Pearl at Taylor's Falls Shocks Riverine Hunters
Excitement runs high among Pearl hunters at Taylor's Falls Minnesota as John Emery discovers a perfectly round large pearl of exceptional luster in a river shell valued at least $2000. Belfast endures typhoid and diphtheria outbreaks. 98 typhoid cases in ten days, 19 diphtheria in two days, hospitalizations at 254 total, one nurse dead, more medical staff planned. Across the Atlantic memorial services for the late President blend Jewish and Christian rites with hymns like Nearer My God to Thee and Lead Kindly Light.
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Taylor’s Falls
Minn
John Emery
West
Belfast
Atlantic
Boer flag seen atop Orange Hall in Rutland Square
In Dublin's Rutland Square a Boer flag fluttered from the Orange Hall roof causing a stir. Suspected members, recalling their patron's memory linked to the Boers, reportedly showed support for the burghers then fighting in the field.
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Rutland Square
Dublin
Orange Hall
Floods Along Judiio River Wreck Towns and Crops
Prolonged rains caused the Judiio river along Italy Austria and Friuli borders to overflow. Towns Romans Medea and Varsa were inundated. Eleven people drowned and widespread property and crop damage followed as alarms sounded and residents fled to towns.
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Italy
Austria
Friuli
Romans
Medea
Varsa
Sven Hedin Finds Second Dead Sea in Thibeta Highlands
Explorer Sven Hedin reports a vast salt lake in the Thibeta highlands with life absent across its salt bed. He and his party waded two boat lengths to launch their boat as shore access was blocked by dense salt. The lake’s water is lifeless and intensely saline.
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Sven Hedin
Thibet
Tobacco in schools: a 17th century English custom
Jorevin de Rochefort recounts a Worcester town visit in which children carried pipes and tobacco in their satchels, their mothers filling the pipes at dawn. The practice served as a breakfast substitute while teachers joined in, instructing students on how to hold and draw tobacco.
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Jorevin de Rochefort
Paris
England
Worcester
France
Resputed murderer and Knights of Pythias rift reported
Lud Madison of Parkersburg West Virginia had his hanging deferred for sixty days by Governor White amid claims he was legally executed already, with appeal to the US Supreme Court. In Maryland, Magnolia and Mountain City Lodges denounce Senator Wellington of Maryland over McKinley remarks and call for expulsion. In the Bronx, Mrs Theodore Pria, clutching her baby and shielding her daughter, escapes a gunman husband after he attacked them. the Cuban barber’s past as a Cuban planter is noted.
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Lud Madison
Parkersburg
W. Va
Gov. White
Madison
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Magnolia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Sharpsburg
United States
Wellington
Maryland
Order
McKinley
Snator Wellington
Mountain City Lodge
Knights of Pythias of
Frederick
Theodore Pria
Pria
Tinton Avenue
Bronx
New York
Cuba
Gentleman tramp found with fortune and fugitive air
A man described as a gentleman tramp was found asleep outside fortifications and arrested as a vagrant by Pariy police. At the station he produced papers declaring himself Count de N with a large fortune, and several hundred bank notes sewn into his torn jacket. He claimed he preferred begging for reasons only he knew. The police proceeded with caution.
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Pariy
We are refined West as new moral order arrives
The speaker boasts of cultural refinement replacing the wild West. The poem mocks frontier brutality and gun culture while praising churchgoing, modest women, refined dress, and moral progress. It contrasts past brutality with present civility, asserting Westerners’ loyalty to decorum and religion.
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West
Two Worlds and Their Children by Ethel M Colson
Franklin Atherton pursues wealth and love, meeting Margaret among Salvation Army workers. She helps him recover from ruin, guiding a path from addiction and despair toward dignity. Years later he seeks redemption, aided by Margaret and her Salvation Army ally, Lieutenant Caldwell, as he vows to become worthy of her.
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Ethel M. Colson
Daily Story Pub. Co
Chicago
Franklin Atherton
Salvation Army
Margaret
Franklin
History of the Skunk Across Americas and Games
The skunk first appears in 1636 in Theodor’s History of Canada and is noted as widespread across North America and into Central and South America. The text also references the New York Sun and mentions the card game skat and the game of bridge captivating Berlin London and New York players.
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Theodor
Canada
Earth
North America
Central
South America
New York Sun
Berlin
London
New York
Egypt as a Winter Resort Gains in Cairo Nile Tourism
The London Telegraph reports a prosperous Cairo and Nile season with hotels full and new health resorts attracting visitors. Helotan near Cairo offers sul phur baths and villas, Assouan boasts two large hotels and an English church, Luxor expands hotels, and Assouan serves as a gateway to Wady Holfa. Big game hunting parties target terrain between Khartoum and Fashoda, amid stricter gun regulations while boats and dahabeahs remain popular for long ahead reservations.
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Cairo
Nile
Riviera
Egypt
Helotan
Assouan
Luxor
Assousan
Wady-Holfa
Khartoum
Fashoda
London Telegraph
Chinese temperance as social norm among Chinatown residents
A Chinese man on Race Street argues temperance among Chinese in the colony is genuine and economic. He notes few drink, few smoke opium, and links avoidance of alcohol to restraint and saving money, while acknowledging some loiterers may use opium. He says Chinese would like to drink like others but control themselves.
