Moltke the German general in a life of routine
The article portrays Helmuth von Moltke the Elder as a disciplined, aging military figure living between Berlin and Kreisau. It details his exact daily schedule from seven in the morning to eleven at night, his conservatism, devotion to duty, family, and the way his life reflects an older martial era within the German Empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moltke
Berlin
St Kreisau
General Staff
Reichstag
German Empire
Bismarck
NYC Gets Twenty Five Cheap Cabs For Quick Service
New York City adds twenty five inexpensive taxicabs to the fleet with a fare of 25 cents per mile and 25 cents for each quarter hour of waiting. The existing minimum fare stands at one dollar, and the initial deployment costs 25 thousand dollars to put the cabs on the street ready for use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Who Turned Pat Hog Loose
A merchant traveler at a Peoria hotel tips a waiter with a dollar and orders a grand meal. The waiter overdoes the service then pockets the dollar and exits, prompting the waiter to exclaim in dialect that someone turned a hog loose in head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Hog
Peoria
Jim
M. T
Darkey
Ice Caverns and Natural Freezing Seas Across Regions
The report describes global and regional ice caves formed in rock and earth, including Dobschan Hungary and the Peak of Teneriffe, noting annual snow in Vermont and New Jersey. It details cave chambers, ice pillars, cascades, and underground streams, plus mines where ice forms seasonally and remains frozen, with mentions of Decorah Iowa and Ural salt mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Lincoln
Dobschan
Hungary
Teneriffe
Stelitze
Carpathian Mountains
Ural Mountains
Decorah
Iowa
InterOcean
Reforming School Dress for Practical Movement
A New York school bans velvet and restricts fabrics to wool or cotton to curb display. A Massachusetts school proposes a sensible 200 girl uniform emphasizing warmth, looseness, soft colors, minimal pattern, and free arm movement with a layered undergarment, plaited wool skirt, and pliable waist designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Massachusetts
Jersey
Soap-Bubble Parties Draw Night of Colorful Prizes
A description of soap bubble parties where twenty or thirty guests partner by color coded ribbons. Each pair blows bubbles on a table while others distract. the longest lasting bubble wins a prize. Prizes include plush cases, frames, blotters, writing paper, or jewelry with a final drawing by number after all bubbles pop. A judge presides before dances and supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Y. Sun
English MP Visits Illinois Farmers in Canada Prairie Expanse
Mr. Bart notes in a British parliament member’s summer travels that English and Irish former laborers now own farms near Illinois and Kingston Canada. Two brothers who emigrated from northern England decades ago own 80 and 100 acre farms with houses, barns, orchards, and well-made stock. They are self-reliant, hard working, and among the happiest people he met, exemplifying quiet dignity and independence.
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Mr. Bart
Ilinois
Kingston
Canada
England
Ireland
Illinois
America
Medicine beyond drugs and pills
The British Quarterly Review argues medicine should be understood as a science shaping life and physiology, not just a commerce of physic. It notes public faith in medicines, the entrenched belief in drugs, and urges education toward a treatment based on life conditions and scientific precision rather than mere dosages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nesire
British Quarterly Review
Villard Health Trip Delayed and Family’s Hudson Home
Henry Villard’s European voyage for health appears postponed and he is seen downtown in New York. His wife keeps the $250,000 Hudson mansion from her husband’s wrecked fortune while the family occupies their carriage house interior likened to an Italian scene. Wreck not total as stockholders threaten suits against Transcontinental directors for deceptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Villard
Europe
New York
Hudson
Transcontinental Company
Cor
Springfield Republian
Ambitious Central Africa Plan Faces Scrutiny and Costs
Pasha Loring in The Manhattan cites a plan spending at least ten million dollars on explorations into Central Africa and an Abysinian campaign. Critics deem the grand project a potential savior for millions yet warn against abandoning response to slave-hunting pandemonium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Africa
Equator
Equatorial
Juba River
Indian Ocean
Baker
Central
Africa
England
Levy Inventory for Blakeley Georgia House Seizure
A bailiff seizure in Blakeley Georgia lists items including a tin pan two tin plates a broken tray a broken spider a locking glass an exit tears and two suns in a yellow dog sentence.
