Tree smokes in Jarsnest village and other oddities
A quirky mix of notes from The Express mentions a smoking tree in Jarsnest village, local bank leaders Mrs H R Terie and Miss Temple of Lexington Nebraska, a council urging elimination of cube roots, a dental college opportunity, a method to capture five photos at once via mirrors, and burglars stealing 15000 artificial teeth in New York, with cheeky rhyme about knights of the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Knights of the Night
Oldest American Consul In Service Relives Grant Appointments
Gerhard Gabe, American consul at Christiania Norway appointed in 1869 by Gen Grant, is the oldest consul in the service except for Consul Sprague at Gibraltar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerhard Gabe
Christiania
Norway
Gen
Grant
Sprague
Gibraltar
Steerage Fares Drop to 12.40 Dollars for New York to Liverpool
The steerage rate from New York to Liverpool has been reduced to 12.40 dollars. The move is pitched as a grand opportunity for a multitude of foreigners unhappy with this country and its institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liverpool
Unusual Names Shape Hotel Registration Scrawl
A quirky observation notes that a man with an odd name like Valino dasky leaves an unclear registration, while a common surname such as Smith is written clearly in Spencerian copperplate at a hotel registration desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valinodasky
Spencerian Copperplate
Emancipation Debate Highlighted by Grow and Murray
In the war congress Galusha A Grow vigorously backed emancipation while George Washington Murray, his present house colleague, is described as a bare footed slave boy from a South Carolina plantation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galusha A. Grow
Congress
George Washington Murray
South Carolina
Advertising Tradeoff in Rheumatism Cure Joke
A remark imagines Bismarck preferring a sure cure for rheumatism over European titles. With clever advertising the remedy could earn enough to buy the titles and cure his own rheumatism at the same time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
Europe
Georgia senator Walsh proposes crime for obstructing mail train
The new Georgia senator Mr Walsh introduces a bill making it crime to obstruct a train carrying the United States mails with penalties of one to twenty years. Citizens and cattle are warned to stay clear of railway tracks and govern themselves accordingly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Walsh
CircuMSTANTIATIA evidence ends life sentence awaiting release
A Michigan prisoner serving life for a murder now deemed untrue faces release after the victim, alive and unaware of the crime, discovers the supposed killing. A patent on flying machines expired, allowing citizens to build their own devices and spark hope among the poor longing to navigate the skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Mexico to issue first pictorial stamps for September sale
The Mexican government is engraving a new series of postage stamps to be issued for sale in September. It marks Mexico’s first pictorial stamp issue and will come in 1 2 4 5 and 10 cent denominations. Designs depict stages of mail transport including man burro stage and steam train.
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Mexico
Local Charade Doctor Exploits Belief in Sap Money
A Chicago suburban fraudster known as the doctor magnified credulity among foreign residents by directing them to hide sums of money in tree tops. Expecting cures from sap the doctor conjured, the money and the conman vanished in each case as the sap allegedly affected the victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arfaith
Chicago
Opium Harm Warns From St Paul Globe
The St Paul Globe laments opium use as a gravely destructive vice, noting its potential as a poison that corrupts even well educated people, ruins lives, and often ends in death. it calls for an end to its importation to benefit the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul Globe
United States
Hurontario Ship Canal Company Incorporated in Canada
The Hurontario Ship Canal company is incorporated by Parliament to build a canal from Toronto on Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay near Collingwood. It has 65 million dollars in stock, with 1 million payable and 10 percent subscribed before it exists. Directors must be British subjects. American capitalists show interest in reviving a long advocated project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurontario Ship Canal Company of Canada
Toronto
Lake Ontario
Georgian Bay
Collingwood
Chemistry Offers New Perfume Substitutes and Antiseptic Plants
Chemistry may provide substitutes for costly flower perfumes as lab techniques reproduce banana odor. Some fragrant plants show potential in surgery when cultivated declines. Certain species resist insects and fungi due to antiseptic essential oils. Eucalyptus and other familiar plants yield antiseptics.
Epitome of the Week Highlights Budget of Early 1900s Politics
A weekly digest notes tariff debates in the senate and civil service battles in the house. It covers a Hawaiian resolution, Knights of Pythias approval, indictments in Chicago, populist and prohibitionist conventions, deaths, hangings, and miner strikes, with regional updates from Indiana Michigan and Illinois.
Fiske Warns of R revolt Over Coinage Freeing Policy
From Washington, Mr. Fiske warned that a revolution would follow if relief through free coinage is not granted. US financial activity shows $854.5 million in weekly clearing house exchanges and 287 business failures, while a congress salaries probe cites misappropriation and a senator bribery case involving Charles W. Buttz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pan-American Bimetallic Association
Fiske
United States
Charles W. Buttz
Republican nominees and party platform in Harrisburg
The East notes Pennsylvania Republicans nominate Gen I H Hastings for governor and Galusha A Grow with G E H Hutt for congressmen at large while backing protection and stricter naturalization to bar anarchists. Other items report 82000 petitioned for woman suffrage, flood ruin in Pennsylvania and New York tobacco, violent strike clashes, Flower veto on foreign flag display, a pessimistic economic outlook, and Cunard’s Lucania record voyage.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
I. H. Hastings
Center County
Galusha A. Grow
G. E H. Hutt
Albany
N.Y
New York
Stickle Hollow
Cunard
Lucania
Liverpool
Democratic nomination in Missouri Fifteenth district
West and South C Hr Moreux was nominated for congress at the Democratic convention of Missouri's Fifteenth district. Several earthquake shocks and rumbling were reported across Illinois Missouri and Colorado.
