Scenes at Long Branch and Its Fashionable Resorts
A vivid portrait of Long Branch as a center of wealth and leisure during the season. It contrasts Coney Island Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, and Newport with Long Branch’s hotels, cottages, shell chair decor, and gambling at Phil Daly's Pennsylvania Clubhouse. It notes a 1900s clientele, social dynamics, and a dramatic raid on Daly's establishment.
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Paradise
Phil Daly
New York City
Coney Island
Ocean Grove
Asbury Park
Long Branch
Newport
Pennsylvania Club House
Daly
Newark
Long
Elberon Cottages
Cooper in Barrel Makes Niagara Rapids Run History
Carlisle D Graham, a Philadelphia cooper, built an egg shaped barrel and rode the Niagara whirlpools in a seven foot craft. Weighted end down and a hammock net inside, he was lowered from Maid of the Mist and surfaced alive after thirty two minutes. He plans to profit from the feat.
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Niagara Whirlpool
Robinson
Webb
Graham
England
Buffalo
Maid of the Mist
Lewiston
Newsboy Excursion Turns Pandemonium in New York Harbor
About 350 of New York City’s newsboys join John H. Stalin’s annual excursion aboard the largest harbor barge. Aboard a marching band entertains while the boys sprint for buns and pie, inflate bags, and throw scraps into brass tows. Some 100 jump overboard before returning. two policemen guard order, and a strong man ferries culprits ashore.
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New York Newsboy
John H. Stalin
New York
Stalin
New Jersey
Newsboys
Hennepin Canal Project Wins Senate Backing
The United States senate recently passed a bill appropriating 300000 dollars to begin the Hennepin canal project linking the Mississippi with Lake Michigan. The surveyed route is estimated to cost about 7000000 dollars, with work set to commence.
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Hennepin Canal
United States Senate
Illinois Upper Illinois And Proposed Canal Route
The map shows a waterway from Chicago to Hennepin via the Illinois and Michigan canal to La Salle, with the Illinois river onward. The canal and river must be widened and deepened, and major locks are needed at two elevations to enable free commerce from St Paul Minneapolis grain regions to Chicago and New York via lakes and the Erie canal, offering a rail competitor.
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Upper Illinois
Chicago
Hennepin
Illinois and Michigan
la Salle
Illinois River
Procanal
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Lakes and Erie Canal
New York
Unconfirmed Solicitor General Appointment Stirs Interest
After a year in office John Goode, named by the president as solicitor general, has been refused confirmation by the Senate. Goode, a Virginian, served in the Confederate army and congress, later practiced law in Norfolk. He has long been active in Democratic politics and helped carry Virginia for Cleveland in key elections.
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Congress
Bristow
Kentucky
Phillips
North Carolina
John Goode
Senate
Goode
Virginia
Col. Goode
National Democratic Committee
Cleveland
Senator Edmunds Gains Confidence Amid Vermont Opponents
A Washington desk note says Edmunds appears less doubtful as winter nears. Vermont reports show diffuse opposition that may fade when the legislature convenes. The veteran senator’s foes label him dogmatic and cold yet he resists offering favors or employing patronage to gain support.
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Senator Edmunds
Vermont
Edmunds
Washington
Will you love me then as now
Poem excerpts reflect on enduring love amid aging and change, contrasting vows with growing wrinkles and a fallacy of eternal brightness, attributed to Mrs. Addie B. Billington and a prose excerpt on eggs and mystery by Professor Matthew Williams.
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Joy
Addie B. Billington
Gelatine Dynamite by Alfred Nobel Introduced
Discovery of gelatine dynamite shows it combines attributes of blasting gelatine and dynamite. It is in test stages but reports from mines limestone and granite quarries tunnels and collieries note its advantages. It works where ventilation is poor and leaves little odor so miners can return to work quickly.
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Troy
Adam
Bokorny
Professor Matthew Williams
Alfred Nobel
Trees Transformed Into House Plants
A reader describes a dwarfed white oak grown in pots as a decorative plant for home or lawn. By cutting the top root each spring for several years the tree stays small yet forms new branches. Watering is the main care required.
