Train Crash Involving Excursionists Shocks New Orleans Area
A Louisville and Nashville excursion train collided with a crossing near New Orleans after engineer Simpson failed to stop at the Northeastern crossing. Dozens were injured, including many women and children. Simpson fled to a swamp, prompting strong public anger and an official inquiry.
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Simpson
East Louisiana Railroad
Louisville and Nashville
New Orleans
Louisville and
Nashvile
Lake
Hanley
St.Tammany Parish
Louisville
Louisiana
Near Death Threat to Irish Comedian Scanlan
J Scanlan the Irish comedian lies near death after a career marked by early bootblack days in New York and rise to fame through impressions. He drew patrons and later wealth with support from a benefactor who funded his training and success. Mrs John A Logan plans a Europe trip to discuss a statue by sculptor Franklin Simmonds. Mill operatives in New Bedford, Massachusetts, totaling 20,000, are urged by leaders to accept a wage reduction and end the strike.
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Scanlan
W. J. Scanlan
New York
Walthy
Amirahy
John A. Logan
Europe
Franklin Simmonds
Logan
New Bedford, Mas
Bar the Unworthy Immigration Restriction League Emerges
A Boston movement forms the Immigration Restriction League to advocate practical limits on immigration without excluding all foreigners. It seeks public support, issues documents nationwide, and aims for reforms via taxes, education proofs, and port consular certificates to become citizens.
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Boston
The
Immigration Restriction League
League
Samuel Gompers
Uoton
Robert Dec. Ward
South America
Australia
Africa
Wildfire Drives Wildlife Toward Towns In West
Homespunned by flames, vast numbers of wild animals fled burned districts to near towns. A local observer claims few animals burned, noting deer elk elk bear moved en masse a week before the fire, with bears seen in a single morning and deer crossing the lake headlong if unguarded.
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Big Panie
Fight Challenge Sparks Confused Exchange on Madagascar Plot
In a garbled exchange a speaker denies hearing of a fight while others insist on pursuing Melagascar, prompting questions about the planned confrontation and its participants. The dialogue shows confusion over who initiated the challenge and the intended target.
Telephone romance tempts Detroit professor in tale of love
A Detroit girl becomes the center of a comic courtship involving a Ann Arbor professor and a New York hardware salesman. The salesman plans to win the girl’s favor but the professor makes a phone ruse to propose by telegraphing the father, prompting a dramatic decision and a quick departure to Ann Arbor.
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Michigan
Detroit
State University
Ann Arbor
New York
Canada
Licht
Old Daddy Long Legs and Ancient American Roots
The piece discusses the daddy long legs insect, noting its May appearance and S. H. Scudder's claim that it is an ancient American inhabitant. Fossil remains suggest its ancestors lived in Colorado in tertiary times, with evolution leading to modern varieties and a long human-viewed history.
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S. H. Scudder
America
Colorado
Money Value of Hands and Fingers in Injury Loss
An engineering journal reports German miners insurance figures assigning earning loss by disability. Both hands lost equals 10 percent. right hand 7 percent. left hand 60 to 70 percent. Thumb 20 percent. first fingers 11 to 15 percent. middle fingers 10 to 11 percent. other fingers 1 to 12 percent. Variations reflect trades of injured workers.
Address Confusion Echoes in West End Tale
In a Washington Dost. snippet, Old Aunt Fannie, known for washing, lives in the West End with a fakedienture. A man asks for her address and is told a muddled reply locating her on M Street behind the alley near a hydrant, across from a bureau.
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Fannie
West End
M Street
Washington
Indefatigable Workers in Ant Tunnels Across Tiles
South American ants are described as building tunnels three miles long, a labor amounting to what it would take humans to tunnel under the Atlantic from New York to London, illustrating their tireless industriousness.
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Atlantic
New York
London
Three Suns and a Vertical Rainbow Seen at St Malo
A Brighton Advertiser note from June 1 reports a rare daytime phenomenon at St Malo with three suns aligned above the western horizon during the afternoon. The central sun outshone the others and signals of light in prismatic waves appeared between them, while an inverted rainbow formed nearby with its ends toward the sky and its neck toward the horizon.
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Brighton
England
St. Malo
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Advertised as Digestive Aid
The ad touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the best remedy to cleanse stomach and bowels, ease constipation and related ailments, and says they are harmless, vegetable, sugar-coated, and suitable for all ages. It claims mild action, no dietary interference, and notes they can be taken after meals or as a dinner pill.
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Pierce
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J. Scanlan
Austria-Hungary
United Kingdom
Italy
Poland
France
Germany
Russia
Scandinavia
Austria-l Hungary
Rance
United States
Melagascar
Newcastle
Wilberforce
London News
Congress
United States Agricultural Department
St. Jacobs Oil
Scott
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
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