The Flowery Kingdom and the Chinese Crisis
A lengthy modern sermon on China as a rising power and fading empire. It contrasts ancient Chinese glory with present weakness under Western pressure, warns of dissolution, and cites population, geography, and historic feats to argue for inevitable global shifts and economic gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Rev. W. Remfry Hunt
Russia
England
India
John Chinaman
Philippines
United States
Alaska
France
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Great Britain
Ireland
Africa
South America
Oceanica
Canada
Madagascar
Shantung
Henan
Anhuei
Kiangsu
London
New York
Tii
Turkistan
Annam
Korea
Formosa
Manchuria
Europe
How Whitman Helped Childs
Whitman explains his work for George Childs in Philadelphia as rider on streetcars who notices drivers without coats and sizes. He reports earning 850 a month and delivering information that prompts Childs to send overcoats, aiding a charitable effort.
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Walt Whitman
Camden
Philadelphia
Walt
Whitman
George Childs
Childs
Franz Josef's Many Titles Highlight Habsburg Authority
The Austrian emperor Franz Josef held an extraordinary array of formal titles, reflecting the vast reach and prestige of the Habsburg monarchy across Europe. His official style encompassed ruler, sovereign, and regent roles across multiple territories and historical claims.
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Europe
Regal titles follow a man through Chicago Chronicle
A clipped Chicago Chronicle item notes a wearer can be styled as grand duke or grand prince, and also bears counts or lords in various forms. The brief discusses ceremonial ranks and forms of address without naming individuals or dates.
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Chicago Chronicle
Where Cape Nome Is A Geographic Note
Cape Nome sits on the Bering Sea shore at the Snake River mouth on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. It lies at 65 degrees north latitude and 166 degrees west longitude, about 2700 miles by sea from Seattle. The ocean route goes 1300 miles west to Dutch Harbor and 800 miles north to the gold lands, passing government seal rookeries on the Pribilof Islands.
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Cape Nome
Bering Sea
Snake River
Seward Peninsula
Alaska
Seattle
North Pacific Ocean
Dutch Harbor
Aleutian Archipelago
Land of Gold
Pribyloff Islands
Harper’s Weekly
What Becomes of Gold
The government asks jewelers and assayers for yearly data on gold use in arts and manufacturing to explain shrinking visible gold bullion. Record shows 108 million in coinage last year, Chicago consuming about 1 million yearly in arts and manufacture.
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Mint
Chicago
Cure for the Nerves Toboggan Cure Gains Stockholm Steam
An American writer hails the toboggan cure as a powerful nerve tonic found in Sweden and Switzerland. He describes Stockholm’s slides at Djurs holm, the royal frolics, and the invigorating effects of a long icy descent that builds appetite and invites dreamless sleep.
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Philadelphia
Europe
Sweden
Stockholm
Humlegard
Saltsjebaden
Djursholm
Switzerland
Gayety
Notable Women in Public Roles Across Nations
A roundup highlights Evelyn Tome of Port Deposit as president of two banks and a director of a third, plus others: Mrs J M Cohn alternates at Utah convention, cattle queen Nat Collins in Montana, Laura Holtschneider an Alderman in Buena Vista, Erika Paulasz seeking architectural certification in Budapest, and Russian clinics employing women as apothecaries. Michigan appoints Ella Clara Nichols hospital steward, Gibraltar’s postal head is M Cresswell, and Edith Shore, M B, serves as a medical officer in the same post office.
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Evelyn Tome
Port Deposit
Cecil National Bank
National Bank of
Elkton
Cecil County
Jacob Tome
Utah
J. M. Cohn
Kansas City
Nat Collins
Montana
Laura Holtschneider
Buena Vista
Col
Western Club
Erika Paulasz
Buda- Pesth
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Kiev
Ella Clara Nichols
Michigan
Stewart
Miss Nichols
Gibraltar
M. Cresswell
Edith Shore
M. B
Confederate Reunion Guest From Gettysburg Wore NC Uniform
Among Louisville visitors at the Confederate reunion Col. John R. Lane commander of the Twenty sixth North Carolina regiment appeared in his battle uniform recalling the deadly Gettysburg fight where his unit suffered heavy losses.
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Louisville
Col
John R. Lane
Twenty-sixth
North Carolina
Gettysburg
Enduring Society Earns Respect Through Centuries
The group claims 260 years of existence and immunity from ridicule due to its long history. Admirers cite past members who faced hostile opposition, arguing that such endurance warrants public esteem.
Effect of Cannonading on Soldier Ears Observed
A German scientist in South Africa studied ninety six soldiers before and after battle. He reported ear changes in forty four cases, including seven with small hemorrhages and one with large bleeding. The firing reddened the ear drum edge in thirty seven instances.
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South Africa
New York Post
Trade names in peerage cite weaver origin among barons
The London Chronicle notes how peerage names such as Taylour Turnour Parker Smith Napier Lister and Kitchener derive from trades like weaving. It contrasts them with surnames like Stewart Butler Falconer and Forrester rooted in royal offices, seen as more aristocratic in origin.
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Richard Webster
Weaver
Taylour
Headfort
Turnour
Winterton
Parker
Macclesfield
Morley
Smith
Hambleden
Strathcona
Napier
Ettrick
Magdala
Lister
Masham
Kitchener
Khartoum
Stewart
Texas Wheat Crop Forecast Sees Record Yield This Year
2B E Huff of Wichita Falls estimates the Texas wheat crop of 1900 at about 12,000,000 bushels, 5,000,000 above the 1881 record, while others at the millers convention project as high as 14,000,000 bushels.
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Texas
E. Huff
Wichita Falls
Gonvantion
Birth of the Republican Party Traced to 1854 Michigan Convention
The piece surveys claims of birthplace for the Republican Party, noting Michigan's July 6 1854 Jackson convention as the first organized effort that united independent Democrats Free Soilers and Whigs under the Republican banner. It details preceding events including the Kansas Nebraska act and Ripon Wisconsin efforts led by Alvin Bovay, and cites key figures such as Salmon P. Chase Joshua R. Giddings and Gerrit Smith who shaped anti slavery coalition politics.
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St. Louis
Auburn
N. Y
Free States
Syracuse
United States
Republican Organization
New York
N.Y
Senate
Kansas
Nebraska
Stephen A. Douglas
Louisiana
Missouri
Republican Party
Friends of Freedom
Whig
Democratic
Free Soil
Know Nothing
Free Soil Party
Congress
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio
Joshua R. Giddings
Chase
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
Giddings
Edward Wade
Gerrit Smith
Alexander de Witt
House
Israel Washburn, Jr
Maine
Edward Dickinson
Thomas D. Eliot
Washburn
Alvin E. Bovay
Ripon
Winnebago County
Wis
Major Bovay
Wisconsin
Michigan
Free Democrats
Free Soilers
Independent Democrats
Isaac P. Christiancy
Peru
Jackson
Christiancy
Jacob M. Howard
Austin Blair
Zachariah Chandler
Old Liberty Party
Northwest
Mich
Kinsley
Bingham
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Babylon
Euphrates
Nineveh
Tigris
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Sheba
Jerusalem
Jonah
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Red Sea
Sinim
Capy
Franz Josef
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