Montreal's Saint Jean Baptiste fete plans amid varied 1890s events
The St Jean Baptiste Association of Montreal organizes a grand June 24 celebration. Franciscan Fathers advance a $40,000 building project in Montreal. The Dominion plans to auction the Dokis timber limit in the French River reserve. Other items include a Toronto death, fires in Banff, exiles to Hong Kong, and shifts in wage schemes at Canadian General Electric. Additional notes cover floods, court cases, exports, and political moves across Canada and beyond.
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St. Jean Baptiste Association
Montreal
Dominion
French River
Canada
Alex. Kay
Jellalabad
Toronto
Frankie Cook
Samuel Cook
Aterdown
Ont
Frank McCabe
Banff
Alberta
Earth orbit shape linked to long-term climate shifts
In a Science column discussion the orbit’s minor axis controls annual solar heating. Leverrier’s eccentricity limit is 0.0774 with current 0.01675. Even small past increases in heat deficit over centuries could drive the temperature drop enabling glacial phenomena far from the equator.
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Science
Leverrier
White Star Plans Record Setting Ocean Liner
The White Star Line orders a colossal 800 foot steamer from Harland and Wolff to top all afloat. Mersey bar shallow water is the challenge, with larger tenders to meet the ship farther out. The Gothic, 500 feet long and 8000 tons, is nearing completion with new engine and steering gear to rival Campania and the yet unlaunched Lucania. launch expected around year end.
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White Star Line
Harland & Wolff
Mersey Bar
White Star Company
Campania
Lucania
Women's World Fair troubles expose masculine versus feminine roles
The piece criticizes the women managing the World’s Fair for public lack of practical skill and unity. It portrays frequent quarrels, emotional displays, and insufficient results, arguing women manage private life well but struggle with public duties while reaffirming limited support for their broader public roles.
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Laly Managers
The Cowboy Race to Chicago Heads to World's Fair
The great cowboy race from Chadron Nebraska to the World's Fair is set to go with nine days left to enter. Notable riders include Doc Middleton aged 40 on Geronimo, Miss Emma Hutchinson of Denver, and Jack Flagg of Big Horn Basin. Prizes total $2,000 plus gear from Buffalo Bill and others, start June 13 from the Hotel Blaine with Gov. Crounse invited to signal the start.
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Chadron
Neb
Doc Middleton
Nebraska
Craw Buttes
Long Pine Barracks
Geronimo
Jack Flagg
Big Horn Basin
Flagg
Wyoming
Ray
Champion
Emma Hutchinson
Denver
Col
Colorado
Miss Hutchinson
Emil Albright
Sam Bell
Deadwood
Peter Shaughran
Nick James
Pine Ridge
Jim Murray
Eagle Pass
Texas
Sam Tyler
Kingfisher
O. T
Dynamite Jack
Crawford
Snake Creek
Creede
Cockeyed Bill
Mansville
He Dog
Spotted Wolf
Rosebud Agency
Sioux City
Missouri
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Mississippi
Collins & Morrison
Omaha
Weir
Blaine
Behring Sea Arbitration sparks cross nation criticism in Paris
In Paris the Behring Sea Arbitration unfolds with United States officials accused of disrespecting treaty terms. The piece highlights British tact from Sir Charles Russell and critiques American senators Morgan and Phelps for threatening damages, citing Article 5 of the 1892 treaty and urging prompt, equitable payment if damages are due.
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Paris
Empire
Great Britain
United States
Canada
China
Mexico
Charles Russell
Senator Morgan
Mr. Phelps
Behring
Russia
Lord Hannen
England
Alabama
Republic
Halifax Commission
The Butler of Honor and the Rosebery Duel Remembrance
A Passy, Paris obituary recalls Francois a former French cavalryman turned household butler who fueled a diplomatic episode in Louis Philippe’s era. After a tense card encounter with Lord Rosebery he challenged him to a duel and both shots were fired without injury. Rosebery then paid Francois an annuity to retire from service and preserve his honor.
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Bank of England
Duke of York
Princess May of
Teck
Home
Asquith
Duchess of Sutherland
Holloway
Cornelius Herz
Great Britain
Tyndall
Mr. Gladstone
John Morley
Robespierre
Board of Agriculture
Aberdeen
London
Louis Philippe
Passy
Paris
Francois
Picpreen
Earl of Kery
Lord Rosebery
Butler of Honor
Nyangwe Falls as Congo State Seizes Arab Stronghold
Despatches report Lieut. Dhanis capturing Nyangwe, long a center of Arab slave trade, and advancing toward Kasengo as the Congo State presses armed victory. The Arab threat recedes, with prospects for freeing natives in the next decade amid efforts to end slave trade and ivory poaching.
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Congo Free State
Lieut
Dhanis
Nyangwe
Congo
Central Africa
Lake
Stanley
Zanzibar
Munie Moharra
Hocister
Tippu Tib
Lake Tanganyika
Stanley Falls
Africa
Fragmented Phrase Appears in Historical Post
A garbled excerpt contains partial words and unclear phrasing, offering little readable context or named entities beyond stray letters and fragments without identifiable events or citations.
Fragmented Domestic Scene Between John and Companion
Reading this cryptic passage shows a tense, intimate moment as John and a companion converse in a quiet space. Toads, a rabbit, and a shadowed menace arise while they discuss love, danger, and a looming committal.
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Hamilton
Canadian General Electric Company
Victoria
Tacoma
Washington
Hong Kong
J. R. Booth
Chaudiere
Ottawa
Windsor
Anderson Veney
British
Chattanooga
Tenn
Treasury Department
United States Supreme Court
Brewer and Field
Fuller
New York
Pallister
Sing Sing
Hudson River
Thomas E. Sherman
St. Louis
Orangemen
Ireland
Charles D. Bingham
Elmira
N.Y
Claus Spreckels
Hawaiian Islands
Dr. Baldwin
George H. Abbott
Frank C. Almy
Christie Warden
Concord
N.H
Almy
Charles Wilworth
Vincent
Saginaw
Mich
Youn Wilworth
Secon
Generat
Tirnova
Ferdinand
Bismarck
Ludwig Bamberger
Berlin
Valencia
Collegio Loretto
Augustus Paget
Austro-Hungary
Austrian Hungary
Havana
Cuba
William
Schifninck
Hamburg
Ministry of Justice
Hornkranz
Witbooi
Egypt
Koch
Prof. Koch
Italy
France
Stuhlmann
Emin Pasha
Lake Victoria
Emin
Lake Tchad
Upper
Cameroons
Russian War Office
Northwest Provinces
Fraser River
Atlantic
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Chicago
Yaquero
Behring Sea
la Butlee
Mis
Earl of Rosebery
The
Free State
Emperor William
Prince Bismarck
William I
Gorlitz
Prussian Silesia
Ria He
Hir de EU
Salien
Gramm
John
Johnny
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