Telegraph Drums Link Congo Natives Across Fifty Miles
Belgian explorer Capt Five reports natives in the Congo use a drum signaling system to transmit messages over long distances. A drummer near Basoko relayed supper news to a approaching party, with relays along the river enabling simultaneous short and longer communications. The account, cited from La Flandre.
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Five
The
Congo
Pirogue
Banoko
Capt. Five
Basoko
Verellen
la Flandre
Geneva’s Great Fountain Captures Global Awe
A Geneva fountain at the port claims to be the world’s tallest at about 100 feet, visible from afar like a white sail. The city’s water system uses an artificial Rhone fall to lift water to 215 feet for domestic use and 400 feet for motive power, with a 40 mile first pipeline and 60 mile second line feeding the fountain, which operates mainly Sundays and occasionally on evenings weekdays, lit by electric projectors for a multicolored display.
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Geneva
Saya
Philadelphia
Bessingers
Turrettini
Parisian hair mounts praised and curbed by etiquette
The New York Times notes new Parisian hair ornaments, including a gold pin with scarlet cherries, as beautiful yet inappropriate for the coiffure. It advises dark hair suit steel or gilt pieces while fair hair suits amber or tortoise shell, with jeweled ornaments preferred for evening wear.
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New York Times
Noted Orator Motive Sparked Rapid Execution
The Atlanta Constitution recounts a dramatic claim that an orator moved the crowd deeply and, after his speech, a committee hanged him within ten seconds. The report reflects a sensational assertion about swift vigilante justice prompted by rhetoric.
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Atlanta Constitution
Invest in grain via Pattison & Co brokers Chicago
An advisory pitch promises income growth through grain investments with a experienced firm. It mentions Pattison & Co., room W, Omaile Building, Chicago, inviting readers to request details and references for opportunities despite casual references to snacks and bearded frost folklore embedded in the column.
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Oortunities
Aetlene Pattison & Co
Akers and Brokers
Omailes
Chicago
Spanish Officer Courage Strikes for Home Amidst Turmoil
Fragmented OCR reveals a chaotic, humorless garble about a Spanish officer rallying men, insurgents overpowering forces, health decline, Parker's Ginger Tonle, a Missouri farmer attack, a department chief racing to fires, women’s health improvements, chest contraction myth, Saratoga trunks, Rome’s circus capacity, and a boy hidden under canvas.
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Saratoga
Rome
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Leavening Powe
U.S
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Parker
Missouri
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cHiaco
Sterling Remedy Co
Montreal
Can
New York
de Kalb Fence Co
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Rhobb
Hosa’s
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & Co., Limited
Dorchester
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