Spanish Gunnery Described by German Commander in Marine Review
Captain Jacobsen of the German cruiser Geter recounts Spanish gunnery during the Santiago campaign. He notes a rare Spanish shell hitting the Iowa during night bombardment, cites old Morro cannon dated 1608 to 1718 with limited range, and questions American fear of the Spanish bluff. He recalls surprise at antique artillery defending Spanish honor.
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Impresa
Geter
Jacobsen
Marine Review
Berlin
Santiago
Texas
Socopa
Morro
To Be Continued In Newspapers And The Art Of Breaks
A discussion on cliffhanger devices in serialized fiction notes how writers end installments to lure readers back. It cites French and German examples, including a girl leaping from a window and a verb cut off mid word, with Tit Bits remarking on foreign readers’ interest in the letter combinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artemus Ward
Inez
Minnow Trap Described By Old New York Sun
The minnow trap is a glass jar shaped bottle with a six to eight quart capacity and a conical bottom like a champagne bottle. A perforated metal cap on a hinge allows water flow while a horizon tally wire holder and rope secure the trap for lowering, bait attracts minnows which can enter easily but cannot exit, and the trap is opened at the far end to remove catches.
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New York Sun
Electric power growth near Redlands shown as exhaustible mine
The Redlands and Southern California Power Company plants near Mill Creek and Santa Ana canon generate 12 000 horsepower, using about 121 000 tons of coal annually. At $4 per ton this implies $488 840 yearly, averaging 403 tons of coal per day despite continuous water flow. The note claims industrial electricity nearly exhausts coal resources.
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California
Redlands
Southern California Power Company
Mill Creek
Santa Ana Canons
New York Sun
United States postal agent Vaille to four years Portland duties
F. W. Vaille, the United States postal agent at Manila, has served nine years as assistant superintendent of the railway mail service at Portland, Oregon. A native of Massachusetts, he has built a strong record as an agent.
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F. W. Vaille
United States
Manila
Portland
Ore
Massachusetts
Jewish Colonies Grow in Palestine Amid Reform and Challenge
From Palestine, there are forty thousand Hebrews, a threefold rise in twenty years, with 22,000 in Jerusalem. European Ashkenazim and Sephardists form most migrants. Twenty-two colonies subsidized by Rothschild interests, Alliance Israelite Universelle, and Jewish Colonization Association flourish, led by Jacob Memorial and Hirst to Zion. Colonies cultivate grapes, silkworms, fruit, and wine, with schools, synagogues, and libraries. Zionist goals face Bedouin raids, oppressive taxes, and migration limits. A Malta to Damascus railway project explores linking Galilee to Samaria and Baghdad.
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Promised Land
Palestine
Jerusalem
Europe
America
Baron Edmond de Rothschild
Alliance Israelite Universelle
Jewish Colonization Association
Odessa Company
Moses Montefiore
Jacob
Zion
Israel
Yafa
Sharon
Tiberias
Jordan
Gennesareth
Damascus
Mekka
Galilee
Malta
Samaria
Bagdad
Monkeys Speak: Voices, Laughter, and Facial Expressions
The article notes monkeys possess vocalizations and form complex, varied languages in troops. It describes their laughter, expressions of sadness and anger, and facial cues like smiling lips and lowered brows as parallels to human emotion. It mentions some African and Melanesian alphabets as not much richer.
Fear and Control Undermine Truth and Conscience
If people are ruled by fear they are sure to be untruthful and if they are not allowed to think and act for themselves they lose conscience it dies. The quote highlights how fear and oppression erode honesty and moral judgment.
Various 19th Century Global Snapshots and Observations
A digest of scattered notes covers watchmen and night patrols in 1658 New York and New England, armor plate vaults in several U S banks, horse vision after daylight exposure, demand for Japanese servants in New York, a giant Australian freight auto, Chinese coolies dining customs, a precocious Boston girl author, Africa as plateaus, the Sultan’s high heels, emigration from Germany, lyceum growth in the South, smokeless powder safety, sheep resilience, acetylene lighting, women’s bank holdings, an old caution about marriage, and England’s chalk cliffs formed by a microscopic sea organism.
