Canons Go Record. D. R. Streeter Publisher
Excerpts discuss social cues and motives with moral maxims and a light look at Western reserve and Eastern manners. Notes on competition among pawnbrokers in Chicago and issues with electric ground connections on water pipes in St Paul are included. A Missouri luncheon anecdote contrasts stranger and local talk.
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Missouri
Kansas
Ohio
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Western Reserve
Wheat Calendar Reveals Global Harvest Timelines
A yearly wheat calendar maps ripening across nations, showing December harvest in Burma and New South Wales for winter resting U.S. lands, January in Australia New Zealand Chile and Argentina, and February to March in Upper Egypt and India. June to August mark the peak season, while shortages—real or imagined—prompt speculation and trading opportunities.
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United States
Burma
New South Wales
Australia
New Zealand
Chile
Argentina
Egypt
India
Biograph Aids Science From Medicine To Plant Growth
The biograph aids medical study by recording precise motions of epileptics and locomotor ataxia patients. Films show microbes and blood cells. magnified screens reveal patient progress. It also documents plant growth from planting to bloom with a half hour cadence over thirty days using strong electric light.
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New York
Swift decline myth challenged by Indian population data
The piece cites the interior department annual report showing 267,417 Indians in the United States against 249,473 in the 1890 census. It notes the continued persistence of native communities despite extinction myths and mocks the idea of vanishing with a quip about "Poor Lo" refusing to pass away with the buffalo.
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Secretary of the Interior
United States
Wisconsin Minnesota hunting deaths raise concern
Eleven hunters were killed and seven wounded in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota during the season just ended. The casualty toll is high given the sport's small participant base, surpassing a recent South African battle reported by the English.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Secretary Root Calls for War Department Reforms
A fragment quotes Secretary Root urging radical reforms in the war department while omitting the criticized practice of capturing individuals and towns, suggesting a broader critique of wartime conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Root
War Department
Individuel Upino
Romance and Tragedy: Sickles, Key, and Washington’s Tomb
A long archival vignette recalls Miss Eva Sickles and Dayrell Crackenthorpe amid a Washington scandal and the 1859 Key murder by Gen. Sickles. It links the Sickles famed forgiveness to a century of Washington's tomb lore, guarding gate history, and a Peleus-like guardian tradition at Mount Vernon.
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Washington
McKinley
Mount Vernon
Potomac River
Potomac
Gilbert Parker
Vohick Church
Alexandria
Lees
Parker
Sickles and a brilliant social season in New York
A profile recalls Gen. Philip Barton Sickles and the social whirlwind around Mrs. Sickles, including the Bradley Martin costume ball where she dressed as Queen Louise of Prussia. It covers the Key murder trial, the not guilty verdict, the later forgiveness, and Sickles enduring prominence in New York society.
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Fifth Avenue
New York City
America
Bradley Martin
Queen Louise
Prussia
Crackenthorpe
New England Home Magazine
Miss Creagh
Gen. Sickles
Spain
Montague Hughes Crackenthorpe
Legation
Reley
Dayrell
Hubert
Philip Barton Key
Gen
Sickles
District of Columbia
Washington
Key
Thisstye
Third Army
Gettysburg
New York
Magasipe
Loneliest People on Earth in Remote Regions
The Tshuktschi of northern Kamchatka and Bering Strait areas live with minimal Russia contact, visited few times by outsiders, last by Major De Windt. New Siberian islanders communicate with the mainland only yearly, risking isolation in bad seasons. Central African pygmies remain largely legendary, with only two white-led expeditions penetrating their forest realm.
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Kamskatka
Bering Straits
Russia
Major de Windt
Siberia
New Siberian Islands
Great Central African Forests
New York Telegram
Carrying a Message to Garcia in a Duty Ode
The piece extols Lt. Col. Rowan for delivering a crucial letter from the U.S. president to Garcia in Cuba, praising prompt action and loyalty over book knowledge. It argues social laxity hinders effort, urges independence, and condemns incompetence in workplaces as it links to broader moral stances on duty and efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbert Hubbard
Mars
Perihelion
Spain
United States
Garcia
Cuba
Rowan
McKinley
Business Conscience in Trade and Tempting Clocks
A London clock maker recalls seeing a mechanism built to move an idol for a temple in China and notes the blunt ethics of business. He contrasts making hidden clockwork for idol movem ent with declining to copy imitation Elizabethan clocks, arguing honesty in trade.
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London
China
Emperor William's Charm and the Passing Talisman
The German emperors prize a black stone talisman said to pass from each dying sovereign to his successor. Legend says a huge black toad dropped the stone on a princess's bed cover after she bore a son. Frederick the Great's father had it set as a ring, and the kaiser wears it on great occasions, with archival documents noting its history.
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William
Frederick the Great
Kaiser
Marriageable Age Opinion Cites Hats and Husbands
A Detroit Journal editorial argues against early marriage, asserting a woman should learn to trim her own hats and a man must accept that a baby inherits its status from parental guidance. The piece labels readiness and responsibility as the true measures of marriage suitability.
