Remarkable Gas Mound Near Kelseyville Described
J H Jamison of Lake County writes of a vast natural gas mound on the eastern edge of Kelseyville town. The one and a half acre site vents gas to the surface and can be lit with a match, burning blue for hours. Owned by John Kelsey and W G Young, shafts reach eighty feet and gas powers cooking, lighting, and machinery with little cost. Discovered ten to twelve years ago, the gas remains year round, brighter in winter and spring, a notable regional curiosity.
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Natural Gas Works
J. H. Jamison
Lake County
The
Bee
Kennyville
John Kelsey
W. G. Young
Stewart Mausoleum Crypt Planned at Cathedral of the Incarnation
A New York paper details the crypt for A T Stewart to lie in at Garden City Long Island. The polygonal chamber measures sixteen sides twenty two feet diameter and twenty feet high with variegated marble pillars foliated capitals and vaulted ceiling ribs forming a dome like canopy. Nine windows will illuminate the space and two vestibules connect to the cathedral. Construction to begin immediately and may be completed with the cathedral.
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New York
Cathedral of the Incarnation
Garden City
Long Island
A.T. Stewart
Catheral
Caffre Etiquette and Ponderous Wealth Estimate
The text describes Zulu etiquette known as Klo nipa where women avoid naming their father in law and may avert attention by blompas if seen with a son-in-law in open areas. It also presents a fiscal estimate: U.S. population about 40 million, circulating medium around 1.1 billion, real and personal property near 30.5 billion, suggesting a hypothetical equal division yields $27.50 cash and $762.50 in property per person.
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Blompas
United States
Mexiadue We Stewart's Hotel for Women in New York
Announcement for a women only hotel in New York erected by Stewart for self supporting women. Details include eight reception rooms for visitors and boarders use, a 2500 volume library, steam elevators, fire proof building, over 500 uniform rooms, board and lodging six dollars weekly, baths and laundry on site, first class kitchen, limited guest rooms for visiting ladies, and application process by letter to the manager.
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Stewart's
Stewart
New York
Old Wolf Story From Conestoga in January 1730
In early January at Conestoga, Christopher Franciscus awoke to a distressed sound from his sheep. He rushed out with his dog and wrestled a large wolf from the fence, grabbing the beast by neck and leg and subduing it without being bitten, even as the dog harried the wolf’s hindquarters and a daughter alerted others.
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Mercury
Philadelphia
Conestoga
Christopher Franciscus
Whims of wedlock and serenade violence in early stories
A string of sensational vignettes from Herkimer and beyond: a serenade shot at, a Mormon wedding uniting mother and daughter, a miner selecting a wife for his partner and taking her to California, Kepler and Stevens swapping wives with a $700 payoff, a Nevada Pinte princess returning with a white husband and being driven from the tribe, and a Troy clergyman lamenting marriage fees as low as one to five dollars after a costly ride and day’s work.
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Pepa
Herkimer County
New York
Serenade
Sthree
California
Michigan
Kepler
Stevens
Tipton
Iowa
Sally
Nevada
Troy
Reading aloud for home circles and moral uplift
The article extols家庭 reading in households as a source of moral growth. It urges every member to read aloud to benefit all, linking parental reading to strengthened family bonds and refined, dignified conversation. It promotes children reading to parents, avoiding silent, solitary habits.
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Church Union
New Explosive Gelatine Claims Superior Power
A recent discovery by M. Nobel, inventor of dynamite, introduces "explosive gelatine" a viscous substance of about 94 to 95 percent nitro glycerine and 5 to 6 percent collodion. It resists water, cuts with ease, and may be used in cartridges or shells. Reportedly, its explosive power is at least fifty percent greater than dynamite, with Italy and Russia said to have adopted it for bombs and torpedoes.
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M. Nobel
Italy
Russia
Largest bell in Canada and other curious notes
A collage of odd facts from the era covers topics from Notre Dame’s Montreal bell to striking factory counts in South Carolina, arms sales to Europe, accidents in New Haven, eccentric anecdotes about Edison and Kilbridge, and a Broadway vignette about young couples and shopping, all mingled with travel and finance curiosities.
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Church of Notre ‘Dame
Montreal
Cleveland
South Carolina
United States
Europe
Egypt
New Haven
Murphy
Kern
Cal
Persia
Tower of London
Bank of England
Edison
Kilbridge
Broadway
America
Slater
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