World of News Fragments From Distant Times
A collection of eclectic notes recounts global oddities and figures. Mentions Helosa Montana claiming wealth, outsized China, future Texas cowboys, Greece England ratios, tea health fears, Astor royal ties, Duke of Fife ancestry, Irish politics, Argentine Antarctic plans, Yale College’s female access, X rays in industry, Gail Hamilton’s child literature influence, counterfeit weather fraud, Lord Russell’s American visit, and Harper’s Weekly obituaries touching on thrift and fame.
Fragmented 19th century notes on economy culture and crime
Connecticut road funding split among state county and district authority. Apple harvests boost rural income and mortgage relief while vaudeville pay scales draw attention. A Chicago pirate publisher resisted defamation and high priced poetry by Field and Wilcox.
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Connecticut
Indian origins debate on race and identity in early research
The article critiques works arguing Indians are lost tribes of Israel or mingle with Malays and Celts. It highlights Dr J A Thoms of Brooklyn who claims Indian Mongolian kinship, cites shared pipes and Alaska China proximity, and notes a Chinese raised Californian Indian in Chinatown.
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Israel
J. A. Thoms
Herkimer Atreat
Brooklyn
Chinaman
Long Island College of Physicians and Surgeons
Thoms
Alaska
China
Chinatown
California
New York Herald
Melting a Cigar With Ice Glass
A Washington visitor, a prominent lawyer, discussed patent cases in town. To light a cigar, a local man fashioned a makeshift burning glass from a block of ice, carving it to melt and focus sunlight to ignite the cigar, while the lawyer watched in disbelief.
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Washington
Washingtonian
Tongue Lost to Save Life Florist Stung, Tongue Removed
A New York florist was bitten by a small insect on the tongue. Surgeons were forced to remove the tongue to save the man’s life.
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New York
Autumn Love in the Moonlit Orchard
Poem depicts lovers under maples with a moonlit night, reflecting on enduring love and changing seasons. It contrasts gold and silver imagery with the ache of time, urging to lean on a faithful arm as the year ends. A fragment from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
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West
Frank Leslie
The Widow Plume Piercy and Abel Piercy’s Dilemma
In a tense morning at the Piercy household a penniless widow Plume Piercy moves in, clashed with sister in law Matilda, and faces social scrutiny. Abel Piercy supports her briefly, but a looming inheritance twist and jealousy threaten the family and three children.
The Mugeletonmas Religious Sect in Boston Text
A fragmented account describes a religious sect called the Mugeletonmas arising in the late 17th century in Maghened with hate from leader Ladovic Mouggletor. It mentions impostor pretensions and a claim of being two witnesses of God foretelling doom, with a Boston monument to Julio Hancock towering eighteen feet high.
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Bor
Ladovic Mouggletor
Ruth
Dhever
Boston
Julio Hancock
Back photography trends and fashion notes of a yesteryear
A collage of society items discusses photography trends like back silhouettes, a quilt gifted to Mrs. Jefferson Davis with Confederate generals, dress designs by Miss Rosaline Whyte, and Grace Dodge's lunch clubs for factory girls. It also mentions South African figures, cycling in London, education demographics for women, a perilous rail incident, Olive Schreiner, and evolving fashion trends in gowns and accessories from Paris.
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Jefferson Davis
Richmond
RV. Hurt
Galveston
Mies Grace Dodge
New York City
Denmark
Miss Braddon
Queen Victoria
Brazil
Langtry
Woman breaks Idaho bar ban to become lawyer
Miss Helenes Young of Quabura tests a law deemed to bar women from the bar. Chief Justice Morgan rules the statute unconstitutional and admits her to practice, making her the first woman licensed in Idaho, inspiring others to study law.
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Idaho
Helenes. Young
Quabura
Morgan
Chicago
Limes-Herald
Women admitted to Minnesota Agriculture School studies four week course
Sixty women enrolled in the first class of the four week extended program at the Minnesota School of Agriculture. They study dairy husbandry including cream handling and churning, chemistry of foods and disinfectants, digestion and nutrition, horticulture, plain sewing, and dressmaking. The program blends lectures with practical dairy work and twice weekly cooling sessions.
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School of Agriculture
Minnesota
University
Choe
Haecker
Department of
Dary Husbandry
Board of Regents
Boston Transcript
Button Fashion Among Chinese Mandarins Cited
The piece describes mandarin class dress symbols with coral red, sapphire, and other colored buttons. It notes a ninth class mandarin settling for a simple commot sparrow button and a basic batten, reflecting a supposed button craze influenced by Li Ming Chang and Chinese fashion.
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Li Ming Chang
Ancient Gavuinett Man Passes at Eighty Six in Stone Mountain
The Savannah News reports Marshalk Porsereou of Gavuinett County near Stone Mountain died at eighty six. He and his wife endured thirty years on a farm raising crops and livestock before his death. A doctor was summoned after the incident.