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Ite
Fathers Folks
Detroit Journal
The Man Who Can Carry a Message to Garcia
A reflective essay argues for the essential worker who can carry a message to Garcia. It praises steadfast reliability, warns against self pity, and highlights the value of disciplined, trustworthy employees in sustaining enterprises amid hardship. The author recalls personal experience as both worker and employer to underscore mutual obligation.
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Garcia
Ans
Philistine
Paris Fair Lafayette souvenir dollar delayed by mint
The Lafayette Monuments committee reports the Paris Fair Lafayette souvenir dollars will be postponed to early next year due to mint workload. Designs feature Lafayette and Washington on the obverse and a monument reproduction with the inscription honoring General Lafayette.
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Robert J. Thompson
Lafayette Monuments Committee
Lafayette
Washington
United States of America
General Lafayette
United States
Paris
France
Mint
Congress
New York Press
A Sad Catastrophe From the Argonaut
An American army nurse who does not speak Spanish recalls a Cuban laundress reporting an attack on wounded men and nurses. An ill officer who understands Spanish learns the message then whispers a trivial remark about pink shirt stripes running.
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Argonaut
Cuba
Indiana Arithmetical Prodigy at Milford to Bloomington
Milford Indiana has sent Arthur Griffith to Indiana University at Bloomington promising to break mental arithmetic records. Since age six he has loved numbers and knows multiplication to 130 by heart. He can recall up to twenty digits, multiply seven-digit numbers in eight seconds, and extract cube roots mentally in ten seconds. He devised forty seven multiplication methods and six each for division and addition plus one for subtraction.
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Milford
Ind
State University At
Bloomington
Arthur Griffith
Not Given to Complaining Buggine Wigwag Exchange
A brief gag exchange features Buggine and Muggins. Buggine praises Buggine Wigwag as the most optimistic friend he knows while Muggins asks how. Buggine replies that a sore throat keeps him down yet he notes it would be worse if he were a giraffe.
Arctic Incident Drives Hunter and Dealer Face Off
An arcane clash is described in terse terms with a hunter pursuing a target who resists. The exchange ends abruptly as the hunter skins a deal, a stark, hard-edged moment captured in the Philadelphia Press style.
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Philadelphia Press
Prosperity for 1900 Hint of Coming Prosperity
Indications point to great prosperity for the coming year with emphasis on health as the basis of national and personal success. The ad recommends Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to cure dyspepsia indigestion and biliousness for those with stomach troubles.
Government by the people declared a failure by Loftman
Loftman says government by the people is a failure in a debate quoted by Amony. The exchange reflects political frustration over legislative work as reported by Philadelphia North American.
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Loftman
Amony
Philadelphia
North American
Patents Issued Last Week To Northwestern Inventors
A list of patents granted to Northwestern inventors includes Robert lJellman of Wilmot D, Frederick W Flakker of Wheat on Minn, James L Kimball of Mountain Iron Minn, John Morris of Minneapolis Minn, Emil A Nelson of Hallock Minn, Gustav A Peterson and A Olson of Florence Minn, Mahlon H Winkle of Oakes NC, John Wester of Triumph Minn, and Merwin Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys at 911 912 Pioneer Press Bldg St Paul.
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Northwestern
Robert l’Jellman
Wilmot
Frederick W. Flakker
Wheaton
Minn
James L. Kimball
Mountain Iron
John '. Morris
Minneapolis
Emil A. Nelson
Hallock
Gustav A. Peterson
A. Olson
Florence
Mahlon H. Winkle
Oakes
N. C
John Wester
Triumph
Sack Holder
Merwin
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press
Bidg
St. Paul
Mrs Gillian and Wykoff Say Quick Goodbye
Mrs Gillian tells Mrs Wykoff they must part as he heads to get a haircut and meet on the corner. The exchange ends with farewell words as they move apart in a street scene from the New York Press.
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Gillian
Mrs. Wykoff
New York Press
Deafness Cure Promises Remedies for Catarrh
An advertisement claims deafness, caused by inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, and promotes Hall's Family Pills, with circulars available.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tae
Funeral Flowers and Vine Prank Rumor in Georgia Court
A solicitor overhears a cook and a nurse in a Georgia courtroom discussing a funeral of a race member. They describe profuse flowers and a plan to plant a watermelon vine on the grave, with instructions to crack the fruit and let the juice drip onto the ground. The dialogue is cited from Youth's Companion.
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Georgia
Oldest Furniture Piece in British Museum
The throne of Queen Hatsu, ruler of the Nile Valley about 1600 years before Christ, is now housed in the British Museum, likely the oldest surviving piece of furniture.
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British Museum
Hatsu
Nile Valley
Christ
Allen's Foot-Base A powder advert
In winter use Allen's Foot-Base A powder for uncomfortable nervous cold damp feet. If you have sweating sore feet or tight shoes try Allen's Foot-Base. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Call a woman an angel and she will plead guilty
The idea that labeling a woman as an angel assures compliance is challenged by a sharp quip about vanity and manipulation. It reflects ironic wit rather than a concrete event or人物.
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Main Street
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