The Charge Modest and Czarist Autocracy Discussed
A fragmented review explores Nicholas IIs power to drain state revenues, the autocracy’s temptations, and credible accounts of income while noting harsh outcomes for rulers. Anecdotes mix with public notices about health remedies and a hook in beefsteak tale. A Chicago railroad station plan to cost 40 million dollars is outlined as a unifying project.
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Russia
Paul
Peters
Alexandera
Annas
Catherines
Petersburg
Chicago
The Prophet's Chamber and a Patchwork Page
A collage of notices and ads from The Four-Track News and a homemaking tip. The page cites Second Kings, a free-year offer, Laxative Bromo Quinine pricing, Picked dye brand claims, and ironing directions for summer shirt waists with Defiance starch.
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United States
Geo
Danielts
Grand Central Station
New York
Cheap Baking Powder Health Warning and False Alarm
The New York Health Department seized cheap baking powder found in stores and declared it dangerous after testing showed it was mainly alum and rock. High quality cream of tartar brands are urged for safety and economy. In Carlsbad mud, a loud scream caused panic when bathers mistook a switch for a snake, highlighting misperceptions.
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Health Department of
New York
Health Department
Carlsbad
New York Sun
Prices at New York auction for Matthies Ben collection
Eighty pictures from the Matthies Ben collection sold in New York for 112,505 dollars. The top price was 13,000 dollars for Arabs Crossing a Stream by A Schreyer. Other notable sums included The Awakening of Love by Diaz at 10,000 dollars and A Normandy Horse by Rosa Bonheur at 7,200 dollars.
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Matthies- Ben
New York
A. Schreyer
Diaz
Rosa Bonheur
L. Knaus
Detaille
Lombardy
Corot
Renouf
Vibert
de Neuville
Henner
Dupre
Troyon
Gerome
Mauve
Muller
Lesst
Pope
Lenbach
Soldier's Narrow Escape Told by An 80 Year Old
George Manhart of Watts Flats recounts a near death from Bright's Disease four years ago. Doctors advised his wife that he would not live two weeks. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills from Clark's drug store he improved quickly, discharged the doctors, and now chops wood vigorously at eighty, feeling as strong as a twenty year old.
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Watts Flats
George Manhart
Bright
Dodd
German novelist Ring made professor at 84 in honor
A 84 year old German novelist Max Ring has been honored with the title of professor after a life marked by early ambition and financial hardship. The piece notes his long effort to enter academia, halted by his father’s death and lack of funds, and records this late recognition of his literary stature.
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Max Ring
Miss Lucy Hill Tops Confederate Veterans Reunion in Dallas
At the Dallas reunion of Confederate Veterans Miss Lucy Hill sponsor in chief drew marked attention from veterans who served under her father General A P Hill and uncles Generals Bazil W Duke and John H Morgan. Known as the Daughter of the Confederacy she was born on the battlefield as her mother faced the retreat. Her father fell in the war’s final charge and Robert E Lee personally oversaw his body’s recovery and burial.
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Armnom Mare Mannan
The
Confederate Veterans
Dallas
Texas
Lucy Hill
Miss Davis
Miss Hill
Robert E. Lee
Gen. Hill
Recovered an Immense Fortune From Cotton Gamble
Theodore Price of New York rebuilt after Price McCormick & Co failed with 12 million liabilities. He privately forecast a 10 million bale cotton crop, formed a syndicate to buy cotton, and profits surged as official reports matched his estimate. He reportedly earned 1 to 3 million, mostly to settle past debts.
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Theodore H. Free York
Theodore Price
Price
United States
Agricultural Department
Washington
Oid
Royal Baby Story From Court Circular
The Italian king shows a kindly humor in a Court News note. An elderly servant petitioned for a pension and sent it to the infant Princess Yolandean still in her cradle. By royal command the paper lay in the cot with the baby and, when asked what the doll would say, the equerry answered nothing. The king declared silence gives consent and the pension was granted.
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Italy
Yolande
Victor Roommanuel
Women lead search for gold treasure near Farmer City
Mrs. Edward Conover a Farmer City spiritualist claims a vision shows a vast pot of gold south of town. She selected twelve men, later adding another, bringing thirteen. A spirit allegedly warned of an evil person in the group delaying the treasure until he is discharged.
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Farmer City
Edward Conover
Ill
Pauper Lynn Once Trusted Partner of Day Gould
Josiah Lynn, once a partner with financier Day Gould in Washington and several ventures, is now in a poorhouse at 73. Once wealthy, he lost fortune after reversals, his wife died, and friends abandoned him. blind but cheerful, he endures his decline in Karsville, New Jersey, awaiting a final summary.
