Assails Capt. Mahan in Boston Address
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson attacked Capt. Alfred T. Mahan in a Twentieth Century club address titled Freedom. He criticized Mahan for his Independent article and his prize money theory, calling it a moral board that undermines individual rights to his own child.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Twentieth Century Club
Boston
Alfred T. Mahan
Col. Higginson
Capt. Mahan
Mahan
The
Independent
New England
Dawson of 1900 on the riverfront changes
The piece contrasts the Dawson era of 1899 with 1900, noting a decline of bateaux and rise of steamboats along the riverfront. It describes multiple large craft lined up at the shore, and mentions influential riverboats such as Bonanza King, Canadian, and Sibyl, with races toward White Horse rapids.
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Yukon River
White Horse
Complex debate on power and empire features Harvard and Mahan role
The article discusses political theory and strong opinions on how ownership of property and power could engulf nations. It references Captain Mahan and Col. Higginson, outlines Higginson’s long career from Cambridge to Newburyport, and notes his Civil War service and abolitionist stance. It ends with a historical note on river traffic and open-water season at Dawson.
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Eliot
Harvard
Cambridge
Capt. Mahan
New York Independent
Col. Higginson
New England
James H. Lane
Kansas
Mass
Divinity School
First Congregational Church
Newburyport
Congress
Free Church
Worcest
Fifty-first
Massachusetts Infantry
South Carolina
Jacksonville
Wilton’s Bluff
Yene
Newport
Mississippi
Dawson
Appleton
Popular Science Monthly
General William W Averell dies at 67 in Bath New York
Maj Gen William Woods Averell a Union cavalry leader in the Civil War dies at Bath New York aged 67. He left West Point in 1855 and fought as Indian fighter before commanding Pennsylvania cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. He led raids from 1863 and commanded the second cavalry division in 1864, was wounded at Wytheville, later served as consul general in Montreal and as a prominent New York asphalt paving investor.
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William Woods Averell
Bath
N. Y
Averell
West Point
Pennsylvania
William W. Averell
Wytheville
Montreal
New York City
Fighting YER FIRES and Rough Riders in the trenches
A vivid account likens firemen facing winter dangers to Col. Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. It recalls icy rescues, a warehouse fire collapse, and the deaths of Chief Breenan and Foreman Roomey. The piece ends noting a New York relief effort for General Henry’s widow and pension politics tied to Spanish-American War veterans.
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Col. Roosevelt
Santiago
Salta Fae
South Street
Breenan
Roomey
Glequel
Grequel
Henry
New York
Congress
Air and the body keeps breathing through nature's purifiers
The Minnesota Journal notes how humans inhale about 4000 gallons of air daily and require oxygen-rich air for vitality. It explains air becomes toxic without purification and highlights nature's labors, wind, rain, and plant life, as well as city limitations, in maintaining air quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Minneapolis Journal
Addressing the audience with brevity at a local speech
An English paper recounts a stale meeting where a speaker introduced many names to a tired crowd. When finally calling the last presenter, Mr Bones announced his address and wished everyone good night, stating My address is 661 Park Villas, 8. W. and good night.
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Sp Salirman
Bones
Mr. Bones
Park Villas
Saving Him Money At Creditors Meeting
At a creditors meeting the Wheatpit household discusses settling debts for cents on the dollar. Mrs Wheatpit reacts with mixed emotion as a hat cost previously sent home affects the plan and finances.
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Wheatpit
Great Prize for Discovery
The Nobel Prize, founded by the late Alfred Nobel, honors the most important invention in science or industrial art. Open worldwide, it covers all human-age subjects and no imitations. Applications closed January 1 last year. the Stockholm committee is in session. Likely contenders include Dewar, Routgen, and Mauront for X-ray, gas diffusion, and wireless telegraphy advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Nobel
Stockholm
Our Nations Wealth and Iron as Nation's Strength
An advertisement extols iron as the nation's wealth and likens personal wealth to a stomach. It promotes Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for overwork digestion and constipation, claiming relief for clogged bowels appetite improvement and relief from dyspepsia and biliousness.
Vigieg Hospital and Imperial Yeomanry Inventions
A fragmented description references Vigieg Hospital in South Africa and a later development in military hospitals named the imperial yeomanry lying hospital. It mentions a mobile field setup with broad two wheeled carts drawn by two horses, carrying medical supplies and space for eight patients on stretchers.
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South African
Imperial Yeomanry
Amd Vonailh
Hows Thier We over One Hunted Dollars reward case
A garbled 19th century ad like text mentions rewards and cures for catarrh and various patent medicines. It lists J Cheney and Mrs Winslow and other quack remedies. The fragment references town life, sermons, and home remedies amid disjointed dialogue about cure claims.
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J. Cheney
Bere
Mrs Pinkham Offers Advice To Women In Need
A 19th century appeal invites women to seek Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s guidance for menstrual pains and related ailments. The pamphlet notes her reputation in Lynn Massachusetts and promotes confidential help from Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for struggling women.
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Lydia E. Pinkh
Atv Heen
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Ted Lung
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Ites
Hewter
Wal
J. Tower
Bowen
Mai
Seanresev
W. L. Douc
Gremione
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Don
Tosacco
Sony
Denver
Qaford Hotel
Brown Palace Hotel
Fidelity Savings
E. Fe Assay Office
Lawrence
J. H
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