An Adventure in the Upper Sea and a Balloon Rescue
A retired captain recounts a perilous Oakland balloon act in which a young boy clung to a sandbag as the craft drifted, prompting the aviator to calm the frightened child with conversation and fearsome riding to a safe ground landing. The capstone notes the narrator later quits balloon work, seeking safer gas ventures.
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Nassau
Oakland
California
George
Charley
George Cuppy
Tommy Dermott
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate
Mt. Tammimas
Street Railway
New York Independent
Quaint and Curious Winter Rainbows and Odd Lands
In Siberia a winter rainbow lasts most of the day from fine snow particles. The River Tinto in Spain neutralizes its sand bed and stones fuse when touched, forming a single stone. Heidelberg hosts a church where Protestant and Catholic services occur simultaneously behind a partition. Overton England’s Bree Church staging an egg service sold over a thousand eggs. A Suffolk field marks a mare Polka’s grave with a Bible verse. Ghent monks decorate hospital walls with stamp mosaics using ten million stamps.
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Siberia
United Methodist
Bree Church
Overton
Wrexham
England
Waverhill
Suffolk
Air cooled barber chairs spark summer novelty
Inventor supplies cool air to customers in a downtown barber shop where a small pump powered by a hydrant pressurizes air into a tank. A hose and nozzle at each chair release refreshing air on demand, replacing the old bulb spray. The setup, from the Lee house, promises a mighty refreshing shave in hot weather.
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Lee House
Pittsburg
Truth of I Knicker Jones Endows Beds in Hospitals
The philanthropic figure Knicker Jones is noted for endowing beds across three hospitals. Critics call the move farsighted philanthropy, while undercurrents hint at broader implications.
Dramatic Nihilist Balmascheff murders minister in Russia
Stepane Balmascheff, a nihilist student, assassinated M. Sipia guine, minister of the interior, in St Petersburg. The act unfolded with meticulous planning as he waited at the Palace Mariyinsky and fired a Browning revolver, then remained composed while servants panicked. Balmascheff declared the act a political necessity and asserted no remorse before his execution. he was 21 years old and the son of a Volga region family.
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M. Sipiaguine
St. Petersburg
Russia
New York Mail and Express
Alexander I
Sipiaguine
Council of State
Stepane Valoyanovitch Balmascheff
Droska
Balmascheff
Serge Alexandro Vitch
Morskaia Street
Mariyinsky
Siplaquine
Martyinsky
Siplaguine
Palmascheff
Stepane Balmascheff
Sipieguine
Volga
Viatka
Arrest and surveillance mark Balmascheff at Kiel University
A student named Balmascheff, while at Kiel in 1899, faced arrest. After completing his military service he returned to Kiel University under police surveillance, noted for his popularity and influence among students who faced deportation, imprisonment, and flogging by orders of Interior Minister Sipiaguine.
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Balmascheff
Kieff
Kiel University
Sipiaguine
Interior
Philippine Volcanoes Review by USGS Expert Becker
G F Becker’s report in the USGS 24th annual volume surveys the geology and economy of the Philippine Islands. It catalogs 49 eruptive mountains, names Mt Apo and Mayon, Taal, and Camiguin de Mindanao, and compares Philippine volcanism to the West Indies and Krakatoa era eruptions.
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G. P. Becker
Hearesical Survey
West Indies
George F. Becker
Philippine Islands
United States Geological Survey
Ipeal
Lake of
Bonbon
Manila
Mt. Pelee
Martinique
Jolo
Taal
Lake
Monbon
Albay
Philippines
Dutch East Indies
Beeker
Papandayang
Java
Galung Gung
Krakatoa
As the Woman Judged at a Humble Wedding Ride
A short wedding trip ends at a trolley ride from old tenement to new. A mother in a kerchief kisses the bride as a truck blocks the car. The bridegroom is warned by a passerby that the mother will stab him if not kind.
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Italy
New York Sun
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United States
Consul Haynes
Rouen
Virginia
Capitol
France
Thomas Jefferson
Asama
Japan
Paris
Massachusetts
Boston Commercial Bulletin
Chicago
Jace Lonxpox
Son of the Wolf
Tinto
Spain
Heidelberg
Germany
St. Jean de Dieu
Ghent
Stepand Valovanovitch Balmaschei
M. Lipia- Kulue
The
Broadway
New York Tribune
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