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New York
New England
Boston
Salem
Bethlehem and
Carnegie Steel Companies
Continental Trust Company
Baltimore
Buffalo Savings Bank
Buffalo
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ National Bank
Pittsburg
Union Savings Bank and Trust Company
Cincinnati
Western Reserve Trust Company
Cleveland
China
Boston Public Schools
Latin School
Mary Austin
Boston Herald
Africa
Turkey
Germany
Lyceums
America
England
Wisdom From Uncle Esek on Applause and Disputes
A quip filled note cites Uncle Esek on valuing praise, handling disputes by neutrality, and cautioning against superstition. It dismisses idle seeking of applause, notes happiness in ignorance, and plays with a blunt image about mixing serp ent with human nature and suggesting to leave the serpent out.
Cheap Insurance Claim Advertising
An advertisement touts Foley's kidney cure as cheap protection against Bright's disease and diabetes. It urges readers to buy a 50c bottle, naming H. J. Moogh and W. F. Jungkunz as endorsers.
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Bright
Foley
H. J. Moogh
W. F. Jungkunz
One Out One In at Metcalfe Feed Store
A Cincinnati boy cried for a dime worth of cracked corn at Metcalfe's on Gilbert Avenue. While the mother waited, the child wailed after swallowing the dime. Metcalfe patted him on the back and, jokingly, offered the corn to force the boy to cough up the dime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metcalfe
Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati
Lou Metcalfe
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets Featured
Call at Jos Emmert's drug store for a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are an elegant physic, improve appetite, strengthen digestion, and regulate liver and bowels. Easy to take and pleasant in effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Emmert’s
Chamberlain
Stranded spy hails cab in fogbound Strand chase
A would be spy blocks a Strand cab stand and orders a driver to hurry him to catch a train. The cabby mocks the request, dismissing the armored train and Boer war fantasies. The pursed passenger bolts into the crowd, vanishing from sight.
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Strand
London
Africa
Sprained Ankle Quickly Cured by Pain Balm
Geo E Carey editor of the Guide Washington Va recalls severe ankle sprain and describes relief and rapid cure after using Chamberlains Pain Balm. Sold by Joseph Emmert.
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Geo, E. Carey
The
Guide
Washington, Va
Chamberlain
Joseph Emmert
Contested Authorship of Joan of Arc Memoir Clarified
A serial work in Harpers Monthly is finally assigned to a single author after extensive verification. Volume 6 of the National Biography confirms Samuel Clemens Mark Twain as its credited author, listing the work among his publications.
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Joan of “Arc
Harper’s Monthly
National Cyclopedia of American Biography
Samuel
Clemens
Mark Twain
Allen's Foot-Ease promise for comfortable shoes
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It relieves tight or new shoes and bunions, cures swollen feet, blisters, callous and sore spots, and soothes sweating and aching feet. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25c, free trial by mail.
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Allen
Allen S
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Midland Route Tourist Car resumes Chicago to San Francisco
The C M and St P Ry restarts the Midland Route Tourist Car service with a Friday night departure from Chicago at 10 35 p m reaching Omaha Saturday 3 55 p m. It continues to Colorado Springs Sunday 10 45 p m and Salt Lake City Monday 9 30 a m and San Francisco Wednesday 9 45 a m via Southern Pacific. Eastbound runs Saturdays 8 a m from San Francisco to Chicago arriving Wednesday 8 25 a m. Includes a Salt Lake City layover for area sightseeing.
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C. M
St. P. Ry
Chicago
San Francisco
St. P
Omaha
Colorado Springs
Col. Mid
Salt Lake
So. Pac. Ry
Salt Lake City
Quick Relief and Odd Facts From Old Newspaper Clippings
A collection of brief notices and testimonials references Foley’s medicine for asthma coughing and dyspepsia, plus assorted remarks about travel, fashion, luck with horseshoes and a skin salve. Notables include Maud Dickens of Parsons Kansas and Mr George Croall of Edinburgh.
Trains East and West Schedules with Passenger Limits
A fragmented timetable lists trains between Freeport and Chicago with passenger and freight notes. Several train numbers and times appear, including passenger services No 150 No 152 No 154 No 156 No 188 and freight No 168 with varying departure and arrival times and days.
