Obstructive Juror Delays Verdict in Local Murder Case
A packed country court hears a tale of jealousy and revenge as juror Giles Conway dissents, recounting a Western vengeance saga to shadow the case of Bob Sullivan accused of killing Jack Wilder. The jury remains deadlocked as Conway’s tale calls into question circumstantial evidence.
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Robert Sullivan
Jack Wilder
Robert
Bob Sullivan
Wilder
Sullivan
Conway
Giles Conway
Axoin
Jim Saunders
Jim
Milly
Electric Wires Should Be Buried Says Professor Wiggins
Weather theory professor Wiggins argues telegraph wires raise air moisture and allegedly distribute electricity around an oblate earth. He claims electricity collects at the equator and on elevated spots like spores, connecting continents via wires could cause alternating energy flows. He sensationally says America holds all electric energy while Europe suffers drought and burning, urging buried wires.
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Wiggins
America
Europe
Silk spots of grease vanish with magnesia or water
The fragment notes a cleaning tip for silk fabrics where grease spots disappear when covered with magnesia or gently rubbed with water and the white of an eye.
Australian bank failures as object lessons for Canada
At the Merchant's Bank of Canada annual meeting, manager Hague warns that Australia’s banking collapse stemmed from excessive borrowing and inflating credit. He notes Canada’s strong laws, cautions against local overreach, and cites past Ontario experiences with boom bust cycles, contrasting safe, steady Canadian prosperity with Australian risk.
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U Canada
Merchant’s Bank of Canada
Hague
Australia
Victoria
Canada
Dominion
Ontario
Grand Trunk Railway
Bank of Upper Canada
First Use of Coal in Salt and Metal Smelting
A historical overview traces coal’s rise as a fuel in inland salt works around 1656 at Nantwich and its eventual replacement of wood in coastal salt production after 1630 discoveries. It chronicles slow progress in smelting metals with coal, noting key figures, dates, and the eventual breakthrough at Coalbrookdale, with coal becoming essential to iron manufacture.
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Nantwich
Cheshire
Howden Pans
Tyne
Prestonpans
Forth
Saltcoats
Ayrshire
Saltpans
Arran
Kintyre
Dysart
Newcastle
James I
John Pettus
Lydal
Coalbrookdale Iron Works
Shropshire
Banks and the boom bust in Canada described
A speaker contemplates a hypothetical doubling of bank deposits and credit across Canada and how unchecked borrowing could trigger a vast boom and crushing collapse. He credits Canadian bankers for resisting imports of foreign capital and keeping deposits, avoiding a wild speculative surge that could ruin borrowers and leave banks shuttered except a few.
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Ontario
Canada
Australia
Scotland
Dominion
Frightened Whale Follows Explosive Vessel Deaths in Ocean Oddity
Months after William Vanderbuilt’s yacht Alva sank off Massachusetts Chatam a salvage attempt ended in dynamite disposal. A diver placed a ton of explosives, causing a giant water plume and clay disturbance. A forty foot whale nearby fled, rammed a bell buoy, then swam east with the buoy trailing and ringing.
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William K. Vanderbuilt
Chatam
Massachusetts
Central Queensland Gold Output Last Year Totaled 160000oz
The total gold production in Central Queensland for the past year reached 160,000 ounces with ore an average of 1 ounce 13 pence to the ton.
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Central
Queensland
Heat in Africa described by explorers of the Desert
The article chronicles extreme African heat from Massowah to Nubia as reported by explorers like Mungo Park James Bruce Bayard Taylor Bayard Taylor and David Livingstone. It notes temperatures 90 to 141 degrees Fahrenheit the drying desert winds sparse vegetation and the toll on people and goods.
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Africa
Ape
Mungo Park
Sean
Sahara
Massowah
Red Sea
India
Aden
James Bruce
Captain Lyon
Great Desert
John Davidson
Upper
Egypt
Nubia
Bayard Taylor
Nubian
Khartoum
Gordon
David Livingstone
Alahari
Death From Fright Causes and Notable Cases
A doctor notes death by fright as a real phenomenon and cites cases from history. He recalls an English surgeon general report of a drummer in India killed by fear after mistaking a lizard for a cobra. Frederick I and Pentman the Dutch painter also died from fright or nervous shock following terrifying events.
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Francis
India
Frederick I
Prussia
Frederick
Pentman
Silver Macedonian Coins Found by Diver in Saleflide Harbor
A diver in Saleflide recovered a handful of antique silver coins and later an iron box containing about eighteen pounds of coins. The coins, dating to ancient Macedonia and bearing Alexander the Great, were handed to the Athens museum after secrecy was broken by a crewman. In Russia guests customarily find their own bed clothing in small hotels.
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Saleflide
Macedonia
Alexander the Great
Athens
Russia
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Thempanies
New York
Stark
Spicionin
Molly
Winnipeg
Manitoba
England
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