European tensions rise amid darker politics and naval progress
The piece notes worsening European politics and praises new warships as national credit. It cites Philadelphia’s 5000 mile Rio to Callao voyage in under 21 days, a poor Wisconsin ex-merchant entering Baraboo’s almshouse, and ends with the New York Times remark that the poorhouse offers hospitality when friends fail.
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Philadelphia
Rio de Janeiro
Callao
Wisconsin
Almahouse
Baraboo
New York Times
End of World Proclaimed By Doctors And Totten
Doctor J T Boyd of Indianapolis joins Lieutenant Totten in predicting 1899 as the date of a final catastrophe. The British Chronological Society allegedly supports these predictions, signaling a shared prophecy. Elsewhere, the New Orleans Picayune notes the vast scale of hotelkeeping in the U S with over 50 000 hotels, excluding inns taverns and apartment houses often run as hotels.
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J. T. Boyd
Indianapolis
Lieutenant Totten
British Chronological Society
Totten
The
New Orleans Picayune
United States
Deer and Bears Abundant in Oxford County Maine Woods
Deer and bears are reported more plentiful in the great woods of Oxford County Maine than any time in the present generation. The belt of woods runs four to six miles wide from Dixfield to the northern untraveled regions, largely untouched by sportsmen. Game fled from Rangeley Lake grounds and found refuge, multiplying there without molestation.
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Oxford County
Maine
Dixfield
Rangeley Lake
Spleen Removed Yet Patient Survives In Remarkable Case
The New York News notes a man lives after splenectomy and retains red blood. It questions the spleen’s vital role and whether the vermiform appendix and spleen were once useful, pondering human evolution and medical understanding.
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New York News
Chambers
Yonkers
George Vanderbilt Wealthy Recluse of New York City
The New York Herald profiles George Vander Wilt as one of nature’s queer freaks and among the city’s least recognizable ultra rich men. It notes his immense wealth, estimated at at least 35 million dollars, his rare public presence, theatre and opera visits in rear boxes, and his bookish, aloof nature.
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George Vander Wilt
New York
New York Herald
Young Vanderbilt
John Jacob Astor
United States
George Vanderbilt
Springfield Union backs money order offices in small post offices
The Springfield Union urges creation of money order offices in rural post offices to ease business. A Canadian entrepreneur operates a floating bank on Kootenai Lake, traveling by steamer to provide village banking services.
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Springfield (Mass
Canada
Kootenai Lake
Elm size and life estimates by Doctor Holmes in England and America
Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes notes the largest elm seen in Oxford, England at twenty five feet around. He recalls a similar tree in Springfield, Massachusetts. He estimates the American elm’s life at 200 to 300 years and warns that surviving to 800 years would leave it as wrecks prone to collapse in storms.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oxford
England
Springfield
Mass
Harvesting Wheat Feat Astonishes Foreign Agr Officials
The Da kotas great bonanza ranches showcase wheat harvest on 640 acres in a day with 150 hands and 45 harvesters. The feat, praised by some Western states and paralleled in California and Nebraska, is questioned by the San Francisco Chronicle as to Europe’s capability.
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Dakotas
California
Nebraska
San Francisco Chronicle
Europe
Life insurers hold huge capital and pay large claims
The New York Tribune notes life insurance companies now hold assets around 850 million dollars, excluding assessment corporations and societies. They take in about 175 million annually from policyholders, with gross income near 220 million. About 100 million is paid yearly to the insured as death losses, surrenders, and dividends.
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New York Tribune
National Association of Life Underwriters
The Shah of Persia and his gifted teeth
The Shah reportedly has his fortieth molar extracted and receives gifts from loyal subjects after each decayed tooth is removed. The mechanism: once a tooth is pulled, a trumpet flourish proclaims the loss and a fresh inflow of presents, totaling ten thousand gold sequins for the first such occasion.
