Gladstone Addresses Oxford Printers About Work and Wages
The San Francisco Call recalls Mr. Gladstone visiting Oxford University Press, rallying printers to value quality over pay. He shared tales of famous authors who self-corrected texts and praised curiosity across trades, while quips about shop life highlighted his broad interest in everyday work.
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Mr. Gladstone
England
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Davy Dare
San Francisco
The Lady Burglar Describes Her Career In Burglary
An interview presents a self styled first female burglar detailing deliberate entry into crime as a livelihood. She argues burglary offered opportunity as other trades grew crowded and disdains sentiment about past missteps while claiming innovation in her methods.
Three Crowns Symbolize Medieval German Emperors
In medieval practice emperors wore three crowns at coronation the silver crown of Germany at Aachen the iron crown of Lombardy at Monza and the imperial crown at Rome Karl V was the last Kaiser to receive the imperial crown from the pope marking a final era in Holy Roman Empire ceremony
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Germany
Lombardy
Italy
Holy Roman Empire
Aix-la-Chapelle
Monza
Rome
Karl V
Dog Plays Football in Moore Street Dublin
A humorous scene on Sunday in Moore Street Dublin showed gumins playing football with a large bladder under their own rules. A collie dog substituted for a missing player, directed the ball with its head and carried it in its mouth to score as the dog team won ten nil. The crowd donated liberally to the non existent gate proceeds.
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Moore Street
Dublin
Iman
Freeman's Journal
Rivera warns cannon useless in Cuba war and predicts Havana capture
In a field interview near Canoe in Pinar del Rio General Rivera says Cuba needs rifles and ammunition not cannon. He argues 50,000 well armed Spanish troops overwhelm 4,000 to 10,000 rebels and predicts Gomez and Gomez successors will march on Havana with sufficient arms and numbers.
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Havana
New York
the World This
Russ Rivera
Canoo
Pinar del Rio
Rivera
United States
Junta
Cuba
Amd
Weyler
Gunboat Relampago Sunk in Cuban River Ambush
Cuban naval action reports that the gunboats Centinela and Relampago encountered a torpedo trap near Mango landing on January 17. Relampago exploded, six officers and crew killed, several wounded. Centinela’s commander seriously wounded, additional casualties among the crew.
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River Canto
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Mango Landing
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Relampago
Jacobi Dunham
Francisco Martiné
de Auradela
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Senor Puerto
Manuel Cubauag
Duran
Lagipeer Martinez
Arithmetic of animals in Our Animal Friends
Audubon tests counting with four friends and a parrot showing it stops at four. Timofeiff reports birds cats dogs and horses can count to ten, with a dog burying 286 bones in 26 places and later finding the last bone after pondering. the mind dividing into three groups is suspected.
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Audubon
Timofieff
Polypoesia
Timofleff
Quizzical Old Passenger Demands Receipt on City Car
An elderly man aboard a trolley on Eighteenth and Chestnut insists on a receipt after paying his fare. The conductor explains receipts are not issued, but after a pause he provides an old transfer ticket. The man accepts it and alights at Eleventh Street.
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Ian
Rob
Eighteenth
Chestnut Streets
Sian
Eleventh Street
Philadelphia
Symbolic fruits and plants as emblems of love and fidelity
The article notes apple blossoms as symbols of preference and sensual love in classical and Latin epigrams, telling a Roman tale of a patrician killing his wife over an apple gift. It also states ivy as a British emblem of fidelity and describes ivy's vigorous growth and cling on rocks and walls across Great Britain.
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Martial
England
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