Passes and fashion trends noted in distant lands
The Chilkoot Pass on the Alaskan railway is likely the only section conductors will recognize under protection. Mexican adoption of American dress grows, with upper-class Mexicans replacing traditional charro attire and sombreros with Western clothing. Gloucester fishermen dismiss Kipling, noting all twenty boats he praised in Captain Courageous were lost in recent storms along the Massachusetts coast.
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Chilkoot Pass
Mexico
Gloucester
Mass
Kipling
Massachusetts
Earthquake Devastates Shamaka and Hinders Krasnovodsk Port
Fate curbs Russia by destroying Shamaka, lifting sea bottoms toward the surface. The Krasnovodsk harbor on the Central Asiatic Railway line faces blocked access as thousands perish and heavy ships become unable to enter the ports of the Black Sea and Caspian.
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Russia
Krasnovodsk
Central Asiatic Railway
Shamaka
Black Sea
Caspian
Chicago Tops Healthiest Large City List
Municipal Journal statistics place Chicago as the healthiest city of its size worldwide with 18.8 deaths per thousand, while Milwaukee reports 18.01. New York shows 17.2, Boston 20.3, and Philadelphia 184. Tuberculosis remains a leading killer, particularly in Milwaukee, while pneumonia is the primary cause of death in Chicago.
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Municipal Journal
Chicago
Milwaukee
Windy
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Thwing analyzes salaries of regular college and scientific school grads
Charles F Thwing president of Western Reserve University Cleveland finds salaries of graduates from regular colleges and scientific schools are similar shortly after graduation. In time regular college graduates often earn more as the value of liberal training shows itself in later years.
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Charles F. Thwing
The
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
Thing
Thiwing
Thwing
Lynchings decline in modern era with varied state counts
The record shows lynchings diminishing in recent years from 1802 with 285 cases to 1900s totals. Notable figures include 127 in 1808, 107 in 1899, and 105 in a late year with state breakdowns: Alabama 15, Georgia 14, Louisiana 15, Mississippi 16, Tennessee 12, Texas 11. Negro victims numbered 107. whites 26. others including one Chinese and one Indian. Violent deaths outside lynching climbed from 275 in 1900 to 7852 in 1901, with causes listed as quarrels, alcoholism, jealousy, assassination, infanticide, and more.
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United States
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Texas
Tramp given cellar meal escapes arrest in Eastern state
A wandering beggar coerced a farmer's wife into letting him eat then locked himself in a cellar trap door. Neighbors freed him after half an hour, ruling no charge existed since she invited him to eat. The tramp resumed his travels, hoping for similar release.
Only One Way Is Right in Uncle Hiram’s Lesson
Roy Farrell Green, in Sue, presents Uncle Hiram’s maxim about choosing the single right path. The tale urges perseverance, honest toil, and staying the course despite temptations to seek easier routes, with a closing note on brave, steady effort.
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Hiram
Roy Farrell Green
Sue
Tomahawk Editor Fights for Love and Town in Sand Bluff
A quiet Tomahawk editor, famed for reforming Whisky sales to plains tribes, awaits a fiancée with two threats looming. When a Sand Bluff store crew storms his shack to kill him at 12 thirty, he defends his life and his love, dying as the stage arrives, his final sight Kate. The tale blends frontier courage with a doomed romance in a rugged boomtown.
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Sand Bluff
The
Tomahawk
Washington Merchandise Company
Jim
Kate
Cleveland
Chicago Record- Herald
Moving Mountain in New Jersey Slips Down Slope
In Hunterdon County New Jersey a geological movement forms a moving mountain a knob sliding from a larger peak. It has swallowed twenty five acres of farmland erased old boundaries and created a deep gulch where Indian relics were found. Heavy rains heighten fear of wider collapse prompting calls for new county maps.
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Hunterdon County
New Jersey
Detroit Free Press
Rediscovered Tapaya mines linked to historic Spanish record
Old Spanish annals claim Tapaya mines in Mexico yielded 80 million dollars between 1609 and 1700. Reports say Indian slaves killed Spanish owners, mines were lost. Maps place them in Northwestern Mexico near Dos Pilates. rediscovered near Clauteguita.
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Tapaya
Mexico
Dos Pilates
Clauteguita
Curious world facts span bridges seas and hidden mountains
A report touches on the Lion Bridge in China as the world’s longest, the Atlantic depth near St Thomas, Vatican’s vast compound, global petroleum and coal outputs, a Skinningrove duck egg of astonishing size, and Major Bu’s India subterranean mountain claim inferred from gravity readings.
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Trigonometrical Survey
India
Major Bu
Himalayas
Westminster Abbey Legend Of A Seventh Century Foundation
The London Illustrated News recounts a seventh century legend tying Westminster Abbey to Sebert king of the East Saxons and St. Peter. A storm on the eve of consecration supposedly flooded Thorney Island, while a fisher named Rie recorded a miraculous salmon tithe gift that set a pattern for clergy and laity.
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Westminster Abbey
Sebert
Westminster
St. Paul's
Mellitus
London
Thames
Thorney Island
Werie
Lambeth
Thorney
Fishermman
St. Peter
London Illustrated News
Canada’s Buffaloes Increase in Canada, Report Says
A Quebec dispatch to the Chicago Tribune notes wood buffaloes in the Peace River District have grown from about eighty to over four hundred in five years under Northwest Mounted Police protection. The wood buffalo resembles the plains buffalo but is larger with a richer coat and has different habits.
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Canada
Quebec
Chicago
Peace River District
Northwest Mounted Police
Plains
Yellowstone National Park
Dying Words of General Hampton Express Unity
General Hampton asked that his people be allowed to view his face and that he be buried in a plain pine coffin. His words, God bless my people, all white and black, reflect lasting friendship for African Americans in the Carolinian era. The Savannah News notes this testament from the slave-holding era.
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Hampton
Wade Hampton
Savannah
Elizabeth's Heart A Burglary Metaphor in Verse
A playful verse by Arthur Crawford in Puck uses a bold burglar with a cold chisel to symbolize longing for Elizabeth's heart. The speaker admits metaphorical intent and offers no real theft, framing romantic desire as theft of affection.
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Elizabeth
Quips and chatter across papers in a varied zinger page
A collage of humor lines and light notes from Philadelphia and Brooklyn papers, including editorials and captions about weddings, wills, prices, and social quirks. It weaves cartoons on operatic voices, fish routes, and the plum's role in cuisine, reflecting a satirical snapshot of daily press items.
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Iowa
Tiree
Posure
Sangang
China
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St. Thomas
Vatican
Skinningrove
Eughind
Arthur Crawford
Puck
Chicago Tribune
Chicago News
Vitascope
Kennis City Star
Lovett
Giddy
Philadelpha Press
Macy
Bobbie
Volumbus Journal
Qwinleeman
Philadeth
Lla Koves
Walt
Tudge
Philippines
Alaska
Oscar Fish
Eagle
Valdez
Testerlive Department
Harper's Weekly
Asia
Europe
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