Vast 1893 World News Flows From Far and Wide
The issue reports industrial, economic, and technological trends from the United States and Europe. Topics include poultry and eggs values, Brazil and France trade efforts, new engines, Canadian boodlers crossing the border, a weighing machine invention, housing trends in France and Germany, convicts awaiting esth in U S prisons, capital punishment debate, grain stock bills, new Atlantic liners, Nebraska farming exhibitions, Swiss excursion crowds, and the World’s Columbian Exposition minerals share with extensive mineral displays and global resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Census Office
United States
Chicago News
Lever on Stone Bed And Glacier Marks In Time
A carved lever on rock bears a lady’s name with a rhyme. Marks beside his own were etched by a primeval glacier. Yet the passion in his Spirit outlasts the spoken word as ice age time resists a fleeting flame.
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Geme
Meshinks
Jove
Mutiny and Explosion Aboard the Russian brig Ivan
A New Bedford bound merchant ship recounts the mutiny aboard the Russian brig Ivan at Fogo Island in 1666. After flogging and brutal discipline, the crew rebels, mutiny spreads, and the Ivan explodes during a pursuit, leaving one survivor. The tale notes suppression of news in Russia and describes the chaotic aftermath and partial wreckage, with limited corroboration from other vessels.
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London
Ivan
Fogo Island
Fogo
Cape de Verde
North Atlantic
Ian
Brazil
Aung
Rio Janeiro
Scott
Russia
New York World
Bowser Misadventure Sparks Teasing Role Reversal
In a humorous vignette from New York World reprinting M Quad, Mr Bowser arrives home to find his wife ill with a headache, only to lecture her on health and insist he never complains. The scene flips when Bowser himself falls ill, and his wife nurses him with calm practicality while he basks in false bravado.
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Mr. Bowser
Mr. Bower
Inoch
Mrs. Boswer
New York
Spinal Meningitia
Bowser
M. Quad
New York World
Miss Liberty Spirit Belongs To Miss Anna Williams
Philadelphia readers learn Miss Liberty portrait on the silver dollar is modeled after Miss Anna W Williams a kindergarten teacher and former principal at the House of Refuge She denied romance with the engraver and continued teaching at the Girls Normal School on Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets.
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Miss Liberty
Girls’ Normal School
Seventeenth
Spring Garden
Aliss Williams
House of Refuge
Girl's Normal School
Chicago Herald
Care of the Human Ear Warns Against Home Cleaning
A New York Tribune piece emphasizes the ear's fragility and warns against using ear-picks or forcing objects into the ear canal. It advises gentle external washing for children, warn of potential deafness from injuries, and suggests oil and cotton tricks only with care. Experts prefer specialists for ear issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
The Banana a Developed Lily Expansion of a Tropical Fruit
The text describes the banana as a developed tropical lily whose seeds were eliminated by cultivation and which yields far more fruit than other crops. Humboldt is cited comparing ground yields, praising the banana as a staple food, noting its resilience and appeal to animals and humans, and admiring the cocoa palm and banana leaves.
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Humboldt
Sea Isles
Curious tall tales from distant days
A collection of strange facts and anecdotes from history and travel. It notes Russia’s oldest person at 124, a 1415 Peru discovery, mythical barca gender myths, odd weight loss tales, and giant trees. It recounts a Texas cat learning to bark, early automation, redwood timbers in Sonoma, a 75 foot ravine crossing, and a Utah skeleton eight feet six inches tall unearthed near Salt Lake City. It also covers rings in Elizabethan times, electrical eels, Cordele pine twins, a French falcon’s far travel, Mount Vernon’s naming for Admiral Vernon, and wild horses uniting in crisis. The piece closes with a barber’s hair fishing line and a snake bite tragedy at White Sulphur Springs where an Arab antidote failed.
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Texas
Sonoma County
Cal
Jordan River
Salt Lake City
Utah
Orinoco
Dallas News
Scientific Scraps From The Research Front
A roundup of quick science notes noting brain size differences across species and rapid development in insects, a German sugar industry claim, a French psychology investigation, oil coatings to reduce evaporation, electric arc blasting in Sweden, rock spalling, and bacteria filtering by trees. It cites high projectile speeds, steamless locomotives with electric headlights, past climate warmth in northwestern Europe, French port docking slips, vegetarian societies in major cities, anthrax in Vermont cattle, aluminum in molten steel, and a mushroom census by Dr Cooke.
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Europe
France
Curriea le Favre
New York
Chicago
Boston
Shea
Burlington
Crown jewels of Queen Victoria guarded in Tower
The New York Recorder notes Queen Victoria’s crown, kept with royal regalia under strong guard at the Tower, is among the most costly. It lists twenty diamonds in the circlet valued at about 75,000 dollars, two extra large centre stones at 10,000 each, and over 300 additional diamonds plus rubies and pearls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
New York Recorder
Prince of Wales Title Doubled in Line of Heritage
The Prince of Wales holds a unique title, Earl of Dublin, created in 1850 when he was nine. The dignity, granted by the Queen, is to him and his heirs for ever, exceeding the usual inherited honors of a royal heir. This monarchical note remarks on the specific elevation within royal titles.
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Prince of Wales
Earl of
Dublin
Drying Fruit for Preservation in Abundant Year
Farmers favor drying fruit to reduce bulk and shipping costs while extending value. Use ripe apples for best quality, avoid scorching during artificial heat, cover trays to deter insects, and ensure clean, attractive appearance to fetch top prices. Dealers prefer first quality stock. second grades command losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Siam born twins Eng and Chang settle near Mount Airy
Eng and Chang, Siam born in 1811, immigrated to the United States in 1629 and were exhibited for years in America and Europe. They settled near Mount Airy, North Carolina, in 1854 and died in 1874. Chang died unexpectedly while Eng slept. Eng died an hour after the shock. They were connected by a band in the epigastric region about six to seven inches long and two and a half inches in diameter.
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Eng
Chang
Siam
United States
Europe
Mount Airy
N. C
Fragmented Ocean Anecdotes and Local Vignettes
A collage of playful quips and seaside humor includes misheard lines about seasickness, baldness, and a desperado watch in a crowd. It parades dialogue fragments from various characters, notes on a tiny New England town Vegennese and its trivia, plus a New York Journal reprint of quirky exchanges and civic-life observations.
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