Fish City on Saginaw Bay The Ice Town
The New York Mail and Express describes Fish City on Saginaw bay where winter fishermen live in hut homes built on the ice. About 1,000 huts housing pike and whitefish fishers use decoy herrings with lead weights to lure game fish and spear through holes in the ice. The scene recalls a primitive, perilous winter city with 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 pounds of fish caught each season and regular rescue efforts when the ice breaks up.
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William Cotter
East Saginaw
Fish City
Saginaw Bay
Bay
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Albany
Hulson River
Sault Ste. Marie
New York Mail and Express
Do Flying Fish Fly
The Globe Democrat reports Professor Mobius argues flying fish cannot truly fly. He notes their pectoral muscle mass is too small to lift the body in air, estimating the muscle weight as only one thirty fifth of the total body. He says propulsion begins while still in the water.
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Mobius
Globe-Democrat
Freaks of the Storm on the Dakota and Wyoming Prairies
The New York Star notes wind rolled snowballs seen across Dakota and Wyoming prairies. Millions may line the horizon at once with sizes from orange to cannonball to county fair prize pumpkin. The scene evokes images of armies of schoolboys battling the snowy expanse.
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Dakota
Wyoming
New York
Crystallized Tear Amulet Sold for Fifty Cents
An ad from the New York Tribune touts amulets containing a crystallized tear from Cleopatra offering happiness wealth and good luck to wearers at fifty cents each. Separately, reports say salmon declines in the Columbia River push fishermen to relocate operations to Alaska.
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Maiden Lane
Cleopatra
New York Tribune
Columbia River
Alaska
Size of Rain Drops Variations Tied to Height and Turbulence
The Chicago Herald notes that raindrop sizes vary with fall height and atmospheric disturbance. Drops fall from high altitudes divide into finer mist, while calm conditions with clouds near the ground produce large heavy drops.
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Chicago Herald
The Closing Years Foretell a New Century
The Albany Journal notes that in fewer than twelve years a new century will begin, praising the late nineteenth century for vast scientific achievements and significant progress across science and culture.
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Albany Journal
Record Egg Brings $1200 in London Auk Auction
The highest price for an egg to date went to a great auk egg sold at auction in London for $1200 after a lively bidding among ornithologists. The piece, one of auks' scarce eggs, hails from a now-extinct bird once common in the north Atlantic. The article recounts the auk’s size, flightless wings, and historic use as a food source, noting its decline due to overhunting and the cattle of human activity. It cites past egg prices and a mounted skin purchase for $625, with context on the bird’s biology and extinction timeline.
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British College of Surgeons
Lord Garvagh
London
Paris
North Atlantic
American Museum of Natural History
Greenland
John Josseson
New England
United States
Boston
Newfoundland
Iceland
Faroe Islands
Labrador
New York Sun
Water as Medicine Says Dr Brunton Secret Diuretic Power
Dr Brunton asserts water is the most powerful diuretic and a tissue changer. It removes tissue waste quickly, increases appetite, and acts as a true tonic. In people who drink little water, waste products can accumulate and cause disease, according to The Practitioner.
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Brunton
Why Time Passes So Swiftly
A Brooklyn Eagle Rambler piece describes a man named John in a tale of time perception. He works so steadily that the afternoon ends before he notices it, prompting speculation that growing old makes days seem shorter. The old man concludes clocks tick faster, joking that ninety cent clocks run at sixty.
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John
Rambler
Brooklyn Eagle
Fraud exposed in antiquities sale in New York Works
An antiquarian tourist paid 200 dollars to a Mexican Indian for a copper vase and idol claimed as ancient native workmanship. Professor Putnam, Cambridge archaeologist, declares the pieces modern and of little value. The fraud detection began when a human hair found in the copper helped expose the scam.
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Putnam
Cambridge
New York
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Que-Price Clothiers
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Baltimore, MD
Peerless
Gieanocreco
Zi Tshberg
Hirshberg, Hollander & CO
Samele Cart of
New
W. Pratt St
S. E. Cor
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Maryland
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Ilk
Delaware and
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Radia At
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Clayton
Delaware
Plwo& Brl
HPL Renney
E. Puan
Oxford, Trappe
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Chayel
Cordova
Queen Anne
Ridgely
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Goldboro
Henderson
Marvdel
Slaudters
Hartley
Kenton
South Mail
Upper Hunting Creek Mills
Linchester
Caroline County
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P. Tull
Frank Turner
Ruthsburg
Q. A. Co
Alfred D. Smith
Denton, Md
Davip B. Stewart
Gro. W. Berry
D. B. Stewart & CO
General Commission
Southern Fruits and Vegetables
Pratt Street
Pn Ty
Choptank Hotel
T. M. Cooper
MOA
ATM
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Masonic Hall
Yates &Co
Philadelphia
James H. Coulbourn
Coulbourn & Moyer
Wholesale Commission
North Front St
P. W. Downes
Denton Naational Bath
KR. Godwin
Millsbery
Del
Gadd
Dukes & Hucker
Tw, Fisher& Co
General Comission Merchants
Camden St
Balvymole
Marveand
Hurst, Purnell & Co
W. J. Caron & Co
Misher, Cauld & Co
Manufacturer’s National Bank
le TB
Lab St
Callowhill
Phil
C. Calor
Harry B. Elston
Tallor
Washington ST
ALG
Saulsbury & Bro
Parker
Park
J.K. M. Emry
Ff. W. Neavitt
Emory & Neavitt
South Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Doc
Gould
Boots
Gould & CO
Phila
Second Street
Market
Second St
Re Douglass
Parer
Laxaen
Wousk
Paintene
Philip W. Downes
John He Vanfiesel
E Q
Choptank River
Jas. C. Leonard
Walter
Nain
National Sabet Metal Roorina Co
East 20Th St
New York City
Uin
Noah Walker & CO
Noan Wacker & Co
Baltimore St
IMD
H. S. Miller & CO
Miller & CO
HS. Miller & CO
H.S. Miller & CO
Hvitts & Holbrook
Queen Anne Station
Harley
Anne
Mnstablise
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Light St
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