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Persia
Great Britain Plans African Telegraph Line to Cape Town
Britain undertakes a major project to lay a telegraph from Alexandria in Egypt across the continent to Cape Town. Surveys completed, routes through Egypt Sudan Great Lakes region and East Africa Company territory. Contracts signed for much of the distance, aiming for operation early next year.
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Great Britain
Africa
Alexandra
Egypt
Cape Town
Sondon
Great Lakes
East Africa Company
German East Africa
Mashonaland
Khama
Bechuanal
Congressman Brosius Recall Of Civil War Battle At Green Plains
The Atlanta Constitution recounts Pennsylvania Congressman Brosius recalling his near death in the Pickett era clash at Green Plains. At nineteen he led a charge across a wheat field toward a Confederate rifle pit, only 125 of 300 men surviving. A rifle bullet pierced his shoulder as he paused to aid a wounded comrade, leaving him crippled for life and a pocket diary as a keepsake marked by a bullet hole.
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Atlanta Constitution
Congressman Brosius
Pennsylvania
Pickett
Green Plains
Brosius
Samaritan
The Samaritan Method of Rapid Aid at Vienna Congress
The Vienna Samaritan Society outlines Von Esmarch inspired rules for immediate aid. Volunteers stabilize breathing, stop bleeding, lift and move the injured carefully, and provide two hours of active assistance before declaring death unlikely. stimulants are given after revival.
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Professor von Esmarch
Berlin
Vienna
Samaritan
Samaritans
von Esmarch
Bo Boot AB
How Nature Drives Out Disease Germs
The Washington Star describes the body's defense against inhaled germs. It explains the windpipe and bronchial cells with tiny hairs acting as sweeping brooms that move foreign particles toward the mouth, continuing to function after death as the last to yield.
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Washington Star
The Angry Tree of the Mojave Desert
A description of the so called angry tree, a woody plant in Eastern California and Western Arizona, that ruffles its leaves and emits a sickening odor when touched, signaling its irritability to intruders.
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California
Arizona
Fashion's Dragon Fly Wrap In Will Attracts Judgment
The piece notes M. Worth must answer in court over a will describing a young woman of high fashion wearing a lace and velvet wrap embroidered with a large jet dragon fly. The article recalls Walter Besant's remark about fireflies in Albany parks and Humboldt's cosmos.
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M. Worth
Mr. Walter Besant
Albany
Chicago
Congress of Authors
Cosmos
South America
St. Louis Republic
India Rubber and the Brazilian Rubber Trade Explored
A Chicago Record account describes Para rubber and the Brazilian rubber trade. It details tapping practices, sap collection, smoking to harden the coagulated sap, and the use of urucury nuts as fuel. Baron de Marajo explains Para rubber’s primacy as the world’s best.
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Baron de Marajo
Rubber from Para to 1892 in global trade notes
The text describes traditional rubber processing from sap to sheets, including molding and sun drying. It cites Para rubber output and value in 1839 and reports a large increase by 1892 with figures in kilogrammes and rele. It highlights historical scale and currency units used in late 19th century trade records.
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Para
Balloon Plant Sails High Near Oroville
A curious plant near Oroville, the fruit yellow and egg sized, resembles an empty bag when ripe. It contains a watery substance that dries, leaving a gas lighter than air. The inflated fruit sways in the wind then breaks free, sails 100 feet up, and vanishes over the hill. Ovoville Gal Mercury.
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Oroville
Ovoville
Mercury
Wild Flax Weeds and Control Methods in Crops
The New York Times describes three wild flax species with yellow flowers and a cultivated blue flower variety that often appears as a weed. All are annual, though some sprout from stem bases to seem perennial. They seed easily. controlling seeding by late summer plowing in crops like potatoes or corn is advised, with potatoes and corn best for this purpose.
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Vienna Samaritan Society
Berlin
New York Times
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Vienna Street
Fashion
Fasitios
Phy
India
Brazil
la Condamine
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