World and national snapshots from Mora Tribune
The Mora Tribune notes rough seacoast fortifications, Cuban push for U S recognition, Turkish atrocities in Zeltoun, and England investment in the United States. It cites immigration trends, savings banks’ surplus capital, a New Jersey woman lawyer’s victory, and Bank of England–China indemnity transfer to Japan, illustrating quick monetary moves.
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England
United States
New World
New Jersey
Bank of England
China
Japan
Migration Trends Across States Noted in Rental Article
A Syratell University piece reports that about one fourth of Americans lived outside their birth states, a figure that declined to one fifth by 1890. The change is gradual but notable, indicating a growing tendency toward mobility and a healthier pattern.
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Syratell. University
United States
Portugal Holds Sacred Monkey Tooth Over Ransom
History notes that Portugal captured a sacred monkey tooth from Siam during a past Asiatic war and refused to return it unless a ransom of 38.5 million dollars was paid. The piece argues European governments have used a flexible notion of international law to justify a wide range of acts from theft to mass killings.
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Portugal
Siam
Europe
Debated U.S. rifles and Utah reforms in one issue
The piece critiques the Krag Jorgensen rifle as flawed compared to the Springfield and notes the Utah constitution introducing eight member juries civil verdicts by three fourths and debt limits. It also mentions women's suffrage equality and justice department views on the Stanford estate case and potential precedents for government rights in rail interests.
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United States
War Department
Springfield
Utah
Department of Justice
Leland Stanford
Harmon
Stanford
Supreme Court of the United States
Huntington
Central Pacific Railroad
The Defense of Damli: A Munchausen Style Tale
In a sultry smoking room a veteran recalls a farcical defense of Fort Damli. He boasts of improvised magnets turning cannons into weapons, repelling a 19,863 strong force, and tricking three ships into wrecking themselves. A captain of Munchausen's Own yields a fictional surrender to a boastful Field Marshal.
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Commodore
Markham
Mildmay
Ort Damli
Damme
Fort Damli
War Office
Lieut. Simkins
Simpkins
Seringapatam
Lieut Simpkins
Tomlinson
Blucher
Sedan
Hadison
Survey Department
Hudson
Fort
Aix
Bay
Damli
Munchausen
Damii
Near-Sighted Mars Discoverer Schiaparelli’s Tiny Telescope
The Italian astronomer who first noted the Mars canals used a small telescope despite his severe myopia. Gar rett P. Serviss recalls that Schiaparelli read visitor cards at five to six inches. He reportedly never wore glasses, perhaps to avoid any perceived effect on vision.
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Schiaparelli
Mars
Garrett P. Serviss
Brooklyn
New York
Water Barrel Cure Transforms Mundy Farm and Marriage
Priscilla Mundy faces a cruel, drunken husband until her sister Matilda arrives with firm, practical intervention. Matilda stages a month of reform, enforces discipline, and uses a water barrel in a dramatic punishment to break the cycle. By six months, the Mundy home is repaired, the husband sober, and the couple reconciled, with Matilda credited for the change.
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Priscilla Mundy
Matilda
Mrs. Mundy
Priscilla
Tommy
Priscilla Beebe
John
Maria
Rose
Willie
Mundy
Tom Mundy
Matilda Bebee
Tom
Pillar
Cleveland Press
Boundary dispute over Venezuela and British claims
Historical review of the Venezuela boundary controversy from 1691 treaties to 1881 proposals. It details the Schomburgk line, British encroachment, Venezuela's concessions, maps showing claimed territories, and the impact of gold discoveries on British ambitions at the mouth of the Orinoco.
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Great Britain
Venezuela
Spain
Orinoco
Esquibo
Esequibo
Holland
Guiana
British Guiana
Moroco
Maroni
Mazaruni
Cuyuni
Lord Aberdeen
Moroco River
England
Lord Granville
Orinoco River
Napoleon in Warsaw and the Polish court life
The article describes Napoleon in Warsaw amid revelry and sensual pursuits with Countess Walewska. It suggests her arranged liaison with him produced a child and influenced his stance on Josephine’s jealousy and his divorce. It notes her devotion as she followed him through Europe to Eiba.
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Warsaw
Napoleon
Walewska
Josephine
Europe
Eiba
Racing skate of aluminum alloy proves light yet strong
A New York man creates a racing skate praised for lightness and strength. It features an eighteen inch steel runner, one sixteenth inch thick, supported by an aluminum runner frame with mahogany inlay, yielding a burnished silver appearance and practical rigidity at railroad speeds.
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New York
The Basis of Trouble with Barker and Wife
A humorous vignette from Harper's Bazar attributes the couple's quarrel to odd domestic misfires. The wife flags the rat trap with Camembert, crafts a plaster from imported mustard for a sick servant, and ends by smoking insects from rose bushes using a box of Barker’s finest cigars, all provoking wider concern.
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Barker
Harper's Bazar
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