Grip Epidemic Strikes Pittsburg and Chicago Death Toll Rises
Reports from Pittsburg and Chicago describe a severe influenza epidemic with high death totals and strained services. Pittsburg logs 112 deaths last week, many from pneumonia, while Chicago faces hundreds of bodies awaiting burial as gripp pneumonia drive funerals and transport services to capacity. A Wheeling company plans a mile deep well at Boggs Run, drawing scientific interest.
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Wheeling Development Company
Boggs Run
America
Missionary steamer Kupman sinks. 16 lost
A British steamer from Honolulu reports the missionary ship Kupman wrecked off Tahiti on November 5, 1890. Sixteen crewmen drowned. Reports from Wallace County describe dire conditions, a committee seeking aid, and extreme poverty amid repeated crop failures.
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Elon
Honolulu
Kupman
Tahiti
Plague of lucusia threatens lands beyond the sea
Reports warn of a potential pest outbreak in Morocco and Algeria this season with efforts by authorities to avert hardship. Archbishop Charbonne died in France. A heavy snowstorm disrupts northern Britain trains. A riot in Sligo pits Parnellites against McGarthy followers. Jameti adherents claim victory as opponents flee to police. A foreign watchmaker patents a device showing the word wind before the clock runs down.
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Algeria
Lucusia
Charbonne
Toronto
France
Great Britain
Sligo
Mc Gerthy
Geiests
Purnell
Massacre in Battle as Goorkhas Suffer Heavy Loss
London reports an unusual clash in Manipure Assam where Goorkha forces under British command faced a fierce insurrection. The battle left 470 Goorkhas dead on the field and the chief commissioner with seven officers missing. French ships move to quell Anjouan insurrection in the Comoro Islands under protection.
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Comoro Islands
Manipure
Assam
Piace
Asatu
James Quinton
Quiasa
Variety News Briefs Across the Nation and World
A Missouri legislator pushes a bill to date pies in railhouse eateries while Oklahoma reports petroleum from a dream. Indian students hold 11,000 dollars at Carlisle banks as Austrian heirs fund a girls housekeeping school with 15,090 dollars. Cannibalism persists in fourteen places, but fading. The largest barn in the U.S. nears Lexington Ky at 1000 by 109 feet. Progressive potato picking excites North Platte social circles. A Williamsport man lists occupation as a dude after larceny arrest. Norway leads nickel ores in Europe though only two wines operate. A Trappe Pa clock marks time since 1766. Toronto drinkers lose 191,682 dollars in wages last year. Thirty three steamboats ply the Mississippi river. Texas fever spreads among stock south of the Missouri river, alarming Missouri. John Brennan gets 25 years for killing Minnie Martinson in Chicago. Charles Elliott, a Spokane Faro dealer, shoots two women at Casing Variety Theater then dies by self-inflicted gunfire. jealousy cited.
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Asia
America
Haly
Central Exchange
Alice
Kay City
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United States
Lexington
North Pistte
Neb
Missouri River
Missouri
John Brennan
Minnie Martleson
Chariea Elliott
Casing
Spokane Falla
Wash
Pennsylvania Notes of 19th Century Erie News
Erie and Warren reports include the disappearance of Arthur J. Fox with a 3000 dollar shortage, a brakeman William Smeet killed amid a railroad jump, and a $900 verdict for W.S. Watson against a Pennsylvania company. A Montana land swindle, Carnegie gas cuts, Joliet mill closure, and coal production figures accompany local notices, wrecks, bacon tax tales, and early phonograph history and phonautograph origins.
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Western
New York and Pennsylvania Railroad
Warren
Oil City
W.S. Watson
Pennsylvania Company
Beaver
Watson
Pearls of Thought Wisdom Fragments and Reflections
A collection of aphoristic lines on wisdom, love, learning, and human nature. It ponders that true wisdom costs, grief eases with shared feeling, love sustains life, and will power clashes with difficulty. It notes ignorance as fault, truth seen through flawed grasp, and reason yielding to passion.
