Love's Harp and Flute Across Time and Death
A tale follows Rudolph Ornheim and Bertha, lovers parted by fate who maintain a long distance bond through music. Each anniversary, Bertha’s harp and Rudolph’s flute join in a haunting duet, culminating in a celestial harmony after Bertha’s death and Rudolph’s enduring grief.
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Rudolph Ornheim
Ertha
Mayence
Rudolph
Hertha
Hertia
Bertha
W Rudolph
Herbin
Dertha
Alfspring
Ile
Khertha
Rudolph Tragedy After Rope Collapse In French Descent
A fragmentary report recalls a fatal accident where cords snapped and toppled Rudolph onto a car. A companion lay motionless before attempting aid, but Rudolph died at the scene.
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Rudolph
Rudolpbh
States Burden of Local Debts Exceeds National Load
A Times Star analysis notes several states Iowa Vermont Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois carry no interest bearing state debt while New Jersey Nebraska Kentucky and California show small bonded debts The piece argues local debts in counties and municipalities total about 690 million in 1890 exceeding federal debt and rising with legislative activity despite claims of decreasing local burdens.
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Iowa
Vermont
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Times-Star
New Jersey
Nebraska
Kentucky
California
South
Union
Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe
United States
Ohio
Wro
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York
Freaks of Memory Across Professions
A cavalry officer, a merchant, and a novelist each suffer sudden memory lapses. The officer forgets commands and retires ill, a merchant misplaces his offices, and a novelist loses a plot but later recovers it, completing a widely circulated work. Boston Globe records these curious cognitive slips.
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Boston
Globa
Civility at Sea in Straßen Tale of a Delayed Departure
An American steamer at Nassau transfers ashore all but one passenger who missed a 6 am shore deadline. A heated clash with the captain ends with the traveler delaying the ship by a day with Governor support, then returning to aboard. Civility and restraint emerge as the moral.
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Nassau
Flis
Bahamas
Cuba
Martine
New Ribbon Adder Promises Aid to Bookkeepers and Clerks
Charles H. Webb known as John Yaul introduces a compact ribbon adding machine. It performs add, subtract, multiply and divide with brief instruction and can operate in nondecimal systems. It adapts to fractions, pounds and pence, lumber measures, or any value system, with potential as common as typewriters.
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Charles H. Webb
John Yaul
Webt
London Doctors Cite Wood Pavements Linked to Sore Throat
Several prominent London physicians testified that wood pavements are a reasonable cause of a new sore throat affecting a large number of people in the city. The testimony points to a public health concern tied to street surfaces and urban conditions.
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London
Miss Clara Barton and the Early Red Cross Work
A biographical sketch recounts Clara Barton founding head of the Red Cross Society in America. It tracks her Civil War nursing efforts from Baltimore to Antietam, later European work, and recognitions by German and Baden authorities as she aided disasters from James River floods to Siberia.
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Red Cross
Clara Barton
Red Cross Society
Sixth
Massachusetts
Amir
Baltimore
Washington
Baltimore and Ohio
Judiciary Square
Culpeper Courthouse
Cedar Mountain
Aug
McClellan
Maryland
Antietam
Miss Barton
Europe
Germany
France
America
Red Cross of
Geneva
Baden
Jamestown
Miss Larton
Siberia
Earth Shifts Pose, Koster Claims Cataclysmic Change
Professor Koster argues the earth’s axis now stands at right angles to its former position and that the shift was sudden, wiping out ancient animal life. Foter supports a sudden equator change accounting for Noah’s flood and universal flood myths, challenging orthodox theories.
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Professor Koster
Mr. Foter
Simple Insecticide from Hot Alum Water
A short remedy describes using hot alum water dissolved completely to create an insect killer. Apply with a brush to cracks, closets, bedsteads and other places where insects are found. The solution is said to kill ants bed bugs cockroaches and creeping insects while posing no danger to family or property.
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Falka
Bertha—Rudolph
Miss Clara Barton
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