Fire and Robbery Rampage Hits New York and Utah
A fire at Hardiman, Peck & Co. in New York caused over $100,000 in losses to machinery and wood. A burglary at the Commercial Hotel in Marises, Ile, yielded $2,000 as robbers fled. In Utah, Dutch Charisy of Lasal, amid jealous dispute, is linked to the murder of his wife, with Charles Bothe in custody in Placerville. Featherstone, jailed after escaping in Oregon, is hunted by Jacksonville authorities for a prior store robbery.
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Hardiman, Peck & Co
Yisae
West Forty-eighth Street
North River
New York
Marises
Ile
Charles Bothe
Dutch Charisy
Lasal
Utah
William Tobbette
Bothe
Placerville
Colo
Ted Betts
Thomas Featherstone
Jacksonville
Terrill
Fortons
van Dusen River
Hureks
Featherstone
Boers Visit Kitchener Under Flag of Truce at Pretoria
Acting President Schalk Burger F W Reitz and other Boer leaders arrived on a special train at Pretoria under a flag of truce. They met Lord Kitchener at his headquarters then proceeded to Kroonstad under safe conduct. No result of the interview is announced.
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Kitchener
Schalk Burger
F. W. Reitz
Transvaal
Lucas Moyer
Kreigh
Pretoria
Balmoral
Lord Kitchener
Kroonstad
Foreign Items Amid Rebellions and Naval Warnings
A Hong Kong dispatch reports five hundred returning emigrants despondent with life in the United. Rebels seize Kam-Chou, Kwantung province, taking the arsenal and granaries as mandarins flee to Canton for help. Canton’s viceroy declines further garrison depletion and urges General Ma to quell the rebellion. Admiral Beresford calls for stronger naval reserve and protection of Britain’s mercantile marine, outlining a tour to explain conditions despite possible expulsion.
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Kam-Chou
Kwang-Tung
Saya
Hongkong
Canton
Lord Charles Beresford
London
Institute of Naval Architects
British Mercantile Marine
England
Mercantile Marine
Pacific Coast Poultry and Egg Production Figures
Census figures for Pacific coast poultry and egg output show California led with 56,479 poultry value in 1900 and 1899 totals of 2,492,067 dollars in poultry and 3,864,000 plus in eggs. Oregon, Washington, and other states follow with varying yardage and egg counts, reflecting early 1900s regional agricultural activity. Wealth Left to Adopted Daughter in Hamburg wreck case names Frank Conger of 83 St. Mark's Avenue as beneficiary with large estate. the adopted girl, age 14, receives substantial income and contingents to widow, Mrs. Conger. references to Rev. BE. Stewart and the Lake Shore wreck near Hamburg, New York.
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Census Bureau
United States
Pacific Coast
California
Farma
Oregon
Sahington
Frank Conger
St. Mark's Avenue
Hamburg
Conger
BE. Stewart
Rochester
Lake Shore Road
Mra M. Lois Place
The Wood Spirit King Fares against a Greedy Woodcutter
Norna, promised to Swain the woodcutter by her father, pleads to forest guardians as Swain defies holy signs and targets the Gripen oak. The woodland king Galpen guides Norna to challenge him at dawn. Swain attempts the tree and is burned by a disguised monk who becomes the gray Gnipen in discourse. Norna weds Rolf Augentoll the fisherman.
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Norway
Swain
Norna
Petersen
Rolf Augentoll
St Francis
North
Gripen
Thomba
Old Petersen
Norua
Galpen
Swaln
The Term Yankee Origins and Meaning Across History
The article traces multiple explanations for the term Yankee. It cites an origin from Native attempts to pronounce English or Anglais and a second Eastern Massachusetts cant meaning very fine. It notes Yankee applied to New England residents before and during the Civil War as a northern citizen distinction from the South.
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Atlantic
Massachusetts
New England
Baseball Fragments From The New York Journal
Fragmentary dialogue shows Chimmie recalling a home run moment as women cheer on a TV score of 79 while three men stand on base before he is recalled by his mother.