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Arkansaw
Tickets and manners on trains across passenger classes
A quotation contrasts passenger treatment by class, noting first class is met with formal civility, second class with a polite cue, and third class with brusque demand as a collector calls out Tickets. The snippet reflects social hierarchy in travel.
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W. H. Rideing
Brooklyn Magazine
Fireplaces shifted to wall chimneys in sixteenth century
According to De Morest’s Monthly, early country hall hearths stood in room centers with smoke rising to a timber roof and lantern. As refined tastes emerged, fireplaces moved into walls and smoke escaped through chimneys, improving ventilation.
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Demorest
The Chances of Burial Alive Prank Adverts in Newspapers
A Detroit undertaker mockingly offers to fire a pistol near a potential coffin to force a jump before burial, claiming a one in a million chance of being buried alive. Nearby reports note an Anaheim vegetarian commune shrinking to two members amid resignations and starvation.
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Detroit
Kite Flying Mania Captivates Raritan Illinois Citizens
Kite flying becomes a local craze in Raritan Illinois with prominent residents joining in. One kite reportedly reaches seven feet in length and soars over 2000 feet into the air, requiring three men and a windlass to pull it down. A High-Priced Spanish Fiddler Sarasate declines a salary offer in London to accompany Patti at her last concert before marriage demanding $1000.
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Illinois
Raritan
111
New Orleans Times-Democrat
London
Sarasate
Patti
Chicago Times
A New Kind of Jewelers and Western Texas Wells
The Philadelphia Call notes a novel class of contractors in Paris who buy broken meat from hotels and restaurants, earning fortunes as jewelers. It reports cattlemen in western Texas forming an association to sink wells for stock watering. New Jersey suffers severe mosquitoes at night hindering courtship. Dio Lewis lauds brain work for health and longevity.
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Paris
Philadelphia
Texas
Dio Lewis
Work at home with free sample JL goods offer
Prospectus promises easy money with a mail order scheme. It claims no capital, work from home for all ages and both sexes, and earnings from 50 cents to $5 nightly. The offer includes free full details and a $1 payment if dissatisfied, with Portland Maine contact STINSON and an agency claim for beginners to succeed.
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Portland
Maine
Engenias
Hauwer Kook Co
Cure for Piles Remedy Ad Promises Quick Relief
Piles cause back and abdominal weight, indigestion, and itching. Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy absorbs tumors, relieves itching, and claims a permanent cure. 50 cents. Address The Dr Bosanko Medicine Co. Piqua Ohio. Sold by Flower and Petrikin.
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Bosanko
Veterinary Surgeon G Cook Promotes Cattle Cures and Tools
G Cook, a veterinary surgeon, offers compounds for Black Leg, Pleuro Pneumonia, Hog Cholera and Fow cholera were Government calls. He treats bone enlargements and general diseases, and has trocars to relieve bloated cattle. Also makes pruning shears and prunes briars. He operates at W A Miner's Livery Stable with accommodations for invalids.
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Woodbury
W. A. Miner’s
Monument Prices List for Marble and Granite Stones
A readable OCR fragment lists prices for monuments and headstones in Italian marble and granite. Items include 12 ft high Scotch or American granite monuments at 270, 10 ft at 175, 8 ft at 200, Italian marble drapery monuments with urns at 7 ft 6 in and other sizes from 5 ft 6 in to 7 ft. Also Italian marble monuments with ornaments 7 ft high at 125, headstones 4 ft high from 55, 4 in thick blocks and children's stones starting near 10 dollars.
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Ciberns Sondanellon
All Wr York First Class
Material and proportions cannot be excelled. It will be to your interest to see me before purchasing elsewhere.
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York
Hale & Hotchkiss offer 60 000 acres in Wyoming for sale
Hale and Hotchkiss advertise 60 000 acres in Wyoming about 100 miles north of Greeley with 15 000 acres available at 2 dollars per acre. One sixth down, balance in five equal payments, last due six years after purchase. Water provided by Canal and Tunnel Company at yearly rental. Land office details from Arthur Horcuxiss notary.
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Wyoming
Greeley
Canal and Tunnel Company
Office
Hale & Hotchkiss
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Denver, Colo
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