Tricks That Train a Dog for Stage and Home
A Philadelphia Ledger guide on teaching dogs a range of tricks from basic sits and paw shakes to more advanced stunts. It stresses patience, consistent commands, and practicing in a quiet, distraction free space, teaching one trick at a time with gradual progression.
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Poem Excerpt Echoes Moonlit Sea and Lost Lands
A fragmentary verse echoing sea and night imagery. It references the sinking moon Eemothipintain and distant lights of land fading as waves speak and oars carve silver trails. Bayard Taylor style lines convey longing and intimate love amid a vast sea realm.
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Eemothipintain
Bayard Taylor
Bill Nye Speech at London Dinner Noted by Bookmen
The anecdote recalls Edward W. Nye delivering a short speech at Riamuther's London dinner that delighted book publishers. It cites a year earlier in Indianapolis where Nye encountered a man in extreme poverty, with ragged clothes and untidy hair.
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Indianapolis
Abel P Jones and a Steam Yacht Invitation
A college classmate Abel P Jones, once starving and helped by a clever offer, later invites the narrator to join him in Europe aboard his steam yacht signaling a dramatic social turn and reunion.
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Abel P. Jones
Jones
Abel
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Dividing Something. From Tit-Bits
A western county farm laborer refused to vote saying MPs are well paid. He insists he sees papers dividing every night and believes they are dividing something. A humorous note on faith and mistaken beliefs.
Love of the Union speech in Union Square 1861
Excerpt from Daniel S. Dickinson’s April 20 1861 Union Square NY sermon urging immediate national action to preserve the Union amid crisis. He says the nation must rise, pursue peace, and defend the country even at great cost. He vows to prosecute the war without vindictiveness and to stand by the Union at all costs.
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Ship of State
Hidden Mines and a Southern Bride in the Northwest
Marta Sherman, a Virginia native, marries John Northrup after he rescues her from a sunken shaft on a hilltop mine. The Northrups marry by firelight, the railroad comes, and the mines reopen as coal is mined again. Some say Northrup glimpsed treasure the day of the rescue.
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Ball of the Beasts Ball at Hotel Monaco Paris 1885
A June 1885 Paris social sensation, the Ball of the Beasts hosted by the Princess of Sagan at the Hotel Monaco feature a Peacock costume and a zoological procession of guests in animal roles. The event ended with a charity kirmess and left the princely park ruined the next day, with many hovels flourishing amid the charitable works.
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Louis de Perigord
Samue Groskowski
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Newport
Talleyrand
Juno
Monsieur de Buffon
Baron Seilliere
Montbard
Baroness de Rothschild
Comtesse de Chevignee
Baroness de Salignac Fenelon
Marquis de Barbentane
Mme
Michel Ephrussi
Comtesse de Gontant
Vicomtesse de Lousac
Henry Schneider
Mme. de Moninet
Fog Eyed Sailors Struggle With Persistent Boston Fog
Boston Transcript reports many steamship officers bound for Boston suffer a new ailment nicknamed fog eye. The fog's persistence along the coast this summer forces crews to contend with blurred vision during every voyage. Captain Higgins and the United States Fruit Company's Admiral Sampson were among those affected after a run from Jamaican ports.
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Long Wharf
World Merchant Vessels Flagged by English Banner
The English flag floats on 11 365 merchant vessels worldwide total vessels reported as 29 75.
Effect of the War on Japan as a Nation
The Washington Star essay surveys Western praise for Japan since its 1904 Russo-Japanese War victory and reframes critique. It notes duplicitous publicity, warns of materialist aims, predicts a shift in trade, Chinese policy, and the possible impact on American interests, missions, and open-door commerce while detailing Japan’s merchant honesty, politeness, laws, and pervasive spy systems.
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Washington Star
Port Arthur
Little Brown
Japan
Orient
Far East
United States
China
Philippines
Russia
Marquis Ito
Ito
Tokio
Yoshiwara
Fifty Years of Farm Progress Adds Unknown Vegetables
Harper's Weekly notes dramatic rise in garden products from 1890 census. Ten year gains reach 190 to 400 percent across regions. Tomatoes once thought poisonous now common. North Carolina ships twenty carloads of lettuce in a day. Celery, radishes, and asparagus expand operations across Michigan, Ohio, New York, California.
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North Atlantic States
South
North Carolina
Michigan
Ohio
New York
Florida
California
Chinese Wheelbarrow Men in Upper Yangtse Trade Route
The Chicago News describes wheelbarrow transport in Suicho and surrounding districts. British Lt Col C C Manfold notes dense population and cloth trade, with wheelbarrows carrying 350 pounds daily across 12 to 20 miles, outperforming government pack mules in India and continuing with no rest for fatigue.
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Suicho
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