Nellie Bly makes record solo world voyage in 72 days
Nellie Bly of The New York World completed a solo around the world in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes, visiting Southampton London Amiens Paris Venice Brindisi Penang Singapore Hong Kong Yokohama and San Francisco before returning to New York. Crowds greeted her at Jersey City depot and The World office received bouquets. The piece also reflects on Jane Austen as prose and artistry, noting her reclusiveness and lasting fame.
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Nellie Bly
New York
Southampton
London
Amiens
Jules Verne
NELLIE
Paris
Venice
Brindisi
Mediterranean
Indian Ocean
Penang
China
Singapore
China sea
Hong Kong
Thenenne Yokosama
Pacific ocean
San Francisco
Jersey City
World office
Stanley
Reading Nature as a Priceless Work of Art
The speaker asks who truly owns beauty and wealth given to view landscape. It is not gold or law, but one who Masterfully reads Nature’s forms. The priceless art of nature lasts forever for those who feel its charm while viewing.
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HERRICK JONNSON
PINSON
J.OM
destiny
Disheartened Prohibitionist Aims at Bishop Whitaker
A Philadelphia clerk, 20, David Alexander, discouraged by prohibition progress, attempted to shoot Right Rev Ozi W Whitaker, bishop of eastern Pennsylvania, during a Philadelphia service. He missed, confessed plans to kill bishop and rector Dr S D McConnell, citing hypocrisy. The maniacal motive tied to reform zeal and ethical culture. The bishop continued services. the would be assassin found with a silver watch and a single shot 23 caliber revolver.
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Bishop Whitaker
Philadelphia
Iere
David Alexander
Ozi W. Whitaker
Pennsylvania
Christ
8. D. McConnell
St. Stephen’s church
academy of Music
Gold Hill
Nev
St. George’s church
New York city
St. Pauls
Englewood
N. J
Stevens
Church of the Mediator
Fabled 1814 Concord wedding links to New Hampshire politics
A collection of queer marriage notices from 19th century newspapers, dating from 1814 to 1621, includes Isaac H Hill’s marriage in Concord to Susan Ayer, with playful verse lines and puns on the Ayer and Hill names, plus several other humorous unions from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Missouri. The notices mix local wit with romantic pairing, sometimes claimed as genuine, though reliability varies.
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New Hampshire
Concord
N. St
Isaac H Hill
The Patriot
Susan Ayer
Richard Ayer
Concord street
Ayer
earth
air
Yaverhill
Mass
Cotton K Simpson
Pembroke
N. H
Sarah H
Borrall, Conn
Join Bate
Williamstown
Mary
Bas
Stokers on Ocean Steamship Endure Harsh Heat and Long Shifts
Interviewed stokers describe four hour stints feeding furnaces in 120 to 160 degree heat with crowded quarters and shared air, then cooling in the shaft vent. Each man tends four furnaces, moving quickly between tasks, while aging sailors prove endurance and adaptability beyond youth.
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New York Journal
Poets Income Reveals 1839 Earnings From Periodicals
A famed young poet discussed here shows, in a memorandum, 1839 earnings from 38 poems. Payments include 4 to The Century totaling 81 plus 15 69, 3 to Scribner's 10 each, 7 to Puck and Judge, 12 to Lippincott, 45 5 to Harper's, 1 to Life, 6 33 to St Nicholas, and 4 to other journals, with totals listed in the aid of a Boston Journal report.
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Scribner
Puck
Judge
Lippincott's
vecesoeees
Harper's
St. Nicholas
sesserere
Boston Journal
Invention and adoption of the envelope
The passage outlines the early use of envelopes before Sir Rowland Hill and the penny post, noting double charges for in-closed papers and the surge in envelope use after stamped and adhesive envelopes appeared on May 6, 1840. It credits Edwin Hill and De La Rue with early machines, mentions S J Brawer of Brighton as a possible inventor, and references a Rochester patent for a voting machine.
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Rowland Iill
Edwin Ilill
Rowland Hill
De La Rue
S. J. Brawer
Brighton
New York Telegram
Mysterious French Meats and Parisian Palate Tales
Minneapolis man recites experiences in Paris about French cooking and horse or dog meat. He details markets, abattoirs, rendering shops, and adulterated grease refined into cheaper olive oil used in cooking. A second anecdote imagines a cat’s heredity and mouse obsession, then loss of instinct in offspring.
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Minneapolis
Paris
Mr. Harwood
mely
Mr Harwood
Rue de Renne
La Villet
Brittany
raul
Slinneapolis
St. Paul
Gentlemen's So Different Says Pitched Tip Tale
A hotel chatter recalls a waiter and a host praising service at an expensive dinner. After the feast the host asks the head writer to tell the waiters Sam is pleased with their attention. The host then gives a tip of a sovereign to each waiter, joking that two shillings would suffice.
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Thomas
Pal Mall
French Soldier Faces Hardship With Good Humor
A Youth's Companion item recalls a French soldier at Worth who lost his right hand to a shell. As comrades carried him away his lieutenant offered sympathy and the wounded man quipped he would learn to roll cigarettes with one hand.
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battle of
Worth
Stranger's grocery plan sparks town offer and exile
A New Englander in a small Arizona town announced a first class grocery venture. Citizens questioned the honesty of his claims and pressed him for truth, ending with a 24 hour evacuation order from the deputation who warned they would need angels before accepting his card.
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Arizona
need o' angels
House Drains as Ground Contamination Source
John McMullen A M cites a Massachusetts state board inquiry showing rural areas without sewers suffer severe diphtheria due to inadequately vented soil pipes and cesspools. Unsafe house drainage allows filth to contaminate basements and soil, spreading disease in isolated country outbreaks.
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state board of health of
Massachusetts
John McMullen
A. M
Whew Almost Everybody Smokes in City of Mexico
City of Mexico cor respondent notes widespread smoking habits across classes and professions. Market women, laborers, priests, clerks, and even doctors and bankers smoke, while Mexican ladies mostly do not. Pipes rare among foreigners. light offered by a banker.
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national police
ain
Kate the aged Maine mare dies in Bangor at 41 years
The Bangor horse Kate, owned by J. L. Craig, died just before turning 42 after a long life of good health. Described as smart as a four year old the day before her death, she was found dead in her stall when workers went to hitch her. The report cites the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Maine
Bangor
Kate
J. L. Craig
owever
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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STOGE
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J. H. MEDAIRY ® Co
North Howard Street
Baltimore
Wacword
THE HARDWARE
Denton, Maryland
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Vick's
West Springfield
Stephen Bumprey
Sarah Dewey
Washington
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Amelia Bushel
Hymen
Herculaneum
John W. Honey
Mary S. Austen
Pullanan
Chicago
Davis’ Strange Astory
Senator Edmunds
MRS. PULLMAN
England
George M. Pullman
west
George M. Pullison
Indiana avenue
St. Lawrence
EVberon
Atlantic coast
senate
Newport
Lenox
United States
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Minnesota
Sam
Frank Agnew
Anna
upper town
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mne
Agnew
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Vermont
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Miss Jones
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Greenland
Mar
antarctic
is pole
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north pole
Nansen
Mars
Rochester
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Thebra
Vauae Prahis
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