Paris Stationer Advertises Ink for Love Letters
The Argus notes a Paris stationer promotes ink described as ideal for love letters. The ink reportedly fades in about four weeks.
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Paris
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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1896
Page
2
Odor of Sweet Peas Reported Poisonous to Flies
The Rural New Yorker letters suggest that the smell of sweet peas acts as a poison to common house flies, implying an insecticidal effect discussed in their correspondence.
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New Yorker
French coinage contains 40 percent silver value
The article notes that French coins have only forty percent silver content against their face value and that the government refuses to accept francs bearing the effigies of Charles the Tenth Louis Philippe and Napoleon the Third unless the laurel leaf is present.
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France
Charles the Tenth
Louis Philippe
Napoleon
Stopping power of British rifle questioned in debate
The article discusses the stopping capacity of the current standard British infantry rifle. It notes that against a savage foe the bullet is comparatively ineffective unless it hits a vital organ, offering little more stop than a popgun.
Superstitions Shape Campaigns Across Time
The Atlanta Constitution notes campaigns rely on quirks and omens. It cites Franklin Pierce’s bid, showing his initials F P matched the fourteenth president and his full name contains fourteen letters, seemingly boosting his electoral fate as the fourteenth in line.
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Franklin Pierce
Atlanta Constitution
F. P
Campain
Formosa Conflict Described as Merciful Yet Brutal
The account argues Japanese aims in Korea and Formosa are fair and merciful, while natives and Chinese resist with ambushes and fever. It asserts Chinese guerrilla tactics and predicts extermination by the conquerors using an Oriental yet effective approach.
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Formosa
Japan
Korea
Price of first class wheel in 1897 puzzles cyclists
The New York Sun surveys whether high quality bicycles will hold their price in 1897 or drop. Makers dispute low price guarantees, while some promise cheaper, better wheels next year. Wooden bicycles and metal-frame prospects are debated as riders wait to see dealer moves.
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New York Sun
Peshawar
India
Michni
Abazai
Shubkudr
Sirkar
Branksome
Simla
Nolens Volens
Thames
A Broader Money System For All Businesses
The writer argues that money policy must serve all business interests not just gold supporters. He says the monetary system should be impartial and accessible to diverse pursuits, contending that those harmed by a gold standard have equal claim to a fair, prosperous economy.
England shifts trade debts to manufactured goods
The London Spectator notes that as a creditor nation England must receive goods of a set annual value or debtors become defaulters. With falling raw material values the world cannot pay annually, so England now takes a portion of what is owed in manufactured articles.
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England
London Spectator
Silver and Gold Per Capita Money In Circulation
The Youngstown Ohio Buckeye Recorder notes the world per capita money in circulation totals $5.01, with $2.51 in gold and $2.50 in silver.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Buckeye
The Tryst Under Night’s Silver Stars Poem
Poem excerpt describing a midnight tryst between lovers. The speaker and Margery share a quiet, hopeful moment beside pasture bars as the night air, stars, and fields set a tender mood. The piece uses lilting refrains and vivid natural imagery to convey longing and affection.
Zuleika's Wooing An English Colonel's Frontier Tale
An English commandant in Peshawar recalls frontier life with Pathans, a loyal Khans circle, a cattle theft, a murder, a vendetta, and the wedding of Afsal to Zuleika, daughter of Mahomed Aslim Khan, ending with frontier justice and cultural clash.
A Crack Shot
A Cheyenne man recalls an Eastern pistol expert in Laramie who quietly drew a pistol and shot six pistols from the hands of cowboys in a saloon, leaving the crowd astonished as the stranger drinks without paying.
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H. T. Jenkinson
Cheyenne
Metropolitan
Laramie
Tenderfoot
Washington Star
Horned Toads Are Useful
The California horned toad is praised for its insect-eating value. A. L. Mason of Los Angeles notes locals kill them thinking they are venomous, while Hawaiians seek thousands for pest control as President Dole promotes sending them to Hawaii. experts urge careful preservation at home.
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California
A. L. Mason
Los Angeles
Shoreham
Dole
Hawaii
California - Washington Star
Glass as Cemetery Gravestones A New Material
A reporter notes experiments showing glass can replace marble and granite for gravestones. Glass is inexpensive durable nonporous unseen odors or germs, resists weather and shocks, and inscriptions may endure for centuries, inspired by glass used in ship portholes.
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Zuleika
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Aslim
Afsul
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Telsildar
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