Denver Newsboys and City Happenings Chronicle
Dated items report on Denver area events inclosing a rabbit bunting, a fatal accident involving Charlies Mills, mayoral prosecutions, Alpine club aims, and bondholder actions. Cripple Creek executions and war claims progress noted amid infrastructure talk from Leadville ice palace to Florence Southern railroad plans.
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Denver
Memys
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Pueblo
Minos
Columbia
Op Warren
Colorado
Sereniy
Ween Heete
Ice Palace
Wheeling
Florence & Cripple Creek Road
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Kelly
Georgia Bank Note Tax Test Case Sparks Legal Debate
A Georgia law triggers a test case over the constitutionality of a state bank note tax. Lawyers widely doubt the tax’s legality and some offer to defend the notes in court.
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Georgia
Florida Trip Weather Echoes Civil War Winter Tale
Mrs. Toplady recalls bitter Florida weather while an old campaigner compares it to his 1864 winter spent in a log hut with a dirt floor. He notes temperatures between 20 and zero for three months and recalls Sherman's army nearby, explaining why he stayed home.
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Florida
Washington Post
Sherman
Is Like Perpetual Motion in Photography
A veteran photographer dismisses claimed advances in lying color photography as impractical, likening them to chemists’ dreams and unattainable quests such as the philosopher’s stone or the golden fleece.
A Green Old Age Phrase Misapplied
A discussion from Macmillan's Magazine criticizes the misuse of the phrase a green old age. It notes Virgil described Charon with a fresh green age despite aging and cautions against applying the term to nonagenarians.
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Virgil
Charon
Nether
Macmillan’s Magazine
Four vast volumes hold 12000 American journal extracts
The czar receives four large volumes containing 12,000 extracts from American journals about his father’s illness, death, and his own marriage. The volumes, bound in red and gold for the marriage and black and silver for the others, will join the imperial archives in St. Petersburg.
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St. Petersburg
Advances in natural history in the last century
The essay notes the rapid growth of natural history over 100 years and recalls Linnaeus’s mistaken beliefs, such as swallows wintering under ice, illustrating how scientific views have transformed.
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Linnaeus
The Peacock's Corona The Bird's Tail Structure
The article explains that the peacock's corona is a feathered crest above the tail, not part of the tail. The true tail comprises eighteen feathers beneath the corona and is moved by a set of muscles that allow it to be erected at will.
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Seeth Park
Colorado State Board of Horts
Veterinary Sanitary
MeIntire
F. Radford
Trinidad
Buena Vista
Las Ant
Powdered tobacco links to Catherine de Medici’s taste
In 1572 Catherine de Medici received a box of powdered tobacco leaves. She grew fond of chewing and snuffing the herb, which became known in France as herbe de la reine for many years.
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Catherine de Medici
France
New Beard Styles Spark Fashion Among Russian Gilded Youth
Russian gilded youth in St Petersburg introduces eccentric beard fashions with heart shaped, scalloped, saw edged, and other customized styles reflecting wearers fancy.
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St. Petersburg
Relic demolished at Leipzic square HQ site
A Napoleonic relic house in Capellen Strasse, used as Napoleon’s headquarters for four days in 1813 during the Leipzic fighting, has been demolished. Local historians note the loss of a tangible link to the 1813 campaign.
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Leipzic
Capellen Strasse
Napoleon
Cure for Nervous Prostration Promoted by Pink Pills
Mrs. A Mather of New York describes fifteen years of nervous distress and anemia ending in paralysis, relieved after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She credits rapid improvement after three boxes and notes benefits for herself daughter and cousin. Sold in boxes at 50 cents each or six for $2.50 from druggists or Dr Williams Schenectady New York.
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Press
New York City
A. Mather
East One-hundred-and-twelfth Street
New York
Wiliams
Schenectady
Nebraska seeks state immigration society in push to curb southern flow
Landowners and Nebraska railroads press to stop immigration to southern states. A state immigration society is proposed with a stock company of 100000 members each buying $5 stock to fund five years of organized work. General Manderson presided as a committee was named to arrange a future meeting and draft incorporation articles for a Nebraska association to develop the state and attract immigration.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Manderson
Samuel Rees
A. Hospe
C. N Powell
O. C. Holmes
C. C. George
No-To-Bac Helps Four Sums Quit Tobacco Habit
Four men from North Huron New York including C HL Sum and three relatives ceased tobacco use after starting No-To-Bac. Though ages and infirmities varied, all are reportedly cured and in excellent health. The Sum family urges others to try the product as numerous smokers reportedly follow their example.
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North Huron
N. Y
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