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Freeport
Chicago
tNo
My tNo
Trains and connections from Milwaukee rundown schedule
Passenger and freight schedules list No 6 No 88 and No 145 trains with connections to Chicago Racine Madison Janesville Ha цены for Cedar Rapids Kansas City Omaha and Council Bluffs. Milwaukee departures include No 6 at 11:00 am and 12:16 pm with through coaches to Rock Island and through baggage checked to destination. J B Bre at agent indicates issued notice.
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Iiceveneesens
Freeport
TAP Ee
Chicago
Racine
Rockford
Janesville
Madison
Mineral Point
Milwaukee
Clinton
Dubuque
St. Paul
Cedar Rapids
Kansas City
Omaha
Council
Rock Island
J.B. Bweatt
A. G. Fitz
F. H. Lord
Gen
Pass, & Tkt
Agt
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Humphreys
Wees
Canada
Eric Humphreys
William Sohn
Abe Reeven
Frices
Business Directory
Illinois
Stephenson County Abstracts
Oscar TA Eettorney
A. G. Frick Eee
Monsey
Sposa
Brewster
Arkansas
Colorado
Dakota
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Bear River Valley
Utah
Fresport
W. Sure
B. FE
Taumas
Smith & Thomas
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Stover
Antrim
Saxomway
Dorman
State Bank
Dr. W
Caldwell
D.C
First National Bank
B. Brownt
A. Brown
Caan
Knowlton Brothers
Soldiers
Frzezrort
Hettinger
Collmann & Co Capital
Collmann
Pres
F. Qzanam
Cashia
V-Pres
L. B. Junghonz
A.C Tar
D. B. Schulte
Wm. Trembor
Charles E
Meg John Fosha
W. N. Cronkrite
Gollmann
C. O. Collmann
Second National Bank OF Freeport
Jacob Krohn
Alfred H. Wise
H. 8. Webster
M. B. Elson
Reuben Siegfried
Aaron Bower
Brockhausen
M. D
Galena Street
Emmett & Burrell's
Mt Stephenson Atrest
Iinois Gentral Railroad
Philadelphia
Illinois Central Ticket
W. Rowley
H.W
Schlott’s
Galena Ave
Basel
Esek
H. Clark
Chauncey, Ga
DeWitt
Sengland
W. F. Jungunz
Prince of Wales
George Croall
London Street
Edinburgh
Theatrical Fund
Sir Walter Scott
Waverley
C. W. Williams
Sterling Run
Trenoeh
J. I. Carson
Washington
Russia
Ira W. Kelley
Mansfield
W. J. Jungkunt
Capitol
W. HW. Shipman
Beardsley
Minn
H. J. Moogk
Otto Korb
K. P
Boonville
Ind
H. J. Moogk. Sa
Charlevoix
Petoskey
Harebor Springs
Bay View
Mackinac Island
Lake Superior
JOS. Rerolzimeim
Manitou Steamship Company
Rush & N. Water Ste
Morning Telegraph
Union
O McIse
Sunday Telegraph
Globe
Daily Telegraph Co
West 42d St
R. R
Illinoi8
Omaha Limited
Freeportia Aseees
Ereereeeenos P.m. AtElvGs
Omaia Vsseeceseesseeererree Assesseresee
Omaha Express
Dubuqu
Bowen
U Srvseer
Oerr
Eago
Sversesoee
P. Ma
Freeort
Galena
Freeporteu
Tessness
Sunda Daily Sxeep
Ville Vine
Centralia Express
BAVES
Serascireeessreeesaeeses
Wesewenvens Alvivos Freeportiss
Chicago & Northwestern
Daly
Chicago Great Western RY
Minneapolis
Paul
DasMonica
Joseph
Kanegar City
South Freeport
William Vee Eee
NTSC
Forreston, Forrestone
Sreessesesees
AT. Forreston
Departeians Baat
Great Northern
Northern Pacific Railways
J. B. Swert
Swif
Denver
Pullman
Palace
St. Louis
J. E. Bell
CEP
Clark Street
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