Various 19th Century Topics From A Wanderous Page
A broad mix of notes discusses political calls in Maine and Connecticut on illiteral veterans, a New York man in a bottle near France, tobacco costs in Britain, Amelia Barr on gender roles, third-rail electricity for passenger traffic, the century plant’s bloom, New York shoe industry growth, aluminum production, a Northern Ohio township school consolidation, Justice Stephen J. Field’s long service, and the San Jose scale’s spread to Florida with its threat to fruit trees and advice from Dr. Rolfs on fungal disease experts.
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San Jose
Chile
California
Florida
New York Tribune
Hat
Rolfs
Newspapers without ads a distant dream warns writer
Charles Dudley Warner predicts future papers devoid of advertisements. The Leonisville Courier-Journal notes that such a shift would make newspapers less engaging. New Jersey’s six year good roads program has spent 1.4 million dollars on road making yielding 800 miles of solid macadam highways. The cost split favors two thirds by the county and one third by the state.
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Charles Dudley Warner
Leonisville
New Jersey
Names Dressed In Many Brands Of Early Projection Devices
The article lists numerous terms such as kinetoscope and vitascope used in photographic circles to classify projecting apparatus. It notes May 20 celebrations in North Carolina dating from 1775 Mecklenburg declarations, and cites ongoing Cuban disease sanitary debates with Spain, Havana, and U.S. officials, highlighting yellow fever risks and economic losses from Cuba to the Mississippi Valley.
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W. E. Curtis
Chicago
Olney
Spain
Cuba
United States
Wyman
Hemisphere
State Department
Marine Hospital Service
Havans
Europe
Mississippi Valley
New Cures For Rheumatism By Hot Air Therapy
Philadelphia physicians tout a non surgical rheumatism treatment using hot air. A copper cylinder with gas jets heats the limb to 250 to 260 degrees while moisture exits via stop cocks. The method claims increased temperature and circulation dissolve deposits in bones and muscles, with extended body effects.
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Philadelphia
Ninety Miles an Hour Locomotive Trials Stir Railways
A Hellmann electric locomotive reportedly reached ninety miles per hour with a light train during recent trials and may hit seventy five miles an hour with a 350 ton load. Experiments claim stability and low vibration versus steam, plus low coal use, as Western Railway of France builds two more. The experimental engine spans sixty one feet, weighs 12 tons, and twelve locomotives were ordered by the Chinese Government from Baldwin Works in Philadelphia after global competition.
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Hellmann
Western Railway of
France
Nowenty
A Mountain Wedding Debt and the Dollar Dare
Reverend Joshua Kildow travels to a Randolph County mountain hut to marry a couple amid moonshine and danger. A beguiling dollar from Beverly’s express office drives the ceremony, tests the clergyman’s resolve, and ends with a dramatic chase as the groom steals the coin back, bullets fly, and the minister returns home with the reward earned through peril.
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Dominie
Express Company
New York
Tripp
Rattlebones
Si Manley
Joshuay
Beverly
Jupiter
Angel of Heaven
Porson Kildow Ji
Don Sykes
Rev
Joshua Kildow
Basheba
Joshuny
Dreds
Atock
Virginia
Sid
Anid
Express
Amy
Bashoba
Dominic
Webster County
Sal
Kildon
Will
Dominic Kildow
Randolph County
New York Journal
Electric motor carriages spark a distant transportation era
The piece describes electric cabs appearing in New York and electric carriages rising in streets, predicting reduced noise and filth and a push for better roads. It weighs uncertainties in how far the electric automobile will develop, notes past accumulator issues, and foresees demand for greater travel radius as users seek longer ranges.
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New York
Horoy
Museums of Zoology
Ada
Priscilla Interviews Panster on Writing and Bias
In a cryptic exchange, Priscilla questions Panster about avoiding certain writing tasks. Panster replies with a strange line about bells and Germany, mentioning a number 2.110.000 and “fulbe eyes” as part of a puzzling statement.
