Mineral Resources of the United States 1888 Overview
The sixth Day report outlines 1888 mineral output totals. Metals include iron steel $145,000,000. gold $33,175,000. silver $59,195,000. copper 251,270,622 pounds. zinc and nickel values. Fuels rise with coal $204,221,990 and petroleum $24,598,659. Total mineral value $59,659,931 and overall product value $591,659,931 with copper stimulus noted and a predicted 1889 decline in copper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
David I. Day
United States Geological Survey
Washington
Watch Dial Making Requires Skill and Precision
The article explains hand painted watch dials on enameled copper using tiny camel hair brushes and magnifiers, and contrasts with machine transfer methods via electrotype plates. It notes the process, drying, and firing steps, and comments on suitability for large uniform quantities versus artistic, delicate work, while criticizing cheap prints on enameled paper for children's watches.
Harvest Excursions and Health Remedies Adverts
The notice promotes special harvest excursion tickets on select Tuesdays for travel to western and southern points at a single first class fare, valid twenty days with no en route stops. It also includes testimonials for Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhea Remedy and Downing's Specific, touting health benefits and blood purification. Advertisements for Beatty's pianos organs and Knights of Pythias railway tickets accompany the page.
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M. M. Oain
Agt
Puterbaugh
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Knights of Pythias
Kansas City
Wood
Sebastian
GT & TA
Chicago
World Fair Promises Prosperity for Chicnayzo and Cure Claim
Chicnayzo promotes its World’s Fair success and declares its Calisayva Compound a universal cure for kidney and liver ailments. The advertisement touts extensive sales and a money back guarantee, urging trust in the manufacturers and dealer Peter Haugh the Druggist to buy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downing
Ashot
Maggie
Peter Haugh
A Journey to Venus and the Limits of Space Travel
A lecture explores celestial railways at sixty miles per hour to compare Earth routes with space journeys to the Moon and Venus. While the moon could be reached in roughly 166 to 167 days, Venus would require about fifty years at that pace, far beyond human lifespans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solar System
New York
Chicago
Boston
Liverpool
Moon
Venus
Mars
Earth
J. C. Robertson
St. Nicholas
Exile by Administrative Process under Alexander II
George Kennan describes the late 1870s as a period when the Russian state widely banished liberal and revolutionary-leaning citizens to Siberia without trial. He notes students, teachers, and readers of radical works were targeted, with entire groups arrested for mere association or possession of forbidden texts.
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Siberia
Alexander IL
St. Petersburg
Herbert Spencer
John Stuart Mill
Alexander II
George Kennan
Meeting of exiles in a secret convicts' gathering
A narrative describes convicts assembling in Miss Armfeldt's house, guarded by gendarmes visiting thrice daily. The observer notes eerie whispers, stories of cruelty, and a uncanny inmate asking to see a graveyard, amid reflections on penal servitude and revolution.
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Free Command
Miss Armfeldt
Cain
Dantelaw
Madam Kolenkina
Lilke
Macbeth
de Quincey
George Kennan
Sahara Desert Geography and Elevation Facts Explored
A Cornhill Magazine excerpt summarizes Sahara topography noting the Upper Sahara's rocky plateau with peaks well above sea level and the Lower Sahara ranging 200 to 800 feet, with two sub sea level lake beds rich in gypsum. It cites Sir Lambert Playfair on moving sand occupying about one third of the Algerian Sahara and mentions oases and date groves fed by wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sahara
Dartmoor
Derbyshire
Essex
Leicester
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Lambert Playfair
Algerian
Saux
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Puck
Daockford
Rockford
Winans & Johnson
Main St
Rock Ford, Ill
Sterling Business and Phonographic College
Busin
F. M. Wallace
Proy
Sterling, Ilinois
Amon
Aktor
J. E. Thoroughgood
Georgetown
Del
Chamberlain
Jane Thomas
Pater
Knights OF
Liyvra M'R.g. Co
Vita Corbett
John Corb
Madison St
Nuntsville
Ala
Livera M’p’g. Co
Nashville
Tenn
Chadwick
Tue Gazette
Rade Mar
Hse
N. Fagan
Deale
the Gazette
Carroll County
Abstract Office
Over
Carroll County Bank, Mt. Carroll,is
Lewis Chrisman
Lats SS
Poll Lab
H. S. Puterbaugh
Dr. J. A. McGill & Co
Panorama Place
Locke Wire
EPA
COTTA
Nursery
Seheen Cre
N. A. Ancien
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Dantos Manrys
D. D
New York City
Castoria
Enwim I
Parner, M. D
13Th Street
7Th Ave
Tur Cextaur Company
Moray Sturet
Strickler’s
Exil.es
We Keonen
Kare
Sahara Desert
Ange- Moa
Edwin
Mme. Frangiise
Toden
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