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New York Journal
Getting Local Color in a Rural Life Study
A quip about an actor studying rural life for a new drama. The exchange captures folksy slang and a small town mood, reflecting a moment of character study rather than a direct news event. The vignette showcases local color and social humor from the era.
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New York Journal
Rolling Snowball Tale of Bushler’s Mont Blanc Claim
A humorous item notes the repetition of a traveler named Bushler claiming ascent of Mont Blanc. It traces his evolving tale from the foot of the mountain to the summit, showing how the tale grows with each retelling, like a rolling snowball.
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Bushler
Mont Blavc
Switzerland
Mont Blanc
Pool table pockets knit by farmwives in New York area
A Sun report details how pool table pockets are handmade mainly by German and Swedish women in farms and Long Island families. Production is scattered with an annual output about 10,000 dozen, valued around $40 per dozen, using cotton wool or silk in green maroon yellow or blue.
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S Tan
New York
Long Island
New York Sun
Home Doctor Remedies From a Century Ago
A vintage health column offers home cures using carbolic acid for blisters, hot water for headaches, a laudanum-dampened flannel for earache, vinegar to stop stomach insects, salad oil for ear insects, and cold foot soaks for tired feet. It also notes nutmeg mixed with water as a supposed boil cure across days.
Four Footed Bird Described as Onto family Anomaly
A four footed bird, Opia thocomus cristatus, defies classification. Native to Marnjo Island in the lower Amazon, it survives as a relic of extinct groups. Embryos show two fore feet that appear early and are shed after a few days. The bird’s flesh emits an unpleasant odor, aiding its survival.
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Marnjo
Amazon
Patent Application No 872 for Comanche mine location in White Pine Nevada
Notice of patent application by P J Broasemer for thirteen thousand eight hundred eighty eight and over feet of Comanche vein bearing gold silver lead in White Pine Mining District Nevada. Details describe lot numbers and bearings, with instructions to file adverse claims within the publication period. located in Eureka Weekly and Eureka county records.
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Land Office
Canson Cruz
Nevada
P. J Broasemer
Eufrica
Eureke County
State of Nevada
White Pine
County of
WN. Rfr
Mt. Diablo Base
Merhuen
Recorder's Office
White Pine County
Scjoiming
Fortheast
Register of the United States Land Omson O'ty
Ciimaby
Vada
B. Gallup, Register
Patent application for a shaft mine in Nevada fuels claims
No. 882. Application filed at the U S Land Office Caneon City Nevada on February 14 190% by Morey Aynevutty State of Nevada agent for the Inner hotter estate to obtain a patent for a shaft with box and mineral deposits including gold silver lead and other precious metals with a specified surface area of 600 acres in the Morey Mining District Sy County Nevada. The description details bearings and shafts with chain of survey points and distances, posts, tunnels and a plan of site boundaries, concluding with a claim of 2006 acres for the location and a caveat of surface measurements.
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WRIRS
Gy Wallace
Adama Hil
Hooke Mining
Eureka County
State of Nevada
United States
Anatie Vite
Thia Police
Authcr
Nicholas Barlow
U. 8. Land Office
Caneon Crrr
Nevada
Newt Sobended
Morey
Dolug
Wells
Cor
Wits Fe
Eas Mooney Brass
DS Woro
Alef Fadant
Bucks Lane
Thane
Saeed
Groun
Bay State
Air Shaft
Recorder’s
Point of Rocks
Rery County
Register of the United States
Carson City
Orieley County
Hiate
H Gallup
Furce Galty
Eureka
Uni Tste
Hgallup
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Pacific Coast Poultry Farms
Chicago News
Vance de Leon
Chicago
Ill
George Gavin
Tidon
Comanche Tunnel
Pia Roe
U BS
Ceeayen
Homestake
Welite
Eibenege
Sal
Pine Port
Old Location
UBS
Gore
Homentake
Saerinen
Gallup
Ragiater
John Pardy
Boreks
Noh Hill
Henry
Jos M. Kai
Hareks County
Barska
J. Hooper
Kuroke County
Fox
Fremenkampf
Wm. E. Anderson
Main Street
Eureka Shaving Parlor
W. H. Russell
Main & Bateman
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