Seeking the Pole Slow Progress of Explorers Across Three Centuries
A historical overview notes that over 300 years explorers hoping to reach the North Pole advanced only about forty miles. From Barents in 1596 to Parry in 1827 progress was slow despite frontier science. The Arctic basin is ringed by land with three major channels Behring Strait Baffin Bay and the Greenland Europe passage.
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Yorth Pole
Meer
Arctic Basin
Arctic Sea
America
Europe
Asia
Behring Strait
Baffin Bay
Greenland
Smith Sound
A Lesson in Geography From an Older View
This column surveys world empires and American geography with curiosities. It claims Canada’s population is smaller than New York State and notes Manitou’s meaning. It mentions olives for California, the Dakota River as a long navigable river, and Alaska’s extreme cold.
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France
Brazil
Gulf
Amazon
Mississippi
Manitoba
California
Dakota
United States
Alaska
Canada
New York
Minnesota
The
Dakotas
Yostetter's Stomach Bitters Promoted as Malaria Remedy
An ad extols Yostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal cure for malaria and related ailments. It claims permanent restoration of health and protection against miasma in air and water, plus benefits for stomach liver bowels rheumatism kidney complaints and nervousness.
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Yostetter
Tropics
Swiss Legislators Accept Modest Public Pay
Switzerland sets a simple government style with the President paid 10000 francs or 2000 dollars a year. The Federal Council holds seven members at 1200 dollars yearly. Senators and lower house members earn 2.40 dollars a day during sessions, with the legislature meeting twice yearly for about ten to twelve days.
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Switzerland
Federal Council
A Song For All Seasons
A fragmentary verse piece urges a merry world and love as life’s meaning. It speaks of saying so and singing despite sorrow or approaching end, urging resilience through affection and wit. The dialect and misspellings hint at a rustic, sentimental lyric tone with repeated refrains.
A Water Spout Race to Save a Train
In summer 1886 Charlie Cameron and Teddie O'Brien dash a hand car through Colorado's Royal Gorge to outrun a massive waterspout that floods the Arkansas River gorge. They reach Canon City just as the flood strikes, earning praise and gold watches from the railroad for their lifesaving ride.
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Teddie O’brien
Charlie Cameron
St. Louis
Colorado
Texas Creek
Denver & Krio Grande
Royal Gorge
Arkansas River
Teddie O'Brien
Father
Denver
Mrs. O'Brien
Teddie
Eddie
Jather
Charlie
Jones’s Gulch
Arkasa
Hanging Bridge
Flere
Grape Creek
Silver Cliff
Denver and Rio Grande
Canon City
Cana City
Grape Creek Bridge
Kingdom Come
McClure Hotel
The Indian Rupee and Its Value in India and England
An explanation of the rupee's status in India versus the dollar in America. It notes that while government payments in India use real metal, the rupee has depreciated for two decades, with value varying by rank from Viceroy to ordinary soldier. The mahajan banker dominates, charging high interest and keeping coins in a street-side bank.
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India
America
Harper's Weekly
Government of India
England
Mahajan
Shylock
Digging for Electricity in Oakland Wows City
The San Francisco Examiner reports Oakland’s subterranean wells yield electricity. Electricians note sparks from two wires, saws cut wood, and a whole house lit by natural electric supply, with talk of future storage batteries and five gallon lots.
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Oakland
Board of Trade
San Francisco Examiner
Not Looking for Trouble Sparks Restaurant Confrontation
A tense restaurant scene erupts as a large man in a red face demands trouble and threatens a fight. A smaller man pleads to avoid conflict, citing five years in a Wisconsin prison for killing a man, and requests an apology.
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Wisconsin
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George Wilkinson
Lowville, Murray Co
Minn
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Yale College
TOWLR
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Ater
Thomas P Simpson
Washington
Neatty
Texa Creek
Jane’s Gulch
Willian
Jimcomb Riley
Detroit
Russia
Caucasus
Dry Goods Chronicle
Morgan Street
Buffalo Courier
Hood
Ela
Culedo
Ohio
Mark Twat
Teeehbam
Michican
Iowa
Vermont
Illinois
Dees
Sioux City
Paper Union
Pearl St
al Grocera
Patrick O’farnuis
Washington, D. C
Thia
Cc. N. AU
Warren
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