Fresh fish and giant mining pump in Calumet report
The Register notes a fish dealer explains freshness by bright eyes and clarity, while a Rhode Island foundry works on a twenty ton mining pump for Calumet and Hecla Michigan. A novel deed in Missouri transfers guardianship of Maggie Brown for a dollar. Kirkovski dies at Makoi aged 116, a centenarian veteran of Polish campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provivencr, R. I. Foundry
Calumet and
Hecla
Michigan
Springfield
George Schmidt
Maggie Brown
Julia Brown
Medals Found Near Plate Glass City Explore Old British Coin
Workman unearthed a corroded copper medal near the main building at Plate Glass City. The British artifact shows a king’s head on one side and an Indian shooting a deer on the other. date is unreadable. Also noted: Benjamin Franklin bequest funds in Boston and Philadelphia approach new dispositions after 100 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plate Glass City
Boston
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Beloved First Lady Favored by Bees and Birds
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent recalls Epiron Gravy of Atlanta delivering a lurid speech. The piece notes Mexico as a future mining country due to cheap extraction and skilled Mexican workers. It also describes a New York lady’s affection for pet birds and parlor aviaries, detailing canaries, pigeons, and bullfinches in her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
St. Louis Globe - Democrat
Mexico
Yours
New York
Plant Investment Co Buys 280 Acres in Jacksonville
Tuk Plant Investment Co purchases 280 acres on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville Florida for 150000 a waterfront mile long. Speculation suggests a major policy shift by the company possibly moving headquarters from Savannah to Jacksonville and impacting Florida railroad interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuk Plant Investment Company
Jacksonville
Fla
St. John’s
Plant
Florida
Savannah
Shively Elected to Unexpired Term in Congress
Shively was elected to finish the unexpired term of William H. Calkins who resigned to pursue the Governorship of Indiana. He is noted as the only man known to have left Congress to finish a college course and return to Washington immediately after graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
William H. Calkins
Hoosier
Shively
Congress
Washington
Canton Boat Dwellers and Child Drowning Practice
In Canton China about 250000 people live on boats and rarely set foot ashore. Young children frequently fall overboard causing rescues to be difficult and drownings common. Report notes that boys wear floats to aid recovery while girls are left to drown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
China
Grascow’s automatic telephone call boxes system
Grascow operates seventy six call boxes with subscriber keys. Non-subscribers pay 3 or 6 pennies to trigger a connection via coin and bell at the central office, with three minutes allowed per call. Average connection times: Glasgow 35 seconds, Birmingham 40, Liverpool 32, Dundee 20, based on ten trials per city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grascow
Glasgow
Birmingham
Liverpool
Dundee
Notable religious affiliations and a European court intrigue
The article surveys prominent politicians and figures by their religious connections, noting Cleveland, Sheridan, Evarts, Allison, Brown, Colquit, Harrison, Depew, Blaine, Alger, Sherman, and Gresham. It then shifts to European affairs, describing an American woman linked to Wilhelm II and Bismarck, Count Waldersee, and the Countess Mary Lee, detailing her marriages and status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Presbyterian Church
Phil Sheridan
Senator Evarts
Allison
Joe Brown
Baptist Church
Georgia
Senator Colquit
Harrison
Channacey M. Depew
Trinity
Dix
Blaine
Gen. Alger
John Sherman
Judge Greshim
Emperor Willian
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Countess Waldersee
Count Waldersee
Count von Moltke
Mary Lee
New York
Paris
Prince Frederick
Schleswig-Holstein
Waleersee
Prince William
Victoria
Waldersee
Curious Names and Odd Appellations From a Name Sleuth
A humorous catalog lists unusual names found in various sources. It cites Mar Rottengoose and Mr Honeybin among others, noting some have changed to sillier forms like Norfolk Howard and Hacker Bodilly, with playful observations on their sound and origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mar. Rottengoose
Honeybin
Cauliflower
Wittels
Swine
Fever
Deadhorse
Hollingshead
Bugg
Norfolk Howard
Physick
Mr. Hacker Bodilly
Harrison Walker Sober
Owen Tickle Algar
Count de Wints
Trew Jegon
Johu Horrocks
Mel Rite
Two Queer Servants in a Moscow Hotel Anecdote
In Moscow, Capt. Lansdowne and American Hiram Boyler mock servitude as Courtenay learns about Russian help. Two domestic helpers, Ivan and Michael, bungled tasks, with Michael confusing two kopeck coins meant for bread and cheese, sparking bemused exchanges on cultural mishaps.