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C. Hr. Moreux
Missouri
Anna
Cairo
Ill
Cape Girardeau
St. Louis
Colorado Springs
Col
W. D. Richmond
RV. Weep
B. F. Hughes
Charles O'Brien
Union Pacific
Montpelier
Idaho
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ty Session
Minneapolis
Northwest
Mission Field
Danville
Luton
East End
New Orleans
Ilinois
Benson Wood
Effingham
Congress
Tecumseh
C. T
Portland
Ore
J. K. Gill Company
Global unrest and sensational incidents clock in across 19th century notes
A Mongrel mob stones Miss Imhoff in Japan, Coreans attack Sing Satoa government quarters killing the governor and forty clerks, Paris uncovers a large anarchist bomb plot, Queen Victoria marks 75th birthday, Tim German Banking adopts gold standard, Canadian troops drunkenly tear down the U S flag, Rookery Mills fire destroys frames for $200,000, I Stomre & Co fails for $560,000 spanning Britain, Japan, Korea, France and Canada.
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Imhoff
Yonewara
Japan
Sing Satoa
Paris
Queen Victoria
England
Tim German Banking Association
Friedrichroda
United States
St. Thomas
Ont
Rookery
Huddersfield
Tur
I. Stomre & Co
London
Liverpool
National and local notes from a broad 19th century page
Senate attacks tariff and income tax. pensions boost debated in House. Lynching reported near Clinton Mississippi. Nordic steamship Norden boiler explosion casualties. U.S. fire losses rise. B&O train wreck in Maryland kills crew. English offer for Elgin water company. militia sent to Minnesota line. Birth of twenty fifth child in Ohio. Czar curbs ministerial appointments. Gold coinage hits 80 million at Philadelphia mint. Blatz Brewing head Claitz dies in St Paul. Presbyterian Assembly rejects Henry Smith appeal. New Jersey legislature adjourns. Baseball league percentages show standings across teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
Hill
N. S
Clinton
Miss
Iwo
Norden
Bay of Liscau
Tur
United States
Baltimore & O10
Line Grove
Elgin
National Water Company
Minoak
Mars
Ainey Yates
Springfield
Russia
Philadelphia
Valentine Claitz
Blatz Brewing Company
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Presbyterian General Assembly
Saratoga
Henry P. Smith
New Jersey
National League
Cleveland
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
Chicago
Washington
Miners Clash Across States As Strikes Turn Violent
The report outlines deadly clashes in Pennsylvania Illinois and Colorado with strikers shot by guards in Uniontown and Centralia while 3000 miners converge near Stickle Hollow. Four strikers die and dozens are wounded amid chaotic seizures of coal mines and mass arrests.
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la Salle
Centralia
Pennsylvania
SpringFieLd
Altgeld
Illinois National Guard
Taylor
la Salle County
Spring Valley
Ladd
Seatonville
F. W. Matthison
M. Jd. Welms
Sandoval
Kinmundy
Odin
Missouri Woman Shoots Self At Arlington Hotel
Miss Lillie Ross of St Louis shot herself in the right temple with a revolver in her hotel room at 10 pm Wednesday. She had recently left St Louis after arrest on suspicion of stealing money from her employer.
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Moorning
Lillie Ross
St. Louis
Arlington Hotel
Trade Reviews Report Slower Business Across Nations
Dun and Bradstreet editors note storms floods and strikes reduced activity while exports rose. Prices decline with wheat cotton cheap, pork and coffee fall. Failures drop to 220 4189 for May week. Bradstreet predicts prolonged dullness with coal shortages idle workers in Pittsburgh and other centers. An expected wage settlement for iron and steel may ease tensions next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dun and Bradstreet
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Iportance
Bradstreet
Dun & Co
Pittsburgh
Fire Destroyed McMinnville House Kills Child
In McMinnville Oregon on May 24 a house owned by M Shaddon burned down from an open grate. Shaddon’s 10-year-old daughter died from burns while his wife Mrs Shaddon was rescued in a nude state. His wounded 45-year-old blind son and severely injured son survived after being dragged from the flames. Judge Galloway’s residence across the street suffered extensive damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcminnville
Ore
M. Shaddon
Shaddon
T. J. Shaddon
Judge Galloway
Flag incident on Queen's Own volunteers at St Thomas
About 1 000 volunteers traveled from Toronto to St Thomas to celebrate the queen's birthday. Some hauled down and destroyed the American flag at Consul Willis's office. Lieut Col Smith witnessed the act and apologized. Willis demanded satisfaction and notified Washington and Ottawa authorities. Citizens of St Thomas deplore the incident.
