Fragments of Forgotten Peoples and Moving Worlds
A dense survey of late 19th century topics notes pneumatic nail tubes in Philadelphia and New York timing, Paris police training beggars, and shifts in labor strikes. It recalls mules drawing Sixth Avenue streetcars, South’s business revival post-depression, and Louisville Courier-Journal corroboration that floods aside, the South can prosper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New York
Cycling Life
St. Louis
Louisville Courier- Journal
Annex Cuba to Stop Yellow Fever, Says Surgeon General
Dr. Walter Nyman, Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service, urges annexation of Cuba as a sanitary measure citing Cuba as the source of most yellow fever outbreaks. He notes infections traced to Havana in many years and credits improved Havana health certificates for last decades without US fever cases since 1893.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Nyman
United States Marine Hospital Service
Cuba
Havana
Honduras
United States
Chicago
Burgess
Biggest bell in working order raised in Burma
A 98 ton bell over twelve feet high in Burma has been raised by the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company to claim the title of the world’s largest bell in working order. The operation used timber supports, iron columns, a steel cross girder, and screw jacks to lift and secure the bell above ground for ringing tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Mengoon
India
Maudslay
London
Irrawaddy
Irrawaddy Company
M&k
Bodaw-paya
Vereker's Van Dyck Fraud Ends in Vanished Heiress
In Bristol during 1890 Jan Vereker, a curious antiquarian, owns a genuine Van Dyck he saved from Antwerp. He borrows £2000 using the painting as security from Rosier & Sons. after repaying, a second loan is granted with the same painting. Months pass and the bank discovers the work is a forged substitute. Vereker disappears with £21,000, while Rosier & Sons and twelve other banks uncover a coordinated forgery scheme.
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Bristol
Vortraker
John Leech Hng
Jan Vereker
Hudibras Vercker
Gloucestershire
Jan
Antwerp
Europe
Great Britain
Old Vereker
Jon Vereker
London
Paris
Vereker
van Dyck
England
Boston
Roser & Sons
James Rosier
Old Vereker's
Rosier & Sons
She's Company
Thei
Dames Kester
Mr. Rosier
Rosier
Mesars
Messrs. Rosier & Sons
Messrs
Janu Vorcker
Jan Vorcker
Audho
Manchester
Vereker van Dyck
Janes Rosier
Mesura
Real van Dyck
Lam Dow
Brightening a Carpet and Chocolate Recipes
Household tips and recipes including carpet renewal with ammonia in warm water and a detailed method for preparing chocolate with a smooth paste, plus guidance on floor coverings and rugs. Also notes on a granite pedestal block for a statue in St Petersburg and a railway move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Petersburg
Peter the Great
New York
Prbune
Hind
Nolway
Uraecallion
Rosette Trimmed Bodices and Royal Philanthropy
The piece surveys fashion with rosettes and trims for gowns, then shifts to Queen Olga of Greece known for practical charity at Evangelismos Hospital, managing gifts in her own hand. It notes Miss Jennie A. Estes at the New York Academy of Sciences exhibit, plus other brief society items and global notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
the Tribune
Olga
Athens
Hellenic Kingdom
New York Observer
Jennie A. Estes
New York Academy of Sciences
New York City
Estes
Dwight
Vassar College
Brooklyn
Australia
New Guinea
Ellis Rowan
New York Tribune
Maud of Wales
Charles
Denmark
Henry Irving
Lyceum
Elizabeth Schaffer
Philadelphia
Lesz
St. Andrew's University
Scotland
Miss Sellers
Fraulein Blea Eschelsen
Sweden
Iowa
Oscar
Upsala University
Corfu
Proper bicycle attire for women of quiet taste
The New York Press advises women cyclists to wear quiet, well fitting clothes in brown gray or yellow tones with matching leggings and plain Alpine or Derby hats. Tan shoes avoid dusty roads and jewelry is discouraged while a watch can be tucked into the handlebars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
New York Journal
Leason
Paris
New York Press
Intricate Ribbon Bows Taught by Shop Clerk on Twenty Third Street
A New York Tribune description of Thorn shop on Twenty third Street where clerks demonstrate making decorative bows with ribbons. The lesson shows tying methods, loops, and finishing stitches to prevent untying, with sales staff guiding customers through the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thorn
Twentythird Street
Bernhardt
Cclerk
New York Tribune
Fashion Notes and Summer Styles in Vivid Tones
Fashion notes highlight summer gowns in thin materials with colors like yellow green and violet. Tortoise shell with gold accents remains popular. ebony and ivory items appear in accessories and toilet sets. A flooded island scene shows a stranded two story house carried downstream. a funeral procession uses trolleys as hearses due to street flooding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epiaotes
Flac
John Andrews
Island No
Lower
Tennessee
Tontal
East St. Lewis
Walliam Lorman
Fields of Adventure and Daring River Shark Attack
A vivid collection of exploits and oddities. A Hindoo fisherman-tamer defeats a nine foot shark, netting a prized catch while crowds cheered him to shore. Other items recount a rattlesnake on a miner, a Hungary bridegroom race with death, and notes on aluminum usage and fishing with glowing bait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Colorado
South Pacific Islands
Eco
Calcutta
Hugli
Hugl
Ganges
Shark
Hindoo
Night Prospecting Tale From Colorado 1876
In 1876 in San Juan country Colorado J E Lantry recalls a pioneering camp night with five men preparing for a future road. Adams from Illinois urgently warned of a snake creeping toward him as moonlight lit the scene and Adams lay motionless, his boots off and feet exposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adame
Adama
Ste
Adams
Bill
Adaoma
San Juan
Colorado
J. E. Lantry
Illinois
Thelieve
Lantry
Adana
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Dallas News
Texas
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Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Louisiana
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North Enosville
Humane Society
Detroit
Free Press
Danville
Regular Army
New Orleans Picayune
Saya Bradstreet
Wall Street
Ohio
United States Senate
Allen G. Thurman
John Sherman
George H. Pendleton
Senator Thurman
Brooklyn Eagle
Datip
Auide
Chicago Times-Herald
London Labor Gazette
Balkans
Sixth Avenue Road
Scar
G. Linnaeus Banks
Fa the
Vereker's van Dyck
Household Affairs
New York Sun
SRE
Lone Granite Tack
St. Louis Star
Alice Starbuck
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Saxe-Weimar
Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Constantine
Mich
Omaha
Neb
Aed
Paria
Lizzie Rugh
Greensburg
Penn
Pittsburg
Henry Somerset
Doxhurst
Surrey
Christ
Percy Wood
Thorwaldser
Beerdt
Tsing
Fashion Notes
Fields OF Adventure
Zigrad
Hungary
Mitra Popa
Teregova
Papa
Ratlure
Aluminum
William Johnson
Binghamton
N. Y
Delaware County
Johnson
Aisherman
Wenesday
Wodig
Odin
Frigg
Hill Shire
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