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Railroads timetable notes and party poem fragment
The text provides an Eastern Time railway timetable for Indiana and Blairsville via Blairsville Intersection with various trains, connections, and station stops, listing departures and arrivals, along with a concluding verse by P. McArthur about a merry gathering after travel and years.
The Day of a Varsity Man in Football Life
A concise portrait contrasts popular myths of a football player’s day with the real routine. Players rise around 7, eat plain meals, train through two daily practices, receive individual coaching, and rest early, ending the day after study and light recreation, dreaming of touchdowns.
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Harper's Weekly
Where Women Propose In Ukraine And Other Lands
The article notes that in Ukraine and several other regions the woman initiates courtship by informing the man and goes to his home to declare her feelings. If reciprocated, marriage proceeds. if not, she remains, seeking reconsideration until a formal union is arranged.
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India
Moon’s ancient tides would drown cities and reshape land
The St Louis Republic notes that when the Moon stood about 40,000 miles away in ancient times tides would reach 645 feet, washing cities like St Louis and flooding towers, driving inland waters, then receding in hours. Such colossal tides, a geologist’s tool, would aid stratification and reshape continents.
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St. Louis Republic
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United States
Pineries
Canada
Missouri
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi
Cuba
Jamaica
Exciting Siberian sled journey archive tale retold
A Liberian traveler recounts a perilous drift down a Siberian hill while crossing Asia by sledge. The driver and servant Matchett ride through deep snow as the sledge skids, overturns, and passengers are boxed in before a caravan arrives to right the rig and resume the journey.
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Arctic Ocean
Yellow Sea
Siberia
Matchett
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Selecting Carpets and Rugs
The article outlines three carpet and rug options for drawing rooms. It recommends a body-colored carpet with border and lining, a large center rug with matching wood tones, or Japanese matting with assorted accessories. It also notes fashioning a cool, picturesque floor with fabrics like Turkish textiles and Angora rugs.
Stabands of Thought and Mind's Mastery Reflections
A cryptic reflective note from Dulroot Bree Press considers mind over mind, genius over people, friendship and love as sanity and risk, and time as lost wealth. It muses on Anjan’s affection, gender, fate, aging, and newspapers shaped by readers, ending with a celestial metaphor of memory as a comet tail.
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Anjan
Thal Fia
Elopement tale of Baxter street cigar sign lovers
The Baxter street story tells how a cigar shop Indian maiden and a fashion dummy named Bob were moved from Park Row to a canal boat in a whimsical elopement. Police recovered the figures in Hoboken and the two now lie together on the canal boat, defying skeptics with superstitious awe.
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Fernando Wood
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New York
Holt
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Hoboken
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Syracuse
One Woman's Way on the Elevated Train
Two well dressed ladies converse aboard an elevated train about summer away from home. One reveals letting a young couple stay in her house while she was away. She explains the house was full of dreadful insects and insists the young woman appeared neat as a pin. The exchange is light with coworkers like Vermont in the city context.
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Vermont
Jim Jimson
Jim
Street & Smith
Atlanta Constitution
Ambiguous price shift cited in strange customer dialogue
Fragmentary OCR text shows a druggist discussing price cuts and a miswritten sale ad. A line mentions a clerk fired for a mistake and a patient’s dosing, followed by an odd note about Prussian army women serving as regimental chiefs. The garbled passage yields no coherent news event or clear entities.
Short Sermons for Boys from Famous Childhood Futures
A collection of brief moral tales shows how early acts and choices shape great lives. Gustavus Adolphus prophesies Gen Bauer’s rise to leadership, Titian’s artistic genius emerges, Michael Angelo’s talent is foretold, and Fichte’s disciplined turning point is noted. The piece argues character in youth determines adulthood.
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Tyrol
Titian
Michael Angelo
Fichte
Boston
The Tomato Cultivation Then and Now in America
A historical look at the tomato as a vegetable in England and America. It traces its introduction, popularization by Beecher, and rise in U S culture, noting early fears of cancer and later acceptance as healthful. Canning makes tomatoes year round and inexpensive, per Good Housekeeping.
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England
Italy
Henry Ward Beecher
United States
New York
All Nations
A Different Horse and Uncle George Encounter
A report mentions a horse name mix up with Fay wandering and a reply about Little Jack predicting the animal’s behavior. It notes Mrs. Ricks, aged and dignified, who met Queen Victoria and spoke at a Salvation Army gathering in London, with a dance performed for the crowd.
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Liberia
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London
Engineering Facts From History
A compilation of historical engineering milestones and figures. It lists lighthouses worldwide in 1889 and notable projects such as the first U S coast light in 1673 and the Suez Canal cost. It includes bridges, tunnels, sewers, aqueducts, and quotes on engineering principles with various dates, measurements, and capacities.
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Massachusetts
Black Hills
Croton
Conductor with Remarkable Memory Delivers Train Details
A western railroad conductor amazed a skeptical official by listing every passenger in a train book. He identified station, ticket class and color, gender, and destination for over 100 riders, and could describe each person’s dress and appearance from a crowd.
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Toledo
Center of United States Lies Near Montana in 55N 11W
The article notes the geographic center of the United States at 55 degrees north latitude and 11 west longitude, about 420 miles north of the Montana line. It cites extreme points including Quoddy Head Maine Attoc Island Alaska and Point Barrow Alaska. It also mentions Bavaria beer flavor from pine tops and a time difference between Attoc Island and Eastport Missouri.
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Detroit Free Press
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Probing a volcano ends in near disaster for owner
In 1772 Papandalian's eruption devastated seven miles and 3000 villagers. A 12 year later expedition into its crater described bubbling geysers and boiling lava. A champagne maker was scalded by a sudden explosion. the party escaped. The author warns volcanoes are dangerous to wangle with.
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New Uses for Paper in 1892 Innovations
The year 1892 marks a surge in paper based industrial applications per E Ratoin in Popular Science Monthly. Paper replaces stone in houses and glass in windows as well as clay in pots and iron in rails. Early US tests show paper window panes resembling milky glass that intercept light while transmitting heat, with projected costs around 85 cents for a 3 centimeter pane in a weathly sash.
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E. Ratoin
Popular Science Monthly
United States
MISSING LINKS In a world of curious notes and facts
A collage of quirky observations from 19th century life touches on pomegranates in Florida, luminous Berlin houses, paper consumption, sea coast wrecks, Greek history, oysters near Seattle, and vast U S alcohol production. It also notes jokes, anecdotes, and oddities about England, Ireland, Greece, and London.
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