Lump sum donation to Swedish church at Lindsborg Kan
A singular donation from Charles A. Smith of Minneapolis provides 25,000 feet of standing pine valued at about 25,000 dollars to the Swedish Lutheran church at Lindsborg Kansas. A Lockport fibre firm to manufacture gun stocks aims to reduce rifle weight under Springfield ordnance supervision. Verdi’s fortune in Italy neared 120,000 pounds, much of which supported a Milan home for decayed musicians. he began life as a grocer boy at ten.
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Swedish Lutheran Church
Lindsborg
Kan
Charles A. Smith
Minneapolis
Lockport
N. Y
Ordnance
Springfield
Mass
Verdi
Italy
Milan
Ghent Vault Horror Uncovers Buried Girl
In Ghent a grim discovery occurs when a family vault is opened for interment. A young girl’s body is found on the bottom steps, having burst her coffin after starving, while still alive but lethargic at burial.
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Ghent
New York Schoolmaster Restored After Four-Year Discharge
A New York schoolmaster legally discharged four years ago sues the city for back salary. The Court of Appeals awards him 13824 dollars plus interest, covering the salary he should have received, and restores him to his position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Court of Appeals
Unusual midnight wedding in a sheep wagon
In Casper Wyoming Rossy Lambert owner of a sheep ranch and Miss Louisa Morrison were married at midnight while seated in a sheep wagon. The ceremony was witnessed by the bride's mother and a few friends. After the knot was tied they headed to Lambert's ranch twenty miles away in the wagon.
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Casper
Wyo
Rossy Lambert
Louisa Morrison
Lambert
First Chicago settler Beaubien celebrates 79th birthday
Alexander Beaubien born in Chicago when few log houses stood near the river mouth. He recalls the first frame house and playmates among Potawatomies Winnebagoes and Sacs. His father served John Jacob Astor's fur company as the trade house buzzed with pelts.
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Chicago
Alexander Beaubien
Chcago River
John Jacob Astor
Fur Company
Census blunders noted in Indianapolis and Albany uproar
In Indianapolis the prize blockheads among census enumerators misread the query on Length of residence giving answers like 20 by 40 and 76 feet. Albany New York faces uproar over census decline with denunciations of local enumerators as drunken and incompetent and a recount demanded.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Albany
N. Y
National societies urged to form a national preservation body
The article notes state groups have done much to mark scenic and historic places, with the Palisades rescue cited. Massachusetts has inscribed tablets for colonial sites and Virginia is doing similar work, appealing to imagination and serving the nation by teaching children about patriotic deeds.
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Congress
Massachusetts
Virginia
Rural delivery curiosity spurs cross border post visits
A Canadian postmaster general official rode along on a Maryland rural route to study the new delivery system. The report notes frequent cross country exchanges as Nova Scotia and other regions explore rural routes. It cites Australia New Zealand and United States changes as part of global idea sharing.
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Maryland
Toronto
Nova Scotia
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Zionist colonization movement checked by sultan decree
The Zionist drive to colonize Palestine faces a severe limit as the sultan bans Jews from staying beyond three months and from owning land. The London Spectator links this Turkish action to Russian diplomacy, viewing Zionism as Germany's bid for a regional sphere of influence. It says Abdul Hamid speaks, while Russia pulls the strings.
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Palestine
London Spectator
Germany
Asia
Abdul- Hamid
Automobiles for King Leopold and pledge by Trenton group
An automobile van to serve as a parlor car for King Leopold of Belgium will cost 30000 dollars and include a parlor, bedroom, and servant’s room. It will house a thirty horsepower engine capable of forty five miles per hour. The Business Girls Association of Trenton New Jersey adopts a pledge requiring members to refrain from marrying or associating with any man who is not a total abstainer from all intoxicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopold
Belgium
Business Girls’ Association of
Trenton, N. J
Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm
The article urges farmers to select the best poultry for laying and hatching, warns against washing eggs, compares floor types for poultry houses, and notes New York broiler shortages due to western buyers. It highlights market sorting, price effects of mixed lots, and advice on packing for city markets.
Color of Apples for France
A 19th century note discusses two French fruits on W A Taylor of the Agriculture Department’s desk a yellow 12 to 14 ounce apple and a 26 ounce pear. It claims Paris buyers paid 35 cents per apple by the hundred and notes Ben Davis apples fetched high prices at the Paris Exposition, questioning French taste for red fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Department of Agriculture
W. A. Taylor
Paris
Taylor
Ben Davis
Danes and Dairy Secrets Through the Century
A 19th or early 20th century reflection notes how Danish secrecy may delay worldwide adoption of butter making methods. It questions the two year lead in publishing new dairy processes and observes that dairy progress has grown since dairying began expanding century ago with innovations like centrifugal separators and refrigerators.
