Cuban Expedition Scene Under Fire and Landing Details
An eyewitness narrative recounts a clandestine coastal voyage toward Havana, unloading a cargo of dynamite while greeting Cuban sympathizers and resisting Spanish forces. The voyage features a merchantman greeting, a near-mits, a fire scare, an American eagle sighting, and multiple landings near Morro Castle before returning to sea.
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Cuba
Gulf
Iran
Morro Castle
Havana
Central Park
Cuban
Harper’s Weekly
Who Founded the W. C. T. U. Founding Details
The article discusses claims about Frances Willard as founder of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. It notes Mrs. Mc Clellan Brown helped call the first convention in Columbus in February 1874 and that she traveled to Chicago in August with a full plan of organization. The first convention was then called in Cleveland in November 1874 where Willard joined the work.
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Na Wittmeyer
Philadelphia
Miss Willard
Brown
Good Semplars
Spofford
Enquirer
Frances &. Willard
National
Te National
All City
McClellan Brown
Columbus
Card
Chiacaqua
Ag. Cleveland
Willard
Twain Anecdote at Sea Benefit for Seamen
A Brooklyn Eagle correspondent recounts Mark Twain on the Kaiser William II voyage to Genoa where he, after warning he will tell a long meter anecdote, delivers a parable about a Scotch Irish minister and a christening ending with the question What is the baby's name and the mother's answer Mary Ann.
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Mark Twain
Brooklyn Eagle
New York
Genoa
Clemens
Newton
Westminster
Europe
Mary Ann
Glass Skates Introduced for Ice Rinks
The Washington Star reports a new ice skating feature using glass runners praised for speed and ease of gliding. Glass is tempered to hold a sharp edge and resist fracture under ice contact. The shoes are high cut and laced up the back with colored runners to match wearers' costumes, offering ankle support and enhanced safety.
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New York
Metropolitan
Washington Star
Humorous Bits From The Comic Papers
A collage of light verse and cartoons features several gags about tires school truancy artists and social manners. Jokes play on misunderstandings with lines about a new game called truants and a judge defending alibis. The piece preserves a late 19th century humorous tone with quick, quippy setups.
Fortune's Flukes and a World of Fortunes
A flotilla captain profited when convicts carried to New South Wales exchanged mobility for land later developed into a wharf valued at 1,125,000. A tobacconist saved by fire-snuff aroma and a London bank clerk backed by clerks funded a Cape Town gold rush leading to a mine and shares now worth 500,000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Wales
Mariner
Mount Sheba
Klondike
London
Cape of Good Hope
Source of the Mighty Niger Described by English Officer
An English officer recounts finding the Niger’s headwaters. He crawls down slick slopes to a rock with a small spring that forms a pool. Green luxuriant foliage surrounds the birthplace, evoking a dripping well in a forest.
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Niger
Magland
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