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Race Street
Joe Kee
Chinatown
Philadelphia
Old Clothes for Grave Judge’s Will Admitted to Probate
The Elkton Maryland will of Judge Frederick Stump dated October 30 1900 is admitted to probate. He directs burial in a plain white pine coffin without any funeral embalming or sermon and asks to be buried in clothes he wore, not a new suit, criticizing funerals as costly and wasteful. He suggests Ned Gehr may help if alive in heaven.
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Frederick Stump
Elkton
Ned Gehr
Willing to Oblige and a Two Acre Fish Tale
A dinner tale clash unfolds as an Englishman recalls a twenty four foot tiger and a Scotsman boasts of landing a two acre skate with six friends. The Englishman departs offended while the host demands an apology, the Scot refuses but offers a concession to shorten the tiger if the fish can be managed.
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London
Public School Methods Questioned by German Parent
A German mother disrupted a New York City school meeting demanding why a teacher asked her child how many legs a lobster has. The principal explained lobsters are shellfish, but the parent criticized the questioning style as inappropriate and demanded better instruction for her son Jakey.
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New York City
Jakey
Bodder
Belles of Early Day Beauty Tricks and Rituals
A vivid look at 19th and early 20th century beauty culture detailing vanity and methods to appear attractive. Text covers facial masks, corrosive washes, internal tonics, dieting, and heavy use of cosmetics, glossing over social norms and fashion from Washington and Philadelphia salons.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Dangerous pursuit of rare orchids in distant lands
An article notes orchid hunting rivals big game in danger, citing seven of eight Madagascar collectors who died or were ruined within a year. It details risks from wild beasts hostile natives and harsh climates across Madagascar Mexico Brazil Ecuador Venezuela and Sierra Leone, and warns profits are uncertain as prices swing on fragile markets.
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Harmsworth’s
Tamatave
Madagascar
Mexico
Brazil
Ecuador
Venezuela
Sierra Leone
New World
Queen Alexandra and the carrier's cart of sorrow
Queen Alexandra, famed for love of children, comforted an old carrier who mourned the loss of her son Jack. The princess learned of the heavy burdens she bore and arranged for a donkey cart to ease her long village duties, offering lasting relief for the widow.
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Alexander
Duke of Clarence
Jack
Alexandra
First Torpedoes in American Revolutionary War
The piece notes that early American torpedoes used against Britain were called American turtles and deemed infamous and fit only for savages, reflecting harsh contemporary judgments on new warfare methods.
Oldest Postmistress Mary Paschall of Indiana
The oldest postmistress in the country is Mary Paschall of Trenton Indiana. Appointed by Lincoln she is now ninety. She recalls her early battles to defend the mails. She faced hostility from men who seized bags and she even bought a gun to protect the mail on the railroad platform.
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Mary Paschall
Trenton
Ind
Lincoln
Aged post mistress recalls violent mail station days
The speaker recounts defending a mail station on a West Virginia frontier, firing at a loader who seized the bag and hiding under the counter after repeated robberies. Despite petitions to Washington and adversity, President Lincoln stood by the post mistress, who, now 90, remains in office as telephonic links between Italian and Swiss cities loom.
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Washington
Lincoln
Expectations Asks A Clip Of A Neck Tie
A terse remark from the Somerville Journal notes that when a young man asks a girl to clip a thread from his necktie and there is no one else present, she may rightly be disappointed if that is all that occurs.
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Somerville Journal
Tintype dealer mocks claims of distant travel
A tintype man boasts he can stamp any town name and date on his pictures, revealing social frauds who pretend travel. A young couple choose New Haven over Coney Island to lend credibility, highlighting the era’s souvenir deception.
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Coney Island
Constantinople
Seacoast
Long Branch
Atlantic City
New York
New Haven
New York Press
Lincoln's Avenger and Boston Corbett Impulsiveness
Sallie Bruner Houston recalls a Smith County Kansas farm memory about Boston Corbett, famed for shooting Lincoln's assassin. The tale notes Corbett's quick temper, his boastful urge to act, and a courtroom incident where he drew his revolver during a petty dispute, evading arrest as neighbors reconsidered pursuing him.
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Boston Corbett
Sallie Bruner Houston
Smith County
Kan
Lincoln
Garfield
McKinley
Concordia
Corbett
Guiteau
Boston
Anarchists Win in Rome Municipal Election
The Rome ballot brought a coalition victory as Republicans allied with anarchists defeated the socialists. The electors totaled 8,000 to 9,000 on rolls, about 2,500 voting. Five Republicans and three anarchists led the winning list, while socialists secured three minor seats.
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Rome
Camera di Lavoro
Italy
London Tablet
Promises and Promises in a Sealskin Wrap Mixup
A quarrel excerpted from the Philadelphia Press shows a couple arguing over broken promises about a sealskin wrap and stockings. The exchange highlights promises made and unkept in domestic matters.
Compressed Air Used in New York Barbershop
In a New York barbershop a system of compressed air delivers comfort after shaving. Each stand features a rubber tube with a screw nozzle connected to a rear tank of compressed air. After shaving, the barber attaches the nozzle to the customer for a final treatment.
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New York
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Switzerland
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