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Day Gould
Josiah Lynn
Gould
Washington
Lynn
Tosiah Lyon
Karsville
N. J
Thrift of Foreigners in Postal Trade
A colonial period note contrasts U S mail flow with foreign mail. It cites 73 million letters sent abroad versus 59 million received, 1 309 752 unpaid or short paid letters versus 2 105 552 from foreigners, 49 157 paid reply postcards versus 27 713, and Americans writing more single cards by about 750 000 in 7.8 million total. It estimates annual foreign postage at $300,000 and government costs of $2,250,000 for sealing and receiving mail.
Diagram Shows Odds of Attlining Various Ages
A diagram presents your chances of attlining different ages. The chart outlines age-based probabilities and highlights how outcomes vary across the age spectrum.
King Edward's Cook Salary and Status Noted
The article describes King Edward of England's cook, a Frenchman named Meninger, who earns 10000 pounds a year, matching a lieutenant general or fleet admiral, and higher than many bishops. He is praised as a “perfect treasure” and given cigars from the royal pocket case. He runs a splendid establishment and travels to the royal residence at 11 each morning in his own carriage.
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Edward
England
Meninger
London doctors locate metal with telephone probe method
In several London hospitals surgeons now use the telephone to probe for buried metallic objects. A wet sponge or saline plate acts as one electrode while the probe serves as the other, connected by wires to the receiver and transmitter. The setup helps detect needles bullets grains and steel or copper fragments inside the body.
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London Hospitals
Unive
Curious Facts About Senate Membership and Experience
The Washington Star notes the Senate spans many professions and includes many with prior legislative service. Among eighty eight senators, twenty six served in the House, fifteen were governors, and several held Confederate or Union military posts. Senator Warren twice governed Wyoming and then led its transition to statehood.
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Pettus
Alabama
Bate
Tennessee
Washington Star
Adulteration of Milk Practiced in Athens Seen
A French paper describes a clever milk adulteration in Athens where goat milk sellers parade with long sleeves and shout Gala. The milkman squeezes a hidden water sack via a tube into the milk pail, mixing water and milk as the goats are milked in front of housewives.
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Athens
Italian inventor Branca built early steam engine here
A historical note places Giovanni Branca, an Italian inventor, near the scene of a crude steam engine development about two centuries before Watt. The description links Branca to an early steam device depicted, highlighting pre modern steam innovation in the same location.
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Watt
Giovanni Branca
Magistrate Condemns Photographing Prisoners Before Arraignments
A Brooklyn magistrate threatens arrest of policemen who take prisoners to police headquarters for pre arraignment photography. He calls the practice illegal under the penal code and condemns the third degree torture as a relic of the dark ages. He notes an acquitted suspect has an irreparable injury from a kept portrait and questions police rotating destruction of negatives. The magistrate doubts police assurances.
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Rogues’ Gallery
Brooklyn
Ilegal
Reed Enjoys Comfortable Prosperity In Washington
Former Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed, renowned for his time in Congress, now travels to Washington and stays at premium hotels, a sign of comfortable prosperity. He remarks on the longer public career and questions why he stayed in public life so long.
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Reed
Thomas Brackett Reed
Congress
Washington
Cleverest Rogue in England Outwits Many Victims
A man named Charles William Surrows in Liverpool was sentenced to seven years penal servitude. Once a druggist's assistant and a traveling actress, he posed as a doctor, borrowed substantial sums, and led a syndicate to develop his own electricity device. He married three women, held a fake hospital post, and faced charges including larceny of postal orders, horse and wagon, silver flute, push button, watch, and a bogus check. He is hoped to be stopped before more thefts occur.
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Perdon
Liverpool
Charies William Surrows
New York Press
Fenimore Cooper’s Great Work and Lasting Influence
John Habberton in the Era lauds James Fenimore Cooper for creating three distinct fiction types The Pilot Leathers stocking tales and The Spy shaped American literature and Revolutionary War scenes Cooper’s breadth wins praise abroad with admiration from Sir Walter Scott Miss Edgeworth Balzac and Dumas noting translations and wide readership including Arabic and Persian editions
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James Fenimore Cooper
Cooper
Thea
Europe
Sir Walter Scott
Miss Edgeworth
Balzac
Dumas
John Habbertonn
Berlin court frees man over tree superstition case
A farmer was fined for boring a hole in a tree near his gate to kill it but won on appeal. The court found the bore to be by a superstitious person who believed illness could be driven away by burying medicines in a healthy tree and acquitted the farmer.
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Law Courts
Berlin
The Fireside Sphinx Legend of the Domestic Cat
Agnes Reppler cites a legend from The Fireside Sphinx stating the cat originated at the deluge. It claims Noah revived the species by three sneezes over a lioness, ending a rat and mouse threat aboard the ark.
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Agnes Reppler
Telia
Noah
Near Cheating Election Echoes a Poker Game
Senator Sorghani recalls a moment "mighty near" to being cheated in an election and compares it to a poker game. An attache jokes about raised salaries for laughing. The senator explains a "cold deck" ruse where others would stack the deck to keep him from winning.
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Sorghani
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