Adirondack bears and a sunlit forest pic
The text notes the Adirondacks are full of bears and asks where the sun belongs in a forest with bears. It mentions Mme. Calve pausing American tours to protect her wealth. Petauma California claims to be the world largest beanery with poultry and egg shipments to San Francisco. A US procession thought experiment envisions 10,000 per mile in 8000 miles and a year to pass. Professor Hamlin urges national neatness reform.
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Adirondacks
Petauma
California
San Francisco
United States
A. D. Fr. Hamlin
Central America disasters mirror canal perils
Men have contrived explosive forces that parallel the destructive seismic outbursts of the earth. Simultaneous to Guatemala earthquakes and volcano eruptions a dynamite explosion at Managua Nicaragua caused near equal loss of life. Both events illustrate risks surrounding Central American canal building projects.
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Guatemala
Managua
Nicaragua
Central America
Tragic Paris Tale Repeats Despair in Liquefied Gas Death
A Philadelphia Times dispatch recounts a young American woman who travels to Paris to study art. Destitute and without aid, she seeks a fellow student, nurses him through illness, and marries him. After exhausting their funds they seal themselves in their garret and end their lives by gas.
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Philadelphia Times
Paris
Joan
Lightning Fatalities and Injuries in the United States
Estimates by Alfred J. Ileary of the Weather Bureau place annual lightning deaths around 700 to 900 nationwide. In 1900 and 1901 reports show 713 and 715 fatal cases respectively, with most deaths in open areas, houses, under trees, or in barns, challenging the belief that open country is safest during storms.
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United States
Alfred J. Ileary
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
Missouri Valley
Rocky Mountain
Chicago Declared Windy City In Fact As Well As Fame
The Weather Bureau confirms Chicago as the windiest major U S city last year with total wind movement surpassing all but two coastal points Mount Tumualpals and Block Island. Chicago logged 145 103 miles, trailing only Block Island and Mount Tumualpals while ranking ahead of Cleveland New York Buffalo and others. Roseburg Oregon recorded the least wind at 30 741 miles.
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Chicago
Windy City
Weather Bureau
New York
United States
Mount Tumualpals
Pacific
San Francisco
Block Island
Atlantic
Cleveland
Buffalo
Boston
Philadelphia
St. Louis
New Orleans
Louisville
Washington
Roseburg
Ore
Away Out in the Country
A Chicago Record-Herald poem extols rural life away from city clamor. It contrasts peace, fair dealing, and simple joys with urban greed and crowding, praising quiet waters, honest work, and community restraint over schemes and gasping showmanship.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Polly Returns to Save Pa Moberly in the Moberly House
Polly, the youngest Moberly daughter, comes home to care for her aging father and confronts her sisters who banished him to the kitchen. She leads Pa into the sitting room where he finds a lively, uneasy scene with a blue-dressed pianist and a mandolin, hinting at shifting family loyalties and renewal.
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Moberly
Pa Moberly
Ife
Main
Polly
Pennsylvania
Bassett
Ma Maberly
Polly Returns to Care For Pa Moberly at Home
Polly Moberly brings warmth back to the old house by arranging the favorite chair by the fire and guiding Pa Moberly to sit near the light. Her sister Alice introduces Eva Brent and the family, and Polly’s tenderness softens the scene as Pa’s loneliness fades, hinting Ma Moberly’s memory revived.
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Alice
Polly
Mr. Bryant
Eva Brent
Eva
Pa Moberly
Belle
Harriett
Ma Moberly
Brutal Truths and Tact in Medical Care
Orison Swett Marden laments blunt truth telling in health care and elsewhere, noting it can ruin morale and friendships. He argues that cheerful encouragement often preserves hope and recovery, while tactful communication prevents unnecessary harm from candid but harsh truths.
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Ife
Orison Swett Marden
Fish Proverbs and Nautical Metaphors Across Eras
The United Service surveys common fish related expressions from Shakespearean times to sailors lore. It notes phrases like there are other fish in the sea dead as a herring and white as whalebone. The piece cites shipboard terms such as shark files the feather and landshark alongside Twelfth Night reference.
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United Service
Over Napoleons Great March by Rail
A rail journey from Warsaw to Moscow traces Napoleons route. The land mirrors his era beyond the railway, with birch and pine forests and dull rivers shaping the imagination. The march’s grandeur haunts the traveler as the same terrain witnessed the army’s ruin after the Moscow retreat.
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Napoleon
Warsaw
Moscow
Grand Army
Scribner’s
The Palm as a Passport
A traveler in China uses a painted palm impression as a passport. The palm is coated with fine oil paint and marked on thin damp paper, which bears official signature to serve as the travel document.
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China
Victory of Submarines in Modern Naval Warfare
Submarine torpedo boats, led by the Fulton, gain acceptance among naval men as swift, concealable, and effective coast defense. Six boats, with plans for Britain, demonstrate rapid diving, undersea travel, and reliable torpedo strikes, reshaping tactics from surface battles to covert interdiction.
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Spain
John BR. Spears
John Paul Jones
Congress
Fulton
Duck
France
Great Britain
John S’. Holland
New York
Peconic Bay
New York Harbor
Sandy Hook
Barnegat
Shinnecock
Cavite
Guam
St. Thomas
Key West
Admiral Dewey
Galveston
Manta
Cervera
Collier’s Weekly
Life a Miracle of the Sun and the Wrecked Steamer
Captain Sanders of the steamer Compton reports a miraculous rescue near Peanfort after a Spanish steamer wreck. A sudden calm allowed half the crew to launch a lifeboat, followed by rescues of the remaining fourteen by life saving crews. The storm returned and the ship broke in two as the bridge collapsed.
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Sanders
Compton
Peanfort
Boy-Struck Girls and the Patient Path to Maturity
In a Medical Talk style note, a young woman described as boy-struck is urged to be guided with patience and gentleness. The metaphor compares her restless spirit to a young eagle that resents coercion, needing soothing care to channel energy toward wiser, safer paths.
A Modified Word Treacle Then and Now in Confections
The term treacle evolved from medicinal decoctions to mean any sweet concoction. It then narrowed to refer to syrup as molasses proved the sweetest ingredient, with 18 molasses becoming the epithet for the syrup itself.
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Mme
Calve
America
Smsazz
Heddard
Martie
Pals
Harriet
Alice Rose
Mr, Bryant
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