Indiana Progress and Global Curiosities 1897
A miscellany notes industry and science from 1897. Items include Chicago manufacturers employing 170,100 people and paying 70 million annually, a Krupp rolling mill debate, a 6000 year clock, a Paris Eiffel pendulum experiment, and observations on subjugation and reform in law and society. Also mentions a Kentucky whiskey incident, Helsingfors steamers for dairy trade, and royal needlework humor.
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Ter
Chicago
Bouy
Ouu
Artesian Wells and Wisconsin Mounds in American Antiquities
A detailed explainer on artesian wells notes how water rises from bored wells and can form fountains, with examples from Clinton Missouri, Aire Artois, Louisville Kentucky, and Charleston District of Columbia, plus global use in arid lands. It transitions to Wisconsin animal effigy mounds, their possible ceremonial roles, distribution across a Wisconsin arc, and notable scholars like Dr. Lapham and Stephen D. Peet.
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Artois
France
Clinton
America
Aire
Silversque
Virginia
United States
Sahara
Texas
Waco
Louisville
St. Louis
Charleston
D. C
Iroquois County
Iivois
Lake Michigan
Fountain Head
St. Louis Republic
Wisconsin Mounds
Frederick Starr
New York Academy of Sciences
Wisconsin
Ohio
Mississippi
Minnesota
Iowa
Dr. Lapham
Stephen D. Peet
Mr. Peet
Trenton
N. J
How Tombstone Get Its Name
A tale from the Brunewick office recounts Ed Schiflin, an Apache-era prospector, choosing a grave’s marker for a tombstone after finding first rich float worth 2750 dollars. The story notes his later wealth and the town adopting the name Tombstone, describing him as a humble miner in a red flannel shirt.
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Tombstone
Ed Schiflin
Rocky Mountain News
The Days of 49 Gold Rush Fever and Trails
A sprawling chronicle of 1848 49 crowds rushing to California gold, detailing widespread excitement, routes across oceans and land, and varied emigrant groups from New England to the West. It notes co operative funding plans and pioneer wagon journeys, followed by a Canada tale of a panther and a hunting party.
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United States
Terra
California
Argonaute
New England
Middle States
Cape Horn
Tama
Nicaragua
Mexico
A Marvelous Bird
Jicks-Jamson recalls insulting exchange with a parrot that repeats phrases spoken by others. Jamson defends the bird as marvelous and capable of revealing a person’s character, likening it to a human.
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Jamson
Jameon
Jicks
August Flower Patient Testimony From Kansas
Jesse Barker of Kansas reports long standing biliousness and constipation resolved by August Flower after many ineffective remedies. He praises the medicine as a life changing benediction and urges wider awareness of its benefits for digestive issues. G. G. Green, sole manager, Woodbury, NJ.
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Mer- Jesse Barker
Kansas
G. G. Green
Woodbury
Let Him Share All Joy and Care In Life
A devotional poem by Louie H. Bilbrough narrates a seeker’s burden when joy given by the Lord fades unless shared. The speaker asks why joy dies and is told that care was offered without sharing the joy for God. The reply prompts penitence and a pledge to divide both cares and joys with divine partnership.
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Louie H. K. Bilbrough
London
Chrisan
Lord Jesus Christ
God
Father
Jesus Christ
Mary of Bethany
From Holiness to Ginger Inebriety in Philadelphia
The piece blends religious exhortation on holiness with a report from the Philadelphia Times about Jamaica ginger as a rising form of alcohol abuse. It cites Dr. Mac Connell on the tincture’s high alcohol content, a physician who died from ginger drinking, and a girl buying ginger repeatedly, noting women make up most consumers and urging legislation and public education to curb Jamaica ginger sales.
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Philadelphia Times
Jamaica
MacConnell
Philadelphia
Brown
San Francisco
Dr. Brown
Thomases
New York Commercial Advertiser
British capital in American brewing raises temperance debate
The British invested £18,934,000 in U S breweries with 87 breweries and malt houses reporting 1890 sales of 5,021,120 barrels, generating estimates of $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 in retail beer. A Batesville Indiana fourfold tragedy highlights liquor license controversy amid public debate.
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Batesville
Indiana
Drunkenness in Paris and temperance notes from Ram's Horn
The piece questions a Paris drunkenness stereotype after a councilman’s noisy behavior at a public school event. It cites fines on newspapers and hints at calls for removal, while contrasting medical certainties with public opinion. It then lists temperance observations and moralizing quotes from Ram's Horn on drinking and social costs.
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Paris
Unchanging God Court’s Bengel Story of Reverent Prayer
A Christian Intelligencer piece recalls Bengel’s late night prayer with a friend, praising God’s unchangeableness. It links Bengel’s devotion to the Bible as rock, fortress, and deliverer, stressing trust and peace in God who does not change.
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Bengel
Hengel
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christian Intelligencer
Temperance Efforts Gain Ground in Benares India
In Benares a Brahmin Mahant named Keshub Ram Roy advocates temperance drawing on Western and Eastern culture. Within two years councils representing tens of thousands have adopted total abstinence rules for their castes. Excise revenue declines as liquor sellers petition magistrates to cut license costs.
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Benares
India
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Ware George Fountain
Helsingfors
Russia
Henge Xn Aod
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Roumania
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the Brunewick
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Earth
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