Big World’s Fair Effort Amid Weather Calm and Drying
The piece recounts rapid prep for the World’s Fair with sun after snow and mud, noting 10 000 workers, construction of a Sunday school building, and extensive Bible Society exhibits. It covers ticket design, pricing at 50 cents, and anti counterfeiting features, plus ongoing roadwork and sculpture placement.
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Society
Bible Society
Stony Island Avenue
47Th Street
Jackson Park
Confederate Patent and a North Carolina carrier wheel patent
A Confederate patent office issued at least fifteen protections during the Civil War. John L. Jones of Tally-Ho NC received a fourteen year exclusive right for a carriage wheel improvement dated August 26, 1861, signed by Judah P. Benjamin and Rufus R. Rhodes. The document cost $40 and includes ink drawings. A separate note discusses whether water wheels run faster at night due to fuller streams and lower evaporation, citing Humboldt and night dew effects on streams and mill wheels.
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Confederacy
United States
South
James L. Norris
John L. Jones
Tally-Ho
North Carolina
Judah P. Benjamin
Rufus R. Rhodes
Patents
Rhodes
United States Commissioner of Patents
Jones
Washington Star
Humboldt
Indianapolis News
The Teaching of Children and the Great Power of Kindness
A piece on shaping children's beliefs toward goodness and unselfishness. It argues that moral values transcend perception, guiding behavior in work and play. The author links kindness to a greater, unseen power that provides the world’s blessings.
Brave rescue of Confederate papers on the Alabama Kearsarge clash
Gen Kell recalls how Mars the coxswain saved Capt Semmes official papers during the Alabama Kearsarge battle. As the ship sank Mars preserved the papers between two boards and handed them to him then leapt overboard to reach a French pilot boat and finally England.
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Gen
Kell
Alabama-Kearsarge
Mars
Semmes
England
Kearsarge
United States
Atlanta Constitution
Reflections on Electricity and Hair in a Thunder Storm
Prof GREATMIND asks about electricity wonders while Sweet Girl notes her bangs lift in a thunder storm. The playful dialogue hints at curiosity about natural forces and how weather affects hair behavior.
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Greatmind
Handling a Herd of Cattle on the Trail
The article describes drovers guiding cattle from Southern ranches to Northern shipping points with regular march routines. Night watches, stampede causes from lightning and noises, and the last of the era era cowboys with wide hats and leather whips are noted, followed by a shift to newer times.
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Scribner’s Magazine
Electric Heating Inventions And New Projects Reported
The piece surveys electric heating devices from hand stamps to curling irons and coffee urns, notes high current costs limit growth, and highlights a miniature thunder factory in England. It also covers electric projectors for ground illumination, electric searchlights for customs, new patents for an electric cigar lighter and refrigerator, an electric launch Vashti, and a trolley line proposal from Elizabeth to Cranford with $100,000 capital.
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Science and Art Department
South K
Ensington
England
St Petersburg
Ivangorod
Vashti
Alva
Hudson
Nyack
Sing Sing
Scientific American
Elizabeth and Plain- Held
The Ink Secret That Prints U S Government Money
A singular tale explains a man who makes the special ink used on U S government notes. His father invented the formula and told only his son on his deathbed. The ink is produced by a small team, with the owner isolating himself two weeks yearly to mix enough for a year, earning about $50,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Balzac
New York Home Journal
Taming of Oysters Amid Icebound Chesapeake Waters
Maryland and Virginia waters rich in oysters lie frozen halting oyster catching. Outlying Chesapeake islands are knit to the mainland by ice. When water opens oysters will be cheap in Maryland and Virginia before the season ends in April. Speculators ready to buy early spring oysters at low rates and hold for price rise. This is an old practice in taming oysters.
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Maryland
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
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Mplee
Ling
Nts
Sap
Els
Enab
Ned
Mays
Nyiplet
Cegia
Dirace
Davis
Lipa
Chicago
Europe
American Bank Note Company
National Bank
Colum
Machinery Hall
Germany
Alaska
Seeberger
Board of Admissions
American Bible Society
Columbus
Lincoln
Washington
A. F. Seeberger
H. W. Higinbotham
James
France
Greenland
Lieutenant Peary
McCormick Bay
Doctor Keely
Table Land
Isabella
Spain
China
Ohio
Illinois
New Jersey
Govers
Mary Dear
Detroit Free Press
Boston
Salisbury and
Havey
New Brunswick
Kansas
Theos
Australia
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