Porterville Joker Dances Then Vicious Vitriol Thrower
A Porterville joker dances at a Salvation Army member who refused his dance offer. A woman aims a cupful of vitriol at a female rival. though misdirected, the liquid hits the thrower, teaching manners with quick justice. Also, a national druggists convention plans to curb cut rate patent medicines, and Indiana rules that firing at someone, even with an unloaded gun, is a misdemeanor.
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Salvation Army
New York
Appellate Court of
Indiana
Chicago Exposition Ends With Housing Boom and Global Markets
As Chicago closes the world fair speculation swirls about post exposition use of buildings. Families flood hotels and flats. vacancies drop while others profit from the crowd. Reports also note cheap aluminum production from Feuhausen, Switzerland may yield a forty five cent per pound profit, potentially surpassing tin. A bill to consolidate New York, Kings, Queens, Westchester and Richmond counties into one city advances in Albany, potentially challenging Chicago in global status.
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Chicago
Aluminum Industrie Actein Gesellschaft
Feuhausen
Switzerland
New York
Kings
Queens
Westchester
Richmond
Albany
Ross McLaughlin
Brooklyn
Great Britain
Debates on corsets and foreign influence in immigration debates
A column notes Mae Fatena’s discomfort with corsets and jokes about laws banning corsets for women raised amid Eastern customs. It discusses Gladstone’s Pick-me-Eve elixir and then reports 1593 New York arrivals totaling about 365,000 with Italy leading and Germany and Russia also contributing, blaming lax immigration enforcement for unemployment and calling the era too lax.
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Mae Fatena
Washington
New Yor
Italy
Germany
Russia
France
Spain
Marvelous Machine Counts the World by Electric Tabs
The article extols the Hollerith electric tabulating machine used in the 1880 census trials in St Louis, comparing it with Hunt and Pidgin systems. It notes time savings, cost estimates, and the ability of women and men to count up to tens of thousands of people daily, highlighting the machine's potential global impact.
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Luigi Bodio
Bosco
Bonnelli
Washington
Uncle Sam
Bodio
Imperial Bureau of Statistics
Rome
Bureau of Statistics
Vienna
Hermann Hollerith
Hollerith
St Louis
The Last Unicorn Extinct White Rhinoceros Declared
Reports from South Africa state the last white rhinoceros has been killed and its skeleton hide and horn shipped to England for a natural history museum. The animal, once a mythical unicorn, stood nearly seven feet high, with two horns and a tufted back, among the largest land quadrupeds.
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South Africa
England
Natural History Museum
Burchell
Orange
Zambesi
Flying Machine by Lillienthal Opens New Era in Flight
A German forester Otto Lilienthal claims to have solved flying by wing design mimicking a bat. He built a light tandem craft with 20 square yards of wing and 40 pounds weight. He first jumped from a 40 foot turret and reached 200 feet, then ascended from a 350 foot cliff to 1,000 feet before gliding down. He used a semicircular rudder to steer, claiming growing control and the sensation of motionless flight.
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Berlin
Otto Lillienthal
Hunreds
Lillienthal
Rhinover
Rathenow
Lilienthal
Signature of Bank of England chief cashier May
The office of chief cashier at the Bank of England began with the bank’s 1694 start. F May is the thirteenth in order of succession and has the sixth longest tenure. Noted reforms and modern methods mark his tenure, with his name widely linked to banknote signatures. An American observer notes May’s signature is familiar to all Bank of England notes, praising the safety of the paper.
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Bank of England
F. May
Thomas Kenrick
Thomas Madocken
Abraham Newland
State Department
May
New York
Electro Chemical Effects on Magnetized Iron
In a Royal Society note, T Andrews reports experiments where magnetized steel bars immersed in cupric chloride lost more weight than identical unmagnetized bars. Across twenty nine trials, magnetized samples corroded about 3 percent more, though bars were only lightly magnetized.
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Royal Society
T. Andrews
Wanted to Be Unmarried Divorce Threat at Camden Hall
A young Polish woman, Mrs. Katerouwske, sought a divorce from her new husband at Camden city hall claiming deception over wealth and real estate. The clerk noted the marriage occurred yesterday and could not grant divorce outside chancery court, prompting her sharp remark on the marriage's undoing.
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Katerouwske
Camden City Hall
Varney
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
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Marble Hill Press
Tom Allen
Marble Hill, Missouri
Gladstone
America
von Helmholtz
Columbia College
Scientific American
Paris
Havre
Frank May
Mr. Gumpps
Gumpps
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