Global iron trade, disasters, and reform ideas ripple across nations
A collage of notes highlights German iron entering India and other regions, famine and floods in China killing millions, Oklahoma marshal fees, rail and telegraph gaps in Georgia, marriage trends, and criminal justice critiques. It recounts Armenian borders, Boer generosity after a battle, Iowa pronunciation debates, bicycle insurance Continent-wide reforms, Minnesota railroad fanaticism, and a farmer building his own rail line in the Red River Valley to spur new development.
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Minnesota
Hines
New York
Rolla
Delpth
Red River Valley
North Dakota
My little world it lies away in meadows and love
Poem fragment describing a bucolic realm led by a queenly figure, with imagery of blooming fields, morning glories, and devoted citizens. The speaker invites readers to enter this imagined domain where affection, home life, and heavenly light prevail, attributed to F. L. Stanton in a Chicago Times-Herald publication.
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F. L. Stanton
Chicago Times-Horald
Cotter's Dalliance With Lucy Hitt in Clarksonville
Cotter, a wealthy widower, schemes to win Lucy Hitt while tormented by Mrs. Shears, his sister-in-law, who used to drive away his proposals. He rekindles memories of their past and finally declares love, only to glimpse Mrs. Shears with another girl on Minetta Street, renewing doubt.
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Otter
Mia
Chase
Minotta Street
Cotter
Shears
Sny
Spen King
Miss Clinch
Bes Olinch
Misa Clinch
Mr. Cotter
Mr. Shears
Mra. Shears
Moon
Lucy
Clarksonville
Lucy Hitt
Lombroso
Sally Rice
Dr. Smith
Mra
Mra. Hitt
Tom Hitt
Tom
Colt
Center Street
Island
Mrs. Hitt
Minetta Street
Mrs. Shears
Scattered Notes on Science and Inventions
A miscellany of 1890s science claims and industrial curiosities. Topics include Roentgen X rays and heartbeats, Parisian child mortality, skull thinning, phonograph voice tests, a long-lived Pennsylvania engine, Bawlight versus artificial light, hyacinth varieties, a near-term electric railroad, gold alloy knives, 1894 electricity patents, rural electric rail plans, New Zealand spiders weaving tin webs, Edson cure trials at Auburn Prison, convicts’ TB deaths, piscatorial society discussions, seacoast gunnery effects on lobsters, and London Health Board advocate Dr. Saunders praising electric light as moral and industrial reform.
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Roentgen
Paris
Pennsylvania
Washington
Baltimore
Sheffield
England
Great Britain
United States
Germany
St. Louis
Morse’s Mill
New Zealand
Edson
Auburn
N. Y
Piscatorial Society
Saunders
Health Board of London
Terrible Earthquakes in Venezuela Across Centuries
The New York Advertiser notes Venezuela suffered deadly quakes from 1650 to 1812, including a 1812 Caracas shock that ruined the city and caused 12 000 hive losses. Aeolus calls for vents like volcanoes. priests and Miranda helped pause the revolution amid the disaster.
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Venezuela
Fernheld
Cumano
Caracas
Aeolus
Miranda
New York Advertiser
Denman the Blaine saddle horse dies near Trenton Mo
The favorite horse of James G Blaine died on a farm near Trenton Missouri at twenty five. After Blaine died Mrs Blaine sent the animal to the farm and paid for its care with no work for the rest of its days. The report cites the New York Sun. The seven wonders of the ancient world are listed as the pyramids of Egypt the Pharos at Alexandria the gardens of Babylon the temple of Artemis at Ephesus the Olympian statue the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Colossus of Rhodes.
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Denman
James G. Blaine
Trenton
Mr. Blaine
Pyramida
Egypt
Pharos
Alexandria
Babylon
Loemple
Dimant Ephesus
Artemisia
Colossus
Rhodes
Dresden
New York Commercial Advertiser
Johnson
Denver
Tabor Grand Opera House
New York
Fashion Notes From The Times On Hats And Jewelry
A column reviews jeweled side combs as symbols of taste among fashionable women. It cites a Chicago drummer selling to Kentucky merchants and recounts Mary E Wilkins shaping reception in London. It notes Empress Eugenie and other notable figures and surveys evolving women’s fashion and accessories nationwide.
