Historic romances and bold proposals across continents
Notes recount Rudyard Kipling's father's betrothal on a shore, a Montreal unemployed army offered snow shoveling jobs with few acceptances, Williamsburg to honor Jamestown’s first preacher, neglect of the site of the first English colony, a Montana gold vein richer than any prior quartz, eight European ship canal projects costing over 400 million, 100000 Nebraskans needing support until another crop, and J B Tyrell joining Ellesmere Land Arctic expedition after J W Tyrol accepts USGS offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Tyrol
Hamilton, Ont
J. B. Tyrell
United States Geological Survey
Ellesmere Land
Reading Bankers View Long Run Prosperity
Bankers merchants and manufacturers broadly expect continued prosperity as an era of good times. Their practical experience with current conditions underpins confidence in the continuation of favorable economic trends.
Pittsburg Ship Canal Plans and Family Wedding Details
Mr George Gould denies money influenced his sister’s marriage while Mrs Gould portrays a grand wedding cake split into a hundred heart shaped pieces in silver boxes with gold. Pittsburg pursues a lake Erie bound canal from the Ohio river, sending three engineering teams to select the route. The project claims broader benefits for lake and river cities, with Pittsburg aiming to be a terminal point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gould
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Lake Erie
Portraits of Voices and Eccentrics Span a Broad Scene
A critic praises Patti for tonal perfection while noting lack of variation. Meanwhile, the reclusive Elmer Clanandille, in Niagara county, posts People Not Wanted Here near his cabin and writes a cryptic book. Juan Dias Faces, a strong Spaniard, once fended bears and felled rivals, inspiring novels and melodramas. Faos counts Christine, the Duke of Montpenaier, Carnot, and other elites among friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Clanandille
Six-Mile Creek
Niagara County
New York
Juan Dias Faces
Asturias
Spain
Christine
Montpenaier
Carnot
Faos
Around the Globe Highlights and Administrative Updates
A weekly digest notes the post office department naming 400 mail women for the middle Western states. The cruiser Marblehead sails from Newport to Europe to join the San Francisco. Henry Bohl United States marshal for the southern district of Ohio resigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etates
Marblehead
Newport
R. L
Europe
San Francisco
Henry Bohl
United States
Ohio
Notable Obituaries and Brief Biographical Snippets
Oscsar Cantu the historian is dead in Milan aged 01. Mrs Katherine Crittenden widow of Gen Thomeag L. Crittenden led in Chicago. The Earl of Besborough is dead. born 1815, title since 1880. Rev Dr McGlynn devotes time to flowers at Newburg rectory. W Cashman, 00, largest man in Henry County, Missouri, dead weighing 425 pounds. Capt Jack Sleath, steamboat veteran, dies near Paducah aged 69. Very Rev Dean Seymour funeral at Asbury, N.J. inspiring Catholic rites. Gen Rogerinshan ill in Los Angeles with no change. Dr A Z Newell, 80, dies in New Brunswick. invented life-one conveyance method adopted by government. Queen Victoria edits court calendar proofs but cuts unsigned items. Alphonse Daudet’s son Jeanne and Victor Hugo’s granddaughter divorce after two years. M Hertz, tied to Panama scandals, started with German patents for the incandescent lamp. Verne’s surgeon to Jules Verne, age 78. Verne admires English lit and Dickens as great British novelist.
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Oscsar Cantu
Milan
Katherine Crittenden
Thomeag L. Crittenden
Chicago
Earl of Besborough
McGlynn
Newburg
W. ©. Cashman
Henry County
Jack Sleath
Paducah
Dean Seymour
Asbury
Los Angeles
Onl
Saya
Rogeerinshan
Deen
A. Z. Newell
New Brunswick
N.J
Queen Victoria
Alphonse Daudet
Victor Hugo
Jeanne
M. Hertz
Panama
Jules Verne
Verne
Charles Dickens
Unfortunate Events From Distant Crises And Disasters
A burst of reports details fatal accidents and fires across several states. A 5300 point rock crushed George Neametine at Birdaboro Pennsylvania. a Hazelton mine fire is under control. a blaze in Murfreesboro Arkansas destroyed a courthouse and a business block with $10000 loss. O B Burlingame, 68, killed at Clinton Town box factory. John Wilkinson, 17, fatally falls from a freight car at Patoka Indiana. An open switch triggers a Dickinson Texas passenger train wreck. Fireman Taylor dies from injuries. Mexican bandit Gatarino Garza slain at Bocas del Toro. Bouton foundry fire destroys property worth $76000. Toledo high school building destroyed by fire likely started by lab chemicals. Mrs Thomas Allen killed at a Missouri grade crossing. two girls fatally injured. Two men killed at the same spot. Samuel Smith 18 and George Seale 21 drown in South Lawrence Massachusetts gunning accident near Newburyport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birdaboro
George Neametine
Hazelton
Murfreesboro
Ark
O. B. Burlingame
Io Smith & Sons
Clinton
Town
John Wilkinson
Patoka
Ind
Dickinson Station
Tex
Taylor
Gatarino Garza
Bocas del Toro
Bouton
Challenge Machine Company
Harry Perry
Toledo High School
St. Joseph
Thomas Allen
Samuel Smith
George Seale
South Lawrence
Mass
Newbiryport
Criminal Delaga Jennie West and a series of 19th century crimes
The record mentions actress Delaga Jennie West attempting suicide in Philadelphia, a surge of fifty highway robberies in Cripple Creek Colorado district, a Linn county Kansas conviction for murder, a Levanon Indiana man arrested for altering public records, and other historical incidents including a bank wreck in Vermont, child poisoning in Texas, a fatal beating in Rockford Illinois, wild man sightings in Ourown Point Indiana, and new miners arriving at Athanbra camp near Cripple Creek.
