German South Polar Expedition Aims for Uncharted Antarctica
The German south polar expedition led by Prof. Erich von Drygalski sails aboard the Gauss to explore the eastern edge of an assumed Antarctic continent. The group plans a branch station on Kerguelen Island and will study terrestrial magnetism, meteorology, and potential links between Victoria land and Kemp Enderby lands while probing unvisited Wilkes and Kemp lands.
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Philadelphia
Erich von Drygalski
Kerguelen
Navalieut
Cook
Kerguelen Island
James Ross
Antarctic
von Drygalski
Termination Land
Wilkes Land
Kemp Land
Kinderby Land
Victoria Land
Borchgrevink
America
Wedell Sea
Pourney
Graham's Land
Went for a ride, came back a bride in Brooklyn
Grace Coralyn Lewis aged 17 going on 18 and Ferdinand Stansbury Skinner, son of a Philadelphia financier, wed after a trolley ride and a quick ceremony conducted by Rev. Boeing of the Moravian church. The couple, who had planned a spring wedding, married despite parental objections and planned to relocate to Philadelphia.
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New York
Grace Coralyn Lewis
Decatur St
Brooklyn
Ferdinand Stansbury Skinner
Boeing
Lewis
Edgar Martin
Hal
Iooklyn
Mr. Roeing
Government anxious for Pacific cable construction
Washington Sept 25 government officials note the New York state incorporation of a company to lay a Pacific cable linking the United States with the Philippines. Capt White may join the Commercial Cable Co and seek landing rights in California Hawaii Guam and the Philippines. Congress likely to back private landing rights but oppose subsidies. past sessions debated government owned vs private cables with mixed sentiment and a strong minority favoring private control if terms match Atlantic landing rights.
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Washington
New York State
Pacific
United States
Philippines
Capt. White
Commercial Cable Company
California
Hawaii
Guam
Congress
House
Senate
House Committee
Atlantic
Handsome Corduroy Coat Ordered for Store Official’s Daughter
A Washington street store with an opening showcased a dark blue corduroy coat for a manager’s daughter. It features pale blue taffeta lining, pale blue broadcloth facing with white and gold embroidery, and a wide collar. A duplicate coat will cost 35 dollars, with tan Newmarkets offered at the same price from stock. The manager then ordered similar tan stock versions, noting corduroy suits only for children up to eight.
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Washington St
Newmarket
Box coats and jackets dominate the season’s styles
The catalog touts box coats and three quarter length designs as the dominant fashion, with long coats in demand for grown ups. Prices range from $17 raglan jackets to $25 beaver collar astracan jackets, with fur trims forecast to be widely used in very cold weather.
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Raglan
Lorna Gardiner Finds Love Beyond Suitors
Mrs Gardiner schemes to press Lorna into Count Espano’s marriage but Lorna escapes to Maplehurst with Aunt Esther. There she reunites with Ralph Hamilton, a neighbor’s son, who returns Lorna’s feelings. A month of happiness ends with a wedding telegram announcing Lorna’s marriage to Ralph.
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Lorna
Mrs. Gardiner
Lawrence Chatfield
Mamma
Prof
Caxton
Momsey
Esther
Count Espano
Countess of
Espanwold
Lorna Gardiner
le Roysville
Nell
Ralph
Rome
Esther Hiair
Maplehurst
Esther Blair
Neice
Eli
New York
Ralph Hamilton
Graphic Story of the Morgan Raid at Salem Ky
A vivid chronicle of Gen. John H. Morgan’s raid from Tennessee through Kentucky Indiana and Ohio in July 1863 detailing his 3000 man force two dozen plunderings including a mill’s ransom a telegraph deception and swift cavalry operations. Morgan’s weary riders crossed the Cumberland River ferries endured horse fatigue and relentless pursuit by Judah’s and Hobson’s units before capture near Bellaire and a daring prison break in Columbus ending with his escape and return to his command.
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Salem
John H. Morgan
Morgan
Morg San
Tullahoma
Tenn
Bragg
Tennessee
Kentucky
Rosecrans
Nashville
Cumberland
Broecksville
Turkey-neck Bend
Judah
Ohio ‘River
Brandenburg
Indiana
Ohio
Cincinnati
Meta Polis
Tod
Chillicothe
Marietta
Columbus
State House
Cleveland
Washington Court House
Piketon
Jackson
Vinton
Berlin
Pomeroy
Chester
Hobson
Chester and
Bellaire
Maj. Rice
Hines
Freedom
Little Miami
Ohio River
Roosevelt Leads Cabinet Talk on Trade Reciprocity
Washington September 25. Secretary Hay Root Long and Hitchcock were absent from the cabinet meeting. Most time was spent on a general discussion of department work, with President Roosevelt leading the talk. He favors active cabinet participation, like McKinley, and stressed trade reciprocity as the key issue.
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Washington
Hay
Root
Long
Hitchcock
Roosevelt
McKinley
Indiana frost report: light frosts and limited crop damage
The Indiana weekly weather bulletin notes mean temperatures below normal with several frosts and ice in a few areas. Overall crop damage was not serious, mostly affecting late corn, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, and a small tobacco patch, while peaches, plums, grapes are plentiful and apples continue to fall. Corn cutting and fall seeding proceed under favorable conditions.
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Indiana Weather Bureau
Wayne Comery
Kosciusko
Randolph County
Pins Swallowed By Brooklyn Girl. Regains Speech
Gertrude Tent, 16, of 975 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, swallowed six pins while laughing in a box factory. Ambulance surgeon Hart removed four pins and found two lodged in her windpipe. She lost speech and mobility but later recovered after pins were removed with a surgical mirror.
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New York
Gertrude Tent
Flushing Ave
Brooklyn
Miss Tent
Hart
St. Catharine’s Hospital
Morgan raid casualties and property loss report
Less than a year after his escape he was shot and killed by a union soldier during an attempted escape from a federals surrounded house. The Morgan raid in Ohio and Indiana caused about 10,600,000 dollars property destruction. Morgan captured and paroled over 6,000 men, with 200 killed and 350 wounded, according to Cleveland Press.
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Morgan
Ohio
Indiana
Cleveland Fress
McKinley Death Attributed To Nerve Injury And Gangrene
Dr W B Clarke argues the president died from nerve injury near the stomach leading to gangrene, contrasting Civil War figures to modern aseptic surgery and defending army surgeons despite the Buffalo autopsy query. He cites Surgical History figures on wound cases, amputations, and stomach penetration mortality.
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McKinley
W. B. Clarke
M. D
So Slow and Suffering Women Endure At Work
A fragment reflects on womanly hardship at work and the relief said to come from Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It describes backache, fatigue, and endurance, praising the medicine as a godsend for relief from weakness, inflammation, and ulcers.
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Wm. H. Johnson
Avordale
Chester
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W.S. Burkhart
New Carolina
Franklin
M’kinley
Dr. Clarke
Pearson
Alabama
J. J. Kyle
E. Chiesst
Kye
Indianapolis
Usiness Universit
E. J. Heeb
Vories
Gregg
Lawrenceburg
Aurora
Danville, Ill
Danville
Hutchinson’s
Albert Hutchins
Green
Pinkham
Rhilmer
Cardus
Dr. Pierce
Scott
Warner
Bell
Stuckmeyer
Prospect
Lau
Madison
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