Thieves and a Love Affair in a Street Encounter
Eleanor Deering, an intellectual young writer, recalls a street accident when a car startled her horse. A mysterious, well-dressed man named John Welton helps her, and months later she confronts him to warn of danger tied to Welton and a doomed past. Their chance meeting blossoms into romance.
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AYER
Eleanor
Miss Deering
Roth
Ate
John Welton
Welton
Michigan
Sleaner
Shen el
Mr. Welton
Jack
Chicago Tribune
Not Named in the Wirt But Duchenois’s Grief Revealed
A fragment from a 19th century piece describes Duchenois the French actress encountering an old intimate friend overwhelmed by sorrow. He laments that despite dining weekly at her house for four years she left him nothing in her will, contrasting gratitude with loss.
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Duchenois
Jos
Baden-Powell as Correspondent and Artist
Col. Baden-Powell served as a correspondent for the London Chronicles during the Matabele war. He is described as an artist of ability with notable talent.
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Baden-Powell
London Chronicls
Secrecy in Wireless Telegraphy Via Dual Transmitters
A Pall Mall Gazette report notes M Tommasi’s device at Academie des Sciences showing two transmitters. One sends the real dispatch in code while the second emits meaningless dot and dash signals. The secondary range is limited to ensure only the intended code signals are received.
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M. Tommasi
Academie Des Sciences
Pall Mall Gazette
Lady Cho Finishes Etiquette Work In Ancient China
A widow of a noted northern Chinese literary figure completes her late brother-in-law's book on etiquette after the emperor seeks a suitable finish. The tale highlights the queenly dedication and royal recognition in ancient China.
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China
Lady Cho
North
Intercepting Signals and Chinese Domestic Instruction
A discussion of intercepting telegraph signals via a receiver between stations, comparing it to splicing blind wire to thwart tapping. The column notes a German weekly view on Chinese hens, then quotes Lady Cho on women’s duties from birth to death, including filial piety and household chores. It ends with a German diplomat’s quip about visiting Peking, praising the pure, exhilarating air described as winter champagne.
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Lor Wolseley
Cho
Peking
Ingenious Hatching Method Uses Hen and Wax
The article describes feeding fish eggs to hens to hatch them. Chinese labor gathers spawn from water, seals it in eggshells with wax, and places them under a hen. After incubation, shells are removed and the hatched fry are placed in a pool for nurturing before transfer to a lake.
Long Before the Suen Canal Linked Seas
The canal connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, dating to ancient times. It measured about 92 miles in length and predates the Christian era.
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Mediterranean
Red Sea
Crisp Chinese Seasons Describe Peking Weather
The excerpt contrasts spring and autumn with frost and sun, noting the keen air braces nerves. It adds that summer is hot in Peking yet residents enjoy health and comfort amid the crisp Pe king air.
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Peking
Beer Drinking in Germany Sets Global Record
Germany leads in beer and spirits consumption with Bavaria drinking 241 quarts per person annually and total spirits intake around 429 million quarts. The United States and France consume markedly less, with 268 million and 12 million quarts respectively.
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Hbeer
Germany
Bavaria
United States
France
The Uganda railway and its humanitarian argument
The piece argues that completing the Uganda railway will reduce slavery and suffering in Central Africa by connecting Mombasa to Lake Victoria. It cites costs, labor conditions, and claimed savings, noting Parliament's need to approve further funds amid engineering challenges and a harsh terrain sectioned by steep climbs and deep fissures.
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Central Africa
Uganda
Mombasa
Indian Ocean
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Nile
Kikuyu
New York Journal
British Isles
Great Lake
East Africa
How Supreme Court Opinions Are Decided
The Chicago Record describes the process after a case reaches the supreme court. Justices study the record and briefs at home, discuss for days or months, vote on opinions, and the chief justice assigns someone to prepare the opinion. The author may revise it after conference and is then reprinted for reading from the bench on the following Monday.
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Supreme Court
Chicago
I Took the Money from a Plutocrat Scoundrel
The speaker recounts a wealthy neighbor trying to buy them out and push aside their daughter’s singing lessons. He accepted ten dollars a week to stop the singing, saying the scoundrel’s money did not improve the weather or the singing.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Health alerts rise in Michigan as diseases spread
Weekly health report from 91 observers shows cholera infantum, remittent fever, scarlet fever and bowel inflammation increasing. Consumption recorded at 182 places, measles 38, typhoid 75, diphtheria 13, whooping cough 22, meningitis 4, smallpox at Springwells Nottawa and Lake Linden. Additionally three deaths: John Lothrop, a Goodland farmer, died reading. David Still of Imlay City collapsed in harvest. P. W. Marsh, 91, of Albion, died of apoplexy.
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Michigan
State Board of Health
Springwells
Nottawa
Lake Linden
John Lothrop
Goodland
David Still
Imlay City
P. W. Marsh
Albion
David Hartman
Pewama
Veteran Editor Dies Rankin of Flint Passes at 36
Hon Francis Hamilton Rankin longtime Wolverine Citizen editor dies at his Flint home aged 36 after a life in public service He served in the Michigan House from 1860 to 1866 and in the Senate from 1877 to 1879 and was Flint postmaster 1879 to 1887 His widow and six children survive him.
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Francis Hamilton Rankin
The
Wolverine Citizen
Flint
Michigan House of Representatives
Senate
Died Walks Dancing and Local Suicides Reported
The article notes sudden deaths including Max Condo, a Detroit dancing master, who collapsed during a waltz at Joe Beaore’s place in St Clair Flats. It also reports Peter Noret’s suicide in Hart, Mrs Watking’s self immolation near Decatur, and a Sparta man’s self inflicted death amid family troubles. A Washington weather bureau crop outlook covers Michigan. It warns hot dry weather harming corn puckwheat potatoes beans and pastures, predicts corn frost safety around September 12, and notes forest fires in several townships destroying grain and residences with damaged corduroy roads.
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Joe Beaore
St. Clair Flats
Detroit
Max Condo
Luwnayy
Peter Noret
Hart
Washington Weather Bureau
Michigan
Deaths in July rise by 216 to 2,509
Two thousand five hundred nine deaths were reported to the secretary of state for July, yielding a death rate of 12.4 per 1000. The figure surpasses July 1599 by two hundred sixteen.
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Denibs
Secretary of State
Michigan News Roundup of Legal, Weather, and Local Events
Attorney General guided actions deny licenses to aliens while Michigan forecasts a 10 million bushel wheat yield. Alcona county tightens protections for quail for five years, Menominee debates a county poor farm, and Pontine hears forgery sentencing. Robberies, fires, paroled prisoner, and fatalities mark a broad regional report. Rain mitigates widespread farm losses across Alegna county amid ongoing rural developments.
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Oren
State Board of Veterinary Examiners
Secretary of State
Michigan
Alcona County
Menominee County
Pontine
William Vanorder
Jackson
Henry
Pere Marquette
Michigan Pharmaceutical Association
Grand Rapids
Fred Stitt
Tecumseh
Symes
Cadillac
Marquette
I. Enos
Eckford
Alegna County
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