wholesale Prices in New York
In New York, wholesale quotations for country produce are reported with prices for late trading. Grain, dairy and produce items show varied declines and gains reflecting market demand.
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New York
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