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Blakeley
Longfellow’s Unmarked Grave Draws Visitors and Grief
A writer notes Longfellow lies without a tombstone or memorial on a terraced hillside grave. Visitors from distant places gather, some taking blades of grass or a sorrel blossom as a memory, while Emerson’s memory fades beside the enduring beauty of his resting place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longfellow
Rockies
Emerson
Anecdotes About Victor Emmanuel From Turin To Rome
The London World recalls tales about Victor Emmanuel as a simple monarch. A prophecy whispered he would die in Rome at the Quirinal Palace, later recalled when he told the Duke of Genoa to prepare his death chamber. Another tale has the king in plain hunting dress sparing a peasant girl, gifting her 20 francs.
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Victor Emmanuel
Pantheon
Turin
Genoa
Ferdinand
Victor
Rome
Quirinal
Ponza di S. Martino
Pius IX
London
Ethnologists Tour Prehistoric Relics From Arkansas Finds
Col P W Norris and Prof Middleton depart for Little Rock and Texas after packing five barrels of ancient pottery and nearly two more from mounds at Pecan Point and Tyronza river Arkansas. The collection includes a life size earthenware head with pierced ears and nose, painted features, and a red headdress, plus vases skulls mortars and animal headed pieces. The artifacts will join the National Museum collection in Washington.
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P. W. Norris
United States
Little Rock
Texas
Middleton
Southern Express Company
National Museum
Washington
Pecan Point
Ark
Tyronza River
Arkansas
Col. Norris
Pvcan
Memphis
Fort Sumter Fortification Work Near Completion
Captain James Fraser oversees the covering of the fort with white sand and turfing work. The Charleston News notes significant interior improvements in recent years and anticipates the bombardment traces will soon disappear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Fraser
Fort Sumpter
Charleston
Comic Snippets from a Witty Page Casual Observations
A collage of quips and jokes from a 19th or early 20th century paper. The text riffs on misread phrases, social foibles, puns, and light gossip. It mentions a Detroit bride at 15, a Boston Post quote about cremationists, kindergarten humor, and a Buffalo girl delaying departure due to clocks set ahead sixteen minutes.
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Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Boston Post
Tottie
British Museum
Bacon
Florida
Brigham Young
Michigan
Detroit Free Press
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ShaRawisnee County Express
Tank
C. Oulley
Defiance
Ohio
Lata Eeees
Business Directory
Teresa Clerk
Belwyn N.owen J.acobi
Green
J.P. Cameron
B.f.enos
John A. Fous
D. P. Aldrich
GHAS
P. Tittle
WM. Lauster
Pnerin
J. C. Woods
Wight Michael Gorma
Levi ¢ Ole
Martin Strubli
Abram Razok
Joan Frederick Jop
English B.w.suagle
H.schoonover
F.M. Thompson
W.T. Harris
Clinton Straits
Fourth
Wayne Streets
W.S. Powell
G. W. Bechel
Jefferson and
Second Streets
H.W. Myers
Buffington & Co
Autorn
B. F. Ends
Court House
Law
Court Street
K. V. Haymaker
J.W. Winn
J. F. Deatrick
Hnry Hardy
Wolsiffer Block
H. B. Harris
S.S. Ashbaugh
Harris & Ashbaugh
Stone Front
Milton E. Orcutt
Ralston’s Block
Travis
Ttorney
Krotz Opera House
Clinton Street
Third
Charles Fe, Bronson
LAW Real Estate and Collecting
Harley Bros
Sutphen
Wolsiffer
Scott
Lewis’ Drug Store
Frank W. Knapp
Olice
Wertheimer
Ghee A. D
Defiance, Ohio
Willattena
Karst & Tenzer
Perry Street
Wabash Depot
Ayer
W. H. Moors
Durham
Dr.j.c. Ayer &Co
Lowell
Mass
Eves
Snyder & Gleason
South Clinton St
Joseph Derh Eimer
C. M. Ferry
Lyon&healy Slate & Monroe Sts
Chicago
M. E. Heller & CO
Body and Tapestry
Brussels
M. EK
Count von Moltke
Ohio River Philosophy
Walt Buel
Cleveland Sentinel
Osborne Reynolds
Atlantic
Pacific
British Isles
India
Norway
North
South America
New Zealand
Asia
Tropics
Monmouthshire
Gibraltar
Cassell
English Partners
DefiAnce County Express
Frank C. Culley
Jl W
New Britain
Conn
Tigers
Abram Bateman
San Francisco
el Rocario
Sonora
Dakota
Bodie
Cal
Boston
Eliah
W Norristown Herald
Johnnie
Mamm
Yonkers Statesman
Pilkins
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