Alaska flowers bloom along Sitka walk and inland roads
The article notes Alaska’s summer verdure rivaling English landscapes with long sunshine and profuse blooms. It highlights Sitka’s Sitka walk, Indian river scenery, and wildflowers from coast to interior, including epilobium and blue carpets on mountains. A Mobile report tells how Laura Jones saved a train from a washout by signaling from her underskirt, prompting passenger donations.
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Nome
Alaska
Glaciera
Sitka
Sitka Bay
Mobile
Laura Jones
Bay Shore Railroad
Alabama
Thames London River as City Seaport and Not a Toy
The Thames is described as a busy imperial river, not a summer toy. Ralph D. Paine notes the divergence between a green pastoral image and the modern, turbid waterfront. The busy riverfront stretches twenty five miles with hidden shipping and aged industrial quays.
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London
Thames
Ralph D. Paine
Scribner's Magazine
Atlantic
Gravesend
Nore
London River
Empire
Elisabethsn
Maritime London Hidden in the Upper Pool Inlets
The description paints a decayed port scene where steamers crowd a narrow river trade route. London Bridge to Tower Bridge reveals coastwise ships, dingy warehouses, and obsolete basins behind tenements, with a smoky haze masking activity along antiquated quays.
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London
Europe
London Bridge
Tower Bridge
News Girl’s Romance Ends in Quiet Attleboro Marriage
Nan Corrigan, once a Vanderbilt periodical stand clerk, wed Frank M Bates of Attleboro after a brief romance complicated by a Buffalo widow. Bates, a jewelry maker’s son with a fortune, has been married twice before, and the couple’s plans followed her January transfer to a new hotel stand. The Buffalo suitor faded after Bates’s appearance.
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New York
Nan Corrigan
Vanderbilt
Stand
Frank M. Bates
Attleboro
Mass
Danielson
Mr. Bates
Trousseau
Frank M. Gates
New England
Joseph M. Bates
Woman Whips Candidate in San Francisco Swindle Case
Mrs. Emily J. Russell, widow of Oakland, chased and whipped Schuyler Duryee a city commissioner hopeful after accusing him of a stock deck fraud eight years earlier. Duryee reportedly suffered a cut and bruises before subduing the weapon. Russell alleges Duryee and another man persuaded her to relinquish holdings and invest 4200 dollars in a mine run by an alias mining company.
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San Francisco
Cal
Emily J. Russell
Oakland Calif
Schuyler Duryee
Duryee
At Kagiiah Mining Company
Cyprus Among Greeks and Turks Strives for Union and Peace
A London correspondent from Nicosia recalls Cyprus in 1878 under British custody after the Berlin conference, noting a population of about 180,000 with Greeks outnumbering Turks. The piece highlights British rule stabilizing tensions, recounting a police official’s careful handling of parallel Greek and Turkish processions in Famagusta and the mutual assurances to avoid clashes.
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London
Nicosia
Cyprus
Berlin
Famagusta
Woman 100 Celebrates Birthday in Pittsfield Asters
Mrs Eliza Van Bramer aged 100 marked her centennial by planting asters and playing whist with friends in Pittsfield Massachusetts She was born June 8 1812 in Waterloo New York to Henry and Mary Presser She moved to Pittsfield in 1853 married Jacob Van Bramer in 1854 and has lived there except seven years Her sister Catherine Harris and brother John Presser reside in Waterloo New York
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Pittsfield
Mass
Eliza van Bramer
van Bramer
Waterloo
N. Y
Henry
Mary Presser
Jacob van Bramer
Dyers
Massachusetts
Catherine Harris
John Presser
Woman’s toddler muffled by lard can at Shamokin
Six year old Helen Misocky used a lard can to muffle her two year old brother Joe in Shamokin Pennsylvania. The can became stuck under the child's chip and blood flowed as doctors and two machinists freed him with large from a hearing. The boy narrowly escaped loss of both ears.
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Shamokin
Joe
Helen Misocky
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Richmond
Danville
Daniel Miller
Edward Kingston
George Swank
Oakland, Cal
Lawyear
Bunke
Island
Greece
Constantinople
Larnake
Eliza van Brammer
Little Sister
Ferdinand Electric Light Co
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Indiana
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Mathias Olinger
Huntingburg
Ind
Cumberland Celephone & Celegraph Cs. Incorporated
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