Pitcairn Islanders Heard From
Curtis Brown reports on Pitcairn Island, noting a stable, aging population of 142 with stringent discipline under President McCoy. The community plans trade links with Tahiti via American vessels, while intermarriage remains high and health generally robust despite tooth issues.
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Tabiti
Pitcairn
Knowling
Anyé
Baland
Tahiti
McGoy
142 Souls
McCoy
Himslf
Mangareva
Pitcairn Island
McCoy Io
Lincoln Day Anecdotes From the John Adama Era
The piece recounts Lincoln era stories amid Pitcairn like communities, noting a language shift, gender imbalance, and isolation. It quotes Seward rebuking Lincoln for impropriety, and Lincoln’s quip about not leading Washington’s fire department, underlining presidential humility and wit.
An Improved Milk Pail from Alabama Inventor
An Alabama man proposes a new milk pail design to avoid spills and impurities. The top carries a siren-threaded flange with a receiving bow secured by a smaller flange. A loose cone inside the open frame seals the outlet when tipped, preventing leakage until the pail is righted.
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Alabama
Chicago Journal
Despair Turned to Resolve in Poetic Advice
A fragmentary line urges turning sorrow into steps toward nobler thoughts and avoiding despair that weighs one down, casting hope as the guiding force beyond sorrow.
Dedicated Chicago educator Dr James B. Dewey Retires
After 41 years as Greek chair at Chicago’s first high school, Dr James B. Dewey retires due to eyesight loss. He expanded teaching to sciences, studied medicine, earned a degree, and lectured at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical School as pupil enrollment grew from 200 to 12,000. His methods shaped many successful lives.
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James BR. Dewey
Chicago
One High School
Brisches
Chicago Homeopathic Medical School
Oldest locomotive engineer MeCurdy hauls millions
John McCurdy of Jackson Michigan, 70, resumes daily runs between Jackson and Michigan City on Michigan Central. He claims to be the country’s oldest locomotive engineer with 63 years at the same company and about 20 000 trips totaling nearly 2 000 000 miles in the vicinity. He has hauled roughly 4 000 000 passengers, never had a serious accident, and never lost a cent for the company. He describes the evolving duties from simple starting and stopping to braking, heating, lighting, and constant safety vigilance amid long runs and frosty firebox icicles.
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John MeCurdy
John McCurdy
Jackson
Mich
Michigan City
Michigan Central Railroad
Center of newspaper intelligence shifts after census
The United States census shows Massachusetts once led in newspapers per capita but now the center of intelligence on the newspaper basis log has moved beyond the Mississippi. Michigan now holds the position Massachusetts did, leading in newspapers per inhabitant as printing establishments rise to 23,016 nationwide, up 7,916 since 1900.
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Massachusetts
United States
Jowshow
Sichugetts
Pena of hardened gutta percha trials reach far shores
Pena faces repeated attempts in this country and England to achieve success with hardened gutta percha, despite multiple efforts and ongoing trials.
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Pena
Dean
England
Hays
Euccens
End of Civil War Veterans in U S Presidency Seen
A historical reflection notes that McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt signal a drift to presidents born after the Civil War. It argues future chiefs will belong to a later generation, with most past leaders having fought or remembered the war. A new page in the nation's history is viewed as opened.
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Kad
McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln
Cleveland
Martin van Buren
Jackson
van Buren
George IT
Wiliam Henry Harrison
Taylor
Buchanan
James J. Corbett's Swings From Champion to Indebted Again
Former boxing champion James J. Corbett, once famed as a clever fighter, has squandered two fortunes in 15 years and now is without cash. He plans to rebuild wealth, insisting he prefers goodwill and sociable living over Rockefeller and Morgan riches. Corbett boasts many IOUs and says he maintains a philosophy of living and giving to friends.
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James J. Corbett
Corbett
Jim
Boycott at Westport Forces Sheep Return to Farm
United Irish League action in Mayo leads to a curloin incident as a Liverpool steamship takes on sheep from a boycotted grazier. A dealer objects to mixing stock, other dealers threaten to unload, and the captain lands the sheep to be driven back to the grazier's farm.
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United Irish League of Gragier
Westport
County Mayo
Ireland
Curloin
Liverpool
Gragier
Language use in global mail volumes
The World’s Mall reports that about 12 billion letters are distributed annually by world post offices. English accounts for 8 billion, German 1.2 billion, and French 1 billion. All other languages together total under 3 billion.
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World's Mall
Post Ofices
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