Ominous Global News Buzz From The 1860s Era
A sprawling, cluttered jumble notes 1860s items: Browne on nanny deaths, Texas learning as a target, the New York Word and Times on various topics, and the Earl of Dudley life insurance. It mentions US rail safety costs, cotton goods, King of Corea real estate in Washington, air quality myths, Saxe poetry, Australian ballot debates, Western Texas minerals, old Spanish land grants, Sequoia Park timbers, a Bernhard homestead claim, and compulsory education as a failure due to poverty and crime impacting children and truancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
J. H. Dorst
Fourth United States Cavalry
Sequoia Park
New National Reservation
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Tulare County
Cal
Sequima Park
Cap'sia Darst
Bernhard
Barnhard
Humble Wisdom vs Vanity in an Old Riddle
A wise man tests a boastful admirer through blind questions to uncover vanity and humility. After long pursuit, the seeker is praised as humble though the wise man doubts the claim, revealing that pride often hides in vanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth
Billie L. Smith
Little Binks Courage Under Fire in Zululand Fight
In a Zululand front, Lieutenant Little Binks faces a brutal ambush with Major Trevitt. Trevitt is wounded as Binks saves him, later dying from injuries. Binks dies at the scene, leaving five Zulus slain and a simple grave marker with the line Deeds, not words, speak for such.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Binks
Binks
Trevitt
Barrow
Thirteenth
Littl Binks
Zululand
Aoice Hitchie
Fool's Paradise
Iris
Salicey
Major Trevitt
Blake
Little Bink
Vasily
Binkhoree
Alice
Zalus
Binks Les
Asteep
Aftican Sands
Bat Little Binks
Munneey’s Magazine
Ontario
Edie
Remarkable caves found in northern Mexico by Lumboltz party
Carl Lumboltz and his exploring party report fifty cave villages along the Piedras Verdes river in the Sierra Madre, at 6850 feet. The caves show three story stone houses with thick walls and porphyry pulp, evidence of advanced culture and agriculture. Finds include a large water jar vessel, burial caves with well preserved bodies, and Apache pictographs. The six week survey notes Maqui like features and Southward tradition of origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Sierra Madre Mountains
Carl Lumboltz
Piedras Verdes
Lumboltz
Shipping Cattle From This City To Europe
A detailed account traces cattle shipments from the West to New York, then across the ocean to England. It covers handlers per thirty head, voyage conditions, disease risks such as pleuropneumonia, and the practice of slaughter within twenty four hours of arrival abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
West
New York
Ocean
Plains
Jersey City
Calth
Hudson
East River
England
New York Recorder
Flight of the Wild Geese
A vivid note on migratory geese, the large birds that travel from frozen northern waters to milder southern skies. The piece describes their size, wintering ranges near Buffin’s Bay, and the distinctive V formation led by an old gander whose honk carries on the cold wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffin’s Bay
Anhalter Station, Berlin, a Palace of Transit
The Anhalter station in Berlin is described as the costliest railway hub, costing about 4 060 000 dollars. Its grand front, three-tier vestibules and cargo lifts showcase hydraulic elevators and vast waiting areas, with tracks elevated among five-story buildings in the city center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Auehalter
Washington
London
Anhalter
Erfurt
Madgeburg
Carlsbad
Halle
Cassel
Frankfurt-on-the- Main
Potsdam
Boston Herald
Pearls of Thought and Ural Mountain Child Life Passages
A collection of maxims on self control and effort, followed by vivid sketches of mountain children in the Ural region. It describes playful hilltop life, children riding horses, and games like Wolf and Lamb, Techasovui, and bone-pin bowling, with wagons passing along the highway. The section concludes with musings on chocolate as a milder stimulant and its cultural role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ural Mountains
St. Nicholas
Orchids, hunters, and the wealth of floriculture in gardens
The article notes the vast money in orchid cultivation, with bulbs and roots imported worldwide and sold from one dollar to thousands. It covers exotic species, numbers between 6000 and 7000, and the diverse habits of these plants, including leafless forms and epiphytic lifestyles. It also recounts the Vesuvius eruption’s impact on Pompeii and ongoing excavations, plus the nickname Blue Hen’s Chickens tied to Delaware cavalry captain Caldwell.
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Mexico
Brazil
India
Europe
Tropics
Canada
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Inyva
Goldthwaites
Deaware
Delaware
Caldwell
Caldwel
Hoes Philadelphia hogs win on easy finish
Fragmented OCR reads like a brief score update with Philadelphia and New York teams. The readable bits show a victory by Philadelphia hogs over the New York team, with a mention of a comfortable lead and late scoring.
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Indiana
Wrednesday
Sir James Crichton Browne
Ace
China
Withonillions
Mmembers
Earl of Dudley
New York Advertiser
New York Times
King of
Corea
The
Detroit Ree Press
Vermont
Saxe
Ealer
California
Lowell
Boston Heran
Alpuaret
Manderson
Nebraska
Jade
Itis
Long Island
Montauk Point
North Carolina
Albermaine Sound
Aegion
Hartford Times
Apo
Eddie
Frehoboth Sunday Herald
Pennsylvania
Major
Slarper
Philadelphia
Philadelphia ‘Zoo
Indianapolis
Ind
Rain
Oswald
Voice
Ecuador
Arset RS
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Oscoen
Lowell, Mass
Sam
J. F. Keeseneree
Conway, Ark
BH. A. Ancuer
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Children’s Department
Castacia
Boston
Masa
Attex C. Sarre, Pres
the Centaur Company
TT Murray Street
New York City
City of
Pompei
Bluings
Tolede
WA Watkers.& Co
Fox
Laine
Azes
Pittsbur
Ohio
Cea i No
Timor
Pacladelphia
New Fore
State
Penn
Live Stock Report
East Liberty
Pittsburg
Cattee
Bambe
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