Close shave on track as engineer ONeill saves riders
In a Chicago Times retelling, engineer Jim ONeill’s calm nerve saves a passenger train when four runaway horses dive toward a bridge. Fireman Jack Reynolds recalls ONeill’s cool handling, the near catastrophe, and the life-saving moment that followed.
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Toys for Europe shift America's export boom in toys
The New York Tribune notes a reversal of the toy trade with Europe. American makers export clock work and steam toys, tin and wooden toys, with wood advantage and faster factory output boosting sales. Indiana leads in black walnut toy furniture. 2000 croquet sets shipped to England.
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Curious Telegraphic Ruse Over Plevna News
A Philadelphia Press correspondent recalls how Constantinople delayed word of Plevna’s fall. A Greek banker Camara, tied to the Russian embassy, sent a mysterious telegram about Mile. Plevnance marrying Camaroff, misread as a signal of surrender. Greek staff spread the tale through Galata and Pera.
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Perilous Position in a Mine Shaft Rescue
A miner recounts a near fatal trimming operation in an Empire shaft where a hemp cable and a planked platform failed to signal a stop. Locked in a tight, collapsing section, the men clung to the cable as the coil descended then crawled back up, narrowly escaping a plunge to the shaft bottom. The engineer later sent a man to verify the danger, and the workers were eventually pulled to the surface. Virginia City Enterprise notes the harrowing event.
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Injuriousness of High Heeled Shoes
Dr Carbally warns that descending stairs or slopes in high heels shifts weight to the forefoot, strains tendons, and can rupture ligaments. He notes fashionable women move awkwardly, sacrificing comfort, and may even descend stairs backward for safety, as they imitate imagined social cues.
German man convicted in murder and poisoning attempt
A southern Germany court convicted a man for murdering one family member and attempting to poison four others. The judge described the crime as heinous and sentenced death and fifteen years imprisonment.
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Items of interest from a bygone column
A collage of curiosities and snippets: quotes on fat thieves and lard, California’s population note, Laura Bun’s Kentucky speeches for women’s rights, New York horses valued at 59 million, vintage verse about hope and laughter, odd anecdotes about buckwheat, mills and piracy legends, a rock-cut bowe, storytelling about Captain Eades and dental wealth, infant mortality in Holland versus England, vampire lore from Darien, a toy statuette mishap, and a meteoric island near Terra del Fuego that vanished beneath the sea, linked to a South American earthquake.
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White Rat News Sparks Utica Curiosity
A Utica New York paper notes the rarity of white rats and a local gentleman claims to have trapped a genuine white rat. He plans to bring the curious specimen to town for exhibition as it recovers from a broken leg after an encounter with the trap.
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