Telephone tested at Consolidated Virginia mine shaft level
Report describes early telephone experiments during testing at the 550 level of the Consolidated Virginia mine. Colonel Fair congratulates Hugh Lamb and notes instruments connected to the base, with demonstrations at the Washoe Club and anticipated use in mines to reduce foot travel and improve communication.
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Rai
Jonel Fair
Virginia
Fair
Hugh Lamb
Haugh Lamb
Hugh
Colonel Fair
Hale
Norcross
Washoe
Ap Ee
Celebrating the Japanese Birthday in Tokyo and Yokohama
The NY Evening Post reports on Emperor Meiji Jingu birthday celebrations in Tokyo with a morning review of the army and a seaside palace gathering led by Terashima. In Yokohama officers and ships were brightly dressed as fireworks illuminated the day and sunset.
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New York Evening Post
Japan
Matsuhito
Hamogoten
H. E
Yokohama
Poisoned Slate Pencils Tragic Death Of Portland Girl
Lizzie Coley seven year old daughter of James A. Coley of Portland Maine purchased painted slate pencils and put them in her mouth. She fell ill that night and a physician diagnosed poisoning. Despite treatment she grew worse and died within hours after the doctor warned survival was impossible.
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Lizzie
James A. Coley
Portland
Orphans and runaways tale from arcane tales
A collection of vignettes about street orphans and runaways in early America. A foundlings home names Lin scott Rutherford Hayes and Martin Burchard Hayes after a dropped basket incident in Sacramento. Tales tell of boys living near the old chain gang yard, cooking on a brick fireplace, earning pennies, and sleeping under blankets. A boy from Warrensburg floods with news of a fatal drowning in Schroon River. Another escapes Soldier's Orphan Home to Chicago, faces scratches and rescue by police, then returns to school. A New Jersey grandchild’s table prayer is described in a moral aside.
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Fellowa
Linscott,Rutherford’ Hayes
Martin Burchard Hayes
Sacramento
Cal
Warrensburg
New York
Schroon River
Normalllinois
Chicago
Orange
New Jersey
Grace
Shakespeare Burned To Save Tribe In Congo Nation
In Stanley and His Note Book a letter recalls the moment when natives near the Kwango and Congo demanded the burning of a Shakespeare volume, calling it witchcraft. The white chief surrendered the book to prevent massacre, then the crowd relented and calmed, praising his mercy as a safeguard for women and children.
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Stanley
Cme
Kwango
Congo
Chambos
Africa
Shakespeare
Force of Habit and a Fire Horse Rescue in Detroit
Albert DeMay arrived in a comfortable coupe named Jack a former Detroit Fire Department horse. When a fire alarm sounded Jack sprang into action, rushing with Engine No. 1 to the scene and arriving at the hydrant in fine fashion, prompting DeMay to seek another equine for future service.
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Detroit
Albert DeMay
Albert
Jack
Detroit Fire Department
DeMay
Book title from Leipsic fair catalogue item
Catalogue entry lists a German title reading Gering, aber die Parabrommetasul phenylpropionsauere und die Metasul Yipropionsaueres. The text appears as a fragmentary historic cataloging note with uncertain OCR rendering of chemical compound names.
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Leipsic
Gering, Aber
Pieces of Interest From Various Topics in 19th Century Notes
A collection of brief items mentions woman suffrage in Colorado with Yes and No tallies, war correspondence for The London Times, a bear killing in Clarksville Texas, historic wheat yields, Vermont’s Green Mountain Giant bowlder, a group photo in New Hampshire, Britain’s 1876 income from duties, witty quarrels of critics, tombstone inscription in Paris, Canadian paper-making progress, a corn husking bee anecdote, and moral vignettes on small sins and a Georgia death by misadventure.
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Vermont
Green Mountain
Whittingham
New Hampshire
Great Britain
Paris
Canada
Foreign Excavations Stir Interest in Ancient Greece
The article notes renewed digging by Germans at Olympia revealing the temple foundations of Zeus but not Phidias ivory and gold statue. French crews excavate Delos uncovering Apollo temple remains from the 130th Olympiad and speculate on uncovering relics from the confederated states andRetina cemetery heroes buried in antiquity.
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Schleimann
Agamemnon
Mycens
Olympia
Zeus
Jove
Phidias
Delos
Apollo
Diana
Greece
Island of
Retina
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Hutt
China
San Francisco
Deadwood
Bee Bas
Colorado
London Times
Clarksville
Texas
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Kansas
Tia
Georgia
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