Buenos Ayres Palaces and Palermos Carriage Fetes
The article visits Buenos Ayres Palermo near the Parque 3 de Febrero noting French inspired domestic architecture built with stucco over brick, and the fashion of imported carriage horses, elegant carriages, and Parisian style dress. It describes Palermo’s promenades, police oversight, and a quiet, solemn atmosphere with crowds mainly on race days at Hippodromo Argentino and Hippodromo Nacional.
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France
Chateau of
Blois
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Paris
Parque 3 de Febrero
Palermo
Poudre de Riz
How Smokeless Powder Is Made From Nitric Acid Mix
Purified wood cellulose is slowly added to a cold mixture of fuming nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid to form a thick pulp. After six hours the pulp is washed with cold and warm ammoniacal water, boiled in nitrate of baryta solution, compressed, and dried at 40 degrees. Granu lating is done with special machines.
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Boston
Sub Rosa and the Rose Leaf Symbol of Silence
A New York World dispatch discusses the origin of sub rosa and the rose leaf ritual. It recounts myth of Cupid Harpocrates and the rose above banqueting heads as a sign that words spoken remained secret. A club of wise men used silent signals and pantomime to converse. They admitted a new member by placing a rose leaf on a brimful wine cup, softly signaling acceptance.
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Harpocrates
Silence
Cupid
Venna
New York World
Rhubarb Imports and Root Processing Described
The article discusses rhubarb production in the United States including imported amounts and potential domestic growth. It covers medicinal root use, cultivation delays of four years, harvest and cleaning methods, sun drying, slicing, threading, and finishing through abrasion to produce a fine powder, with reference to a proprietary medicine.
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Russia
Turkey
Fashion Notes From The Times On Hats And Hair
Middle aged women embrace fascinating jeweled lace coronets and turquoise lace head dresses to pair with tea gowns. Trunk packing now includes dress sachets, embroidered cases, and bags for nightgowns boots and toiletries. Cadogan hair styles rise in popularity with soft loops and visible nets, jeweled nets for the back and retro nets returning for mature wearers.
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Charlotte Corday
Brooklyn
San Francisco Examiner
Cadogan
Boston Transcript
How Women Walk and Fashion Notes From the Era
A featured critique on female carriage noting most women lack graceful walking while draperies hide flaws. The piece surveys fashion notes including buckles, back lacing bodices, silver-gray corded jackets, paniers, children’s dress, and skin care, with volumes on hats, coats, trains, bolero jackets, and sleeves. It discusses dinner menus in foreign languages, wedding fashion, and popular textures such as velvet and vienna cloths, highlighting practical tips for modest, stylish attire.
Quaint and Curious News Snippets From A Century Ago
A mixed bag of curiosities from the era includes births outpacing deaths in Britain by 1500 daily, a widow embalming a poodle in Ohio, a Rochester teacher lacking a Washington portrait for lessons, and notes on trains labeled limited for car count. Also tales of a long-lived Chinese chow-chow, muskrat under ice respiration, Russian hotel fire safety, Arab ponies gifted to German emperors, Indian war dances, a Georgia farmer’s owl encounter, California’s Death Valley legends, and a burlesque governor Nicholls prank with Ned the servant.
American Peerage sparks debate on American Burke style volume
A critical letter questions an American Peerage project modeled on Burke's Peerage. The writer argues the plan risks limited biographical honesty and potential primogeniture bias, noting that birthplace education and family achievements may be self described and unverified. The piece doubts American social climbers will reveal humble origins.
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Washington
America’s First Clock By Eli Terry Of Connecticut
The first clock made in the United States was carved from wood by Eli Terry of Connecticut in 1792 with no metal. He worked six months refining the timepiece and spent the other half traveling on foot to sell his wares. Brass wheels arrived in 1837 and Connecticut clocks soon shipped to Europe.
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Darlington
George Davis
Davis
Montana
America
United States
Eli Terry
Connecticut
Europe
Detroit
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