Behring and the Alaska fur trade origins in Pacific history
The narrative recounts early efforts to find a Pacific passage, Behring's voyage and death on a remote island, the dawn of the fur trade, and Russian American Company stations. It notes Alaska's fur economy, the Sitka center, charter renewals, and the 1863 sale of Alaska to the United States. It also covers lease terms for seal catches and the role of traders in fish, oil, and furs.
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Spain
Éxico
Central America
Pacific
Indies
Vaingland
Asps Horn
Hudson's Bay
North Bes
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic
Straits of Avian
Behring
American
America
St. Elias
Wessel
Bay of Avatscba
Tslands
Pekin
China
St. Petersburg
Alaska
Mount St. Hiias
Asia
Mexico
Alaskia
Qook
England
Straits of Annan
New Archangel
Sitka
United States
Alaska Commercial Company
St. Paul
St. George
Northwest Trading Company
Bilked Again a Grudge Turns to Murder Plot
A man fuels a violent grudge by plotting gruesome means to kill his rival, proposing arsenic dynamite and a threshing machine trap. A druggist offers grim alternatives and muses on the bungled theft of a nickel, while a corrective line suggests milk as a restorative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonny
Prussic
Trial by Battle in Valen ciennes A 1445 Duel Ends in Death
The article recounts a 1445 Valenciennes duel between Jacotin Flouvier and Mehout Cocquerel as a public ordeal. They battle with sticks and shields, torture follows, and Cocquerel confesses murder under strain. The Duke of Burgundy condemns the practice, abolishing it in his realms.
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D'Arleux
Valenciennes
Jacotin Flouvier
Mehout Cocquerel
Burgundy
Plouvier
Philippe the Good
Hanault
Jscotin Hlonvier
St. Fierre
Mshout
Mehout
Jacotin
Philippe
Inqmre
Mahouf
Burgunty
Ghent
Jacobe
Transplanting, pigs, and orchard notes from farm column
Practical farming notes cover transplanting young plants to minimize growth lag with wet roots and shaded planting if hot. discuss color trends in pigs from black to red and white gains. California wool and land use shift for sheep. wart remedies and roadside apple plantings are noted along with dew importance and early plowing.
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Weat
California
Uncle Sam
New Russian Glock Clock Delivers 400 Day Precision
A novel Russian 400 day clock stands about sight inches tall with a five inch globe. Its transparent design shows all workings as a brass pendulum wheel revolves. winding is small and it supposedly loses less than five minutes in 400 days. Temperature has no effect.
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New Jersey
Red Jersey
Russia
Old Fashioned Fruit Preserves and Preserving Tips
An extended confection of home canning recipes and kitchen tips. Instructions cover sugar preservation of strawberries cherries plums with syrup, Prustrus Pouus Virgour and Sturrup Perrans pepper pickles, carrot dishes, a light dessert cake with wine sauce, and jelly making with clear directions. Also notes on borax to whiten clothes and opinions on cremation as a sanitary measure.
Humorous musings and oddities across a busy page
A collage of light anecdotes, including marriage curiosities, a washwoman marrying a wealthy man after his wife's death, and a child’s comic misreadings. It mixes satirical vignettes on wealth, social climbers, and a parade of quirky remarks from editors, merchants, and travelers amid ads for hotels and patent cures.
Olive oil production and life in Pyrahi from old presses to olive customs
The narrative tours olive oil production in Pyrahi using primitive wooden presses and communal labor. It notes the village stream turning brown from olives, the sacred value of olives in this olive-growing country, and the cultural ties between olives and church glebes. It also touches on metrology definitions, a Caspian railroad plan from Baku to Resht, stock improvement in agriculture, and a closing moral remark on virtue.
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Pyrahi
Ireland
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Alusim
Eaya
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Tex
Tims Histres
C. Fea
Paris
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Minn
Wells
Richardson & O's
Aum-Housa Stewart
Sam Bali
Ha J
William
Baker
Lewis
Vega County
Ind
Pump
Morigg
Cottage Hill
Dinah
Beach Cl Arch Street
Philadelphia
Brown
White
Base
Mr. Malaprop
Hubby
Hot Hat
New Yorkarn
Hedloe
Tyland
Forrest
Heapal
Balgian
Ponts of Oaranssees
Palestine
Camp End
Ol Marka
Julier
Academy of Sciences
Earth
Hotel Des Alps
Territet Chillon
Hotel de Mont Fleury
Chillon
House of Commons
Turin
Messrs. Ramaay and Young
Loomis
Yale College
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Europe
Brussels
South America
Brazil
Daniel
Fingineera
Caucasus
Teheran
Baku
Resht
Caspian Sea
Idall
BOK
New York
Alekly
Adoplelin
Pragee
Rykaru
Rale
Wondhreul
Otier
Mt. Pike's
Kila Coras
Badona
Lindsey
Sellers & CO
Prop
Pittssurg
Ely
Bright
Prine
Hunt's Remedy CO
Providence
WELLE
Bigardson
Cou
Bussington
Vis
Pheautz
Jones
Bingeawton
Rbinghamton
Gacot
Charles A. Vereler Co
Foueler
Maitiounray
Oy Bede
Cahlee Shererar
Lydia E. Pinkhant
Tran
Mass
Nce
Tecomey
SS Fe
Aol
Ametly
Pelee
Daulers
Bath Nooruer,tz & Co
Nuane Ps
Parsons
Sierra
Ty A. Eeld-Iistes
Cain
Mmelle
AN & Logan
Howe
Hartford
Ives
Blaine & Logan
Zinanen & Co
Pinla
Ie Ieee
Cheapien
Redeagee Wildy
Teciphis
Betra Terminaes Fyatford Cae Ing Co
Hertford
Conn
Walnut Weat
Smith, Kline &Co
Wholesale Ag'ta
vOlndinases
Rold. Jeour, T
Cote
Gury
Ale Corer
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