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Marshalk Porsereou
Gavuinett
Ieotur
Savanah News
Tly
Bear Attack Ends In Fierce River Rescue
In Oregon and Washington men confront two large brown bears chasing a camp of deer. Enos Clark suffers a broken collarbone and loss of finger tip while Henry Walker and Frank Clark fend off the bears. At the same time, a massive blue channel catfish in the State fair exhibit wrecks a hatchery fight, injuring three staff as fish and keepers struggle.
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Betswee- Huntera
Beorsa
Rank
Enos Clark
Olympia
Wash
Henry Walker
Elsen Hoffman
Astoria
Columbia River
Oak Point
Hoffman
Clark
Frank
Brain
Henry
San Francisco Chronicle
John Meredith
Lew May
O’brien
Metropolitan Police
Corbett
Mr. Mayanys
Sub-Treasury Vaults
Meredith
O'Brien
Omsaha World- Herald
Wreck of the gasoline launch Henrietta at San Francisco
An explosion in the bow gasoline tank aboard the launch Henrietta caused a catastrophic fire off Long Bridge. Owner Frank Darling, plus Charles Darling and John Durney, were aboard or nearby as the craft burned, with Darling rescued by a passing boat. The fire spread oil that drifted toward nearby yachts, which were moved to safety.
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Henrietta
San Francisco
Frank Darling
Charles Darling
John Durney
Long Bridge
Darling
Terrifying Mount Lassen Fall Trapped by Snowbound Hat Rescue
A Western boy named Ira Crum narrowly escaped death on Mount Lassen California after chasing a hat slid from a party member. He slid toward a precipice, clinging to the snow as friends at the summit planned a risky rope rescue aided by EB Collis and Dr Dollaven.
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Short Aticks
Rescoaers
Ira
Collins
Bne
Mount
Lassen
California
Saffety
Ilia
Alice
Vila Crum
Luis Fiends
Crum
EB. Collis
Chico
Dr. Dollaven
Bud Blutl
Two Brothers Reunited After Long Separation in War Veteran Tale
J. Eley, a Mexican and Civil War veteran living at the Soldiers Home in Leavenworth Kansas, learns a surviving brother who was believed dead has found him. The brothers, sons of a father and two brothers, served in the Mexican War. one brother was buried after a battle, another was thought dead but later found in Ohio and came to Leavenworth.
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Harper's Weekly
Kathleen Moavonrneen
Percy Gannt
Charles Hoyt
the Bowery
Ita
Ganot
Crouch
Lim
Lag Leen
Bridget
Plume
Plame
Abel
Abel!” Said Mrs. Piercy
Mrs. Piercy
Plump
Mrs. Abel Piercy
Oswald Piercy
Ozwald
Quntlemen Company
Piercy
van Orden
Husb
Ffal
Onwald
Oswald
Abel Piercy
Alnas
Io Leason
Plame Vierey
Eho Alware
Mra
Abiah
J. Eley
Leavenworth
Kan
Hillard Station
Ohio
New York Sun
French Admiral Survives Blunt Target Practice Incident
In Toulon, during French naval maneuvers, the new cruiser Vantour fired at a floating target but hit the Admiral’s ship Bronus instead. The first two shots struck the bridge where the Admiral stood, the third took down the steer map as Admiral Gervais ordered cease firing.
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Toulon
Vantour
Bronuus
Gervais
Dog Earnings Force Owner to Mortgage Farm in Maine
A dog that ravaged a farm and killed a neighbor’s sheep in eastern Maine prompted a court ruling. The neighbor offered to settle if the dog were killed, but the owner refused. Nine lawyers entered, costs and damages were assessed, and the owner mortgaged his farm for $100 to pay. The mortgage consumed the farm, forcing the owner to move. the dog is now dead.
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Maine
Lawanit
Taunton Plant Produces Ultra Fine 15 000 Inch Wire
The Taunton Massachusetts factory makes an exceptionally fine wire only 0.00015 inches thick, much thinner than hair. Ordinary wire cannot be produced this fine because wear makes steel drawing plates impractical, so the Tanaton works uses drilled diamonds attached to dye plates to form the hair wire.
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Taunton
Mass
Tanaton
Reader claims 420-ton copper nugget larger than known
A St Louis Republic reader in Alton Illinois recalls a 420 ton copper nugget and cites a 200 ton lump found at Konewa or Kemenaw Point in 1835. He says Yourtwick's Wonders of the Mines page 207 covers the account.
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St. Louis Republic
Alton
Konewa
Kemenaw Point
Lake Superior
Tower of London construction through early medieval periods
The White Tower originated under William the Conqueror with architect Gundulph of Rochester beginning about 1070. William II started another castellated section in 1090, the Tower of St. Thomas, including Traitor's Gate, followed by Henry I completing further work.