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Toronto
Ont
Queen’s Own
St. Thomas
United States
Willis
Col. Smith
Stars and Stripes
Washington
Ottawa
Provident Loan Society Opens for Poor Borrowers in NYC
New York leaders led by Cornelius Van derbilt establish the Provident Loan Society at Fourth Avenue and Twenty second Street. Authorized by the legislature, the charity loans personal property at 1 percent monthly. Noted financiers and reformers such as Frederick R. Coudert and Seth Low back the effort to aid the needy.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-second Street
the Provident Loan Society
David H. Greer
St. Bartholomew's Church
Frederick R. Coudert
John T. Crimmins
R. Fulton Cutting
Charles S. Trairchild
Abrams. Hewitt
Adrian Iselin, Jr
John 8. Kennedy
Seth Low
J. Pierpont Morgan
Walter Stanton
J. Kennedy Tod
Fall of a Brooklyn warehouse traps workers after fire
A four story brick storage building at 205 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn collapsed Friday after fire damage. One man was killed, three injured, about six workers were buried in the ruins. F B Lattimer operated the business, estimating $24,000 in damage and $20,000 in stored furniture. An official investigation will determine fault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
F. 2B
Lattimer
Populist Convention Nominates Webster for Governor
Sacramento May 2 The Populist convention nominated J. V. Webster of San Luis Obispo for governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
J. V. Webster
San Luis Obispo
Tariff Debate Through Senator Gorman’s Reply
Senator Gorman of Maryland replies to tariff reform attacks detailing Democratic strategy and internal divisions. He argues the bill follows revenue tariff principles, limits protections to align with European American wage differences, and aims to reduce taxes without creating deficits. He defends trust regulation and supports passage as an emergency measure despite imperfect details.
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Gorman
Dem
Democratic Party
Withal
Congress
Melinley
House
Treasury
Senate
Finance Committee
Union
Cleveland
Republican Party
Explosion Traps New York Coal Tour at South Wilkesbarre
In Wilkes-Barre on May 25 a visit by 125 New York Coal Exchange members to the South Wilkesbarre shaft and breakers was interrupted by a boiler explosion. A shaft car with nine visitors became stuck 500 feet down as air stopped. miners and visitors crawled to the surface while a crowd of 1000 gathered. By noon the New Yorkers were out and repairs to steam pipes continued.
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Senate
House
Civil Service Commission
Gorman
Kyle
United States
Liliuokalani
Hawaiian Islands
Civil-Service Commission
Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias
Representative House of Ohio
Committee On
Wilkesbarre
New York Coal Exchange
Lawal
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company
South Wilkesbarre
Crumbling Four Courts in St Louis may be torn down
May 25 report states the Four Courts building is in a dangerous decay. President McMath of the board of public improvements received a communication from the board of public commissioners urging demolition as the structure endangers life. The building is daily approached by thousands of people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Four Courts
McMath
Board of Public Improvements
Board of Public Commissioners
Growth of education and early universities across history
A compact timeline notes medical schools at Cordova and Paris, the Oxford origin of a modern university, Paris founded by Charles V, Athens art schools and public libraries, the University of Paris revival, Cambridge's early origin, Roman empire public schooling, James Smithson’s £100,000 bequest for the Smithsonian, and Theodosius funding for free schools. It ends with Treindoo, god of marriage, depicted with a human body and elephant head among skulls.
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Cordova
Spain
Oxford
Paris
Charles V. L
Athens
B.C
University of
Cambridge
Roman Empire
James Smithson
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Rome
Theodosius
Treindoo
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Kansas
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Indianapolis
C. A. Robinson
Mountaintown
John Dewright
Kalamazoo
Mich
Tue
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New York City
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Delphi
Grand Rapids
Arthur H. Taylor
Thomas Wilkinson
Ann Arbor
San Antonio
Tex
Austin Brown
Anderson Harris
Joseph Guiles
Kansas City
Frank Martin
Abraham H. Ellis
Manufactures
Republic of France
Columbian Exposition Company
Coan
Cripple Creek
Foreign Intelligence
Kelleyville
Beard
Mission Fields
Brazin
Ind
LA Sarin
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Crry
Evansville
Little’s
Little's
Uniontown
Washington Coal & Coke Company
Coke
Thomas Kenan
Wood's Run
CheprLe Creek
Strong
Battle Mountains
Strong Shaft
Independence
Oregon
St. Louis Four Courts
Mouper
Bome
Yabsley
Indianapolis Journal
Clarence Dale Crockett
Hood
Clarence
Clarence Sa & Bright
Hood's
D.M. Crockett, JR
Murfreesboro, Tenn
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Alldrugetet
Abi
E.Q. McCormick
D.B. Martin
W. Baker & CO
Grovers Everywhere
Dorchester
Mass
Richardson & Wye Long Bros
Phin
Perkins
Perkins Wind Mill Co
Bridge St
Mishawaka
Free
ELY CO
Laporte
ND. M
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