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Germany
Sailor hat fashions and women’s work in 1900s styles
A collage of fashion notes and social trends reviews hats skirts and trimmings for summer wear. It highlights sailor hats with varied crowns and lace quills, plus guidance on female labor roles from needlework to household duties, and a survey of notable women advancing in public life across multiple cities.
Fragmented Prose and Jokes Across a Century Page
A collage of humorous quips, brief dialogues, and clipped snippets from multiple 19th and early 20th century papers. The text includes playful exchanges, satirical ads, jokes about marriages and money, and a peculiar story about a Siamese king and a tooth relic.
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Siams
Ceylon
Siam
Westminster Gazette
Mmajenty
Daladu Malizawa
Kandy
Talon
Adady
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Lewiston (Me
Boston
Great Britain
Amelia
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Bession
Justine Stephen J. Field
Supreme Bench
Hess
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Justice Story
Justice Field
Babes
Justice White
Atlanta Constitution
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Philadelphia Convention of
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Elizabeth Porter Gould
Alexander E. Grant
Priscilla
Panster
Chicago Record
New York Mail and Express
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New Orleans Picayune
Bigsea
Cyelist
New England Homestead
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Constantinople
Turkey
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Bifton
Enghand
Ellen F. Girard
Wayne, Penn
Philadel
Phia Philanthropies
England
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Henry of Battenberg
Riviera
London
Society of Colonial Dames
Pragaign von Steuben
Steuben
Horart
Paris
Hackett
James K. Hackett
Misa Emma Ray
Edwardaburg
Mich
Bachelor Girls’ Association
Indiana
Salem
Mass
John Endicott
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Susan Gray
Caroline M. Newhall
G. Abbott
Abbott
Newhall
Miss Gray
Elizabeth (Endicott) Gray
Organdic
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Phanisxville
Penn
Bireh Run- Vile
Schuylkill Valley
St. Loniy Republic
Christiania
Mademoiselle Thermometer
Ins
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Bho
Tulia M. Colton
Christian Advocate
Richmond Dispatch
Spoeadthrift
Yonkers Statesman
Laundroses
Detroit Journal
Cincinnati
Brown
Brown, Jr
Harvard Lampoon
Dobson
D’auber
Hobson
Puck
Alon
Fliegendo Blatter
Asbury Peppers
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Senate Sugar Trust
Henry A. Robinson
Department of Agriculture
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Sherman
Lilluokalani
John 8. Shriver
Bradley
Mable Gemble
Fall Brook
Pine Creek
Cedar Bow
Blackwells
Miss Well
Seine
Hanna
Bushnell
Onto Republican
Toledo
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Tenn
T. Heber Wannamaker
Choriea C. Jones
Bamberg
C. Jones
Mr. Wannamaker
Murphy-Copes
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Jones
Ben Brash
Sheepsheld Bay
M. F. Dwyer
Pittsburg Fi Il
Havoc
David HB. Greer
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Supreme Court
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Kaufmann
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Forney
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Patuxent Diver
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James McGee
Lagoon
Samuel J. Casey
Brooklyn
E. V. Debs
Malone I. Wilson
Waltham, Manz
Maggie Hines
Columbian Line
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Dauntless
Key West
McLane
Gulf
McLane West
William Gardner
Platteville
Joseph Décker
Princeton
Yale
Franklin
Arizona
Austin Smith
James Smith
Sandy Hit
N. Y
Smith
John W. Keely
Motor
Portland
Walter Ngong Fong
Kwang- Ting
Emma Eien Howse
Stanford University
Denver
Cal
Stata of Paques
Massachusetts
Harry Wright
Philaadelphia
Carmine Lipre
Beame
Edward Kilgore
Fannie Jackson
Ladonina
Tennessee
Woyler
Havana
Sagua
Grande
Peovines
Santa Chars
Tehaimatepec
Thames
Ermolian
Ttajan