Remarkable, Curious Tales From A World Of Oddities
A European beggar millionaire in Vienna shows how wealth and miserliness clash as he dodges wedding expenses, earning money as a usurer and trader. Louisville child Eppie Thompson swells with flesh, while medical notes recount a London arm nerve repair using rabbit nerves. A panther double kill, a St Petersburgh regiment wedding, and a forest of oddities from falcon despatches to opium smuggling round out a parade of strange reports.
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Simon Oppaskcu
Vienna
Triests
Eppie Thompson
Louisville
Eddie
London
Times of India
Godra
Panch Mahala
J. W. Cooke
Oldenburg
Andrew Irving
Pembroke
Canada
Allumette Island
West Virginia
Indianapolis News
How New York Was Laid Out
A Larper Magazine essay critiques the early 19th century City Plan for New York. It argues planners erased natural features by leveling hills and filling hollows to impose a strict grid, sacrificing beauty and local variation. The piece laments missed opportunity for a more harmonious, community-focused urban form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowery
Broadway
Christopher Street
Hazard
Fourteenth Street
Larper
Landlocker’s Lifers and the Ranger Spirit in Woods Checking Timber Values
A Sketched parallel between land locker's life and early forest rangers noted in Scribner. The piece contrasts hardihood and craft needed for timber hunting with enduring hardships from summers of sand-fires and mosquitoes to winter cold and treacherous ice. It describes dangers as mostly isolation and animals, with wolves and lynx songs stirring boyhood tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineries
Courriers Des Bois
Rangers of the Woods
Irving
Astoria
Rangers
Scribner
Photography in Colors From Paris to Public Eyes
Photographs in colors have been shown at the Paris Photo Club. Experiments reflect progress in color capture, aiming to shorten exposure time and enable printing proofs from negatives. When color and light play are accurately reproduced on paper, impressionist painting may gain broader recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Photo Clu
Around the House Practical Tips Note
Household hints advise throwing chloride of time in rat holes and pouring boiling water through fruit stains. It suggests using harthora to restore colors faded by acids and keeping the door closed between bedroom and bathroom for odor control.
Bits of Chicago Life Arrangers See Centre City Sights
The article guides visitors through central Chicago highlights from the Board of Trade to Water Department and police and fire stations. It notes the grain exchange's vast activity, the city waterworks with a huge daily capacity, commemorative sites, theaters, river trips, and the impressive Board of Trade complex with its tunnel under Lake Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
Water Sustem
Police and Fire Departmenta
Chicago
State Street
New Art Institute
Lake Front
Masonic Temple
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St. Petersburgh
Semenovsky Regiment
Imperial Guard
Alexander Redansaky
Smoilon
Canary
Puget Sound
China
Atlantic
Georix
Wickenberg
Arizona
Prescott
Hanpanono
New Orleans
Roslyn
Wash
Sit
England
Chicago Fair
New York
Faw
Wall Street
Old Fort Dearborn
Rush Street Bridge
Armstrong
Douglas
Kenwood
City Hall
Haymarket Square
Michigan City
Pullman
Fort Sheridan
Reed Air Theaters
Chamber of Commerce
LaSalle Street
Jackson Street
Chicago Avenue
Pine Street
Chicago Board OF Trade Building
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Lake Michigan
Baymarket
Monumedt
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