Electric railways and new uses of electricity across the world
The piece notes Atlanta South’s street railway progress and growing public favor for trolleys. It also reports a 320 horsepower gas engine in France powering electric ideas, new leather dyeing via electric currents, government electric telephone bids, a Russian monitor’s underwater detector, and Paris autopsy observations on electrocution victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Pantin Flour Mills
Paris
France
Electrical Review
Bell
Washington
Interior Department
Rusalka
Gulf of Finland
McEvoy
New York
The Tsar Title and Imperial Terms in Russia
Dr. Wilhelm Koerger explains the origins of the title tsar from Caesar and its evolution in Russia. He notes official terms like imperiator and imperatvitsa and outlines how tsar became a non official title after Peter the Great.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelm Koerger
Royal Academy of War
Berlin
Germany
Caesar
Kaiser
Karol
Karl
Charles the Great
Tsar
Xerxes
Lycurgus
Pharoah
Tsaritsa
Tsarewich
Tsarevna
Russia
Vienna
Europe
London News
Unmarried Men Get Marriage Offers Across Regions
A New Jersey firm reduced staff by nine unmarried men and faced a wave of marriage proposals from sympathetic women. Letters from Western towns offered wives and even financial inducements. Other notes report the growing unpaid funds in the U S post offices, a pursuit of a truly black flower, acts of quiet courtesy by laborers, and opinions on electro deposition, diphtheria vaccines, and aging in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Ohio
United States
New York City
Post Office Department
Sub-Treasury
The Scrap Bag Word Puzzle and Party Tales
A playful piece explores a 27 letter word for pus formation and a lively birthday party recollection. It notes a Chicago Record contest offering a thousand dollars to correct John Martin Postmaster's story and imagines how winners might spend prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuk Sanark Gazette
Jacob
Tootie
Ruth
Mrs. Waite
Mary
Dickie Brown
Rebecca
Robbie Ray
Grace Jordan
Ella Brooks
Ella
Chicago Record
John Martin
Prize Scheme Conflicts With Crowd Funds
A speaker criticizes a proposed prize scheme noting a two hundred dollar prize and crowd contributions of twenty dollars each. The speaker refrains from participating, explaining concern over a larger thousand dollar payoff and questioning the rationale. Nena Veritas.
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N. Y Herald
Alexander Dumas
England
Lord Coleridge
Rose McDonald
Lockport
Chicago
Dr. King
H. E. Bucklen & Co
Nena Veritas
J. H W. Watts
J. J. Watts
Humboldt
Neb
Miles
J. H. Watts
Humboldt, Neb
Atveee
Boston
Dr. Miles. Isigal
Dr. Miles
Heart
Tami
Lima
Stannon
Shanson, T
Cr c
Lanark
J. Scott Spively
First National Bank
I. B. Trump
Humphreys
Albany
U. S. Army
J. K
Humphreys’ Medicine ,Co
Corner William and John Sts
Humphreys’ Medicine CO
U.S
Dr. Cady
A. Se Fru SF
B. T. Risley
A. HH
Chadwick
Illinois
THE
Eldredge
Eldredge Manufacturing CO
Belvidere
Jomrunes
Viepe
Delliver
WEW Home Sewing Machine CO
Asios Square
N. Y
San Francisco
Cal
Frac Menngs
Joan Feaeteerss
Lanark, Ill
Wnm. Strickler
Burton Harrison
Dean Howells
Spencer Trask
Albion W, Tourgee
Rudyard Kipling
James Whitcomb Riley
Edmund Clarence Stedham
Sir Edwin Arnold
Remington, Tocke
Ian Shaick
Turner
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Art and Letters
Francisque Sareey
Frederick Spielhagen
Agnes Repplier
Andrew Lang
L. Zangwill
Napoleon Ney
Margherita
James Anthony Froude
Edmund Gosse
Cosmopolitan
Lanark Gazette
WM. Walton
Freeport
Yes
Cornish & CO
Washington, N.J
ORGAN
Inter Ocean
Times
News and Commercial Center
Alleghany Mountains
West
F. I. Whitney
G. P
T. A
G. N. Ry
St. Paul, Minn
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