Dairying Progress and State Oversight in a New Century
The article examines centuries of dairy farming evolution led by new milking tech and separators. It warns against state overreach that could push farmers out while urging safeguards to keep dairy products healthy for consumers. It highlights dairy as vital to agriculture and stresses health protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Channel Islands
Lice of Cattle and Remedies Highlighted
The article explains two louse types attacking cattle sucking and biting with blue and red forms. It details symptoms, spread in spring, and removal methods including lime wash, Cocculus Indicus decoction, kerosene emulsion, slavesacre seeds for horses, and chloro-naphtholeum for hogs, plus evergreen planting guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Animal Industry
Riley
Forestry Seedlings Handling Instructions
When forest tree seedlings arrive from the nursery they should be opened immediately. Roots should be puddled and the plants heeled in to await favorable planting weather.
Abandonment of Peruvian Meteorological Stations
Announcement reports the discontinuation of a chain of high altitude weather stations from the Pacific across the Andes to the Amazon. It notes continuous observations over a decade, with Mont Blanc level experiments near Arequipa and El Misti stations, and cites stable climate patterns and reduced irregular barometric behavior in Peru. California electors voted in Sacramento amid a large public school audience.
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Pacific
Cordilleras
Andes
Amazon
Harvard College Observatory
Arequipa
Peru
el Misti
Woman Rescued by Shelby Command Dies Near San Antonio
Inez Walker, the girl rescued by General Jo Shelby and his 800 men from a Mexican planter’s hacienda on the march toward Mexico City, has died near San Antonio after years of captivity. The 19th century rescue left several Confederate lives lost and is tied to Maximilian’s regime.
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San Antonio
Inez Walker
Jo Shelby
Shelby
Mexico
Maximilian
St. Joseph
Inter Ocean
Inez
Roderiguez
Jim Wood
Wood
Corral
Hawaii Visit Help Desired Result Urged
An editorial in the Honolulu Republican urges support from residents and visitors alike to speed toward the intended outcome, arguing broad participation will advance the goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Honolulu
Echoes of Progress and Old Limitations in Daily Life
A New York Press commentary laments persistent inefficiencies across time from clocks to trains to pianos. It contrasts ancient beds and modern innovations, noting slow change since antiquity and only occasional novelty in instruments and transportation.
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B. C
Covent Garden Theater
India
England
Henry VIII
Egypt
New York Press
Memory and mnemonics the practice of recall
Dr Andrew Wilson argues in the London Chronicle that memory depends on use and attention. He suggests we never truly forget but cannot locate the mental photograph to print a positive reproduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Wilson
London Chronicle
As an Englishman Sees Us in Washington
An English writer in the London Spectator praises Washington as clean and beautiful. He extols Massachusetts Avenue as a delightful residential street and lauds American domestic architecture for comfort and beauty. He notes green lawns, gables, porches, and tasteful landscaping without ostentation.
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Washington
London Spectator
Massachusetts Avenue
Washington Avenues
New York
Chicago
Where He Should Have Been Clergyman and Jockey Dialog
A clergyman overhears a horse jockey attempting to swindle a gentleman by exchanging a broken winded horse for a sound one. The padre warns the buyer to be cautious and the jockey retorts he would rather hear preaching than witness such private interference. The parson replies that had the jockey been in church last Sunday he would have heard him preach in the state prison.
Polished Floors Popular in Europe and Cleaning Habits
In Europe polished floors have long been favored and cleaned carefully. People polish with a cloth tied to the shoe to keep floors gleaming while professionals learn swift, skilled polishing techniques.
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Europe
Bavé
Jealous of Franklin. The kite experiment and rivalries
A compact historical note recalls Franklin's electricity research from his early experiments to the 1752 kite test. It describes jealousy among European scholars, Buffon and Louis XV’s praise, and Abbe Nollet’s prior ideas, ending with broad acceptance that an American in Philadelphia advanced the knowledge.
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Franklin
Philadelphia
Mr. Collinson
Buffon
Louis XV
America
Nollet
France
M. Romas
President Faure's Erudite Daughter
Lucie Felix Faure, daughter of the former French president, debuts in literature with a psychological study on Cardinal Newman from a Roman Catholic viewpoint. A devout scholar and Latin Greek specialist, she funds philanthropic work and leads the Charitable League of the Children of France.
