Power of a Tooth and Courage in Crime and War Tales
A Seattle man recalls a Chicago burglar who lost a tooth in a street fight and later used the tale to bluff a case involving a mining claim. The narrative shifts to wartime weddings amid battles from Sebastopol to Sebastopol and Cabul, highlighting marriages formed under fire and in besieged cities, including nursing sisters and officers, with notable weddings during sieges and sieges’ shelling.
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Seattle
Cape Nome
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Fry
Lawer
Golscake
Lfe
Sebastopol
Florence Nightingale
Foot
England
Strasburg
Cabul
London
Weddings in War Times Amid Bombardment
A Kimberley siege narrative notes weddings celebrated during heavy fighting. It recalls Waterton’s slaughter and a Coventry officer’s postponed wedding, with his fiancée secretly following him as events turned tragic.
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Kimberley
Waterton
England
Seemte
Some Statistics of Canoeing in 1900
The article reviews canoeing’s rising popularity in 1900. The American Canoe Association lists 151 clubs across five divisions with memberships ranging from ten to over a hundred per club. Canoe craft costs span 35 to 200 dollars, and outfits from 15 dollars upward. It highlights club houses, some owned by clubs or stock companies, and notes Ottawa Canoe Club in Canada with 270 members and a $3500 club house at Rock Clift park.
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American Canoe Association
Canada
Atlantic
Middle Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Ohio
Indiana
Ilnois
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
United States
Canoe Association
Muskoka Lake District
Ottawa Canoe Club of
Ottawa
Can
Rock Clift Park
New York Times
Poem Fragment Echoes Fire and Troy Implied
A fragmented excerpt presents vivid lines of blind song and burning Troy. It references Homer, celestial flames, and enduring desire, with scattered names and archaic diction suggesting a literary excerpt from The October Atlantic.
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Troy Town
Negro Melodies from the South and their Echoes
A critical overview contrasts genuine African American songs with white warted tunes, tracing syncopation, slave heritage, and camp meeting hymns. It highlights Memphis, New Orleans, and northern Louisiana scenes, notes enduring tunes like Swingin’ in the Sede and Suwanee River, and describes powerful river labor choirs and vessel roustabouts singing aboard a Mississippi steamer.
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Verdi
Donizetti
Thompson Street
Chopin
Marie
New Orleans
Congo Square
Lottie Collins
May Irwin
Mistah Johnson
South
Mississippi
Memphis
Tenn
St. Louis
Calinda
Louisiana
Gabriel
Will H
Pine Woods
Jesus
Natchez
Cooked His Goose and a Poet's Reward
George Horton, poet and ex consul to Athens, earned praise for The Fair Prigand. A Chicago Times Herald editor, Horton hosted a dinner where the cook burned the goose while reading his story. The cook confessed distraction from the tale led to the near-charred fowl, and the verdict against her was set aside in light of Horton's celebrated narration.
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George Horton
United States
Athena
Athens
Chicago Times-Herald
Mr. Horton
Jon
Silence on Mexican Silver Shapes Bryan’s Stance
The article discusses William J. Bryan's silence on free silver after his trip to Mexico. It cites T. S. Van Dyke’s interview and argues that Mexican price dynamics under a silver standard would alter trade, with Mexico’s currency devalued to about 50 cents on the dollar, raising domestic prices and affecting imports. It highlights published observations on how this would influence costs for flour, beans, sugar, coffee, and labor, suggesting Bryan’s Mexico study reveals practical implications of monetary policy.
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William J. Bryan
Mexico
Republic
Republics
T. S. van Dyke
Los Angeles Herald
Mr. Bryan
Mr. van Dyke
Bryan
Los Angeles
Nogales
California
United States
Guaymas
Trinidads Lake of Asphalt The Source of Northern Street Paving Material
The piece describes the Pitch Lake in Trinidad a British colony near northern South America. It explains the lake sits on a camber hill about 90 feet above sea level and produces the black asphalt used as a paving material for New York streets.
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Brighton Pier
Mother Earth
Trinidad Lake
New York Evening Post
Trinidads Lake
New York
Tropics
Trinidad
South America
Festival of the Seven Sisters observed by Chinese in city
A three day celebration by Chinese women and children honors the Seven Sisters festival held yearly on the seventh day of the seventh moon. Women decorate homes, present fruits and nuts, discuss the fairy tale, offer prayers, and delight children with games and gifts reflecting a Santa Claus vibe.
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China
Earth
St. Nicholas
New York Tribune
China’s 1899 Trade Boom Driven by Rail Expansion
The 1899 Returns of Trade report shows China’s foreign trade surged with railways opening. merchants profited across sectors as internal trade quickened. Haikwan tael values spiked, and ports like Nenchang and Tientsin responded to better transport, boosting activity despite regional unrest and plague in some areas.
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China
United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Imperial Maritime Customs Service of China
Altheven
Nenchang
Tien-T'sin
Paoting
Peking
Railways open vast Chinese frontiers and trade boom
The Washington Times notes northward progress of the Russian line to Monkden and the Lu Han from Peking to Hankow, with trains reaching toward Chingting within six months. It highlights American and Japanese textile demand growth, with cotton goods de luxe rising sharply and exports estimated at 195,784,832 bk. Us., as railways expand to connect distant ports and stimulate China trade.
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Monkden
Manchuria
Lu-Han
Peking
Hankow
Chingting
Hankuw
Sinyan
Yellow River
Taku
Tien-Tsi
Shanhaikwan
Newchang
China
Japan
Hk. Us
Naliwaya
A Storm in the Tropics Storm Toll and Ocean Nightfall
A storm in the tropics described by J. Taylor Ward in the October Atlantic rushes ashore with leaden skies and a tropical flood. Darkness, phosphorescent foam, and a vast rainfall accompany a cooling of temperatures by 10 to 16 degrees. A hatch tarpaulin is lifted to aid diversions, thunder erupts endlessly, and a brig rides the tempest as sailors brace for what follows.
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J. Taylor Ward
Atlantic
Tropica
Benin
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Homer
Troy
Alexander Balr
Rventigouche
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