Vast 19th Century Global Figures and Uplifting Projections
Readable fragments cite Americans sending 126 million to England and a rise in U S votes from 4 07 0 000 in 1800 to 12 008 000 in 1892 The Bank of Japan capital is shown at 20 million yons with the yen near the silver dollar value The leper count in India is given as 100 000 Japan 200 000 and 800 000 in China The Texas timber depletion forecast is set at fifteen years The piece notes England marriage trends the Niagara Falls age estimate of 82 000 years and a prediction of its extinction in 8000 years It mentions animal cruelty policing and a single long term dog case in New York and warns government building costs are high The text discusses Japanese dominance in a 24 times larger America and sugar beet cultivation as a farm solution The Edison sleep claim is critiqued and a 10 000 food economy study is approved with aims to improve nutriment and health through research linked to stations and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago
Secretary of Agriculture
W. Outwater
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Gonn
Mmtediate
Anglo Saxon influence and world trade in the era
An assortment of excerpts notes British and American dominance in shipping and tariffs, with claims of English vessel strength and American rail efficiency. It cites tariff revenues under Morrill and McKinley laws, contrasts bathroom abundance in New York and London, and mentions U S Army explorations planned in Idaho under General Otis and Lieutenants Elliott and Loyden, seeking unknown regions and topography along the Clearwater and Lolo trails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
New York Herald
Senate
Morrill
Elwell
Otis
Department of the Columbia
New York Sun
Arctic
Africa
Union
OC. P. Elliott
Fourth Cavalry
Clearwater River
Idaho
Walla Walla
Lewistown
Weippe
Lolo Trail
Indian Postoffice
Middle Fork
Closrwater
James A. Loyden
Fort Sherman
Olt Mission
Mullan
Superior
Clearwater
New Mission
Alaska
Belief in maedatone and magical stones in early reports
The article describes popular belief in maedatone stones that allegedly draw poison from wounds, noting no scientific support. It lists varieties like fold-spar and a deer stomach substance, and mentions the term porcupiog derived from two Latin words for thorny pigs, reflecting antiquated medical lore.
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Trenton
N. J
Porcupiog
Valley of Silence in Warder Mountains Poem
From Sleap and from Darth their eyes shall wake not the crown with such blossom their glamooured brown. Dim and far less the Valley of Silence, Deep in the borders of Shadowland, Warder mountains keep stern surveillance, And the Dusk and the Dawning go hand no band. Martha M. Williams, in Harper's Bazar.
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Bilence
Buntowland
Wardor
Darth
Silence
Shadowland
Marths M. Williams
Harper's Bazar
The Death Pact of Pulaski's Band
In a dim room filled with fourteen conspirators Pulaski orders a fatal lottery to decide who will kill the target and who will die. The narrator draws the white bean and is chosen as messenger, receiving a pistol loaded with two bullets one for himself and one for Pulaski. He follows through with the plan and lures Pulaski to his garden setting up a final act to end the life of the oppressive leader while grappling with fear and resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locop
Pulsyki
Franco
Pulaski
Pulnaki
Tho’ Nisinoy
Palaski
Lovas
Vrancvis Ducret
Utea
Opty
Paloxki
Old Lecop
Francois
Bec
France
Desidon
Aguro
Joan Oro
Ignet
Aes
Dion
Paris
Havre
America
Teonldeny
Munsoy
Magazino
Fragments of a Dark Tale From Munsoy's Magazine
A narrator recalls a Venetian villa scene where a child clings to a beloved man as danger looms from a savage beast and a pistol fires. The escape leads to Paris, Havre, and a perilous voyage to America where betrayal, revenge, and death culminate in a grim confrontation with Pulaski.
Inside a slate quarry and the craft of shaping roofing slate
The article describes slate mining and processing in quarries, noting its rarity in the country and principal sources in upper New England and eastern Pennsylvania. It details overhanding, blasting, and lifting huge blocks, then skilled work splitting slate with lines, chisels, and long bladed tools to create thin shoots and squares for roofing, mentioning Welsh slate laborers and family trades.
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Upper
New England
Pennsylvania
Bangor
Penn
Chou
Wales
St. Louis
Peculiar Folded Vein Described in San Diego Gold District
Marol W. Fairbanks reports in the Engineering and Mining Journal on a peculiar vein pattern in the Julian Bonner district of San Diego County California. The vein shows a succession of rolls or folds dipping at about sixty to seventy degrees with the northeast, each fold following the same dip while the hanging wall shifts. The downward bends extend longer than the upward ones, and current observations note folds do not align with the veins.
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Marol W. Fairbanks
Julian Aul Bonner
San Diego County
California
Astor Family House Features Odd Marble Carvings
A New York City residence of John Jacob Astor displays unusual marble carvings on the exterior. The design includes the bat and names of his family members, with curious architecural motifs described as Auroral, dotting the home in various directions.
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John Jacob Astor
Central Lark
New York City
Clicuszo Herold
Budget of Fun and Bright Anecdotes From Various Sources
A collage of light sketches and exchanges from newspapers including the New York World and Detroit Free Press. Humorous vignettes touch on culture, romance, and social foibles with playful dialogue and sharp one liners featuring nameless readers and unnamed spouses.
