Manitoba Acreage Crops and World News Highlights
A survey notes 2.5 million acres under crops in Manitoba with 1.6 million heat. Hutchinson reform school to label inmates as students. Colombia hosts mining by women. Divers Jones and Virgin locate $30,000 from a sunken steamer near Portland. Auction prices for 1804 silver dollars reach $1,200. Climate contrasts and large stamp mill facts follow. A boy in a barber shop funds and shares pennies with a street organ grinder, then recites a street cry.
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Hutchinson,au
Colombia
Charles P. Jones
Charles Virgin
Astoria
Portland
New Orleans
Small Newsboy’s Bold Bid For Money At Barbershop
In a bustling barber shop a tiny newsboy, about five years old, climbs into a waiting chair to sell an evening paper. He explains he wants money to get rich, his oversized ambition drawing smiles from patrons as he steadies himself for each customer and attempt.
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Detroit Free Press
Recent Inventions Show Novel Mail, Gear, and Helper Devices
A new design for mail carriers uses a single rubber-tired wheel on a tight frame with a mail bag basket. A dual-disk reckoner presents quotients and multipliers by turning two circular pads. Separable spectacles allow compact storage with wedge ends. A page-marking device uses metallic slides with curved fingers to grip book covers. A Michigan inventor couples dinner pail and lantern with a lamp chamber and heat vent. A film development machine adds a tray on a stand, with a roller and a spindle, driven by a crank for processing squid film.
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Michigan
Queer Superstitions of Andaman Islanders
The Andaman Islanders hold unusual beliefs about transformation and fate. They claim the first drowning man became a whale, his wife and grandchildren turned to a crab and lizards, ancestors appear as fish and birds, and murderers transform into a poisonous prong fish. They also warn that gazing at red wine foretells using it as paint.
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Andaman Islands
India
Dangers of Nitro Glycerin Shooters in Indiana and Ohio
Story surveys the peril faced by oil field shooters in Indiana and Ohio from nitro glycerin loads. It recalls fatal blasts near Bluffton Montpelier and Jay County, noting wrecked wagons, torn remains, and the arduous, regulated process of loading torpedoes and firing wells.
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Indiana
Ohio
William Ulmer
Bluffton
Harry Woods
George Hiscock
Montpelier
Jay County
James Thompson
Gilbert Goodin
Goodin
Geneva
Thompson
William Snedeker
Snedeker
Indianapolis News
Congressman's Rise From Lincoln Aide To Foreign Affairs Leader
The piece profiles Congressman Stobert Roberts Hitt of Milpitas, highlighting his long influence on U S foreign policy as chair of the House committee on foreign affairs. It recounts his early career as a Lincoln aide and Chicago Tribune stenographer, noting his close relations with eminent figures and his later Washington clerical work during reconstruction.
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Legation
Hitt
Paris
Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Blaine
Lafayette Square
Stobert Roberts Hitt
Milpois
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Chicago Tribune
West
Douglas
United States Senate
Young Hitt
Bob
Blaine’s Memory Stuffed With Relics in Hitt Home
The Illinoisan recalls a room in Hitt’s IX Street house dedicated to James G Blaine. Walls display pictures and autograph letters, alongside Lincoln relics, while confidential letters from notable figures are stored for future discovery, reflecting Blaine’s enduring influence.
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Er Reed
Blaine
Illinois
Hitt
IX Street
Maine
Lincoln
General Buller at the Tugela Frontline Action
A Colenso correspondent describes Sir Redvers Buller near the Tugela as he moved toward the naval battery with his staff. During the shellfire three officers race for the guns while a general retreat orders. Buller is slightly wounded and several escorts suffer injuries in the bombardment.
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Tugela
Colenso
Manchester Guardian
Redvers Buller
Buller
Natal
Long
Ogilvy
Schofield
Congreve
Young Roberts
Redvers Bullers
Lord Gerard
Inghes
Judge Hawkins Sentences Swindler Seven Years
A British judge Justice Hawkins once handed a swindler seven years in prison. The defendant pleaded he would not serve half the time, but the judge replied that it was not desirable for him to live that long.
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Jude Hawine
Justice Hawkins
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