The Incredible Claims of Value in the Human Body
An eccentric chemist asserts the average person is worth about 15400 dollars chemically. He cites three pounds thirteen ounces of calcium at 300 dollars an ounce, Neptune’s vast distance, and plans to name a new planet Victoria. The note also covers Paraguay cotton, a new light-producing material from oil gas, and an essay on empty homes after children grow up.
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Neptune
George Vorbes
Victoria
Paraguay
Asuncion
Herman Blau
Helgoland
Rh. H. Thurston
Cornell University
France
Monsieur Guillaume
Meano
Father
Mother
Marion
Kan
Juror Questions Woman in Bagg Case
A London Tit Bits excerpt shows a courtroom scene where counsel presses a small, wiry witness to answer briefly about Joshua Bagg. The witness hints at personal grudge, claiming she owes the Baggs a grudge for fifteen years and asserts her belief in his guilt amid taunting questions about alleged crimes and family conduct.
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Joshua Bagg
Josh Bagg
Josh Bagge
Betsy Bagg
Azrael Bagge
Josh
Betsy Bage
London
Strange Recovery of a Family Kellc After Fifty-Three Years
A Chicago woman visiting New Orleans recounts a curious tale of recovering a family, exploring the French Market and local pawn and second-hand shops for souvenirs while a stranger fate unfolds. The piece frames truths as stranger than fiction in a light, column-like tone.
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Chicago
New Orleans
The Man Who Rides To My Father’s Carriages
A New York Tribune writer recalls a powerful financier who, during a rare idle hour at his country estate, finds a boy playing with a fox terrier in the stables. The child immediately identifies him as the man who rides to his father’s carriages, revealing a moment of humbled recognition amid vast wealth.
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New York Tribune
Anid
Woodcock
Prepared for Coming Pleasure Wheel Report Conversation
A fragment from a Blaetter file notes a line about buying a wheel for a good school report and a child learning to ride a wheel. It recalls women gossiping about hair shedding and the ineffectiveness of “helpful talk” during troubles.
Candy Coal Joke Captures Shopper in Store Display
A stroller in a major department store encounters a counter display of coal labeled “Mercy me” and priced at $200 a ton with a sign saying good to eat not to burn. The scene amuses a New York Times reader and ends with a quip about women and jealousy.
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New York Times
Church Shipped by Freight to Bohemia Cathedral
A Bohemian church at Eichwald near Teplitz Schoneau, commissioned by Prince Clary Aldringen, was replicated from the Madamma dell Orta in Venice. Italian builders packed Veronese marble and plaster into thousands of boxes and shipped them at a cost near $50,000 for freight plus over $300,000 for materials and labor. The prince defends the expense as artful exactness.
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Elchwald
Bohemia
Tepl'tz Schoeneau
Clary-Aldringen
Venice
Madomma Dell’ Orta
Pietro Bigagna
Eichwald
Boundary settled by Alverstone vote favors United States
Lord Chief Justice Alverstone aligned with American claims in the Alaska boundary dispute, aiding a settlement after a long dispute. The agreement between Ambassador Herbert and Secretary Hay in January created three commissioners per side, including Elihu Root, Senator Lodge, and ex Senator George Turner for the United States.
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America
Alverstone
Herbert
Hay
United States
Elihu Root
Lodge
George F. Turner
Conceit Of The Somali Chant Reveals Nomad Patriotism
An observer notes Somaliland natives boastful conceit and vivid chants. The Somali sings while watering camels and horses, extolling daily journeys, animal virtues, recent wife, or clan raids. A raw translation sample shows bold self-praise and dramatic self-image.
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Somaliland
Adam
Odd Tales from Before the Civil War and Africa to England
A collage of anecdotal vignettes features John A. Logan disputing a boastful liar with wit, a resigned African church member recounting his quit notes for cash, and a professor teased by a farmer over a disliked maid. Kipling’s breakfast pranks at Rhodes’s Paarl estate end with a wall full of pleas to eat.
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Illinois
John A. Logan
Logan
Mary
Rudyard Kipling
Cecil Rhodes
Lekkerwijn
Paarl
South Africa
Rhodes
Kipling
Uttle
Treaty tribunal grants United States vast Alaska reach
The Anglo Russian treaty dispute over Alaska ends with the United States gaining all territory it claimed while the Portland canal outlet to Canada is assigned to Canada. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone heads the London proceeding with Americans, and the final ruling emphasizes three commissioners per side and no umpire. The decision marks a shift in jurisdictional boundaries across the Pacific coast.
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Britain
Alverstone
Louis Jette
Quebec
A. B. Aylesworth
Dyea
Skagway
Juneau
American
America
Tidewater
Pacific Ocean
Lynn
Canadian
United States
London
Portland Canal
British Columbia
Canada
Iron Pillar of Delhi Its Size and Mysterious Metal Build
The Iron Pillar of Delhi stands as a solid wrought iron shaft between 48 and 60 feet tall, with a 16 inch diameter and a 34 foot capital. It weighs about seventeen tons and shows a long, obscure history of manufacture. An inscription mentions Rajah Dhara sub and a people named Vahlikas, tied to a mineral spring and a distant era unknown.
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Delhi
Rajah Dhara
Surdhe
Vahlikas
Newcomer Nicknames Across Lands Reflect Hostility and Humor
A London Globe commentary notes persistent instinctive hostility to outsiders in self contained communities. It traces medieval attitudes to furriners and shows how new arrivals receive nicknames such as tenderfoot griffin sinkeys lime juice jackaroo and greenhorn across regions including America India Australia and Britain.
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London Globe
America
Canada
Europe
Tenderfoot
Pilgrim
India
Malay Peninsula
Australia
London
Inland Waterways Plan for Italy and Northern Regions
A 19th century commission recommends establishing a 2112 mile inland waterway network linking Venice Milan Bologna and the Austrian frontier with rivers Stella Corno Attia and a northern Italian system aided by canals to connect Milan with Bologna and Venice. The proposal notes past canal building 500 years ago and locks by 1497 with an estimated total cost of 22.774 million.
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Europe
Hossffeld
Germany
Austria
Italy
Corisslap
Venice
Milan
Turin
Bologna
Veni
Venige
Stella
Corno
Attia
Pot
Clever Grouse and Mrs Grundy Dialogue Mix
A fragmentary miscellany blends a natural history on grouse behavior with a dated stage scene from Morton's comedy and a truncated outdoor chat. The text juxtaposes bird tricks, stealth, and wounded encounters with a humorous rural dialogue about Mrs Grundy and farm life in Philadelphia.
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Quarter
Mobile
Ada
Etlie
Dorothy
Reggie
Mollie
Clancy
Tim Dolan
Tim
Brooklyn
Jack
Snapp
Philadelphia Ledger
Briggs
Winkle
Griggs
Brooklyn Lite
Man
New York Weekly
Philadelphia Press
Inder
Mr. Kidder
Dr. Price
Harper's Bazar
Chicago Daily News
Aml
Sissy
Jane
Mr. Young
Young
Boston Transcript
Toothsome Coal
Church
Chief Justice Alverstone
Hoar
Bradder Dickson
Mistah ‘Dickson
Atlantis
Univers
Lord Alverstone
England
We Shou’ Taux
Desert
Kerrier
Alask
Missis
Grell
Philadelphis
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