Floor of the Pacific reveals vast ocean basin study
The Albatross expedition under Professor Agassiz reports new discoveries in the South Pacific. They found Moser Basin a four mile deep sea trench, catalogued cephalopods, sea pens, and phosphorescent crustaceans, and noted limited life below 1800 feet.
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Washington
Agassiz
Sam
South Pacific
Heas
South Seas
Pacific
United States
Albatross
San Francisco
Marquesas
Moser Basin
City of
Mexico
Professor Agassiz
Sea Hoor
Moorish Maiden Heals as Missionary Brings Faith to Fatima
In Tangier a Moorish mother pleads for her dying child Fatima. A British missionary nurses her back to health at a Christian hospital, where Fatima learns to read and embraces belief in Jesus Christ. The piece highlights cross cultural aid and religious hope.
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Tangier
Morocco
Fatima
Jesus Christ
Father
Galilee
Jesus
London Baptist Times
Ancient Manuscripts In Ohio Collector’s Treasured Line
John Beutler of Wapakoneta Ohio preserves manuscripts and books handed down from father to son since the ninth and sixteenth centuries. He owns original manuscripts of the code of Justinian the Great written in the latent fifth century.
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John Beutler
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Justinian the Great
Rome
Naming of the Capital in Indiana History
W A Bell, president of Antioch College, notes 1821 Indianapolis naming drama with General Clark proposing Tecumseh and Suwarrow and the final adoption of Indianapolis. He recounts 1821 land sale, early forested plat, no courts, first store on White River, and delays in marriage licenses. Hoosier origin stories are outlined, with three plausible versions of how the nickname arose from callers Who’s yer, hushers, and Hussars.
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W. A. Bell
Antioch College
Indianapolis
Indiana
Bell
Jeremiah Sullivan
Jefferson County
Marston G. Clark
Suwarrow
Samuel Merrill
Washington and
Delaware Streets
Washington Street
White River
Delaware County
Connersville
White Water District
Mooresville
Calvin Fletcher
Nicholas McCarty
Lawrenceburg
Madison
Hoosier
New Orleans
Great Southern Emporium
Louisville
Short
Leminoski
Napoleon
Naples Seer Miss d Amato Prophesies and Puzzles Scientists
The Rome correspondent reports Mary d Amato of Naples in cataleptic states lasting hours with visions that she records as prophecies. A Naples disaster soon verifies her words as the Amalfi rock collapses, killing ten. Lombroso says she is not insane and notes strange cataleptic phenomena.
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Rome
New York World
Mary d’Amato
Naples
Miss d’Amato
d’Amato
Bay of
Amalfi
Gulf of Salerno
Humanity
Yeo XIII
Vatican
Lombroso
Slang Lesson Tops Louisville Private School Class
In Louisville a private school English class faced a north born teacher who asked girls to list all slang they knew. Each student produced two pages of slang. The teacher then required translations into clear English, and the class stopped being playful with her.
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Louisville
North
Early Day Quote Opens Anglo Russian Rivalry Talk
The Washington Star quotes Li Hung Chang debating which side he favors in the Anglo Russian struggle for Asiatic influence. He replies he cannot decide before reviewing the morning mail and responses.
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Li Hung Chang
Washington Star
American Generals Killed in Early American Wars
Review of American generals who fell in battle from the Revolution through the Civil War, noting Warren Montgomery Nash Wooster and DeKalb Pulaski in earlier wars, Pike Covington in 1812, and major Union leaders at Gettysburg Antietam and Chattanooga. Mention of Confederates including Jackson Johnston and Canby.
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Lawton
Joseph Warren
Bunker Hill
Massachusetts
Richard Montgomery
Quebec
General Montgomery
Ireland
Wolfe
Louisberg
New York
Continental Congress
Canada
St. John
Montreal
Arnold
Montgomery
England
Princeton
Hugh Mercer
Prince Charles
Culloden
Germantown
Francis Nash
Nash
Dem
Or David) Wooster
Tryon
Connecticut
Danbury
Wooster
DeKalb
Pulaski
Zebulon M. Pike
Leonard
Louisiana Purchase
Dearborn
York
Toronto
Leonard Covington
Wayne
Britain
J. F. Reynolds
Gettysburg
Joseph K. F. Mansfield
Antietam
James B. McPherson
Atlanta
Nathaniel Lyon
Blair
Dodge
Wilson’s Creek
Lyons
Sedgwick
Mansfeld
Fitts
G. D. Bayard
Fredericksburg
Hiram G. Berry
Chancellorsville
Daniel D. Bidwell
Cedar Greek
BR. L. McCook
Detcher
Tenn
Charles R. Lowell
Middleton
Edmund Kirby
James S. Jackson
Perryville
James C. Rice
Laurel Hill
I. B. Richardson
D. A. Russell
Capernon
Thomas Williams
Baton Renee
W. BR. Territt
Ark
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Spain
Tecumseh
Short Brothers
APT
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