New York to North Carolina Essay on Servants and Red Bugs
The text describes William Nye’s experiences moving from New York to North Carolina and notes a visit to Roan Mountain where the Western North Carolina Red Bugs held a grand encampment. It frames travel, social contrasts, and nature as observed by Nye with humorous tone.
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William
New York
North Carolina
Edgar W. Nye
Roan Mountain
N. C
Red Bugs
Reat
Wild frontier notes and servant reminiscences from North Carolina
A verbose diary excerpt blends nature musings with immigration praise and cotton dawns, describing land opening in the south, railroad inducements, and the author’s humorous tale of servicing and relocating servants across states. It touches on class, race, and culture in a satirical voice.
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Sandow
United States
Italy
Louisiana
Normal School OF
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England
Pericles
Julius Cesar
Gaul
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William Tell
Charlemagne
France
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Egypt
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Gettysburg
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Saratoga
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Walter Scott
Dickens
Enoch Arden
Shakespeare
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Thack
Chaucera
Robert Browning
Pompeii
Oliver Goldsmth
Childe
Herod
Alfred Tennyson
Youngest Potter Drops Society For London Slums
Beatrice Potter Webb, once a society belle of the Potters of Lancashire, leaves swell London life to work among East End poor. She and Sidney Webb marry and publish a history of socialism, living and laboring to ease the poor’s condition in London.
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Beatrice Webb
London
Mrs. Webb
Lancashire
Sidney Webb
East End
Flower boats on Canton River attract Europeans in Hong Kong
The Canton river hosts Invating flower boats that serve as floating music halls and restaurants moored together in fleets. They attract Celestial collectors and European visitors with ornate decks, tea, and strange Chinese music though fires devastate fleets. How Qua’s costly pleasures highlight the era.
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Canton River
Canton
Hongkong
Qua
Eye of the Big Bear on Transsiberian Route and Vladivostok
A commented essay argues the Transsiberian railroad could shift power toward Vladivostok and Britain fears Russia may favor southern ports like Lazaret. It notes Vladivostok’s growth since 1860s and discusses potential naval and commercial implications amid Russia Japan tensions.
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London
Orient
Russia
England
Vladivostok
Asia
Lazaref
Port Hamilton
Sea of Japan
Port Lazaret
Peking
Krar
Cream of tartar cure touted in journalism
Edward Hine writes to the Liverpool Mercury claiming a potion of cream of tartar heated in water, taken in doses during illness, can cure smallpox within three days. He asserts the remedy has cured thousands, prevents scarring and blindness, and shortens lingering sickness.
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Edward Hine
Liverpool Mercury
H. Rider Haggard Chooses Norfolk Over London Life
Novelist H. Rider Haggard abandons his London town house to settle at a Norfolk country seat. He becomes a country squire and gentleman farmer, dedicating himself to agriculture, stock raising, and profitable novel writing despite urban terrors.
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Rider Haggard
Haggard
Ditchingham House
Tris den
London
Norfolk
A Born Warrior Ex Army Officer James Wasson Career
A profile of Major James R. Wasson tracing his Ohio birth in 1840s, Civil War service with the Sixty-fifth Iowa, West Point cadet success, Egyptian and Japanese army reforms, a rising honor with the Order of the Rising Sun, later disgrace from misused funds, and current work as a civil engineer in Sodalia Missouri. The piece notes prosperity’s ruinous turn and a later public misfortune.
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James R. Wasson
Korea
Ohio
Iowa
Army of the Potomac
Sixty-fifth
Wasson
Comand
West Point
Khedive of
Egypt
Grant
Japan
Order of the Rising Sun
Tokyo
United States
John A. Bingham
Winwife
Department of Texas
Sam
Hoe
Sodalia
Parasol Said to Shield Skin From Freckles
A circulating paragraph claims a red parasol blocks freckles. It alleges light passing through the parasol negates the sun’s rays and destroys the skin’s netinic power, a claim attributed to a supposed predousediaan property.
Helpful Young Men and the Brotherhood of St Andrew
A Chicago Bible class founded Brotherhood of St Andrew grows from parish work to a Washington convention. Since 1856, conventions in major cities have drawn about a thousand attendees, with a Canada presence and international interest. Levi P Morton, former vice president, features in a biographical note.
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Brotherhood
S J. Andrew
Washington
Chicago
James L. Hougitelisg
Tian
Scotland
John
Jim
Andrew
Simon Peter
Simon
Messias
Jesus
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
New York
Cleveland
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Boston
Detroit
Canada
How
Australia
Luyland
General Council
James L. Houghteling
Voice
the Brotherhood
G. Harry Davis
Silas MacBee
Sewanee, Tenn
John W. Wood
John P. Fanra
Ex Vice President Levi Morton Seeks New York Governorship
Levi P Morton, 70, a former vice president, announces candidacy for New York governor. The Shoreham Vermont native and descendant of George Morton of York, England, who arrived in 1623, signals a notable return to active politics after retirement.
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Felf
Hanover
N. H
Boston
New York
Levi P. Morton & Co
London
Morton, Rose & Co
United States
Morton
Garfield
France
Cleveland
Bartholdi
Liberty
Levi P. Morton
State of
Mr. Morton
Shoreham
George Morton
York
England
America
Pennsylvania's state palaces near completion
The New Executive and Library Building in Harrisburg advances toward completion. The executive block measures 120 by 106 feet, built of Kentucky Green River limestone in Italian renaissance style. It connects to the fireproof library by a 50 foot square hall.
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Executive and State Brary
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Green River
Kentucky
State Museum
Pennsylvania exhibit library at World’s Fair described
The Pennsylvania display shows a cross shaped library building 147 by 50 feet on a square pedestal built of iron brick and stone with fireproof design. It features 54 book alcoves each with screens and furnishings, electric lighting, steam heat, mahogany doors, antique bronze hardware, and portraits of Meade Franklin Penn Wayne and Mifflin. Construction began October 17 and will finish in a year at an estimated cost of 478000.
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Pennsylvania
Imhin
Meade
Franklin
Penn
Wayne and Mifflin
Seaweed Bribery Charge Shocks Tokyo Parliament
An unusual report claims a Japanese lawmaker was accused of electoral corruption by bribing constituents with edible seaweed gifts. The detail appears in a Tokyo newspaper account, highlighting alleged influence through local gifts.
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Tokyo
Bostar
Teinef Gonmembher
Tea trade shifts as Indian and Ceylonese planters eye American market
The article examines how tea from India and Ceylon gains ground against Chinese tea due to British development and war impacts. It notes rising prices for Chinese tea, falling Indian planters’ prices, and potential adulteration risks, with historical context from 1881 to 1893 and anecdotes about British consumption patterns and five o clock tea culture.
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Congressional
China
Japan
India
Ceylon
Great Britain
Amoy
New York
London
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