Riches of Cape Nome San Francisco Letter
A San Francisco letter reports Nome Alaska as a rapidly growing placer gold boom on Cape Nome. It describes rapid population rise from a few Scandinavians to thousands, beach and inland gold yields, notable individuals like Gabriel Price and Rev. Anderson, and the harsh, volatile living conditions plus high costs and evolving wealth expectations.
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Alaska
Bering Sea
North America
Asia
Nome
Arctic Circle
Klondike
Dunalaska
Cape Nome
L. B. Butler
Pacific Coast
United States
Dawson
Skaguay
Vancouver
Seattle
Fiy
Union
John W. Peters
St. Louis
Iien
Gabriel Price
Bertha
San Francisco Mint
Main Street
Young
Josep Anderson
John Brindensen
Carl Winkler
Los Angeles
Frisco
San Francisco
Curious drug orders reveal misheard requests in 19th century shop
A New York Mail and Express tale shows a druggist recounting comically misheard orders from customers over the years. He details cases from bitter Alice to am monia, cardamom seeds misread as man seed, and many others, noting how phonetic errors reveal a culture of plain clumsy speech and attempts to save physician costs.
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New York Mail and Express
Alice
Legion
Paddy Garrick
Annie Quintum
Anne Grintum
The Sport of Kings in Royal Hunting Habits
The article surveys royal attitudes to hunting, noting Russia’s czar, Britain’s Prince of Wales, Germany’s emperor, Portugal’s king, Sweden’s monarch, Turkey’s sultan, Belgium’s king, and Italy’s king. It highlights Italy’s monarch as the authentic hunter, often roaming with Colonel Pazzimbolini, while others hunt less passionately or from tradition. Rome now receives regular dispatches during his expeditions.
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Russia
Prince of Wales
Germany
Portugal
Sweden
Turkey
New York
Italy
Pazzimbolini
Rome
Margherita
Fighting in furs during the 1854 56 Russian war
London Daily Mail recounts military clothing for the Crimean War with 250000 pairs of gloves 200900 pairs of jambs wool stockings 50000 flannel gowns for hospitals and 80000 greatcoats. Officers wore fine brown fur coats while men used cowhide and waterproof coverings. Guards wore bear skins. others used seal skin hats.
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Russia
London Daily Mail
Lilies In The South Experiment To Grow Bermuda Lily
Southern states conduct trials to cultivate Bermuda lilies for decorative use. South Carolina reports satisfactory transplanting results and hopes for similar outcomes elsewhere to supply home markets. Bermuda stock remains abundant but of declining quality in the United States.
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South Carolina
Bermudas
Mrs Joubert A Utilitarian in Boer War Tale
A Buffalo Commercial item recalls Mrs Joubert praised pewter bullets shown in Amsterdam and notes she helped in the early Boer wars by making bullets for the Boer army. The anecdote casts her as a practical, utilitarian figure amid conflict.
Indiana Supreme Court Upholds Public Health Police Power
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled that protecting public health falls within the state's police power in a vaccination case.
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Supreme Court of Indiana
A Modern Battle View from the Front Lines
Julian Ralph describes a quiet, methodical war scene in the veldt during a modern battle. He notes faint booms from distant guns, rifle fire as the main sound, and orderly formations across a double line of five to seven miles, with stretcher bearers and chaplains active amid limited casualties.
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Modder River
Curious Condensations From a Distant Era
A collection of terse notes covers famine in Central India at an estimated 50 million people, army supply contracts in the UK, police veterans in South Africa, pensioners from multiple American wars, courtroom etiquette in Chicago, superstitions of Arab widows, Danish railcar tenders, sweatshop claims in New York, British Guiana gold drought, Madagascar island populations, and rapid YMCA building in the United States during 1899.
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India
Sheffield
Birmingham
Metropolitan Police
South Africa
New York City
Chicago
New York
Elizabeth Street
Massachusetts
Johan Williams
British Guiana
Madagascar
Young Men's Christian Association
United States
Japanese Aid Offer to Britain in South Africa War
Canadian minister of militia reports a communication from Japanese citizens in British Columbia proposing a corps for service in South Africa. They aim to equip and transport 100 men, all ex-soldiers, if accepted by the British government.
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British Columbia
South Africa
Brooklyn Times
University of Texas as Largest Real Estate Owner in U S
The University of Texas is the largest real estate owner among American institutions, holding over 2,000,000 acres of land.
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The
University of Texas
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Mrs. Joubert
Julian Ralph
England
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