Cossacks of Russia Serve the Czar with Savage Ardor
The Kansas City Star portrays the Cossacks as a fierce, cohesive Russian cavalry group famed for bravery and pillage. It discusses origins, taxation, tribal government, religious devotion, and their role in expanding the empire, comparing them to fierce plains tribes and noting their Asiatic frontier tasks.
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Russia
Cuars
Taxaton
Moscow
Texas
Indiana
Europe
Asia
Kansas City Star
Old Man Bets Overcoat Trick At Window
A young man bets his father fifty dollars over a wager about people waving hands in air as if drawing circles. The bet succeeds as passersby imitate the motion, while an Ohio man recalls a lost ring mystery tied to a balloon story from Batavia. The tale blends humor and a curious memory of a ring linked to Charles Brown.
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South Street
Rascal
Batavia
Ohio
Charles Brown
Cincinnati
Detroit Free Press
Home of President McKinley’s Irish ancestors
A historical note traces President McKinley to Conagher near Ballymoney County Antrim. It recalls Francis McKinley executed in 1798 for ties to United Irishmen, his burial in Derrykeighan, and the family’s passing of the estate through generations to Robert McKinley’s line current owner.
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McKinley
Coleraine
Derrykeighan
Francis McKinley
F. McK
Francia McKinley
John
Francis
America
JSSS
John Ferguson
John Carson
Robert
Notable Fragments of Stories and Anecdotes Survive
A collection of brief vignettes features Ruth Bryan recalling a streetcar chase, Henry Russell’s theatrical anecdotes, and memories of Abraham Lincoln and Baker. Also recounted are a Paris exposition jury toast, a counterfeit era tale of a princess in dire straits, and a tragic final fate of a fallen noblewoman.
Windings and a Listener's Puzzling Joke
In a Baltimore Sun excerpt a bookkeeper suggests opening a window to hear magical words as a new victim appears. The exchange begins with greetings and a puzzled line about a winding stair, leading to a slow rising fist as the joke lands on an unwitting listener.
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Tom
Harry
Baltimore Sun
CIGAR COST HIM DEARLY AT AUCTION SALE
Henry Rosenfeld paid nine hundred dollars for a cigar costing him dear as bidders led by Rosenfeld, George W. Hume, and J. J. Moore competed at Merchants Exchange to buy the bark Melanope. The auction closed the estate of the late Captain Craigen with a final bid rumored near fifty three thousand dollars.
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Hume
Rosenfeld
George
San Francisco Examiner
Henry Rosenfeld
George W. Hume
Merchants’ Exchange
Craigen
J. J. Moore
Rubber Plant Care for Vigorous Growth and Bright Foliage
Eben E. Rexford advises regular soap baths to keep rubber plants clean and recommends growing plants tall in a single stem for finer foliage. He stresses high soil nutrition during growth, frequent feeding, and avoiding rootbound conditions, noting they require much brighter light than palms and thrive with steady development.
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Eben E. Rexford
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mes
Oil Upon Troubled Waters Told Through Ancient Tales
Pliny and Bede recount the belief that oil calms storms. A priest in Kent, sent to fetch King Edwin's daughter for Oswald, faced a tempest. Blessed with a pot of oil, he used it and the tempest ceased, as recorded in early historical anecdotes.
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Pliny
Bede
Kent
Edwin
Oswarra
King Winter Arrives Stirring Skating in District
A Western editor heralds the arrival of winter with simple charm. He quotes King Winter as blowing breath over hills and waters, chilling ripples and wrapping them in frigid calm. Skating becomes the order, and the piece notes the season’s brisk mood.
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Winter
Hill
Dale
SAD FATE OF A PRINCESS
A Vienna correspondent reports that a former Russian princess Ludmilla Goroseskow, famed for beauty, ended her days as a beggar in suburban Buda-Pesth. Once sheltered by wealth, she eloped with a wary Austro-Hungarian attache, squandered her inheritance, and left her father heartbroken before a life of charity and obscurity.
