Tragedy of a Life on Umimak Island Diary Reveals Suffering
On Umimak Island near Behring Sea’s entrance, Charles William Anderson, sailor and hunter, dies June 19 1899 after enduring thirst and isolation. Found as two hunters reached the forsaken outpost his skeleton lay in a bunk beside a diary addressed to Andrew Groswold of Unga.
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Umimak
Behring Sea
Charles William Anderson
Anderson
Andrew Groswold
Unga
San Francisco
Hone
Dempsey
Ale
Miss Munro Sets Long Branch Coach Record
Miss Munro completed a five day coach trip from Hightown to Red Bank and Bernardovills in New Jersey without fatigue. She drove four to hand amid ideal weather and scenery and will enter the upcoming horse show with her party including Mrs Norman L Munro and others.
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Gayly
Norman
Munro
Norwood Park
Long [ Branch
Misa Munro
Miss Munro
Norman L. Munro
Robert Osborne
Albert Twyford
Charles E. Cushing
Benjamin ¥. Goodspeed
Hightown
Princetom
Henry FH. Munro
Waggerman
Baltimore
Bernardovills
Bilal
Orange
New Jersey
Redbank
Custard Airship to Launch First Flight from Elmott Texas
The Custard Airship company will complete its first airship at the Elmott Texas factory in a few days and launch it on its initial trip from Elmott to Waco, a 20 mile flight. The craft weighs 250 pounds and carries three to five passengers with potential speeds near 100 miles per hour. The firm aims to establish a New York to Paris line during the exposition era, but milestones depend on this early test.
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Custard Airship Company
Elmott
Tex
W. D. Custard
New York
Paris
Emott
Waco
Speed of the Enute'a Flight and fast pace claims
Doubts linger on sighting of the eagle as the swiftest speed. Nature notes the eagle outruns the hare, while in anecdotes Downing is identified with a gold medal and an automobile record, and the Boston Journal quips about running over 12 people. The Chicago Daily News remarks that growth is the most useful thing in the long run.
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Myer
Gyer
Boston Journal
Chicago Daily News
Mail From Leper Colony Disinfected at Source
Marine Hospital Surgeon Car michael reports a new plan to disinfect all mail from Molokai leper settlement with sulphur dioxide at the settlement. Mail is then moved in disinfected sacks to Honolulu and treated with formaldehyde in a post office room without unpacking. Letters are perforated and clipped at the settlement before disinfection. No leprosy cases have appeared among post office workers despite years of handling disinfected mail.
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Honolulu
Post Offce
Fortune Hunter Balked as Ademar de Castellane Remains in Paris
Comte Ademar de Castellane, once booked to sail for America on the St Paul, decided to stay in Paris. He cited his plan to marry an American heiress as impractical, saying French nobles will be slow to wed US heiresses after the scandal and guardian controls.
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Comte Ademar de Castellane
Comte Boni
America
St. Paul
Paris
United States
Gold Flows Into Seattle Assay Office Records Big Totals
The Seattle assay office shows January 1 to October 24, 1900 deposits totaling 6,028 with 1,243,163.36 ounces of gold and bullion valued at 20,166,160,087.54 dollars. Alaska Nome and Klondike lead the districts contributing most of the gold, with additional receipts promised from Nome and other points. Nome is expected to supply up to 5,000,000 more before the season ends.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Cape Nome
British Columbia
Allin
Yukon District
Klondike
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Nome
Wedded After Sixty Years Thwarted Lovers Reunite
A Naples NY couple reunited after six decades of separation. Fisher W Griswold, 25, and Matilda Brown, 23, were once engaged. Griswold later earned wealth as a stockman in the west. Matilda married John Whitman, who died, leaving her to support her family. Griswold returned to Naples and married Whitman’s widow, 83, at Rochester NY.
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Fisher W. Griswold
Matilda Brown
Naples
N.Y
Griswold
Matilda
John Whitman
Lfe
Whitman
Reapportionment Figures Face Congressional Recalculation
The article explains that the reapportionment following the twelfth census will become operative in 1903 with the first election on the new basis in November 1902. It details possible house size changes under ratios from 194000 to 209000, noting which states might gain or lose seats and tracing historical shifts from 30,000 to 173,901 inhabitants per representative to 357 members after the eleventh census.
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Cengus Merriam
White House
United States
Congress
House
Maine
Virginia
Nebraska
Kansas
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Lyria Gas and
Lectric Light Co
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Wheeling
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Toneey Eie
Henry J. Eady
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Harry J. Smith
Smith’s Furniture Store
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Shita's Furniture Store
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the Farm Implement Company
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Crocus
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Texas
Count Castellame Desaparis
Beirens
Tan Menihs
Earl of Wemyss
March
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