New Six Masted Schooner Captures Maritime Awe
A San Francisco report highlights two striking vessels. The Americana, a four-masted craft from the nitrate port via Honolulu, shows extreme rigging and was 110 days from Caleta Burna, then 51 days to San Francisco. The six-masted vessel, to be named after a prominent captain, is 2,754 tons net, 200 feet long, 345 feet overall, with 46 foot beam and 26 inch lower masts, promising to astonish naval trade as it enters the New England coal run.
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John B. Prescott
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Arthur Crowler
Will
Jean
Oregon
Mlishty House
World Short of Coal and Cremation Debate
A long article notes that a chemist Professor Clem ent Walker of Saxony warns cremation could exhaust coal supplies if universal. He cites global population 1.85 billion and 211,000 deaths yearly, predicting 14.3 to 15 million tons coal used if cremation replaced burial. He cites 160 cities totaling 89 million people with 1.14 million deaths, needing vast coal. cremation advocates dispute these figures.
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Ubia
Winkler
Die Flamme
European Cretion Societiee
Crow Indians as railroad builders in Wyoming work crew
The Crow Indian nation begins work on the Burlington railroad from Toluca Montana to Cody City Wyoming. Chief Reg Blanket endorses the plan and the tribe agrees to be paid per day for driving ponies and clearing the route. Indians work in gangs under tribal bosses, handling modern tools with notable efficiency despite dress and customs.
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Wyo
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Indiana
Ocean Cables Unveiled How Telepathy Submerged Tech Works
An analyst explains oceanic telegraphic cables and their construction. The core uses copper strands, protected by gutta percha jackets layered through a forming process. The covering must be waterproof, durable, and non decaying to ensure safe, reliable transmission across sea depths.
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Philippine
Transivanl
China
Oceanic Telegraphic Service
Washington Star
Molten metal penetrates worker’s clothing and glasses
A foundry worker was injured when liquid metal splashed during casting. The molten metal pierced his trousers and wall of a protective case, but his spectacles in his pocket slowed the burn as the metal adhered to the frame, sparing a thigh injury.
In Love With a Princess A French Youth Enslaved
A fragment tells of a young French page who falls for Princess Amelie later wed to a king. He deserts his ship after learning her identity, seeks the theater where he gains entry, and is eventually captured and returned in irons, a public humiliation. The tale blends romance and tragedy in a single dramatic episode.
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Porineal
Mies
Hinehip
Irons
Wealthy New Yorker Seeks Office by Respecting Public Writs
A wealthy citizen in New York has reportedly spent twelve years urging presidents and high officials to appoint him to office. He claims the privilege to refuse, writing to President Harrison claiming the White House would obey him, yet no magistrate has compelled him to keep his word.
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New York
United Armies
White House
Harron
Hay
Hidden Treasure Tale Guarded by Ghost Story
The New York Journal recounts a grim tale of Isaac Patch, a 19th century moneylender who hid treasure on his land near Greenwood, Me. His heirs and others hunted the site at night, aided by legends of a guarding creature that appears to deter thieves. Frank Patch now guards the farm but the fortune remains unfound.
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Hien Bacon
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Ett
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Mr. Ayereon
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