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Legion of Adventuresses
Buda-Pesth
Vienna
Perth
Feodor Goroseskow
Sebastopol
Ludmilla
St. Petersburg
Husain
Nations Agree To Preserve Game In Africa Preserve
European powers sign a convention to protect Africa's wild animals birds and fishes for fifteen years extending from the twentieth parallel north to the southern German possessions in southwestern Africa. Hunting of vultures owls giraffes gorillas chimpanzees mountain zebras wild asses and several other species is banned. Elephants tusks under twenty pounds per animal will be confiscated if killed after the convention takes effect. Limited hunting of certain large predators and other species is allowed.
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Africa
London
Great Britain
Germany
Spain
Belgium
France
Italy
Portugal
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
House Moving in Chicago Shows Urban Change and Rules
Chicago moves houses as a steady industry with license bonds and 5000 dollar security. The city requires consent from nearby property owners and enforces routes and inspections for each relocation. Despite simplification, experts stress complexity and the long tradition of moving brick and stone structures.
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Chicago
the Chronicle
Ecity
Imit
Improvements in Tools and Devices From a Patent List
A compilation of assorted patent summaries including a razor with removable blade for sterilizing the blade a massage device using a small motor to spin a flexible shaft and a roller for skin treatment an alarm matting for bank protection that spring activates on pressure a weighted scale beam with a graduated rod to read total weight a Canadian chimney design that diffuses more light using glass rings around a flame a toy billiard cue with an internal spring propulsion mechanism a dirt loading wagon setup with a rear board forming a track and horses spaced to pass on either side
Oliver Wolcott Jr and a Mass Governor riddle
In Beeston Herald style notes a gag about Oliver Wolcott Jr being asked who is governor of Massachusetts during his father’s term. The youngster answers that his father says he is governor, but doubts it due to dad’s habit of joking about everything. Also panels a 20th century “green thoughts” headache claim and a quip about fooling one’s mother versus other women.
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Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Baker
Leesburg
Congress
D. B. Hill
Lincoln
Wolcott
Oliver
Massachusetts
Littl
Beeston
Steel wool's rise in polishing for metal workers and carpenters
The text notes steel wool, once a six year substitute for sandpaper, is now widely used by metal workers and carpenters for polishing purposes.
Prominent Women Suffragista Prominent Men Advocate Ballot
A historical list credits many notable men who supported women’s suffrage, including presidents, jurists, clergymen, editors, and reformers such as Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner, William Seward, John Stuart Mill, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James A. Garfield, and Henry Ward Beecher among others.
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Abraham Lincoln
Charles Sumner
William H. Seward
Chief Justice
Chase
Henry W. Longfellow
John J. Whittler
Wendell Phillips
John Stuart Mill
Phillips Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Quincy Adams
George W. Julian
Joseph Cook
James Freeman Clarke
Charles Kingsley
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
David Grege
George W. Cable
George William Curtis
Bishop Bowman
Henry Ward Beecher
Charles F. Twing
Bishop Hurst
Bishop Simpson
Gilbert Haven
George F. Hoar
Hey
Minot Savage
John Pierpont
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Parker
James A. Garfield
Mysterious Passage on Babies and Money Woes
In a fragmentary exchange from Fiegende Binetter a child and mother debate infant remarks and value. A quip suggests women’s praise of a baby as a sign of its plainness, then shifts to the lighter note that a ten dollar bill is nicer than a ten dollar bill owed.
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Czar
M'Kinley
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Carlo
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Gem of the Ocean
Benjamin Harrison
Senate
Washington, D. C
Harrison
Neally
Hungary
Buda Pesth
United States
Washington Star
Front Street
Pike Street
1St Avenue
Beau Brummell
Indade
Seattle
Mall and Herald
House Moving Crew
Hin
Association of Ideas
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