Hawaii After a Year of Americanism
A reflective piece on Hawaii detailing its beauty and drawbacks for settlers, noting Honolulu’s growth and the islands’ diverse population, climate, and social dynamics. It weighs economic prospects, especially agriculture, and warns settlers to have capital, examines health issues like leprosy, and argues cautious annexation under U S protection.
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Hawaii
United States
Mawaii
Honolulu
San Francisco
California
America
Wight Islands
Maui
Hawaii Commercial Company
Molokai
Oahu
Hawaiian Islands
Brlands
Matt
Mother Hubbard
Hawaiiire
Motokol
Ivan
Imele Sam
Fife
Dore
New Fad Collecting Autographs From Public Figures
A Washington New York post notes a fad of collecting autographs of public men and their spouses from ads for patent medicines and soaps. A Utah youth pastes testimonies into a scrapbook, praising various products and reflecting on the reach of such portraits widespread in national life.
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Washington
Spe
New York Evening! Post
Frye
Paria
Alabama
M. W. Howard
Vermont
Vermone
Hungry Joe Causes Glee by Beekman Street
A New York Sun item notes Hungry Joe, famed for eccentricities, leaning against a tool boat blocking the sidewalk near Beekman Street as the newpaper boys react with amusement and curiosity.
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New York Sun
Joe
Rewsman
Park Te Newaboys
Beekman Street
Hungry Joe and the Street Scene in Brooklyn
A boy throws a rock at a peer, breaking a plate glass window, as a stylish unnamed woman and a messenger boy pass. Onlookers, newsboys, and a cable car uproar erupt while Hungry Joe, from Brooklyn, smiles broadly. Local details mention his Sunday clothes and Park Row ties.
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Gage
Joe
Brooklyn
Park Row
Newaboys
Doctor Billing Dilemma Echoes Public Grievance
In a witty exchange in the Chicago Record FORESIGHT column a patient protests paying a doctor before full recovery. The doctor counters with a remark about paying for worn shoes, highlighting a humorous take on medical billing and patient expectations.
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Chicago
Seashore Revelations Stir Quiet Tension
In a Philadelphia Call excerpt, a tense exchange unfolds where a man accuses a woman of prior engagements. She reassures him the past affair occurred only at the seashore, framing the relationship with guarded certainty.
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Philadelphia
The Sebastopol Flag War and the Falling Town
A narrator recalls a Civil War era tale of Sebastopol facing Union aligned forces after a flag incident. Jessup, a Vermonter, defies the crowd, guards the Stars and Stripes atop a hill, and shoots a pursuer. The town dissolves into ruin as flood, fire, and time erase Sebastopol, with divine justice implied.
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Chivairo Tines-Herald
Tory
Doug
Eolus
Bes Imelupol
Desquir
Washington
Sebastopol
Jessup
Inter Town
Fite
N’orleans
St. Anthony
Jeff Davin
Fort Prairie du Chien
Jeasup
Fort Snelling
Pepin
Raging Tornado in 1780 Grenada Ends Ant Plague
A 1780 Grenada tornado delivered a providential relief to sugar cane planters by eradicating an overwhelming formica saccharivora ant infestation. Facing economic ruin after failed remedies, residents abandoned homes but the storm exterminated the pests in moments, saving the island.
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Grenada
West Indies
Mrs Rockefeller's Carnation Hobby Focused Garden
Mrs William Rockefeller cultivates carnations in a Scarborough country greenhouse by the Hudson. She recently received 200 Malmaison carnations from France at a cost of $2000 and reportedly spends thousands yearly on plant imports for her pastime.
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William Rockefeller
Scarborough
The
Hudson
France
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New York
London
Paris
Porto Hico
Cook Fremedy Co
Forelon J
Cook Remedy Coo
Cook Remedy CO
Masonic Temple
Mrs Rockefeller’r Hobby
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