Vast array of curious 1890s notes on bicycles and gold
The item collection spans bicycle growth in Fitzgerald Georgia, American exports, and horse imports into Germany. It critiques young women's finances, notes Klondike fever and Alaska gold, and praises federal efforts to curb food and drug adulteration with a call for citizen cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Times-Herald
Federal Department of Agriculture
United States
Agricultural Department
Iowa
Switzerland
Department of Washington
Where is the world we knew in golden days past
A nostalgic verse by Nixon Waterman from Home Made Poems laments vanished youth and a lost world. It recalls roses, hollyhocks, murmuring brooks, and mornings of old friendships fading in memory. The poem mourns changing times and the disappearance of simple, joyful scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon Waterman
A Chester Daughter Finds Love With Cousin Percy
Juliet Chester, a diligent office worker in Broadway, gains a chance for happiness when Cousin Percy Tregonell, the heir to Tregonell, shows respect and affection. Through family strife over inheritance and a courtroom dispute, Juliet navigates loyalties, duty, and a bold proposal to leave the city for a life at Tregonell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juliet
Chaster
Dell Chester
Mr. Chester
Ded
Broadway
Chester
Percy Tregonell
Papa
Percy
Tregonell
Thopa
Dell
Paps
Doll
Fair Juliet
Tam
Mr. Tregonell
Busses County
Cousin Percy
Miss Chester
Percy ‘Kegonell
House of Chester
Tre'powell
Tregoneil
Mr. Chester's
Percival
Sussex County
Aho
Chesters
Trogonell
Mr. Trogonell
Deny
Percy ‘Tregonell
Juliet’s Joy Found in Love and Family at Home
A portrait of Juliet as content in her husband’s embrace and in a grand home with her two sons Chester and Percy, highlighting domestic happiness and quiet wealth as described in a Saturday Night snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tregonells
Juliet
Chester and
Percy
Junior
Cannibalism reviewed in Cairo manuscript findings
A Cairo neighborhood manuscript highlights long standing cannibalism practices centered on honoring the dead. Flinders Petrie studies reveal motives such as gaining good will, youth restoration, courage, religious sanction, or punishment, with various regional examples and percentages.
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Cairo
New York Herald
Flinders Petrie
Mr. Petrie
Scientific and Industrial Highlights in Ancient and Modern Notes
Diverse notes cover emery in Montana sapphire mines, peat fiber spinning for cheap fabrics, nickel shipbuilding potential, shrinking Sahara oases, rarefied air effects on organs, deep sea diving finds, Paget Sound dry dock specs, sunflower pith buoyancy, Mammoth Cave fauna, glass as a substitute for gold, maritime bicycle sailing, and astronomy atlas star counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yogo
Montana
Weert
Institution of Civil Engineers
London
Sahara
Herr Levinstein
Cape Finnisterre
Skyro
Surfaes
United States
Paget Sound
Hemisphere
Cork
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Naturalista
Womanly Duties and Fashion Notes From Dunning to Paris
A long digest covers a seventy year old Scottish town crier known as the bell wife in Dunning Perthshire, high society jewels valued at $2,000,000 once owned by empresses and queens, Rosa Bonheur’s Paris Salon revival, a German styled baby food formula claim, and a sweeping fashion column detailing white sleeves white gloves white belts broad hats and new ribbons with waterproof cords alongside women in academia law and public service notes from around the world.
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Dunning
Perthshire
Raco
Warren
Mags
Afd
St. Louis
Standard, Plant
Meramec
Regina
Jeffferson Milling
Alica Norton
Bartholdi
New York City
Old Lyme
Conn
Camden
N. J
Eli Shaw
Zane
Elbert
Laura Hunter
Monument
Col
Missouri Presbyterian Synod
Princeton University
C. H. P. Robinson
Bellport
Long Island
Robinson
Helen Densmore
California
Florence Maybrick
James EB. Simpson
Fall River
Mass
Pacific
United States
Kimpson
Sallora
Snug Harbor
Braton Island
Fota
Friedberg
Ohio
Sviehie
Yavoma
Olympia
Wash
MeKtoley
St. Mehada
Alaska
George Obsequies in New York Honor Henry George's Death
Henry George lies in state at Grand Central Palace as thousands pass by the bier during a day of mourning. A large funeral service follows with leaders from Episcopal, Catholic, Congregational, and Jewish faiths and the Manhattan Single Tax Club. The procession proceeds to Brooklyn for interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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New York
New Your City
Henry George
Greater
Grand Central Palace
Poraoua
General Grant
Mr. George
Union Square Hotel
Dad
Miles Anne George
Richard Georges
Miss George
Thaonsket
Hfe
Lser
Plymouth Church
R. Heber Newton
Episcopal Church
J. Lyman Abbott
Gustav Gottheb
Edward McGlynan
John 8. Crosby
Foolaas
Manhattan
Thal
McGlynn
Mr. Crosby
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Worge
Lexington Avenue
Crooklyn
General Sherman
George
Une
Keep Joya Aund
Iast
Potvomen
City Hall
Brooklyn
George Homestead
Fort Hamilton
Greenwood Cemetery
Silver Workers' Union 8
Yokohama
Germany
Kokomo
Ind
Lake Shore
Joseph
Mich
Laborers' Union 3
International Piano Makers’ Union
New South Wales
Bakers’ Union
Thornion
Washington Items Report Amid Global Tensions And Domestic Fires
Contes syndicate seeks delay in Union Pacific sale to December fifteenth. Washington debate touches Spain its Woodford note and a Marine Band engagement ban. Reports cite fur seal talks, currency reform, and a Brooklyn deficit. Numerous crimes fires deaths and political indictments populate the page with scattered international updates.
