Youngest Bicycle Rider In America Thomas Shepherd Of Roslindale
Boston claims the world’s youngest bicycle rider. Four year old Thomas John Shepherd of Roslindale, Boston, rides a bicycle built for him weighing 917 pounds. He learned on a velocipede by swapping a wheel for balance and earned a medal as the youngest known rider in America.
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Boston
Thomas John Shepherd
Roslindale
Thomas
Roslindale Bicycle Club
America
Snow Leopard and Black Leopard Join Zoo Ranks
Two new felines arrive within days at the zoological gardens, a Tibetan snow leopard from the Himalayas and a tropical black leopard from Malay bondage. The snow leopard, named ounce locally, is calm and attractive to observers, while the black leopard is fierce. The snow leopard dwells in the cold, its fur long and thick, and is the more valuable from a zoologist’s view. The black leopard, though wild in nature, is kept in the lion house due to its dry air needs. The newcomers are estimated to be 16 months to 2 years old. the snow leopard is the only Felis uncia in captivity here. The second item reports Rev. RB Deming delivering an address on The Brigade in Brooklyn, noting its growth. the movement began in the West, with New York forming its first company in 1892, and now over 3,500 boys are enrolled in Brooklyn and New York.
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Zoological Gardens
Jhore
Malay Peninsula
Himalayas
Lion House
London Graphic
RB. M. Deming
Strong Place Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Deming Agid
Minstrel Show Recalled In Quick Chicago Exchange
In a brief 19th century style exchange, two men discuss a night of entertainment. They joke about whether the act involved songs, dances, banjos, mandolins, and bones and note a few new jokes.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Boy trades quarter for candy says Brooklyn Eagle
The exchange shows a boy earning a weekly quarter from his father for avoiding candy and using it to buy candy, illustrating a parental incentive for healthy choices as reported by the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Johnny
Brooklyn Eagle
Hood's Sarsaparilla Boosts Patron Health This Season
Thousands of new patrons report Hood's Sarsaparilla purifying blood and restoring strength this season. It is hailed as a tonic by users and advertised in local promotions.
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Hood
Columbian 81 Stamps Cornered by New York Firm
Stamp collectors report a New York firm bought nearly all the Columbian $1 stamps and hiked prices to 3.50 each. About 10,000 $1 stamps remained unsold and were sold in small lots from postmasters nationwide. Full sets at face value total 16.24, with demand for 20,000 sets. breaking the corner would require printing new $1 stamps if plates still exist.
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New York
New York World
Nervous Prostration Cure Promises Remarkable Relief
An advertisement claims Sour American Nervine cures nervous prostration nervousness and dyspepsia in a day with a 15 cent trial bottle sold by Herrick Bros Indiana Pa. The piece also retells a local tale of Mr Abner Jennings’s mild responses to rudeness and notes testimonials praising Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from Mrs W L Dunagan and others with listed local sellers.
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Herrick Bros
Indiana
Chamberlain
W.L. Dunagan
Bon-aqua
Hick@min Co
Tenn
Daugherty Bros
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
Wm. L Moore
Homer City
R. N. Parks
Marion Center
Vest Rocket
Aix
Calumet Remedy Company
Chicago
Indiana, Pa
Daugherty Brothers
Deuceisss
Navy Vessels Salute Mount Vernon on Pass Through Potomac
The Boston Advertiser reports a new navy rule forces government ships moving up or down the Potomac to toll their bells and halt work to salute Mount Vernon the home of Washington. Sailors rush to form lines and remove caps as captains lead a formal tribute, replacing informal past practices with compulsory observance.
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Navy Department
Potomac Pass
Mount Vernon
Washington
Boston Advertiser
Avoid Divorce Advice From Olive Blossom Ad
An old advertisement claims divorces are easy in major cities and advises women to use Olive Blossom to cure daily complaints. It promotes Daugherty Bros. as the druggist selling a one month treatment for $1.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnatti
Chicago
Daugherty Bros
Temple of Hathor at Denderah Impresses Visitors
The Boston Herald describes a Nile excursion to the temple of Hathor at Denderah, noting its Greek and Roman origins yet Egyptian character, with a 24 column porch and 40 foot high capitals bearing Hathor’s faces. The site, near Tentyris, features extensive sculpture, damage from iconoclasts, and adjacent Isis and related temples.
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Nile
Denderah
Tiberius
Hathor
Cleopatra
Cesarion
Julius Cesar
Isis
Tentyris
Tentyrites
Ombos
Luxor
Boston Herald
Robber’s motive and a pocketbook misadventure at a railway station
A crowded railway station scene ends in ridicule as a man discovers his own theft motive. A bystander mocks a pocketbook thief warning that money in an undercoat pocket invites theft, while the man admits his own loss of over £100. The piece lingers on social humor and a light moral.
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London
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Miles
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Elkhart Ind
Star Meat Market
Frank Garman
Propr
Philadelphia St
China
Japan
Bovard, Rose & Co
Fifth Ave
Pittsburg, Pa
Vitalis
the Reliable Family Newspaper
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Our
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The
Pittsb Daily Times
Progress
the Presbyterian
New Banner
Progress and
United Presbyterian
New United Presbyterian
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Swan & Simpson
Insurance Agency
John L. Paul
Philadelphia Street
Jas. A. White
Mgeidessee
Mesnes
Mi W. P. Harrison & Ton
Gilbert Bro’s
Real Estate
Atlantic Refining Company
Pittsource Department
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Standard ‘Company
Fi. BA
J. T. Boucher
D. B. Roof
Havana
PENNA
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Teymene
McCormick Machines
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