Wheat Area Shrinks as Visible Supply Mounts
The piece discusses the wheat market with a 77,000,000 bushel visible supply, farmer selling pressures, and price declines. It notes 1892 crop year starts, decreases in first-hand movement, and projected reductions in 1893 planted area. Tables from the Agriculture Department illustrate price and acreage trends. The outlook predicts a smaller exportable surplus and potential trader gains if production stays low.
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Chicago Post
Great Western States
IMM
Great Northwest
United States Department of Agriculture
Thurston to Keep Passports Says State Department
A Washington correspondent reports that the State Department found abundant ground for issuing Minister Thurston his passports. Thurston, spokesman for Hawaii's provisional government, published a reply to Blount's report on the Hawaiian revolution and stated further remarks.
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State Department
Washington
Thurston
Hawaii
Blount
Five-Story Detroit Fire Destroys Edson Moore & Co Building
A devastating blaze on Jefferson avenue and Bates street gutted the five story Edson Moore & Co wholesale dry goods building, causing an estimated 700000 in losses. Three workers died, five more presumed dead, with extensive damage to nearby properties.
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Detroit
Jefferson Avenue
Bates Street
Edson, Moore & Co
Bradley Dunning
McKay
Edward Genther
Genther
Rider
Voit
Markey
Haker
Kirchner
Quincy
Hannibal
Williams-Voorhiy Dry-Goods Company
Main
Church Streets
Funeral of Gen Rusk Draws National Masonic and Military Honor
The Rusk family hosted a private mourning at their Iroqua Wisconsin farm then moved the remains to the Methodist Church for 2 p.m. services under Masonic and Knight Templar auspices with Grand Army escort. Distinguished guests traveled by special train as messages of sympathy poured in from President Harrison cabinet members and generals. The body rests in the family plot at the churchyard.
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Knights Templars
Grand Army
Rusk
Little Farm House
Iroqua
Wis
Knight Templar
Harrison
Fairchild
Gen
Alger
Morton
Vilas, Spooner, Sawyer
Cullom
United States
Eight Men Loot attempt on Lake Shore Express near Goshen
Desperate band of eight men tried to wreck Lake Shore No 60 freight near Elkhart and Goshen Indiana on Saturday night to delay the following New York express. Train crew resisted. four watches and cash taken. two suspects captured. six robbers at large.
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Lake Ha
New York
Lake Shore
Goshen
Ind
Elkhart
Ligonier
John Hickok
Caboore
Hickok
Will
James Daten
Jerry Trump
New York Express
Kessler
Drunken frenzy ends in triple murder and suicide near Seymour
Jordet Kills Wife, her sister, and both parents then shoots himself in a family feud tragedy at a Foster home east of Seymour Indiana. He had related a troubled marriage and four years of unhappy life culminating in a violent rampage. Local victims include Cora Foster age 17, Joshua Foster, William Powell, Mrs Foster, and his wife who died from wounds. The revolver and knife used were new and prepared for the killings.
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Jordet
Seymour
Ind
Clinton Jordan
Joshua Foster
Jordan
Foster
Cora Foster
Anuther
William Powell
Nocturnal Creatures and the Bat as Night Hunter
From Cornhill Magazine the piece notes bats as nocturnal insect catchers with humanlike skeletons and long fingers for flight. It discusses vampire bats in South America and fruit bats in the Malay archipelago, their habits, and their roosting behavior, framing bats as lemurs adapted to night flight.
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South America
Pampas
Malay Archipelago
Milton
Belial
Cornhill Magazine
Origin of Poultry Raising in World History
Natu ralist theories trace domestic poultry to the Ban kiya Jungle fowl of India with likely domestication in Burmah. Chinese tradition places poultry origins around 1400 B C in the West. References span Babylonian cylinders, Aristophanes, and early European and British use, noting widespread ancient knowledge of fowls.
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Blythe
Darwin
Bankiya
India
Burmah
West
Aristophanes
Greece
Persia
South Sea Islands
Europe
Britain
Kept Her Promise at Hengrave Hall Tale of Pene lope
A Tid Bits note recounts Pene lope daughter of Earl Rivers owning Hengrave Hall near Bury St Edmunds sold for over £90,000. She kept peace among three suitors Sir George Trenchard Sir John Gage and Sir William Hervey promising to wed them in turn. Sir George died soon after and she became Lady Gage. Sir John died in 1633 and his widow wed Sir William Hervey in 1635. The lady outlived all her husbands.
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Hengrave Hall
Bury Street
Edmunds
Penelope
Earl Rivers
George Trenchard
John Gage
William Hervey
Gage
John
Seven Wonders of Corea Described by Chinese Paper
The Philadelphia Ledger cites a Chinese article listing seven Corea wonders: a medicinal hot mineral spring near Kin Shantao. two wells at peninsula ends with the noted mutual filling behavior. a cold cave with an ice wind. an invincible pine forest. a free hovering stone. a hotatone atop a hill slowly glowing. and a sweating Buildha barren for thirty years.
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Corea
Kin Shantao
Philadelphia Ledger
Stamp collecting hobby shown at Portland post office
The Portland post office received a registered letter bearing a four dollar postage stamp used to cancel a rare issue. The stamp’s cancellation makes it more valuable to collectors and the sender registered the letter to safeguard against loss, a common practice among stamp enthusiasts.
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Portland
New York Sun
The Size of Stare in the Heavens
The passage discusses star sizes relative to the sun. It notes Alpha Centauri would appear dimmer if as far away as our sun and suggests Sirius is vastly larger than the sun. It mentions a theory that stars brighter than the sun may not be much larger, noting old ideas about their true sizes.
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Blount
United States
Thurston
Sirus
Plan to Stop Trolley Cars Instantaneously
A Rochester man has designed a plane to halt a trolley street car almost instantly within three feet at full speed. A lever in the motorman’s cab operates a steel shoe under the car’s rear wheels with corrugated underside for friction. The device clamps the wheel rim and rail, using the car’s weight to press the shoe and lock wheel to rail.
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Rochester
Indestructible Paint A New German Method for Walls
A German chemist claims a revolutionary paint process that uses a simple inexpensive medium similar to common house paint. The coating is said to be indestructible, impervious to damp, and resistant to temperature and chemicals, with walls and ceilings washable to remove disease germs by acids.
Mourning Periods for Relatives Outline Traditions
A London Times note explains mourning durations by relation. Father in law and parent: twelve months with ten months black and two months half mourning. crepe period declined from six to rare use. Sibling mourning ranges to six months with five months black and one month half mourning. crepe period trimmed from three months and already largely discarded.
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London Times
Tried and Approved by the Bilions
For over a third of a century a great specific has been on trial by a national jury of billions. The medicine Hostetter's Stomach Hitters is claimed to quickly ease liver disorders by expelling bile, aiding digestion, curing constipation, and strengthening the digestive organs. It is touted as a safeguard against malaria rheumatism and kidney trouble and to restore energy to enfeebled invalids.
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Hostetter
Underground canal sixteen miles long in England
The Duke of Bridgewater estate built an underground canal sixteen miles between Worsley and St Helena to transport coal. Workers lie on their backs under the coal loads to propel boats along the tunnel, with cross pieces in the arch support.
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Worsley
St. Helena
North
England
Duke of Bridgewater
Pittsburgh Dispatch
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