The Grand Schemer Major Crofoot Promotes a Mistaken Venture
Major Crofoot, promoter of M W B Company sours a minor debt with a lawyer. He boasts grand schemes including Musical Washboard Company, promising Thompson $200 in bills paid, secretaryship at $20,000 a year, and $50,000 stock. The con artist lures Thompson into a fake venture, urging him to quit law and join as secretary while deferring payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Lewis
Thompson
Thompson & Thompson
Attorneys At Law
Crofcot
Standard Oil Company
Major Crofcot
Musical Washboard Company
Washboard
Garret
Maggie Murphy
The
M. W
Mark
Major
Goodby
Crowing Matches In Liege District Attract Bets
Belgian artisan hosts crowing contests with a single cock per show. Birds are placed in long rows and a marker tallies each crow for every bird. Matches last one hour and the winner is the third to reach the highest crow total, with many events and heavy bets reported in Liege.
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Liege
Radish history and flavor decline noted
The text traces radish origins to China and describes their long cultivation. It mentions German mothers using radish juice with sugar candy to cure hoarseness and cough. It laments that modern radishes lack the sharp, biting flavor of the past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Germany
Jury Room Gem Verdict in Hezekiah Jones Lunacy Case
A Missouri court record cites Hon. William H. Wallace presenting a lucid verdict in a lunacy case. The impaneled jury affirms Hezekiah Jones’s sanguinity status, declaring in the affirmative after sworn inquiry.
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Jury Room
Missouri
William H. Wallace
Hezekiah Jones
Two Bad Bites from Diogenes Wisdom and Chicago News
Diogenes says the most dangerous beast is the slanderer and the flatterer among tame beasts. The Chicago News notes that if the average man read his life story, he would not believe it. A man who makes no satisfaction in himself seeks it elsewhere in vain.
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Diogenes
Chicago News
Menace of the tramp life studied by famed hobo authority
Joseph Flynt Willard, a renowned tramp expert, spoke at the Central Association of Railroad Officers in Louisville about railway police structures and the tramp problem. The former tramp described his hard life, friendships among road men, and his plans to study thief life in Paris, noting rheumatism from hardship.
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Mlaston
J. F. Willard
Paris
Central Association of Railroad Officers
Galt House
Louisville
St. Louis Republic
Joseph Flynt Willard
Willard
England
Germany
Russia
Jeffersonville
Kentucky
Paducah
St. Louis
Mr. Willard
New York
Pittsburg
Death Valley tale from Cranbrook proclaims grewsome find
William T. Van Gordon arrives in Cranbrook British Columbia and describes a death valley with a salt plain, towering gray walls, and a pool covering about an acre surrounded by animal bones including human skeletons. An expedition plans to verify the eerie site with a safety tethered ascent and rescue measures.
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William T. van Gordon
Cranbrook
B. C
Death Valley
St Louis Republic
van Gordon
British Troops For China From India Count Five Thousand
British forces bound for China total about 5000 soldiers from India. The contingent, though small compared to other powers, consists of top native regiments that have proven their mettle in Egypt and Indian warfare.
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China
India
Egypt
The Boxers and Boxes: A North China Trade Sparked Boxers’ Fury
A former missionary explains Boxers as skilled North Chinese box makers rather than pugilists. Innovations in coffin and box craftsmanship, plus use of Oregon pine, sparked tension with Boxers who resent foreign competition and loss of traditional rights.
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Ching
New York Sun
China
Peking
Shanghai
Canton
Manchuria
Seaboard
Seoul
Japan
Russian Sea
Amour
Cruel Chinese Tortures Described In Detail
A London Mail report chronicles Chinese torture methods including molten lead dropped on shaved heads, poison flavoring all food to induce nausea, and the white bird device where a starving bird pecks at the victim’s toes. The piece emphasizes the mind and body horrors faced under Celestial empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celestial Empire
London Mail
Horseshoer Sees War in China as Profit for Topeka Smith
Arthur Massey of Topeka tells the Topeka Capital that war in China would mean steady work and income. He notes that in the last three years he earned about $1,000 yearly shoeing shippers, horses prepared for export to England, the Transvaal, and the U.S. Army, all requiring proper shoeing before shipment.
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China
Topeka Smith
Arthur Massey
Topeka
England
Transvaal
United States
Directory of the Sky Promises Global Star Catalogue
At a 1887 Paris congress the plan for a complete sky star catalogue was approved. Eight zones were assigned to observatories, 44 108 negatives needed, Potsdam publishes first volume, 2 600 000 stars targeted. The work aims for uniform methods and precision across the entire heavens.
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Paris
International Monthly
Potsdam
Germany
Russian Dislike of Tunnels Pace Early Ural Rail Survey
Cassier’s Magazine notes Russia avoids tunneling from the Urals onward observing few or no tunnels during the Transsiberian inspection. A Russian railway engineer prefers detours over tunnels citing high first and ongoing costs and a cultural aversion to tunneling in Russia.
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Urals
Cassier
Ural Range
Russia
Tyfa
Tolstoi
le Grande Russe
Nature foreshadows man’s inventions in life and tools
A concise reflection compares human invention to natural counterparts. It notes the syringe to bee stings, tunnel borers to shipworms, balloons to certain fish, wasp nests to paper making, and body joints, lubrication, nerves, ball joints, and levers to mechanical devices. The piece argues universal design across biology and technology.
Disease Germs In Skirts Raise Public Health Alarm
Rome scientist Dr Casagrandi reports experiments at a Rome congress showing trailing skirts pick up large colonies of dangerous germs. After an hour of walking the skirts harbored influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and tetanus bacteria, plus other minor disease bacilli.
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Casagrandi
Rome
Eternal City
Effects of Cannonades on the Ear
A Teitschrift fur Ohrenheilforschung article by Dr. Muller reports on ear damage from bombardment. Among 44 ears tested before and after, no significant changes were found. 87 showed redness at the drum margin. 7 had bleeding. 40 had dulled hearing of a tuning fork. 26 had dulled speech hearing. It notes shooters often become hearing impaired and noises are common, with defects only in ears not normal before firing. Concludes only perfectly normal ears should join artillery.
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Teitschrif Fur Ohrenheitkunde
Muller Sagar
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