Rattlesnake tale and other oddities from shores and skies
A Louisiana wife kills a rattlesnake that menaced her sleeping baby in a Lake Calcasieu cabin, while a New York pair watch a hawk attack a mink over a trout. Separate notes describe a German carp milking cows, a well gas trick with an umbrella, ancient giant skulls, and other curiosities from science, travel, and odd happenings across towns and seas.
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Williamson
Williamsons
Lake Charles
Lake Calcasieu
Ixe Frazier
Luke Wilmart
Indian River Stillwater
Seaberry Settlement
N. Y
Stillwater
Philadelphia
Rtecord
Michael Tiernan
Mr. Tiernan
Orientals at the Fair Enliven Chicago Exposition
Harper's Young People reports on visiting children from across Asia Africa and the Arab world at the Columbian Exposition. A Dahomey village baby and other youths appear as exhibits not spectators, their attire decorations and devout curiosity drawing fascination from fairgoers. A tiny Dahomey baby splashes in a dirty water puddle while elders polish rings, highlighting the exhibit’s racialized display.
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Aninny
Dahomey
Cairo
Dahomey Village
Africa
Chicago
Harper's
Paradox at the Pole and the Arctic Quest
A reflective piece on the North Pole where every direction is south and time is universal. It notes polar exploration's paradoxes, the elusive pursuit of knowledge, and the gradual limits of northward progress from 1596 Spitzbergen to 82 degrees 45 minutes, with modern tech offering modest gains.
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North Pole
Barents
Spitzbergen
Mudeon
Parry
McClure
The Original Use of Butter Through the Ages
Butter began as an ointment rather than food. Herodotus first mentions butter around 500 B C. Spartans used it like cold cream, a hostess was sickened by a butter‑saturated visitor. Scythians introduced it to Greeks, Germans taught Romans to make it, who used it non food.
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Herodotus
Plutarch
Parade of the Unemployed Riot In Chicago Ends in City Hall Clash
A mob of about 1000 unemployed men paraded streets near Chicago City Hall, attacking vehicles and bystanders. Police used clubs to disperse the crowd after verbal incendiary speeches, with several officers and rioters injured. Mayor Harrison bans further parades and tightens oversight on idle gatherings.
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Pitcairn Island
Beechy
Jean de Despriaux
Canary Islands
M. Despriaux
Andes
Peru
Chicago
Clark Street
Washington Street
Martindale
Harrison
Doomed Passengers in Long Island Railroad Crash
A deadly Long Island collision near Newton Creek claims multiple lives as Rockaway Beach and Manhattan Beach trains collide while returning to Blissville. Passengers fill the wreckage, with rail workers and doctors rushing to aid the injured. a coroner orders a morgue at Newtown.
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Long Island
Long Island City
Brige
Newton Creek
Rockaway
Hunters’ Point
Blissville
Manhattan Beach
Rockaway Beach
Den
Mk E. A. Buck
Spirit of the Med
Oscar Dietzel
St. John’s Hospital
Mas
Maggie Dietzel
Hertha Weinstein
Sidney Weinstein
Thomas Finn
Brakenan
Laura Duffy
Miss Young
John Conrad
J. J. Clancy
H. B
George Fielding
Miss McKenna
Clifton ‘Terrace
Rosabank
Mr. Stein
New York
Newtown
Cholera Reports Across Europe and Hull Fatality
A Berlin telegram reports a cholera case with a fatal outcome in Hull England. Naples records nine deaths from cholera as disease spreads through multiple cities.
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Tripoli
Berlin
Hull
England
Naples
Onus
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Illinois
New Jer
Sey
Sweden
Motalo
Robert Sieger
Alexanderplatz
Europe
Frankfort
Luneburg
Hanover
Hotel de Ville
Lionor Balsamello
Civita Vecchia
The
Baltimore Sun
Fort Swamp
Medina
South Chicago
United States Mail
Uncle Sam
City Hall
H. Hartindale
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