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Mary E. Wilkins
Saya
St. Sonia
Paris
Lueen B. Anthony
Eugenio
London
France
Prince Louis
Mary Walker
Cawaga
Lady Aberdeen
Ottawa
Bulldog Kills Dog Then Attacks Pony At North Sayville
A chain linked bulldog killed instantly after choking a pony in North Sayville on the evening of a homeowner Armbruster. The dog tore tendons in the pony's forelegs and clamped its jaws on the throat before a shotgun ended the attack. The pony was injured but expected to recover. Buffalo Express.
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North Sayville
Tiong Island
Armbruster
Buffalo Xpress
Mixed early 20th century world events briefed by press items
A compilation notes various international and domestic items: Nicaragua Canal routes board report, Venezuela boundary commission, ground breaking for an American University in Washington, presidential approval of military academy and pension bills, a bridge bill for Lake St Francis, Senate party dynamics, Ericsson dock trial acceptance, a Delaware official death, Lodge and Massachusetts delegation events, wage schedule consolidation in navy yards, East River bridge plans with height specs, Cleveland denial on Cuban policy, appropriations bill changes, patent office weekly patent surge, Cuba fighting reports, Russian Jewry leader death, Jameson raid court appearance, child tragedy near Ponotanguishine, Goschen navy expansion comments, Victoria to Cherbourg journey, Weyler loyalty notes, Italian ministry change, Ta Hung Chang envoy movements to Moscow for Nicholas II coronation.
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Board of Engineers
Nicaragua Canal
Venezuela
Boundary Commission
American University
Washington
Military Academy
For
Lake St. Francis
Chandler
United States Senate
Ericsson
New London
Conn
J. M. Housman
Delaware
Bolletter
Fifteenth Street
Treasury Department
Massachusetts
Congress
Senator Lodge
Greenhalge
Lodge
Knox, Apsley
Gilletts
Barrett
Atwood
Herbert
Navy
Lamont
East River
New York City
Brooklyn
C Cleveland
Balad
Attornoon
Marshall
Patent Office
Victoria
Windsor
Portamouth
Cherbourg
Nice
Weyler
Marquis di Rudini
Ta Hung Chang
Hig
Moscow
Nicholas 11
Pekin
Ohio Republicans Rally Behind McKinley at State Convention
At the Ohio Republican State Convention Senator Foraker urged support for William McKinley. He praised McKinley and argued the eighth Louis Convention should nominate him, claiming Ohio would give McKinley the largest electoral majority in state history.
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Coxrumnus
Ohio
Elest
Foraker
McKinley
Zanesville
Thomas B. Rovd
Loul P. Morton
William 3B. Aldlhon
Matthew Stanley Quay
Orsar
William McKinley
State Republican Conventions Nominate State Officers
The March 11 provincial convention in Provinexer Maine renominated the last year ticket with Charles Warren Lippitt as Governor and R Allan as Lieutenant Governor. Eliaba Dyer chaired the session and the party endorsed a dollar equality financial policy while Kansas Republicans backed Major McKinley for President and re elected Cyrus Leland to the National Committee with Kansas delegates chosen for St. Louis.
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Foraker
MvKinley
Bushnell
Hanna
Grosvenor
Grosevenor
McKinley
Charles L. Kurtz
National Committee
A. T. Wik
Board of Public Works
John Bullwell
Troy
Blackburn
Belmont County
Judee Williams
Supreme Bench
Provinexer
Repu
Eliaba Dyer
Rhode Island
Maine
Charles _ Warren Lippitt
Providence
Win R. Allan
Hopkinton
Charles P. Bennett
Edward C. Dubois
East Providence
Samuel Clark
Lincoln
Kansas
Mattinley
Wromra
Kan
Republicans of
Major 2 McKintey
Cyrus Leland
State Central Committee
St. Louis
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