When the Ice Goes Out Opens Great Lakes Highway
The Mackinac Strait ice breaks and opens Lake Michigan Huron navigation for 1897. The strait shaft unlocks a 900 mile deep water route to Buffalo and east coast ports, lifting grain, ore, coal, and manufactured goods traffic as fleets resume service. Steel furnaces near Cleveland soon demand ore from Lake Superior, enlarging this inland waterway’s economic impact.
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Union
Great Lakes
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Michigan
Chicago
Jack Frost
Milwaukee
Duluth
Cleveland
Detroit
Buffalo
Proctor Knott
Chebaygan
Lake Erie
Lake Navigators
New York
Sault Ste Marie Canal
Lake Superior
Europe
Asia
Minnesota
Missouri
Kansas
Dakotas
Strait of Mackinac
Mackinac City
Ashtabula
Wisconsin
Sewell
Origins of the Shoe The Fashion of Modern Footyear Began In the Eleventh Century
A compact history of footwear from ancient desert sandals to modern fashion. It traces Egyptian solves with wooden and leather protectors, Hebrews sandals with ribbons, Greek and Roman classes in colored shoes, clergy in sandals, and evolving styles through the eleventh to eighteenth centuries, including beak-like toes, long stilts, high heels, and Louis XIV red heels, ending with Napoleon I and patent leather with a gold buckle.
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Desert
Blood
Louis XIV
Napoleon I
Chicago News
Glazier's Rules Spark a Hamper of Thefts and Tricks
A Chicago Tribune tale recounts a landlady and her glazier clashing over a broken basement window pane. The dispute centers on shop rules and ownership of the glass, ending with the pane mounted in a dining room frame while a hammer vanishes and returns, amid a comic chase through the shop. Also includes a New York Commercial item detailing baked ham with hay, wine, and a rich sauce.
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Glazier
Belice
Chicago Tribune
New York Commercial
Anecdotes From Memorial Exhibitions on Leighton and Hunt
The St James Gazette recounts curious tales from memorial exhibitions. Leighton faced pigeons at his painting Summer Slumber until whisky grain calmed them. Alfred Hunt, a slow yet punctilious sketcher, carried many hour and weather variations, sometimes a dozen versions of a view, to match changing conditions.
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Leighton
Alfred Hunt
St. James
Fruits Aids For Digestion After Heavy Meals
A New York Ledger note explains why fruit eaten after large meals aids digestion. It cites acids and peptones in fruits helping stomach digestion of fats, with lemon juice recommended by physicians for weak digestion. Cultivated fruits like apples pears cherries strawberries grapes share similar benefits.
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New York Ledger
Booker T Washington on slavery and race life
Booker T Washington of Tuskegee discussed the moral and religious life of his race after 250 years in slavery. He recounted an old slave story about theft and ownership, illustrating perceptions of freedom and belonging.
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Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Magsa
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Wills Run
Tanes
H. Dean, JR
Queen Anne, Md
Piedmont
Mifairy
Armers - Dox
Frank W. Reppen
Denton
Maryland
Ipaint Goods
Celer
Longman & Martinez
Lewis
WM. E, Brown
Denton, Maryland
Atlanta, GA
Pia Record
Turner
A. Moore
General Southern
Paul Sr
Baltimore
Washington, D.C
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Iva
Beans & ‘Company, Fruit and Produce Commission
Light
Marrair
Wheeler Transportation Line
Great Choptank
Trappe and Tuckahoe Rivers
Pier 3
Light Street
Oxford
Trappe
Cambridge
Chancellor’s
Clark’s
Choptank
Lloyd’ S
Dover Bridge
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Ganers
Todd's
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Clark's
Hillsboro
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Light St
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Great Choptane River
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Turkey Cree
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Willard Thomson
Gen's Man
Aagen
South Street
T. Hutchinson
Inon
Tas. E. Byrd
Jatbert G. Towers
Charles E. McShane
James N. Todd
BE. T. Boyer
Wenton, MI
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Ry Alex. Hutson
Will
Caroline
Youn W. Clark, JR
Box &G
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Benton, Maryland
Yyitmer Emory
Centreville, MD
Caroline, Talbot
Kent County
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D.S. Brockway
Mastin
Greensborough
George F. Dill
AcEnt
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Harry A. Roe
RaeEnr
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Denton, Mp
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Eenry
J. Kemp Stevens
Lewis & Stevens
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Queen Anne
Tulius Hines & Son
Chester River
Emma A. Ford
Chestertown
Centreville
George Warfield
Harry B. Mason
Mob
Wilmington
Philadelphia
Thomas R. Green
Thomas A. Smith
Ridgely
T.C. Hackett
Thomas Carmine
Ridgely, Maryland
Adjoining
Dorchester
M. Hw, Dewerse
Fred
Owens
Attorneys-at-Law
Denton, MO
Court House
H. Deweerss
Caroline County
James Swann
Richard Nichols
Main St
Elite Neckwear Co
Camden
N. J
Tee
Lake Marine News Station
Mich
Jelvis
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