Feast for Farmers and the Agricultural Show at the Fair
Read like a tour through the Agricultural Building and State pavilions. It highlights corn and wheat displays, Moorish Wisconsin design, and large expositions from Nebraska to Louisiana, plus machinery progress, exotic crops, and a landmark U S Government agricultural station exhibit.
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Nebraska
Vermont
Wisconsin
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Great Britain
Germany
France
Mexico
Austria
Dalm
Sweden
Japan
Canada
Paraguay
States of the Union
State of
Washington
East India
Manila
South Africa
Cape Town
Liberia
Spitzbergen
Tropics
Maine
California
Gulf
Missouri
St. Louis
Louisiana
New Orleans
United States
England's Great Loss Vice Admiral Tryon
Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon born 1832 in Northamptonshire rose through the navy to command roles and served in Sebastopol and Kinburn. He died aboard his flagship Victoria when it sank off Asia Minor, ending a noted career as admiral and secretary and leader of Mediterranean and Australian stations.
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Tryon
Victoria
Sir George Tryon
Asia Minor
England
Sir George
Northamptonshire
Sebastopol
Kinburn
Admiralty
Tunis
Lincolnshire
Naval Reserve
Beastly Temper and a Camel's Revenge
A camel in an African mill, beaten by its driver for years, awaits revenge. One night the camel strikes down clothes and a bundled figure, mistaking it for a sleeping victim, then dies of mortification after the driver awakens and reveals the error.
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Africa
Picturesque hats revive in millinery fashions and dramatic adventures
The piece notes new millinery trends with hats trimmed by strings and nodding plumes, plus three cornered styles and Panama sailor hats. It then recounts a perilous drive where two women faced apparent danger from nearby men and chose to press on. Finally a discussion on watches explains why timekeeping varies with construction and conditions, citing chronometers and need for regulation.
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Duchess of Devonshire
Dumbarton
Bertha
New York Times
The Home Made Girl And A Honey Chronicle
A clipped quip from Atchison Globe extols the home made girl praising her cooking and lack of Greek or Dessarte. A secondary note imagines the effort to produce honey noting 3,750,000 bees would deplete 62,000 clover blossoms for a single pound.
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Atchison Globe
The Rio de la Plata and Philadelphia Folklore
A Philadelphia writer notes the Rio de la Plata spans 125 miles at the mouth while averaging fifty feet deep and debunks myths of silver in Argentina. The piece recalls Cabot naming the river River of Silver and recalls Lew Dockstader’s quip about Philadelphians and a slow fall from a roof in Twenty third Street, New York.
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Rio de la Plata
Philadelphia Ecord
James Diaz de Solis
Sebastian Cabot
Don Solis
Argentina
Peru
Bolivia
Uruguay
Paraguay
Philadelphia
Lew Dockstader
Twentythird Street
New York
Derby Day Recalled in House Debate Over Adjournment
A Roman Catholic peer who entered the Lords years before the first reform bill demanded a motion on a specific day. Colleagues shouted Derby and Oaks in turn, prompting the peer to seek forgiveness for not knowing saints days, noting his foreign education.
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House of Commons
Derby
Oaks
Water telescope for seacoast boys teaches depth sighting
A simple water telescope used by Norwegian fishermen is described. Build from a tin funnel tube three and a half feet long nine inches wide at the top with a blackened interior and a weighted glass plug. Submerged in clear water the observer views many fathoms down.
The Hardest Woods for Instruments
The article notes cocus wood as the hardest used for flutes and clarinets with rich tones. It also mentions desert ironwood from the Southern Pacific region, nearly lignum vitae in density, a black heart, and a very hard edge that resists cutting even by a well tempered saw.
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Southern Pacific
Emperor William speaks on welfare and tyranny theme
A Boston Globe analysis contrasts Emperor William's rhetoric about freedom with a tyrant’s behavior. The items cite his view of German welfare and the people versus military emphasis. The notes also touch on New Zealand flora and fauna preservation and a sensational tally of suicides at the Eiffel Tower.
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William
Germany
Boston Globe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Europe
Mother Earth
Indus
Symry
Abe
Tor
Hary
Plain Dealer
Wasilington’s Model Farm
Fann Products
London
Panama
New Zealand
Hiffel Tower
Paris
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