Balloon peril on two mile ascent ends in rescue
In Lowell Massachusetts Professor James K Allen of Providence is carried by two companions Dennis A Sullivan and Dr William L Rombough after collapsing in the air gas partially suffocates Allen during a two mile ascent over Chelmsford Street The balloon descends toward Lexington where Allen regains consciousness and is helped to safety by locals The daring rescue involved tying ropes to a tree and transferring weight from the balloon to ground to prevent a collapse The three men survive and return home, hailed for their endurance and courage
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Andover
Hagett's Pond
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Boston Globe
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Tacoma
Beteen
Railroad Co
Coas
St. Paul, Minn
Remodeled Blenheim Castle Attracts Modern Iron Wealth
A Chicago Tribune note mocks Blenheim castle’s planned thorough remodel while an Herald writer observes that the same amount of silver bullion buys the same quantities of iron, cotton, silk, wool and wheat as two centuries ago, highlighting economic constancy.
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Vanderbilt
Chicago Tribune
New York Herald
Polar voyage by electric sledge trains and stations
Deloline Benedict in the New York Sun envisions a north pole route reached by land with electric stations and sledge trains. A northward push would lay an Arctic electric network, connect habitable posts, and support winter expeditions with alumiunm locomotives and paddle wheel drive.
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Peary
Deloline Benedict
New York
Clergyman Adverts in Bucyrus Weekly Program
A Bucyrus Ohio clergyman prints a weekly church program interlaced with ads, including a hardware pitch and meat ad. The piece notes a New York incident about pure reading matter versus ads and recounts assorted items from Sacramento to Chicago, with short humorous clippings and notices.
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Meyer & Hirsch
New York
Scott
New York Tribune
Famine in Cuba Next Plan to Aid Hunger Here
A Havana letter warns of looming famine in Cuba if the sugar crop fails to export. It details ruined railways, demoralized troops, widespread robbery, and near-total devastation across Santiago Puerto Principe Santa Clara and Matanzas. The writer predicts a paralyzed island unless aid arrives from abroad and notes the army’s large cash payroll.
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Spain
New York World
Culbersons Triumph Rouses National Outcry Over Prizefighting
The editorials praise Governor Culberson for moving to halt prize fighting in Texas, urging legislature action to ban the sport nationwide. They laud his courage, warn of disgraceful exhibitions, and credit him with defending morality against brass and dollars. The piece also notes calm temperance rumors about President Cleveland and a lighthearted column on autumn hats and a comic verse about streetcar love.
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Culberson
Texas
Augusta Chronicle
Man resigns $25,000 salary after turning firm around
A Chicago business tale circulates about a man who left a $25,000 yearly post after restoring a locally troubled firm. He offered to stay until month’s end, then quit to seek rest and better pay elsewhere, while the owner preferred he stay to finish the work. The departure reflects a clash between earned value and personal rest.
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Chicago
Europe
Baek
Chicago Tribune
Old Country Court Tragedy Sparks Fear and Death
In Pikeville Tennessee Geneva Marks favors Lon Mitchell over Will Knight. Knight, drunk and enraged, confronts Mitchell at a church. A fight ends with Mitchell fatally wounded. Geneva mourns at his side. Knight faces jail, crowd warns of lynching, then remorse follows. Also recounted: Lizzie Goddard dies frightened on her first train ride near Chattanooga. A London transfer of a Paris garter show hints at dramatist George Meredith.
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Knight
Atlanta Constitution
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Lizzie Goddard
Burnside
Chattanooga
Miss Goddard
Philadelphia Record
104 Year Old Irish Immigrant Mary Coffey Arrives at Ellis Island
Detective Peter Groden encounters Mary Coffey of County Kerry, claimed to be 104. She travels with daughter Catherine Coffey to Plainfield Connecticut, says she learned birth year from 1798 invasion of Trelwich. She speaks Gaelic and knits, claims widowhood in youth, and plans to stay in New Haven area.
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Offien Pier
Ellis Island
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Plainfield, Conn
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Peter
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Humbert
Plainfield
Hwa
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Croden
New Haven
New York Sun
Phenomenal child becomes perceptibly smaller at birth
Doctors at New York Postgraduate Hospital wrestle to keep a remarkably shrinking infant alive. Born fully developed, the baby’s weight and size decreased daily. Wrapped in cotton and placed in an incubator, the conch tray acts as a balance, with a head thermometer and instruments tracking vital signs. Feeding is hourly, using sterilized milk and barley water. At two weeks, the infant weighed 24 1/2 pounds and measured 18 inches long.
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Postgraduate Hospital
New York
Cincinnati Enquirer
Athletic Missionary Gill Remains a Yale Football Icon
Gill, once Yale captain in 1889 and famed for tackling power and fair play, left for China with his wife to do missionary work. His legendary on field restraint followed a fierce early tryout fight, after which he carried a rival off and never struck a blow again.
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George
Princeton
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Perry Trafford
Harvard
Slayback
Wesleyan
New York Sun
Warting Ad Sparks Family Banter And Dream Of Dowry Duchess
Whiffs from Chicago recounts a humorous scene around an ad misspelling warting warping. Dolly investigates. the family jokes about freckling and a future ad for an experienced girl. They ponder English nobility and a duchess as societal snobbery and satire mingle with local quarrels.
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Dolly
Janek
Jack
Literary Notes in Harper's and October Fashion Blues
This includes notes on Harper's Magazine features such as Innin Kalote tale Alone In Coha and Bernard Aubineau’s The Cost of Bad Money, plus October fashions in Harper's Bazar. It discusses curfew ordinances, Railroads, Mount Tacoma ascent, and various ads for remedies and products with local notices and reader letters.
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Harper's Magazine
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Oriental Society
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Harper's Weekly
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Putian Butyl
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Hager
Harpers Bazar
Lilian Bell
Margaret Sutton Iriscow
Hovechold
Sacres
Irrigation and Rural Life in Early Farming Practice
The excerpt discusses irrigation as a key farming practice, likening tile irrigation to a form of farming that concentrates labor on limited plots. It frames water distribution as essential to moisture, supports family roles in farming, and includes anecdotes about silver debates and a travel advertisement. It also mentions medicine ads and local commerce notices, illustrating a snapshot of community life and commerce in a historical rural setting.
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Tere
Mael Fen
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