Translation of scattered 19th century notices and poems
A mixed clip recounts Cremation legalization in Sweden and potential Norway action, editor remarks on Russian influence, church funding, a Catholic colonization plan in Georgia and Alabama, and notes on vaccination progress. It includes Austrian heirs law, U.S. education statistics for Black students, school safety drills, details on Chicago’s Auditorium, Li Hung Chang’s rail forecast for China, and a long poem closing with Millie W. Carpenter.
Henry's Proposal Ends Gallant Bear Fight
Henry Cline, courting Ella Maynard near Barbourville Kentucky, musters courage on the way to church. A bear attacks. Henry shoots it three times with a pistol, saving Ella, then impulsively proposes and kisses her amid the peril, completing the dramatic courtship.
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Henry Cline
Ella Maynard
Kentucky
Ghout
Henry
Ella
Marynard's
Erin
Father
Mayard
Ile
Fila
Moratius
Horatius
Benyhya
Ifenry
Ells
Ife
New York City Guide Woman Aids Nervous Visitors
A young woman operates as a personal guide for female visitors to New York. She meets travelers at the train, secures hotels and rooms, arranges theatre seats, shops, and restaurants, and even escorts clients to private galleries and factories. She also offers city tours from Harlem mansions to fashionable districts, employing assistants to handle demand.
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New York
Miss Anderson
Gotham
Harlem
Samoans described amid new Pacific disturbance
The article surveys the Samoan group of nine islands plus five islets, detailing population about 35 000 natives and 250 Europeans and Americans at Apia port. It notes Samoa as a key coaling station on routes from San Francisco to Sydney, and praises Samoan physique, frank nature, Malay heritage, and past chiefs with limited royal powers after 1675.
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Germany
Central Africa
Manua
Olosinga
Ofu
Annu
Tutuilla
Upolu
Manoua
Apolima
Savali
Apia
Honolulu
United Sites
San Francisco
Sydney
Hawaii
Samoa
New Zealand
South Sea
Snow Forts in War Show Snow Walls Stop Rifle Fire
Norwegian officers tested snow fortifications by building three yard thick entrenchments and firing 300 rifle shots from 83 yards. The walls stopped bullets from penetrating beyond a yard and a quarter, with bullets flattened as if striking a hard substance. The experiment suggests such breastworks could aid infantry in winter campaigns, though rain would pose risks.
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Royal Service
Boarding house dinner invitation from Darringer
A fragment shows Bromley inviting Ho to share dinner at a boarding house. Ho declines, saying he is not hungry. The line is attributed to Zime, reflecting a social scene snippet.
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Bromley
Darringer
Zime
Alligator hunting in Florida Everglades hunt methods
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes alligators as the main quarry for Everglades hunters, with rattlesnakes incidental. Hunters build raft shanties, earning 50 to 100 dollars monthly. hides sell for 5 to 10 dollars, live alligators 20 to 30 dollars, teeth about 12 dollars per pound. Fire and rifle hunts drive the game, tails and jaws cached for meat and sale, while other wildlife and the Samoan dance are also described.
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Florida Everglades
New York
Couldn’t Afford to Stop Advertising Idea by Ditson Manager
A writer recalls asking Oliver Ditson & Co. why the music publisher could not suspend newspaper advertising for a year to save 25,000 to 30,000 dollars annually. The manager regarded the suggestion as a startling innovation never before considered, though he admitted it might be tried as an experiment.
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Oliver Ditson & Co
Early kerosene origins traced to Gesner and 1694 patent
The article outlines Abraham Gesner's work in Prince Edward Island creating kerosene from coal and naming it kerosene. It notes an 1694 patent for extracting oil from bituminous substances, but no practical results followed. Experiments over a century mainly produced medicinal oils, with the first illumination patent in 1832.
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Abraham Gesner
Prince Edward Island
New York
Colonel Graves Loyalist Colonel Builds Romantic Legacy
Colonel Graves, Speaker of the Minnesota Lower House, rose from private to colonel during the Civil War. General Terry lauds him as brave and shrewd. A romantic tale recalls how he met his wife on a Southern battlefield while her husband lay dying from a chest wound. His life was saved by a silver tube inserted into the bullet wound, and he appears a healthy, active man of fifty in Zenith City society.
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Graves
Minnesota
Terry
Tie
Tatmman
Colonel Graves
Minneapolis
Colonel Gravemont
Insife
Bear attacked by alligators in Florida mountains
In the Apopka Mountains near Favares Florida a bear is attacked by two large alligators after being chased by hunters. Bruin breaks free briefly but is torn by the gator during a half hour struggle. The second gator blindsides the bear, seizes its head and crushes it as hunters close in and shoot the first gator and secure the bear.
