Balloon ascent theme ends in tragedy and resilience
A narrator recounts accompanying his brilliant friend Professor Kingsley on an experimental balloon ascent to test a high altitude breathing device. As the craft climbs toward 50 000 feet Kingsley's mania grows. the narrator faces a life threatening choice and ultimately must push his companion away to save themselves. Rescued months later, Kingsley remains fixated on another ascent.
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Royal Engineers
Kingsley
Jess
Thames
Channel
P Nor
Ttingsley
Lttle
Paris
Seine
Ingsley
Tie
Mie
Ile
Tle
Frrench
Utica Globe
Bicycle Surgery Ad Promises Fixes for Wheels
A widely circulated South Side hoax or spoof advertises bicycle surgery promising cures for tires and wheels. It touts homeopathic or allopathic treatment and cites testimonials claiming dramatic improvements in damaged tires and ruptured wind tubes.
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Chicago
Dickensian Slang Origins and Quick Wit in Gossip
A short sketch notes that slang phrases of the day trace back to Charles Dickens with Boston Globe chatter and extracts from Martin Olusalewic and Finch. It surveys coined expressions, social gossip, and comic asides about money, courting, and crowds in a brisk, era-tinged voice.
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Charles Dickens
Boston Globe
Charles Dickenus
Martin Olusalewic
Om Finch
John
IlMorida Times-Union
Michigan Fruit Package Industry News in Baskets and Boxes
Michigan's fruit industry produces millions of bushels and relies on large Western Michigan factories in St. Joseph Traverse City Grand Rapids Holland Belding Spring Lake and other Western points to manufacture baskets boxes and crates. Veneer from logs is sliced hot then formed into bushel baskets peach and berry containers with eyelet rivets hoops and nailed handles. The hollow bottom invention saves fruit and packaging is mass produced for cheap shipment to the West from Grand Rapids and Traverse City with standard sizes now common across towns.
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Michigan
St. Joseph
Traverse City
Grand Rapid
Holland
Belding
Spring Lake
Tialleck
Thousanul
Grand Rapids
Allegan
Saugatuck
Benton Harbor
Grand Hayer
Muskegon
Hart
Trust
T.han
Silk from Spruce Wood Woven by Workmen’s Wife Hope
A French Count proposes making silk from spruce wood pulp using alcohol and acids. The process dries pulp, forms collodion through fine holes, and threads are woven after water treatment. Threads are strong, elastic, and silklike, then treated to be non combustible before weaving.
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Count de Chardonet
France
Alaskan Curios Trade Draws San Francisco Visitor
Senator BE Voorhels of Sutter Creek returns from Alaska aboard the City of Pueblo with his family. He notes tourists crave curios and that Alaskan carvings are often produced by eastern manufacturers. A Juneau voyage revealed 6000 pounds of American-made curios heading for Alaska markets.
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Billmennie
San Francisco
Alaska
Juneau
Amereans
Brockton
Mass
Fragmented Nighttime Exchange From Chicago Tribune
A garbled dialogue from a Chicago Tribune excerpt shows Mr McSwat and Mrs McSwat awake at night. She asks if the mosquitos are biting while he responds with exasperation. The text hints at old minds accumulating something, but the fragment is unclear.
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Mr. McSwat
Scott
Temperance Woman Fights Seatcar Temptation Amid Tract Drama
A Detroit Sun tale recalls a narrow, bespectacled temperance woman aboard a Cass Avenue streetcar scattering tractlets. She confronts a countryman with a water melon and a glass flask, insisting on sobriety while he explains the bottle is for his infant. The scene ends as she exits without asking the driver to stop.
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Cassavente Air
Detroit
Asher
Eyther
Temperance
How He Woke the Barber Prank at Midnight
A group of barbers at a late hour play a trick on a sleeping colleague by pouring alcohol on his shoe and lighting it. The flame startles him, he leaps up in pain, shatters a window, and chaos ensues as others scatter. One barber vows to cover the damage.
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Ian
Atlanta Constitution
Dont’s in Dress Advice Sheet Echoes Taste Rules
A period guidance piece warns readers against sacrificing quality for quantity and urges careful, well executed dress choices. It cautions against mismatched materials and improper accessories, promoting tasteful attire over flashy bargains and shoddy imitations. It stresses neatness, fit, and balance between headwear, hands, and feet.
The Process of Combustion and Rusting Compared
The text explains combustion as a reaction with oxygen producing heat and light in rapid cases, while rusting is a milder form of combustion. It notes candle burning differs from rusting yet is a less intense conflagration, not providing much heat or light.
Monk Preacher Delivers Short St James Day Sermon
James Payn recounts a tale of four monks who pray for brevity on St James Day. The preacher jokes that since Saint James has not earned new deeds, he has nothing new to add to his prior sermon. In Brooklyn a church resolves playing cards are not wicked, and about two thirds of the congregation leave rather than stay.
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James Payn
St. James
Brooklyn
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