Elk Hunting and Royal Protocol in East Friesland
Prussian Court Circular notes the German Emperor inviting the Crown Prince of Austria to an autumn elk hunt in East Friesland. The piece surveys elk history, distribution, and hunting customs across Europe and Scandinavia, contrasting royal ceremony with practical hunting, and forecasts a measured royal outing rather than a snowshoe chase.
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Austria
East Friesland
Europe
Asia
Berlin
Deutschland
America
Hemisphere
China
Caucasus
East Prussia
Great Britain
Canada
New England
British Columbia
Byttle
New World
German Forest
Fauntolf
Skandinavia
Sweden
Scaninavia
Germany
Danish
Denmark
Norway
Scandinavia
Elsdyr
Osterdalen
Hallingdal
Hardanger
Gazelle from Powhatan Brings a Curious Pet to Central Park
Lieutenant Osborn guides a fragile gazelle named Daisy from Tripoli to New York to join Central Park Zoo. The animal, fond of tobacco, captivated visitors on the navy yard pier, while her transfer honors include a gift from the Tripoli governor general.
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Powhatan
Central Park
United States
Navy Yard
Osborn
Daisy
Republic
United States Navy
Jack O’lantern
Tripoli
Game Gazette
Ludlow
Lidlow
New York
Zoological Gardens
Tome
Mountain of Pitj and the Monte de Piedad of Mexico
Cor ot Louly Glube-Lomuck recalls Senor Pedro Romero Terreros, the first Count of Regla, who transformed a mining venture into a vast fortune. He funded the Monte de Piedad, a public pawnshop in Mexico City, protecting the poor from usury for a century. The bank later expanded to notes and branches, but government funding and mismanagement left it ruined, its revered Mountain of Pity reduced to a shadow of its former self.
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Louly Glube-Lomuck
Mexco
Pedro Romero
Je Terreros
Regla
Peter Terreros
Real del Monte
Santa Brigada
Petar
Monte de Piedad
Mexico
Chatham Street
Cortez
Capta
Aladdin
Monte de Pielal
D Ito
Sillver
Cmsar
Tt Atill
She Didn't Take the King in Society Scandal
A Philadelphia young lady returns from the seashore in indignation after an encounter on a boardwalk with a man bearing a black mustache who offered a diamond ring for her, then attempted a kiss and kept the ring. She explains the incident to friends and asserts the inappropriateness of the advance and ring.
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Philadelphia
West Walnut Street
Nol
Beast
Anid
Ena
Bear Hunter Miguel Beats Deadly Black Bear
Miguel, a tall Indian hunter from the Pecos frontier, killed five bears this season. In a dramatic encounter he fought a large male bear in a mountain canyon, the rifle failing him, then used a bowie knife to kill the animal after grappling and being maimed. He now wears bandages on both arms.
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Cure Sen
Auta Keevies
Miguel
Neil Weill
Hamilton
Pecos Valley
MeKay
Langer
Begle
Whale Attacks Cable Repairs Deluge of Evidence in Letter Excerpts
Excerpts from West Coast South America letters and a cable repair captain describe a whale entangling a submarine telegraph cable. The creature is said to have died after seven days, with the cable damaged but repairable. The manager notes the whale’s impact and the efficiency of repairs overcoming underwater breaks.
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Col. Lamson
Bug
South America
Morton
Measur of School Children in France Report
A French education commission reports health concerns for school children, noting overclad attire especially among the poor. It urges legal ban on heavy outdoor wraps and favors lighter head coverings and freer movement for girls, praising English practice of allowing bare legs and occasional bare feet manners.
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France
New Hampshire Tale of Two Brothers in a Split Farm
A New Hampshire vignette tells of two brothers inheriting a farm as joint owners, then quarreling over control. Arbitration fails, they split the property with a dividing wall and halved fields. Years later one paints his half white and the other red, a visible reminder of the rift.
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Berek
New Hampshire
John
Ammon
Lrother
Everyield
Irving
Eccentric Widow in French Village Faces Fine for Barking Dogs
In Colombes a widow of the famed physiologist Claude Bernard is said to keep about forty dogs and cats in a noisy, odorous yard likened to a lazaretto. She has been fined five francs as authorities argue the animals threaten nearby health, while locals speculate on her motive to avenge her late husband.
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London
Stresta
Paris
Rouadway
Joos
Medical Journal
Colombes
Inno Les
Claude Bernard
MS Bernard
M. Bernard
Lenzeh
Colombos
Strange tale links patent medicines to wealth and madness
A Brooklyn man inherits fortune and spirals into madness after adoring a patent medicine. The piece critiques quack products, vast advertising budgets, and the public credulity that sustains the lucrative, unseen world of proprietary remedies and inflated wealth.
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Charles F. Wal
Brooklyn
Enormon
Aline
Mets
Brok
Gai
Europe
Steamer John T McCoombs Hunted by Creek Raiders
Pittsburgh Dispatch recalls a war era steamboat incident when the John T. McCoombs loaded with corn for a Florence Alabama consignor faced a band of about fifteen raiders armed with belts pistols and knives. After coercing a whisky haul the crew endured fights and drunken revelry. The boat narrowly escaped capture, with the crew unloading the cargo ashore and slipping downriver to safety before returning to Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Taylor
Boullsi
John T. McCoombs
St. Louis
Florence
Ala
Jackson
T River
Pitteburgh
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Ametiva
Casuy
Eisdyr
Kaiser
Gazelle
Pitj
New World Institution
Fte
Texas
Stpor de Terreros
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