Various Global and Domestic Economic Notes From 1891
London reports Portugal cannot pay a 4000 loan, Kansas investors own 150000 acres via mortgages, and the Cherokee Strip auction draws a $35 million bid for timber and land. Union Club wealth totals $700 million. Heidelbergs University surgeon notes 14000 duels. French birth statistics, and agricultural reform talks in Florida. New York warns against silver certificates. Nebraska land extent tallies 11,226,584 acres. New York milk purity study shows 75 percent adulteration. Currency experiments in China and Japan cited. Chattanooga urges local bank issuance. labor and industry shifts noted in plasterwork and construction trades.
The Castle in the Air By The Spider Web Builder
A dreamlike poem depicts a Spider Web builder weaving a castle in the air from stem to stem. He imagines a life with dear friends, beauty, and gems, then a spring breeze shatters his ascent. He falls, leaving the web and the dream behind as he searches the ground for what he sought.
A Bag of Diamonds and a Forbidden Love
A tale unfolds of Paul plotting murder for diamonds owned by his uncle, while loving a ward who embodies purity and strength. He confronts a deadly choice as he enters the uncle's dark room and faces a vision of betrayal, fear, and moral ruin. The scene shifts to a later recounting at Narragansett where old memories reveal the thief and the fate of the bag.
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Paul
Sbe
Amet
Cupid
SHYING HABIT IN HORSES AND DRY-PICKED POULTRY NOTES
Farm and Garden items discuss shying in horses linked to near sightedness and proposed spectacles with reported success. Also covered are dry-picked poultry markets with scalding before plucking, cow milk composition, profitable currant growing, ground bone as fertilizer, ducks watering needs and general farm notes urging planning, cleanliness, and practical tips for routines and equipment.
Antique Chicago Lawyer Pallas Phelps and the Filthy Street
In the forties a nondescript Chicago lawyer named Pallas Phelps avoided a known office. A Judge Butterfield met him on a narrow street crossing and quipped that he hadn’t swept his office this morning, highlighting the mystery of Phelps’s whereabouts.
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Chicago
Pallas Phelps
Butterfield
Brother Phelps
A Timely Suggestion From A Boston Courier
Mr Lingerlaight argues to Miss Nora that in his field he could achieve great results though lacking experience. Miss Nora counters, saying he has none. He insists a man never knows what he can do until he tries. A hallway voice jokes that the proper exit is to go home.
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Lingerlaight
Nora
Miss Nora
Boston Courier
A Philosopher. pudding prompt and a line from Puck
The brief dialogue shows a playful exchange between a mother and Tommy regarding pudding and a Bogie-man story. Tommy asks for more pudding to settle his mind about the tale, prompting a quick, whimsical reply.
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Tommy
Puck
World's Fair plans to depict orient streets and craft
Dr. Cyrus Adler outlines a Chicago World’s Fair exhibit showing real eastern streets from Cairo to Jerusalem and shops with Hebron glassware Damascus cutlery Syrian silk and Egyptian furniture. He aims to observe cities firsthand to build vivid, authentic displays and a curving Oriental journey for visitors.
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Turkey
Egypt
Syria
Persia
Cyrus Adler
Washington Star
Orient
Chicago
Cairo
Damascus
Bagdad
Bayreuth
Jerusalem
Alexandria
Constantinople
Hebron
Ocean Cure for Consumption Has Sailings as Therapy
English physicians employ a sea voyage as a health treatment for consumptives. Patients depart in September to a sailing vessel bound for Australia, endure two to three months at sea, then return to England by June. Of fifty six cases, forty four improved, five stayed same, four worsened, one died.
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France
Wright
New York World
Dominica
Rosceau
Yankee Blade
England
Australia
Cape Finisterre
Australis
Llewellyn
McHardy
Menina
Mia
Kissing the Queen Etiquette and Hand Kisses Described
A gentleman explains royal etiquette for meeting the Queen detailing who may kiss the Queen or kiss her hand. It notes that high rank ladies may be kissed by the Queen and untitled individuals should kiss the Queen’s hand only, with a curtsy by other ladies. It also mentions that ungroved right hands are advised and that some may refuse the hand kiss if not desired.
Ministers Are Like Cats Description from Clergyman
A prominent clergyman compares ministers to cats in a New York Tribune remark. He says when arriving at a new church people greet with flattery then rub the fur and finally push away with scat as they adjust to a new pastor.
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New York Tribune
Tug of War Between Sparrows At City Hall Step
A pair of sparrows engaged in a brief aerial tug of war over a stringed prize on an asphalt walk near City Hall. The smaller bird outmaneuvered the larger, lifting the object and flying away in triumph as onlookers watched a two to three minute display of strategic flutter and bracing.
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Batin
New York
Harald
Modern Experiments Probe Electric Nature of Force
The text notes that since early electrical discovery scientists have turned to proving the electric nature of a force, mentioning electro magnetron and Cenare theta as early concepts, while modern experiments focus on evidence of electrical origins.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Andiana Progress
Orec
Largeet
Wepselwar
London
Harper County
Kan
Union Club
The
York Tribune
Heidelbese University
Germany
Goala, Fla
Ideations Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Congress
Prairie Farmx
New York City
Nebraska
Lyon Weil
Detroit
Mich
Jewentry
Ailje
View & Purchase Wac
Chattanooga
Tenn
Louis Globe
Plaster of Arts
Clytemnestra
Pan
Harper’s Weekly
Fay
Boston
New Jersey
Annie C. Webster
Ameer Industries
Myron W. Reed
Denver
Nashville
Capitol
Mr. Reed
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
Tribene
Christopher Street
West Washington
Kansas City
St. Louis
San Francisco
China
India
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