The Oregon Country and Pacific Boundary Controversy
A historical overview traces the Oregon country dispute from 1818 through the 1848 treaty, detailing claims by the United States and Britain to Pacific Northwest lands. It notes key milestones including Gray’s discovery, Astoria, Hudson’s Bay Company presence, and Polk era shifts shaping today’s Washington boundary.
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Oregon Country
Oregon
Washington
Pasife
Ahaska
United States
Columbia River
Gray
Columbia
Astor
Astoria
Hissin
Russia
Pinehard
Drake
Pacife
Canada
Cook
Vancouver
Fur Trading Corporation
Hudson's Bay Company
Alaska
Columbie
Polk
Englind
Leslie
England
Pacific
California
Induction Spark Device for Coastal Telegraphy
The largest induction device for wireless service is described as a Japanese Korea coast flashing system. It can produce a miniature lightning streak forty five inches long and can kill if misused. The apparatus weighs about two thousand pounds and emits pulses like thunder.
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Japan
Korea
Lipton's rise from Glasgow boy to global magnate
A Ledger Monthly tale follows Tommy from a pliers-watching Glasgow childhood to Thomas Lipton's ascent as a global entrepreneur. From a $400 family fortune to 45 world stores, Lipton builds empires in tea, groceries, and shipping while feeding 350000 London poor during the queen's jubilee.
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the Ledger Monthly
Tommy
Glasgow
New York
America
Anasa
Sir Thomas Lipton
Ceylon
London
Colombo
Calcutta
Chicago
Chinese Schoolboys: Quiet Dignity at Queen's College
A Harper's Bazar correspondent describes eleven hundred college boys bound for Queen's College, Hanzhong, walking sedately with books under their arms. They refrain from boisterous behavior, are praised for restraint, and their uniform, hair, and queues reflect traditional order.
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Hongkong
China
Queen’s College
Hanzhong
Sipile
Lnds
A Shorthand Letter From a Boy in The Sun Paper
A brief extract recalls a New York Sun reader taught shorthand who wrote a letter to his father while visiting. The missive teems with misspellings and social cues as the boy mistakes ditto marks and shorthand for meaning, expressing wants and family references, ending with a casual parenthetical remark.
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New York Sun
Jovar
Taking a Horse's Picture in a Photographer's Studio
A Philadelphia Record note describes a photographer’s wart with horses during busy season. The expert explains warming the horse, parading it, and adjusting the setup as distractions and weather affect pose. Owners grow impatient yet insist on a final shot despite chaos.
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Steeda
Stspl
Saiad
Philadelphia Record
Old War Tales and Junkyard Science From the South
A narrated tale recalls Uncle Wash Yarris fleeing Ku Klux threats with a gun hidden since a late night encounter. The feature then shifts to industrial progress, detailing how waste and by products from iron, cloth, and chemicals are reborn into new materials, fertilizers, shoddy wool, paper, and dyes.
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Wastington Yarris
Marie Clay
Wash
Darky
Bob” Clay
Scounty
Buck” Allen
Buck
Accia
New York Tribune
Chicago
Eardlig
Normal and abnormal grayness linked to nervous system states
The text argues a connection between gray hair and nervous system disorders, defining normal grayness by criteria such as onset after age 35, symmetry, initial regions at the temples, gradual blanching, and scalp blanching not outpacing facial blanching. It notes the lack of a sharp boundary between normal and abnormal.
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Florence
Ith Lancet
Sheep Ear-Trumpet Improves Sound Direction for Flock
A Nature correspondent reports that a wild sheep’s spiral horn, when aligned with the ear, makes ticking sounds like a watch more audible in a single direction. The horn acts as a horn directing device, aiding the sheep in locating sound sources even in mist or fog.
From Different Stand Points at School
Teen dialogue notes Johnny stating he is doing well at school while others struggle. He claims he can stand on his head but must position his feet against the wall and keep toes near the wall for balance, describing his unusual technique.
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Oddeur
Weise
Phous Flarcoes
Eoguibes
Oweis
Sue Ea
Uae
Che
Erie de
Aleratiop
Svadhel
Weebes
Carlton
Florence
Vwell
Johnny
Ant
Willamsburg’s Colonial Charm That Survives as History
The piece surveys Williamsburg Virginia as a preserved colonial era town with Duke of Gloucester Street linking the capitol foundations to William and Mary college. It notes the Brafferton building as the earliest Indian school on American soil and the president’s mansion facing the college gate.
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Willamsburg
Virginia
Midie Plantation
Willam and Mary
Duke of Gloucester
Capitol
William and Mary College
College Gate
Willam and Marry
Anmonsy
Brafferton
Gov. Spotswood
America
Various Patent Remedies and Advertisements Cited
A collage of old advertisements touts Allen's Foot Ease for foot comfort and shoe fitting, Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer with a $2 trial, Hall's Catarrh Cure praised by EZ A Rood, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, Piso's Cure for Consumption endorsed by Joan P Boyzz, and a remark about a florist. Each ad claims cures, trials, and prices for health or consumer products.
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Kline
B.H. Kurst
Leap Year Birthdays In Berlin Society Highlighted
The Berlin Society of Leap Year Children plans a rare 1904 celebration for Feb 29 born members while noting past calendars. President Herr Monteur, now a septuagenarian, seeks an eighteenth birthday and seventy-second year amid peers, despite only seventeen birthdays in seventy years.
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Berlin
Herr Monteur
Lfe
City Boy Delights In Clean Face Washes
A Boston Post quip depicts a child named Johnnie and a caller in New York banter about the city’s dirt. The exchange includes playful comments on cleanliness and the need for face washing twice daily.
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New York
Jevhnnie
Johnnie
Boston Post
Hard Luck Man Draws Aid From Unknown Friends
In a twist, a man facing ongoing misfortune finds help coming from previously unknown friends who locate him when tides turn, illustrating how adversity can reveal hidden supporters.
Preservation of American manuscripts in government collection
Harper's Weekly notes the U S national autographs and papers hold twenty five thousand important documents in Washingtons library and elsewhere. The collection includes Revolutionary era secret service letters Rochambeau and state papers John Paul Jones material and Loyalist inquiry records. Peter Force sold his collection to the government. West shows Schoolcraft and Cass papers.
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Sam
Washington
Bow
Harper’s Weekly
Rochambeau
John Paul Jones
Virginia Company
New England
Peter Force
West
Schoolcraft
Lewis Cass
Cass
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Harper’s Bazar
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Aldrich
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Washington, D. C
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North Sixteenth Street
Emory
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Peruna Medicine Co
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the Mnversty OF
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