Quips and Quirks in Old Magazine Snippets
A collage of humorous exchanges from era periodicals shows couples, critics, and pedestrians trading witty lines. Dialogues touch on courtship, travel education, household duties, and social banter with light satire and casual slang.
Excerpted Quirks in Phrenology and Fearful Snakes
A garbled dialogue from a 19th or early 20th century paper features a phrenologist discussing philoprogenitiveness and love for children while a man mocks the bumps on a skull. Another speaker, the man with a ginger beard, cites fear and a tale of a frightened bird and a petrified duck, as a strange anecdote from a New York World piece and an Indianapolis Journal fragment.
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GraMleigh
Bumpist
New York World
Indianapolis
Carpet swooper confusion in Pittsburg humor
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph item records a humorous exchange about a carpet swooper. A neighbor claims a wagon unloaded item was a carpet swooper, while another corrects it as a lawn mower. The dialogue blends daily life with playful misidentification and locally intact banter.
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Myother
Pittsburg
Bride and groom reveal river row caused telegram mixup
Two families were shaken by telegrams from a newly married couple. After a three week bridal tour the bride’s message, Have had a row with my husband, Am coming home Kitty, and a similar note from the groom’s side caused alarm. No replies came, then the couple returned, explaining a river row misinterpreted by telegraph.
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Kitty
Napoleon's Miraculous Escapes and Wounds Highlight His Cunning Resolve
The Chicago Herald recounts Napoleon Bonaparte often risking his life in battles from Toulon to Acre, noting bayonet wounds and multiple fatalities near him. It reveals his strategy of secrecy about injuries to sustain morale and mislead enemies about invulnerability, stressing his pivotal role in European fate.
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Napoleon
Toulon
Itzuiogo
Acre
Egypt
Diakness
Dinene
Orsar
Achilles
Europe
Chicago Herald
Experimental nickel tool gan jacketed by Sellers system at Navy Yard
Washington Star reports on the Sellers system for jacketed nickel tooling at the Washington Navy Yard. The inner jacket shrank in one piece using a Yellora portable furnace while the tube and jacket moved, with Master Mechanic Robinson supervising and a large crane aiding placement. The process kept heat, enabling expansion without loss, and the test concluded successfully.
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Washington Navy Yard
Yellora
Roe Nuttin
Robinson Superine Fendol
Furasco
Washington Star
Ao Ya
Thrift kitchen tips and homemade cheese from old columns
A selection of household notes covers aluminum bread boards for sanitary baking, homemade soap from fat, and step by step methods for making Nico cheese from milk, plus several repurposed potato dishes. It includes guidance on clarifying grease, warming milk, curd cutting, whey draining, and curing cheese over two to three months.
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St. Louis
New York Times
How It Lost Its Name Troppe Plaw and Watercress Tale
Botanists note the misnaming of nasturtium as watercress due to taste. The plant with round leaves and red yellow blossoms inspired the mistaken label troppe plaw, a name unlikely to return except in books.
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Nasturtium
Biut
York
Spring Rain on Emerald Hills in Overland Monthly
Sylvia Lawson Govny creates vivid landscape imagery of rain and mist weaving over emerald hills and towering mountains. The prose evokes white clouds, golden light, and the renewing arrival of spring as showers drench the plain and lift the world in luminous detail.
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Sylvia Lawson Govny
Overland Monthly
Witty Clippings and Quips From American Papers
A collage of humorous lines and brief jests from several papers including Dallas News Buffalo Courier New York Mercury Life Detroit Free Press Cleveland Plain Dealer Boston Bulletin Buffalo Courier New York Sun Chicago Inter Ocean New York World Washington Star Maria Journal Harlem Life Joplin News Record and Chicago Record. It captures jokes about marriage horses cows money and social chats with quick punchlines and playful banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas News
Wherdin
Thor Tis
Angelina
United States Army
Buffalo Courier
New York Mercury
Boston Bulletin
Beaton
Aires
Chicago
Inter-Oveun
Barllett
Suco
New York Sun
Tapley
Lapley
Jodianapolin Jonrun
Honner
Honser
von’ Thang
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England
United Staton
Bank of Japan
India
Japan
China
Texas
J. W. Spencer
Niagara Falls
the Society For the Prevention
New York Mail and Express
New York
Boston
Charles Reade
Hartford
Reade
Montana
Germany
Popular Science News
Edison
Mnea
Nor Sopoy
Asia
Trimburg
Herr Lacisz
London
Harper's Weekly
Tho
W. Dent Fostel
Astor
Masia
Brown
Tyine
Jones
Ouit Tless
Armiosa
Ethel Knox
George Anya Ho
Knox
George
Ada
Tid-Rita
Detroit Free Press
Woman's Plyasorg
Clara
Santa Cruz
Jack
Tam
Oakland
FAME
Puck
Doctor
Grant Scott
Vuak
Weary Watkins
Hare
Anngry Wiggins
Clainly
Bridget
Pir
Ruby
Uncle Ham
Amasteis
Pia Andris
Tom
Phero
Lazar
Gunat
Duliont Prean
A Werampon
Neian Ron Hood
Utenai
Pat
New York Press
Willowsnap
Mia
Wangle
Willie
Insurance Itam
Inishiaband
Texas Sistings
Mra. Waitsbit
Glens Falls
Harlem
Guffy
Bortnoy
Arctic Expedition
Maria¢ Journal
TAS
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