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Delaga Jennie West
Philadelphia
Cripple Creek
Col
Gen Gouley
Linn County
Kan
James Mapes
Henry F. Myera
Levanon
Ind
Bilas M. Waite
First National Bank
Battleboro
Omaha
Mary Caruthers
Parle
Tex
Rockford
St. James
Multiple Unnamed Crimes Stir Midwest and West
A flood of violent incidents across Indiana Illinois Michigan and nearby states is reported. Suspects attacked a fast express line near Anderson Indiana as farmers display bloodhounds. Murphysboro Illinois convicts Frank Jeffrey and A. D. Prenderson for killing James Towle with a death sentence. Ann Arbor Michigan carrier Albert B. Keith allegedly killed by his sweetheart before suicide. Ironwood Michigan bartender Alfred Starr faced fatal confrontation. Boise Colorado nine Italians arrested for beating saloon keeper A. J. Hixon to death on the highway. Clark County Indiana auditor Auditori Oglesby settles with bondman Jenkins for twelve thousand seven hundred sixty dollars. Lewiston West Virginia Mattle Meadows used a razor on her father and an unnamed woman. Cromwell Illinois L. D. Blosser, a budélucea man, dies after forging large notes. Quincy Illinois Webster Grigsley, 26, commits suicide after quarrel with wife. Digood Indiana Chief of Police Toler alleged to have aided the murder of William Foust. Bronaigh Missouri reports a body found doubled in a barrel. investigation underway. Cincinnati laborer Cal McCarthy shoots wife then shoots himself. wife likely to die, murderer to die or recover.
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Clalme
Pina ‘Plate Road
Valporiipo
Anderson
Ind
Frank-Jeffrey
A. D. Prenderson
Murphysboro
James ‘Towle
Albert B. Keith
Ann Arbor
Mich
Ironwood
Alfred Starr
Gust Clemola
Boise
Col
A. J. Hixon
Auditori Oglesby
Clark County
Jenkins
Bondamen
Mattle
Meadows
Lewiston
W. Va
L. D. Blosser
Cromwell
Webster Grigsley
Quincy
Iest Milan
Toler
Dlgood
William Foust
I Becomes Soldier Under Fire in Old War Memoir
A veteran recounts joining the army after West Point attempts, describing brutal yet formative training. He details government uniforms, barracks life, daily routines, nicknames for rations, inspection tricks, and the rite of “butter money” in a blunt, humorous reminiscence praising the American Tommy Atkins.
Remarkable Scientific Toy Shown Before London Society
A simple toy draws interest at the London Physiological Society. A circular disk is mounted as a top with half white and half black. Black segments on the white half, concentric with the edge, invite guesses on the fusion of black and white color sensations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Physiological Society
Munchers of Hart Tack Lodge Forms In Rushville
A quirky secret order named the Munchers of Hart Tack has grown rapidly in Rushville Indiana with no dues or benefits. The lodge aims for amusement and social rituals, with members spreading the group’s fame to eastern Indiana. Talks of new lodges in New Castle and Connersville emerge as the scene expands.
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Rushville
Tievyeing
Rushvilla
Indiana
New Cestle
Cormnersyile
Indianapolis News
New Method of Extracting Gold Improves Process Time
A new gold extraction method by H L Suhnen improves cyanide processing by bromide of cyanogen adding to weak cyanide to form a slow forming compound treated with zinc fumes to yield gold quickly. The process shortens work from a fortnight to forty eight hours and recovers gold from ore previously wasted as 85 percent of mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L.suhnen
New York Sun
Fragmented Text From An Old Script Or Song
The readable lines describe a scene where a procession approaches and a family joins in singing aloud. Voices and clapping accompany the passing figures as the party moves along. The garbled OCR hints at a lyrical piece or narrative about journey and communal reverie.
Anecdotes on Goga and Nelson from Harper's Young People
A garbled excerpt presents a fond note about Goga and a famed romance writer, along with Nelson of Trafalgar. It mentions a dog anecdote related to a prison or doctor, and a monarch’s levee where Nelson quipped about his arm. The fragment blends literary and naval figures in a dated magazine tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avery
George
III
Af Ingland
Prajesty
Nelson
Berry
Harper
Man with whiskers confounds boy on dusty trail
A Denver to Salt Lake City horseback journey yields a comic encounter as the boy aboard a wagon questions aloud whether a bearded traveler is a man or a boy with whiskers, in a tale of perplexing appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. B
Denver
Salt Lake City
Children’s Bubble Tricks With Food Coloring and Can D
The notes describe a playful bubble show using a fluid from white chatty soup and Bigearine, formed into small pistes. A party setup includes a can of bottle, tin horns as improvised pipes, and a long table covered with trinkets to display brilliant colored bubbles.
Johnny’s Composition and School Pains in Verse
A fragment from Streat and Smith’s Good News satirizes school life urging moderation in homework time and pencil use. It jokes about boys rushing through tasks, not sitting long in one portion, and avoiding excessive arithmetic as it wears pencils thin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Streat &Smith
Origin of Ocean Stormy Regions Meeting Currents
Capt W J Wharton explains ocean storms arise mainly where warm and cold currents meet. He cites regions south of Newfoundland where the gulf stream and Arctic current converge, and another area south of the Cape of Good Hope where tropic and Antarctic currents collide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt
W. J. Wharton
Newfoundland
Cape of Good Hope
France Expands Forestry Holdings to Battle Sand Dunes
France intensifies forest policy as it acquires and replaces white land to curb rents and halt dune spread. About 15 percent of the nation, 32 425 square miles, is forested with the state overseeing roughly one third. Commune and public holdings rank well ahead in size.
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France
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