Mrs Annie Besant Sees Ghosts Aboard Ship In New York
Mrs Annie Besant president of the Theosophical Society arrived in New York aboard the Philadelphia from Southampton. She discussed Theosophy's plans to solve social economic and spiritual problems and described experiences with ghosts including an omnibus ghost in London and children's ghost sightings.
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New York
Annie Begant
Theosophical Society
Philadelphia
Southampton
Park Avenue
London
Mrs. Besant
Lincoln pennies stir church offering debate
Editorial clippings discuss the new Lincoln pennies and whether their presence on church collection baskets is appropriate. Some papers note the numerous mottoes and the artist V D Brenner initials stamped on cents, drawing mixed reactions to the coin's design.
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Pittsburg
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Lincoln
Syracuse Standard Post
Victor D., Brenner
New York World
Syracuse Herald
His Twenty Cent Revenge and Civic Bathhouse Tales
Humorous clippings from the New York Press and Washington Post recount petty theater in New York transit and a banker narrating a faux bath ritual. The columns mix a coin dropping anecdote with Hogarth era corset talk and a punchline about a bachelor Englishman’s bath ritual.
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Washington Post
George F. Maginn
New York
The
Arington
Cigarettes or Beer May Bar a Teen From Job
A 17 year old from near Wellsboro visited New York after seeing a department store ad. He was questioned about smoking and drinking but denied both. He waited to meet the head, then was hired on the spot and later kept in a family setting for nine months.
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California
Missouri
Lawrenceville
Wellsboro
New York
Vereneon
Sky Houseboat Wanted. A Dream of Quiet Utopian Flight
A poem from the New York Sun envisions a sky houseboat to avoid neighbors and bills. The speaker longs for a floating dwelling high above earth with quiet, silence, and freedom from daily demands and interruptions. It contrasts earthly noise with imagined serene skies and mentions practical needs like feeding the larder during nocturnal earth drops.
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New York Sun
Two Ways Madge and Marie Choose Life Paths
In a concise dialogue from The New York Times two women debate fate liberty and marriage. Madge chooses remaining single to keep freedom while Marie opts to marry and gain companionship. The exchange contrasts personal choice and social expectations without presuming outcomes.
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Madge
Marie
Diversions of the Re Echo Club
Readable excerpts from Harper’s Magazine show the Re Echo Club’s public offering of club papers. The collection includes verses about the Purple Cow parody and other literary snippets from members and referenced authors.
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Carolyn Wells
Harper's Magazine
Re-Echo Club
Echo Club
Boston
Gelett Burnees
Hill Encourages Northwest Farming With Corn Prizes
Omaha report notes James J Hill offers thousands in gold prizes to farmers growing corn in Washington, Montana and Idaho with additional rewards for field peas and flax. He argues corn will attract settlers to the Northwest while other crops offer profit. prizes aim to spur entry rather than fill needs.
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Omaha
Neb
Northwest
James J Hill
Mr. Hill
Washington
Montana
Idaho
Hill
Minnesota
North
South Capote
Ida
Railroad Builder Promises Prizes for Cereals to Enrich Nation
A railroad builder, Mr. Hill, offers prizes ranging from three to twenty five dollars for threshed and grain in the sheaf across states, totaling several thousand dollars. He likens farmers' earnings to a locomotives engineer with a million saved, and a portrait of Mr. Hill is published for a monument at Beatts.
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Hill
Prises
Mr. Hill
Tag
Mr. Hill Juckin
Pasographe
Glow-worm and the Comet reveal a path to new light
From the New York American two ideas arise. The glow-worm hints at light without heat while the comet suggests ultralow density matter and vast space luminosity. Professor Newall and others urge pursuit of artificial illumination through extreme vacua and pure research.
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New York American
Presence Keience
Royal Astronomical Society
Great Britain
Newall
Earth
John Herschel
Germany
Fragmented Poetry and Odd Phrases in OCR Text
The readable parts resemble a mix of archaic line breaks and garbled words. References include Henry Wadsworth Lang fellow and stray mentions of animals and cancer in unclear locales, suggesting OCR skew.
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Annie Besant
Spook
Baltimore Sun
Philadelphia Ledger
Massachusetts Bay
Ohifo
Miami
Mamma
Amsterdam Avenue
George J. Thne
Hogarth
Gustavus Adolphus
Catherine de Medici
Taft
Beverly
Mass
Salem Bay
Long Island
Shelton Island
United States
New York Times
P. Bysshe Shelley
T. Gray
J. W. Riley
Dante
Nevermore
E. Allan Poe
Broadface
Longface
Donald A. Fraser
St Nicholas
Mr. Broudface
Mr. B
Mr. Longtrace
Mr. L
Mr. Askitt
Willie
Magnate
Monument
Seattle
James J. Hill
Empire Builder
Yiniot
Agaim
Henry Wadsworth Lang
Tunis
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