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Bruin
Apopka Mountains
Favares
Fla
Busy New York Elevates Traffic Rivaling Europe
The article notes New York City elevated railroads carried over 170 million passengers in a year ending September, nearly matching Germany’s total traffic. France carried about 205 million across 20,144 miles, while the United States total reached 428 million across 149,912 miles, with New York’s intramural count included.
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Gothan
Manhattan Island
New York City
German Empire
France
New York
Traveling School for Girls Draws Mixed Reactions and Plans
A Des Moines education official resigns to lead a traveling school for fourteen girls across Europe, a plan praised for opportunity but critiqued as a privilege of millionaires. The piece also surveys gender roles in Corsica and Turkey, Madagascar festival customs, and spring wool fashion trends including broche woolens and vivid color shifts.
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L. M. Wilson
Des Moines
Europe
Picayune
Ladies Journal of Literature
Fashion Notes and Charms From A Paris to Seoul Scene
Dense clippings describe woolen brocades, dresses by M Reve, and couturier practices. Notes on gray purple half mourning, red crocodile shoes, and London muffs contrast with Pearls of Thought quotes. A Seoul signal-fire system details royal surveillance and nightly court routines in vivid, era-specific tone.
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London
Littleschildren
Ocean House at Coney Island Removed to Shore
The Ocean House at Coney Island, built twenty years ago, was moved from its oceanfront piles to solid ground after beach erosion left it fifty to eighty feet from shore. Contractors used water pressure piles and sliding ways to lift and slide the two story Yargo structure to Terra Firma, preserving the landmark from being washed away.
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Atlantic
Terra Firmh
Monkeys Given Special Food by Berlin Aquarium
A Naples dispatch reports the Russian Vice Consul in Leipsic left two rare monkeys in the care of Berlin Aquarium during his European absence. The red haired orangutan and a black chimpanzee, plus a Congo born negro boy as their aide, were described with their travel outfit and dietary regime including milk, meat, wine, and vegetables. The animals were noted as tame pets at home and their nightly routine included bathing by the boy.
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Leipsic
Mide Fircks
Naples
London
Berlin Aquarium
Europe
Berlin
Congo
Berlin -Aquarium
Not Struck by Thundor Instructs Pupils In Storytelling Incident
A Chicago Advance remark recounts a teacher who asked pupils to retell her history lesson on Quebec. One child mistook the phrase thunderstruck for struck by lightning, sparking confusion over a pun in the tale and the teacher’s prior explanations.
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Thundor
Quebec
Abraham
Maya
Chicago
Electric motors and science notes from the era
In Paris an electric motor competition is planned and England considers electric propulsion for garbage carts. Pasteur comments on future diseases, and several metal works adopt electricity. A new electrical research institution opens in Tapaj in September. The Lehigh Valley Railroad reports a successful 680 foot emergency brake test at 34 mph. A girl studies dictionaries at the Astor Library while reading medical journals for the Century Dictionary project led by Miss Edith Thomas.
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England
Prof. Pasteur
United States
Tapa
Kustner
Caspian
London
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
Robert Peter
Kentucky Geolo
Europe
Indias
North America
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
Australia
West Indies
Guiana
Astor Library
Webster's
Worcester
Edith Thomas
Century Dictionary
Webster
Thomas
Drilled Wheat Technology Transforms Western Farming
A New York World article notes the shift from hand sowing to drilling wheat, invented by an ingenious Yankee. Drilled wheat withstands severe frosts as roots stay deeper, saving plants and reducing labor. The piece highlights weather as a historic barrier and credits mechanization with advancing agriculture in the West and Northwest.
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West
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Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
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Georgia
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Mons
B. Reed
Maine
Thas
Asbury Park
N. J
VJ. R. Borden
Motorneer
Hudson River
Albany
Troy
Miik
Peekskill
Austria
Dawson
United States Bureau of Education
District of Columbia
Washington Star
St. Louis
Li Hung Chang
China
Turkey
Cutrance
Jessamine
Gulf
Bath
Ardor
Millie W. Carpenter
Cline
Maynard
Elia
Elis
Snow Forts
Everglades
Florida
Meacu
Bamoa
North
Hudson
Bay
New York Journal
Christener
Ladies' Department
Corsica
Constantinople
Bazars
Bosphorus
Asia
Tower of
Galata
Sultana
Mosrques
Madagascar
Teast
Boston Transcript
M. Reve
Worth
Felix
Roderigue
Pora
M. Reva
MS. Reve
Paris
New Orleans
Zimces-Democrat
Indy
Gray
Purple
Ene
Seoul
Corea
Housas
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