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Tower of
London
White Tower
Willam the Conqueror
Grandulph
Rochester
William Rufus
St. Thomas
London rateable value rises by 2.75 million
The rateable value of London has increased by two and three quarters million over five years to about 18 million. The London County Council gains 900000 more than last year while the London School Board receives 300000 and police funds rise, with water companies at 525000. In Albany a Catholic Cathedral plans a fourth organ to be powered by electricity from the existing organ.
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London
London County Council
London School Board
Police S
Albany
N.Y
Whch
New Haven
Conn
New York
Hartford
W. J. Bryan
Couisville
Indianapolis
East Brady
Clarion
Penn
Major McKinley
Canston
Ohio
Thirty-fourth Street
New York City
Philadelphia
William Jonolous Bryan
Speock
Baseball Grounds
Memphis
Tenn
Burlingame & Pitts
East Clonn
N. Y
Allan L. McDermott
Bryan
Sewall
Congress
New Jersey
National Association of Democratic Clubs
St. Louis
Stevensan
Ay Addates
Sowall
Chicago
Chauncey ¥. Block
Bryan Sed Bowwall
Syracuse
Court of Appania
Ladonia
Texas
Frank
J. B. Braff
Roper
Columbian Iron Works
Baltimora
United States Navy
Qedrge Barnum
P. T. Baroum
Harerison
Mich
Baroum
Argas
Benson
Arizona
Porsons
William Zeck
Oscar Ashburn
Walter Harris
Jearnel
America
Canton
Bickinleys
York
Minute Man of '06 called to organize working men in Washington
Washington items report J Bishop and A E Redstone urging a new organization of workers in Washington to protect suffrage, with headquarters named Minute Man of '06. Other notes include naval orders, politics, and various international and domestic events.
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Washington
MN. J. Bishop
A. E. Redstone
Knights of Labor
United States
Newark
Piiandas Panatleas
Gommadore
Keane
Catholic University
Satolli
Apostolia
Mer
Marsinelti
Latty
Brnte Clney
Joseph Concabarrula
Washington Navy Yard
Treasury
Proneis R. Laasitor
Virginia
Bag
Harmon
Lassiter
Democratic Committee
Peteraburg
Ryan
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Helosa
Montana
Id Hung Chong Saye
Japan
Atchison
Kaonsag
Greece
England
W. W. Astor
Duke of Fife
Adad Duff
Nume
Devaney
Parnell
Argentina
South Shetland Islands
Antarctic
Yale Coltegs
Gail Hamilton
Our Young Folka
J. Nicholas
The
Round Table
Qur Young Folks
Lord Russell
London Chronicle
Lord Coleridge
W. M. Evarts
Mr. Evarts
Atlantic
War Department
Civil Service
Cleveland
Puria Figaro
Holland
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dan Leno
Eugene Pield
Chicago Record
New York Recorder
James Whitcomb Riley
Record
Lawson
Field
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wisconsin Village
Tee
Lear
Rut Ransom
RS. Piercy
Chrilly
Mrs. Pieroy
Mr. Pieroy
Mra. Piercy
Plume Piercy
Matilda
Pekance
Mr. Piercy
Mrs. Abel
Budge
Bodley
Mia
Paleo
Jen
von Widow
Piamne
Leon
Oswell
Uieor Relalaus Leo
NER
Rosaline Whyte
Princess Maud
Miss Whyte
Royal Female School of Art
Cornelius Botha
Skipner Street
Pretoria
South Africa
Deborah Maritz
Natal
Blannkrons
Dingaan
Deborah
Gert Maritz
Sojco
American Southern Presbyterian Mission
Congo
Snyder
Battergea Park
Newbarn
Somerville
Holloway
Girton
Cambridge
Norwood Junction
Olive Schreiner
Kimberley
Carl Browne
Coxey
Fashion Notes
Wade
Paris
Atstory
Womes
Gossid
Stephania
Austria
Abe
Helen Gompert
Mount Brewer
Professor Brewer
Queen of
Naples
Unesaan
Order of St. Chearge
Somote
den Geng du Lettres
Mure Au Bos Peresq
Nee
Dewnspapers
Phirlip Vinton
Ont
Southbridge
Maw
London World
Nugo
London’s Tower
London Assessments
Logialutura
Barima
Russia
Venezuela Boundary Commission
Ctevyoland
Soran Sanchez
Iwas
Reserva
Matanzas
Tracadle
New Brunswick
Jen Pplat
Ottovia
Canada
Czar
Czarina
Tassie
France
Budapest
Pillsbury
Constantinope
Turkey
Cazarna
Portsmouth
Cherbourg
Bulawayo
Porte
William Morris
Ted
Mr. Morris
Walthamstow
Towdon
Itls
Lanton
Jamaica
Government of
Peru
Bnt
Wisconary College da
Wall
Crete
Horolulis
Kalhd
Aybar
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