Harvard Freshman Invites Three Women Into Dining Hall
D. D. Walton from West Orange New Jersey led three young women into Randall Hall at Harvard Cambridge triggering astonished laughter and chatter. The incident, described as unprecedented, features Walton hailed as courageous and original for defying prior hall rules in Memorial and Randall halls.
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Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Randall Hall
Harvard
D. D. Walton
West Orange
N. J
Walton
Memorial
Randall Halls
Memorial Hall
Bill Posting and Distribution Services Advertised
Jas F Coffee announces bill posting and distribution services in Dubuque. The notice promotes reasonable prices for posting, tacking, and distributing bills across the United States and Canada, asserting adherence to Treasury laws and state bill posters.
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Bill Pontere
U. S
Canada
Global Cotton Production in 19th Century Trade Trends
Daniel Cleverton notes the United States led world cotton output from 1834 onward, producing over half to two thirds of global supply. India, China, and Egypt contributed significant shares, with Egypt expanding due to irrigation. He compares area and yield across regions, highlighting Russia, Japan, Cochin China, and Latin America as rising or tentative competitors.
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United States
India
China
Egypt
Greece
Italy
Europe
Turkey
Persia
Asia Minor
Russia
Russian
Central Asia
trans-Caucasia
Turkestan
America
Japan
Cochin-China
Africa
Mexico
West Indies
Australia
Colombia
Venezuela
Dutch Guiana
Brazil
Paraguay
Daniel Cleverton
Sun viewed clearly through Paris exposition telescope
An examination of the sun through the large telescope at the optical pavilion of the Paris exposition produced unexpected results. The sun’s image appeared unusually clear and prominences, previously seen only at the edge, were now visible on the surface.
Brimberson’s Chic Look Draws Egg Business Hint
The Chicago Times Herald notes Mrs Brimberson’s elegant style and playfully questions if her husband’s wholesale egg business influences her fashionable image.
Wild Man of Borneo exhibited in Ohio lake areas
Thomas Kane died at his son’s Brighton home at about age 70. A Rochester physician paid $100 for his remains two years earlier and claimed the body. Coroner Sibley ordered an autopsy which showed death from heart disease. Kane, afflicted with acromegalia, was once shown as the “Wild Man of Borneo” at Ontario Beach and as “Brutus the brute” at Conesus lake, drawing large crowds with his oversized hands and feet and chained in a straw bed audience spectacle.
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Thomas Kane
Brighton
Rochester
Kane
Sibley
Iie
Borneo
Ontario Beach
Conesus Lake
Brutus
Servant Girls for London Seeks American Helpers
Norman F E Lees of the National Domestic Association in London arrives in New York aboard the St. Louis to recruit unlimited house servants for Britain and other foreign cities. Passages paid by the association. He notes high wages and the dire need due to war and married servants joining soldiers.
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New York
London
Norman FE. Lees
National Domestic Association
New York City
St. Louis
Ile
Condom
Mr. Lees
Cans in the White House Frosted by Umbrella Receptacles
The Chicago Record notes a White House custom placing green painted umbrella cans in corridors for rainy days. Uncle Jerry, tall and dignified, drains them and carts away used pails. The piece also warns readers to steer clear of boiled water near the drainage canal and river.
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White House
Halls Ark
Jerry
Enn Freeland Smith
Abo
Yev
Chicago Record
Lake
Issippi River
Seven Years in Dubuque Seeman X Ray Advert
Dubuque advertisement proclaims Dr Fr A Seeman German specialist with Roentgen X Ray machine West of Chicago. Claims cures for catarrh deafness piles nervous debility and other chronic ailments. Testimonials praise rapid results and long experience in eastern hospitals.
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Chicago
Seeman
Dubuque
Carr, Rider & Adams
Ang, Kronfeldt
Elm Street
Mr. Stanton
Zwingle
Iowa
Fr. A. Seeman
Nervous Diseases Treatment Offered at Lincoln Block Clinic
A medical advertisement offers treatment for epilepsy nervous prostration and women's ailments including bearing down pains and sterility using electricity with no harmful drugs. It promises confidential consultation, postal correspondence, and prompt attention for distant patients in German Swedish or English. Office at Lincoln Block corner Eighth and Locust streets with stated hours.
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Lincoln Block
Eighth and Locust Streets
Eighth Street
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Aid Advertising Co
Hill Street
By the Riverside
The
Milwaukee
Ainsworth Springs
Enes
John Ellwanger Co
Joubers
Kentucky
Dubuque, Iowa
Kiene
Jas. A. Hayes
Art Iowa Company For
Iowa People
Stro
Lightning
Wiluuwtorm
L. Tornado
Oyelono
Peter Kiono
F. W. Coates
Roht. Benson
W. Altman
Jas. A. Uoyoa
Toelapnona
Hayes & Abeln
James A. Hayes
Abeln
NAIVE
Teleplhonc Dd
Henry Wilberding
the Merchant Tailor
Clay Street
Amer
Grasil
Loolivari
South America
Abyssinia
Asia
Doruco
Adda
Servant Girls For
DR. Seemann
Guttenberg
Fredd
Leitgen
Ernsdorff & Sons
Cleminson
Henry Murray
Ida Belle
Seemann
John Steiber
Couler Ave
Faley & Loelscher Manufacturing
Wit. Lawther
Lem Sheridan
WM. Lawther, Jr
Trew
WM. Lawther CO
Main Street
Dubuque, Lows
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