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Washington
Contés Syndicate
London
McKinley
Union Pacific Railway
Omejai Arides
Spain
Generaal Woodford
Navy Department
Great Britain
Gogo
Pingreo
Roosevelt
Michi-gan
Boston
Regenus
Birth of Grover Cleveland Jr. at Princeton Causes Campus Excitement
Mrs. Grover Cleveland gave birth to a twelve pound boy at Princeton New Jersey. Both mother and son are reported doing well. The ex President expressed joy as the news echoed through football practice and a campus crowd cheered three times for the baby the mother and the father. telegrams of congratulations arrived from President McKinley and Cabinet members.
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Princeton
Grover Cleveland
N. J
Cleveland
Bryant
New York
Reunion Hall
Grover Cleveland, Jr
McKinley
Cuban reforms outline cabinet style assembly and veto power
The Spanish Cabinet approves changes for Cuba. Cubao Chamber of Deputies will number 40 to 50 members with one deputy per 40,000 inhabitants. The Governor-General will appoint a five member Executive Committee. The Governor-General retains veto power over legislation.
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Todfa
Arbanga
Ameer
Afghanistan
Tromsoo
Norway
Herr Andres
Spitzbergen
North Cape
North Pole
Marshal Blones
Cuba
Havana
Woylar
Madrid
London Standard
Spila
Philippines
United States
Ens
Aplos
Metammeh
Berber
Khartoum
Spain
Lockhart
Afhanistan
Josph Walton
Earlhampton
West Riding of
Yorkshire
Jose Congosto
Barnsley
West Riding
Yorkshirg
Cubao Chamber of Deputies
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Bismarck
Ohiat
Fitzgerald
Benson
America
Russia
St. Stanislas
Hotel de Ville
Paris
France
Maine
Toronto
England
Chicago Times-Herald
Denns
Arolla
Cripple Creek
United States Mint
Barabbas
New York World
Klondike
Placer
Shea
Pauline Mont
Qlaas
Deal
Sevanty-Six
Rosa Bonheur
Salon
Fontainebleau
Woman's Journal
Brunswick
W Herse
Dresden
Scotland
Wales
Australian
India
Canada
New Zealand
Belgium
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Greece
Italy
Europe
Austria
New York Press
Warren Neal
Neal
Grand Traverse County
Mrs. Neal
Washington Star
Japan
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Board of Trade
Mary
Houston
Texas
O. A. Wood
Greater New York
Indiana Kitter
Colorado
Wilcox
Steamboat Springa
Routt County
Cal
Star
Miner Monttana
Colorado Blanco
Soneoncesd
University of Chicago
Profesor Zim Merman
Toad
Professor Banedutth
Abraham Jareis
Connesticut
New Haven
Harry A Cussin
Oxshank Cashier
Atlanta
Heta
South Afrien
Baltimore
San Francisco
Ponohlu
Mengstey
Domentic
Charles Bluejacket
Blue Jacket
Indian Territory
Smadley Darlington
Chester County Guarantee Trust
Afo Deposit Company
West Chester
Penn
J. Mitchell Baker
Fitch
Walter R. Houghton
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Georgia
Ors
Joss Fa
Storns
Versailles
Jacob Miller
Midway
Miller
Jacob Amos
Smith Bridge
Mississippi
Amos
Cigarmakers’ Union
Ralph A. Mayfield
A. Mayfield
Lincoln
Oklahome
MR. Cleveland
Andree
Vardoo
Arctic Ocean
Finmark
Vardoshuus
Professor Andrea
Prince Charles Promontory
Spitebergen
Ndree
Brahmo
Sverdeap
Fridtjof Nansen
Fram
Otto Nordenskjold
Arctic Explorer
Andrea
Prince Charter Promontory
Copenhagen
Vardes
Sverdrup
Dr. Nansen
Arizona
Moreno
Clifton
Detroit
Juan Madera
Madera
Duncan
Morenci
Carnegie
Art Ofer
Andrew Carnegie
Onns
Carnegle
Hir. Rockefeller
Hough Avenue
Carroll
C. L. Berry
Missouri
Kansas
Farmersa and Mechanics’ Bank
Pawnee
Oklahoma Territory
Berry
Osage
Bentence
Little Rock
Ark
Tom” Johnson
Athens
Iting Boon
Frances E. Willard
Labor World
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