Ruined by Chance Remark at Flood Estate
In early era mining stocks fueled visions of fortune. Hank, a gardener at James C Flood’s Menlo residence, misinterpreted a wager about Con going up 300 before Christmas. He sold 250 acres and all stock, investing in Consolidated Virginia at 75 a share, only to see Virginia fall to 25. Flood learned of Hank’s tale, explained the joke behind the bet, bought back Hank’s ranch, and fully compensated him.
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James C. Flood
Menlo
San Francisco
Hank
Flood
Mr. Flood
Virginia
Filood
Sugar for humming birds at Putney home
A St. Albans Vermont Messenger piece invites bird lovers to watch humming birds fed with melted sugar from a flowerlike metal cone on Mrs. Warren Willard’s back piazza. The regulars, now about a dozen mostly young, perch on wires and skim nectar while the male leader surveys the scene from the edge of the feeder.
Restriched to the King in the Land of the Morning Calm
Restrictions specify that only the king of Korea may wear goats in the Land of the Morning Calm. He may have round columns and square rafters in a high house and wear a coat of brilliant red. Only the king may see the queen’s attendants and may own buildings with more than three steps outside.
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Korea
Old Time Indian Remedies and Early Medical Beliefs
A Kansas City Star report notes that before white contact Indians reportedly suffered few major diseases. Dr Kempf cites fevers from cold and wounds as the main ailments, with simple cures such as sweating and purging. The piece compares frontier medicine to early colonial practices praised by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Cotton Mather.
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BE. Jd. Kempt
Kansas City Star
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Massachusetts
Gov
Winthrop
Cotton Mather
England's growing workers defy race deterioration claims
A Leeds wool firm compared current measurements with those from generations past and found heat and hip sizes up by about three percent. Across England, north England shipyard workers are larger, with the limestone districts and parts of Ulster yielding the biggest frames, while Oldham and Batley report England's smallest factory operatives.
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Leeds
England
London
Tyneside
Yorkshire
Westmoreland
Cumberland
Ireland
Oldham
Batley
Lake Lucerne Reigns as Europe's Most Popular Lake
The Lake of Lucerne is identified as Europe’s most frequented lake with 20 steamboats operating that year. They carried 1,529,000 passengers and moved over a thousand tons of baggage and freight, showing the lake’s busy transport and tourism activity.
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Europe
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