Global Inequality, Urban Strains, and Atlantic Naval Plans
The piece surveys social issues from imperial-era debates on poverty and labor to American schooling pay and the value of education. It notes Boston playground needs, Liberia harbor offers for U S Navy basing, and buoyant shipbuilding trends as ocean liners grow, aiming to link domestic policy and global maritime power.
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Liberia
United States
United States Navy
Atlantic
South America
Africa
Europe
Wisconsin town enforces streetcar speed limit test
City officials rode as passengers while a cyclist timed speeds on a streetcar. The car exceeded eight miles per hour on single track and ten on double track, reaching up to twenty six. Warrants were issued against operators exceeding limits as citizens debate rescinding the ordinance.
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Wisconsin
Forever and Forever by Hyannette Kory
A New York Independent poem fragment echoes on enduring bonds and timeless love. The text weaves phrases about memory, friendship, and forever, with scattered garbled OCR renderings of names and lines.
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New York Independent
The Goin Tellers Atonement in Dope Alley Tale
A tale unfolds of Thornton the teller who loans and donates to a foreign mission, a botched coin exchange by a Chinese client, and the teller’s accidental imprisonment of the Chinese man’s money. The narrator tracks the thief through a Chinatown district to repay the lost fortune, encountering comical dialect and urban hardship.
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Thornton
Joe
United States
China
Jack
Lin
Banco
Pillaged Treasure and A Forgotten Atrocity Recap
A fragmented reminiscence details a $10 subtreasury debacle tied to a China rooted tale and a sanctimonious vow to fund Chinese missions. It recalls Parkman’s note on the Enoch Brown massacre of July 26 1764 where a Christian teacher and ten pupils were killed by Native Americans near Chambersburg Pennsylvania with one boy escaping.
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China
Melican
Treasury
Foreign Missionary Association
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Chambersburg
Penn
Parkman
Enoch Brown
Little Fog
Conococheague
Ohio
Philadelphia Press
Isle of Pines details and mispriced suit tale
The Isle of Pines in the Antilles with its swampy division and height to 1500 feet is described along with flora fauna and the Gulf of Matamano. A New York clothing merchant misprices suits at 15 dollars and is foiled when the sign warns they won’t last long drawing pedestrians’ ridicule.
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New York City
Isle of Pines
Isle of Vines
Columbus
Evangelist Island
Cuba
Gulf of Matamano
Antilles Sea
Lower Broadway
New York Herald
Aptain Grandall
Greenland
Tromso
Europe
Arctic
Musk Ox and Magnesium Alloys Highlight 19th Century Science
A survey of 19th century science covers magnesium aluminum alloys with 15 and 25 percent magnesium, the Arctic musk ox journey from Greenland to Tromso, and meteorology notes from Professor Bigelow. It also reports on Lake Winnebago depth, home made windmills for irrigation, and miscellaneous curiosities.
Words of Wisdom on Duty and Peace in Education
The piece urges embracing courteousness courage and confidence as gospel duties. It says love clears sorrow, peace comes from inner triumph of principle, and education should foster enjoyment of right actions. It warns against speaking ill of disliked people and recalls four things that do not return.
Wild man Levi Brewer caught in farmer’s wolf traps near Plum Fork
A wild man believed to be Levi Brewer was captured in two wolf traps set by farmer Louis Brown at a cave near Plum Fork. Brewer, raised near Warfield, says he lived by fishing and catching game with his hands and was briefly confined before speaking. He is described as tall with eaglelike nails and full body hair.
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Ah Sing
Ah Foy
Ah Sam
John
China
Lailloa
Wilf
Plum Fork
Louis Brown
Brown
William Rice
Levi Brewer
Warfield
Big Sandy
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Carnegie
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Ty Dollah
Popular Science
Mach
TI. H. Bigelow
United States Weather Bureau
Bigelow
Earth
H. A. Hazen
Lake Michigan
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences
C. D. Marsh
Lake Winnebago
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McKinley
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Tle
Piranger
Mr. Deane
Bureau of Information
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Jim
Jim Tins
Drosh Wink
Baltimore American
Blobbs
Richmond Dispatch
Philadelphia Bulletin
Poeticus
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Tommy
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Oliver Cromwell
Magazine of History
Chicago News
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Stella
Maude
Foxey
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Transvaal
United States Army
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