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Faure
Moille
Lucie Felix Faure
Newman
the Elyse
League of the Children of France
Wreck Aftermath Shows Automatic Coupling At Work
A Chicago man returning from Iowa recounts a freight train wreck where a defective wheel threw a middle car off the track and dragged another. The engine slowed, the detached cars were automatically coupled, and the train continued, leaving two wrecked cars in the ditch.
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Chicago
Iowa
Duffy Presents Irish Collection to Royal Irish Academy
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has presented a valuable collection of books manuscripts and curios related to Ireland to the Royal Irish Academy. His Ballad Poetry of Ireland first published in 1845 has appeared in at least fifty editions.
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Charles Gavan Duffy
Royal Irish Academy
Ireland
At the Breakfast Table Tiny Egg Remark
A brief cartoon-style caption notes a tiny egg and a remark that it is chic after being broken, reflecting light humor from the Catholic Standard-Times page.
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Catholic Standard-Times
Loyalty and heroism praised in a tale of employer aid
A young man sacrifices part of his pay to save his employer showing admirable loyalty. The incident extols virtue and suggests good blood comes from proper nourishment and health. It endorses Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion constipation and rich red blood.
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Heroiam
You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free Sample Offer
A faded coin of a bank manager recall mixes with a comic line about a missing teller. The ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease free sample from Le Roy New York, claiming to cure sweating damp swelling and aching feet and ease fitting shoes. It also mentions chilblains frostbites and is distributed through druggists and shoe stores.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Glad She Had a Husband
A newly married friend recovering from the grip says her husband proved invaluable. She praises his support not as a nurse but for his comforting presence and large handkerchiefs, shaping a comic insight from the Washington Post.
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Harry
Washington Post
Villain Dismisses Threat as He Smokes Before Mae Jorie
Mordaunt bows, lights a cigar and cites his doctor’s warning that smoking is the worst thing he can do. Mae Jorie watches in growing perplexity as the scene unfolds in a Detroit Journal excerpt.
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Mae Jorie
Mordaunt
Detroit Journal
Woman saved from insanity via Dodd's Kidney Pills tale
Mrs E A Deacon of East Randolph NY who is vice president of the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union relates a case of a literary lady driven to insanity by mental overwork who improved after five boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Deacon also reports personal improvement after two boxes, claiming renewed health and youth. She notes many similar cures in Cattaraugus County and urges purchase of pills at 60 cents a box or six for 2.50 from local druggists or the Buffalo company.
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E. A. Deacon
East Randolph
N. Y
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Dodd
Cattaraugus County
A Sacred Tradition of the Stage
An impresario voices daring innovation while clinging to time honored stage traditions The stage manager had proposed to drop the seltzer-bottle style of comedy and left crestfallen after the rejection
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Northwestern inventors win patents for planters to lawn mowers
A list of first week patents granted to Northwestern inventors includes Edward Anderson and Otto Anderson of Stilwater Minnesota for a marker for planters, Louis E Shogren Vermillion North Dakota for a lawn mower, John W Stevens St Paul Minnesota for an automatic flushing tank, George E Thomas Willmar Minnesota for a station indicator, Charles L Travis Minneapolis Minnesota for a bicycle, and John L Owens Minneapolis Minnesota for a grain separator. The notices appear with patent attorneys H. Joh and 913 ats Pioneer Press Ride.
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Northwestern
Edward Anderson
Hunter
N. D
Otto Anderson
Stilwater
Minn
John L. Owens
Minneapolis
Louis E. Shogren
John W. Stevens
Paul
George E. Thomas
Willmar
Charles L. Travis
Minneapolis, Minn
H & Joh
Ats Pioneer Press
S¢ Paul
Misquoted Montesquieu On Time To Success
A brief aphorism attributed to Montesquieu notes that progress hinges on understanding the duration required for achievement. The quote emphasizes patience and timing in pursuing goals.
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D. R. Srexerza
Linton, Emmons Co
Dairy and Poultry
West
Meteorological Science
California
Sacramento
Harvard Observatory
Inex Walker
CABLE
Hawaiian Islands
Telegraphic
Puck
Carlyle
Adite
Eure
E. W. Grove
Thomas Carlyle
Montesquieu
Fan Weme
Etc Ae
Colton
Putnam
H. H. Green
Atlanta
Bulwer Lytton
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