North West and North Land steamers for Great Lakes
Two large lake steamers to be built at Globe Shipbuilding in Cleveland Ohio named the North West and North Land. They will operate Buffalo to Duluth, completing the trip in about 52 hours at an average speed near 21 mph. Dimensions 336 by 44 feet with twin screws and quadruple expansion engines delivering around 7000 hp. Steam supplied by 28 Belleville boilers at 225 psi.
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Globe Shipbuilding Works
Cleveland
Ohio
North West
North Land
Buffalo
Duluth
St. Clair
Ste Marie
Great Lakes
Belleville
Philadelphia Lion Tamer Meyer Faces Peril and Progress
A portrait of Jacob Meyer known as Herr Philadelphia, a lion tamer with American roots in the Philadelphia area. He recalls bear attacks in Odessa and a 14 year old incident, notes on his career and training, and comments on evolving ship designs and safety through water-tube boilers. He warns that bears remember punishment, making training a dangerous pursuit.
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Philadelphia
Jacob Meyer
Germany
Odessa
Buffalo Car Company
Supreme Court
Childs
Court of Appeals
Car Company
Sharp Practice 4 Girl Detects Shoplifter and Retains Pin
A Buffalo Express report cites a jewelry counter scene where a girl detects a thief. After witnessing a gold headed chain pin being taken, she confronts the culprit who confesses and returns the pin. The girl declines arrest, claiming the pin as her prize.
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Buffalo Express
The P. T. Barnum Estate Faces Partial Distribution
The Barnum estate will undergo another partial distribution to preserve 40,000 for Mr. Barnum’s annuity and cover several smaller payments. Details remain unclear as distributions proceed.
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P. T. Bernum
P. T. Barnum
Mr. Barnum
A Market Visit of a Well Dressed Bride
A bride in a tailored dress and Persian lamb cape visits Washington market. She inspects pigs, oysters, Edam cheese, pumpkin pies, and yellow ham, while negotiating prices and joking with stallholders. She orders oysters and two bushels of pink onions, remarking on raisins and pumpkins.
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Washington Market
Reginald
Teas and Coffees Strainer and Other Inventions
Reading lists a metal envelope fastener with prongs and grooves for tamper resistance, a silica filtration study showing liquid adsorption by silica, plus medical notes on injections and placebo effects. It covers a sealing device, a tea and coffee strainer, Norwegian cooking stove, and various industrial progress items.
Dr Brown Sequard Orchitic Fluid Interest Returns
The death of Dr Brown Sequard renews interest in his orchitic fluid. The Lancet notes experiments with the fluid by Dr Guy M Wood and Dr A J Whiting of the hospital for the insane and epileptic in Queen Square London. Fluid obtained from Paris through Dr Brown Sequard.
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Brown-Sequard
Lancet
Guy M. Wood
A. J. Whiting
Queen's Ware
London
Paris
Brown-Se
Those Little Sieves and the Kidneys in Health
The kidneys filter impurities from blood and pass them to the bladder. When kidney function falters, dropsy, Bright’s disease, diabetes and related maladies follow. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is promoted to gently stimulate kidney action and cleanse the blood, claiming benefits against malaria, constipation, liver complaints, nervousness, dyspepsia and rheumatism.
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Bright
Hostetter
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Big Lake
Atlantic
North Atlantic
France
Henry
Ives
Wila
Lochport
Henry & Ives
Nichols Stryker
Brooklyn
Realdenos
Ives Deel
Ailkoom Eennaerye
G. Gore
Birmingham Philosophical Society
Buzzard
Guamari
University of Pisa
Archivi di Scienze Mediche
Russia
Powell
Imong Oy
Mitford
Hood
Iowa
Wabash Ave
Cwigago
Ill
FREE
OXFOR
W. Baker
Baker & CO
Dorchester, Mass
Idaho
Marksta
E. i Lomax
A. Omaha
Neb
Rotors
Western Newspaper Union
Western New
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