Known on Mage of Missouri Marion City Land Sale Tale
A Missouri column recounts the sale of land near Palmyra once called Eden and Marion City. It notes the $115,267 purchase by H C Biskamp, links Dickens and Twain characters Martin Chuzzlewit and Colonel Mulberry Sellers to the site, and sketches Eden’s desolate early days and the Gilded Age vision of Stone’s Landing built by Colonel Sellers.
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Missouri
St. Louis
Martin Chuzzlewit
Colonel Mulberry Sellers
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Mississippi Wver
Palmyra
Sites of
Eden
Marta
Stone
Sellers
Napoleon
H.C. Biskamp
Colonel Selers
Marion City
Japret
Dickens
United States
Mark Tapley
Matlon City
Martin
Mack
Shéy
General Choke
Youngs
Mark
Ath
Bank and National Credit Office
Mulberry Sellers
Tamar
William Mulrrow
Colonel Sellers
Colonel Setters
Stone's Landing
Counterfeiting in the Phil Pines
Report notes a legislative surprise as the Jones amendment extends full United States coinage laws to the Philippines. The island leaders, including Chairman Cooner, faced an unexpected motion and were unable to respond before its passage.
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United States
Islands
Cooner
Yoo
Mare
House debate warns of currency undermining by counterfeiters
The Brooklyn Eagle quotes critics arguing that if the Jones amendment passes the Philippines currency could be flooded with counterfeit coins. They claim Chinese counterfeiters would ship spurious dollars from Hong Kong or Shanghai, exploiting cheap silver to profit even with regulated quantities, risking a collapse of the local currency.
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Philippines
United States
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Manila
Filippines
Brooklyn Eagle
Waifs of Wit and Anxious Wife Jokes
A collection of quirky exchanges from newspapers featuring a physician prescribing an opiate to a worried wife, a plainspoken platform remark about a strange machine, a puzzled man recalling a honeymoon, and a wife’s divorce joke. The snippets reflect light, wry humor and social banter about marriages and daily life.
Electric Marvel: White House System Most Comprehensive
The White House houses a thirty two mile network of electric wires delivering current to every nook. Experts call it the most perfect electrical system in the United States with insulated conduits and separate circuits under floors in hallways.
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White House
United States
Inside the White House: a vast electric systems deck
The article details a comprehensive built in electric system covering lighting, panels, and switchboards for every room on the main floor and terrace ends. It describes private and public telephone networks, automatic elevators, a gas alarm with triggering tones, water tanks, watchman stations, electric vent systems, and a large pantry warmer for dining use.
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Cortelyou
Wiheo J
Walter
New York World
Elevating it with the artist and manager dialogue
The fragment records an exchange where the artist speaks of elevating the work and the manager notes that Mosie mainly stimulates lofty deals and salary discussions.
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Taere
Yinsie
Mosie Cemainly
I Never Loved No Other, Lindy
A rugged speaker recalls Lindy in a rural soir? exchange. He longs for commitment as she teases with playful denial. The scene builds to a whispered vow and a tense confession amid a dreamy, starry night.
Bakers Test Heat by Touch of Oven Handle
A downtown baker with over 25 years in the trade explains that bakers judge oven heat by feel and simple tests. They estimate loaf baking at 75 degrees Fahrenheit and craft checks like corn meal or starch tests to verify temperature. For various baked goods the oven should reach 220 to 430 degrees, with 440 degrees ideal for cream puffs.
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New York
Cakes and cake baking temperatures in old New Orleans times
A fragment from the New Orleans Times-Democrat lists many cake varieties such as queen cakes rock cakes jum bles and lady fingers with temperatures around 50 degrees for wedding cakes ginger cuts and spice cakes. It notes ovens at lower temperatures for delicate items and ends with a quip about bakers and oven doors.
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Cuke
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Color photography process patented by Miley at Lexington
Color photog raphy using tri color process with three sensitized plates and red green violet screens. Negative densities vary by color areas. prints made on Ulchromatlyed gelatin pigment papers red yellow blue. Three prints layered on transfer paper yield a color photo image accurate to the original. In use commercially for two years.
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Miley
Lexington
Telegrams In Brief From The Nation A Summary Of Events
The note lists a set of brief items: Frederick the Great statue delayed for spring 1904 arrival in the United States. Pope promotes Count Camillo Pecci to brigadier of the general noble guard. A fatal mine explosion at Latrob Cools ville Coke mine in Pennsylvania kills two miners. A large brick building row including Hastings Business College burns in Hastings Nebraska causing significant loss. A Clay county Missouri deputy sheriff shoots and kills his father-in-law and mortally wounds his wife before killing himself. A New York bank shows declines across loans deposits reserves surplus and US deposits in a bank statement. A multi‑vehicle collision on the Monongahela division near Brownsville Pennsylvania injures several people.
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Frederick the Great
United States
Camillo Pecci
Noble
Latrob
Coolsville Coke Company
S10
Hastings
Neb
Hastings Business College
Linecoln
Burlington Avenues
Wm. Palmer
Clayton County
James Christian
New York
Mongegahela
Pennsylvania Road
Brownville
Progress of Invention Sparks New Techniques in 19th Century
A red colored solution removes need for dark rooms in photography. French scientists halve liquid air cost aiding arts. Practical alfalfa use rises in Great Britain. U S rice price noted at 8 cents per unit. Three men now charge twenty furnaces at Homestead with electrical appliances, replacing 200 workers. An invention for balloon altitude and temperature tracing by Prort-Assman writes in red saltpeter ink on lamp black paper. German Reichstag consumer safety bill on phosphorus in matches calls for patent use of safe igniting substance. London Big Ben gains electric timing though reliability and maintenance remain poor. clock still needs two men twelve hours weekly.
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Great Britain
USA
Homestead
Prort- Assman
Reichstag
Tower of
Houses of Parliament
London
Robbed the Sharks in Plain People’s View
The Sioux City Journal notes that the people of Franca do not demand Mme. Mumbert’s conviction. They see her as robbing loan sharks who had previously exploited the plain people, a move some readers describe as nearly commendable.
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Franca
Mme. Mumbert
Sioux City Journal
Like Beer The Munich Drinkers Claim World Best Beer
Report notes Munich residents prize beer, estimating about a quart and a half per person daily. The claim frames Munich as the leading beer city with strong local culture around brewing and consumption.
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Munich
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