Clara Barton Plans Railroad Hospital Car Service
Clara Barton, over eighty, launches a new relief effort to establish railroad hospital cars aiding wreck victims. The Red Cross heroine, famed for Civil War and Franco Prussian War relief, opens Massachusetts headquarters and is pictured with Mrs John A Logan who supported her long career.
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John A. Logan
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Sionary Work
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Galveston
America
Yes or No Poem Read At Des Moines Memorial
The late Col. D. B. Henderson wrote a poem Yes or No. It was read in Des Moines at a memorial meeting honoring the Iowan. The verses ponder the guidance of Yes and No in moral paths and the struggle between doubt and belief, ending with a promise of repose once the No is relinquished.
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Col
D. B. Henderson
Des Moines
Mentor
Elijah the Third rises in Zion City satire
The item notes that Elijah the third has risen in Zion City, likened to the original. A Kansas woman was kicked by a mule and bit her tongue, illustrating the folly of talking back to a mule. Fussell Gage muses on travel versus walking being cheaper.
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Capitol
Zion City
Elijah the Third
Kansas
Fussell Gage
Krakatoa Eruption Described as Greatest Noised Event
Sir Robert Ball recounts Krakatoa 1883 eruption from The Earth's Beginning. Dust veiled seas, darkness at noon, and massive shockwaves traveled globally. The blast shattered the island, caused far sounding reverberations, and altered atmospheric circulation within a vast geographic reach.
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Robert Ball
Krakatoa
D. Appleton & Co
Sumatra
Java
Batavia
Great Britain
Straits of Sunda
Balloon Voyage Averted Drowning Over Baltic Snow Bank
German aero corps members Wolff and Brand endured a five hundred mile balloon flight from Berlin to the Baltic Sea, then across to Sweden. Blown three days by gale, they dangled for hours, cut free, and barely survived landing in a Swedish snow bank near a village.
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Baltic Sea
Aerostatic Corps
Wolff
Brand
Berlin
Sweden
Europe
Cologne
Thet there tree reminds Mirandy of a jay-bird
A rural exchange notes a fallen tree across the road and likens it to a jay-bird. The speakers, Mirandy and Si, joke about the tree and urge Giddap Nance, reflecting a folksy dialect scene.
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Mirandy
Sequoia Named State as Indian Title Honors Cherokees
The Muskogee convention selected Sequoia as the new state's name to honor Cherokee leader Sequoia and his role in creating the Cherokee alphabet. It notes the proliferation of Indian titles in states, but emphasizes this is the first to honor an original American citizen rather than a place or titled figure.
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Moscow
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Nile
Equator
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Persia
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Lord Dale Warr
Pennsylvania
William Penn
George Washington
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University of Berlin
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Sequotia
International Correspondence Schools
Scranton
Petow Tenn Ge
Stoorapher
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Wile
Ceman Plumber
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