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Courtenay
Capt. Lansdowne
Moscow
Goroskaya Tehast
Russia
Hiram Boyler
Volga
Ivan
Durak
Mr. Bowler
Barin
Yury Petrovitch
George
Peter
Pashkoff
Michael
Hharpers Magazine
A Dakota Doctor Slade and the Horse Prescription Tale
A Dakota doctor named Slade recalls early doubts about a young clinician gaining experience. He recounts treating horses at a Red Front livery barn where a bay horse Echo needed sleep, not patent medicine. The tale ends with Slade arguing about a cat skin poultice and his search for proper care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slade
Echo
Nightmare in the stable ends as morphine kills horse
A hired man reports the horse slept calmly all day while townspeople peered through a crack. Slade, visiting the patient, awakens nothing with a gentle kick and a pull. The horse is found dead, having died the day before after morphine was given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slade
Inside the Carpet Mill A Tour of Brussels and Tapestry Weaving
A Philadelphia Press account describes yarn batching for Brussels carpets and tapestry printing. It details dyeing, printing on large drums, frame colors, jacquard looms, set processes, and the skilled work of dyers, printers, and women finishers ensuring even, bright carpets for market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Che Drumn
Philadelphia Press
He Came Out All Right
A Boston Herald remark recalls a man who started in a shoe shop earning 60 or 60 a week and bought a fake gold ring for 2 dollars. He later sold the ring for 5 dollars to his sister, turning a small profit and maintaining a steady, shrewd business sense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M Massachusetts
Tdi
Crestiavlen
Sin
Boston Herald
Boston Irreverent Romance and Snake Hunt Report
In Detroit Free Press style a humorous note describes Marion rejecting a lover who fawns over Kate and misuses grammar as a reef wrecking his advances. A separate Garwood Pa. farm note reports wife and craftsmen discovering and killing ten snakes on a farm, largest two and a half feet long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Marion
Kate
Detroit Free
W. H. Young
G. W. Craft
Garwood, Pa
Joseph Garwood
Practical science hints and curiosities from a late 19th century paper
A compendium of home experiments and observations covers sugar use in preserves, canvas fresco effects, tiny saws for gold pens, seedless raisin production by burying vine tips, locomotive speed limits, rope moisture effects, metal toxicity, chalk restoration for blackboards, nasal inattentiveness linked to nose surgery, and a glue preservation method using glue, water, and nitric acid with cautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Martin
Guye
Amsterdam
Gaye
Mountain air boosts lung capacity for consumptives
Dr. Mays reports that Mosso’s experiments show the lungs can draw more oxygen from thinner air, helping consumptive patients. The mechanism involves expanding the chest and inflating alveoli to disperse infiltrations, implying mountain climates aid recovery by mechanical lung function rather than air purity or bacilli count.
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Mosso
Minn
Mays
Atlantic Seaboard
Colorado
Pacific
Five European Powers Ban Rum Selling On High Seas
Five European powers have agreed to suppress the copers flotilla that cruises the North Sea selling liquor to sailors. The agreement marks a shift by declaring rum selling illegal on the high seas, moving to curb the grog trade amid fishing fleets.
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North Sea
The One Hundred Willson Rats of Gotham
A historical chronicle of New York rats in 19th century prose notes Gotham's vast rodent population. Rat baiting, breed comparisons, and urban abundance are described with colorful remarks on rats’ habits, diet, and migration from New York to Wayback County and beyond.
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Willson Rats
Gotham
Manhattan Island
New
Old
New York
London
Paris
Amsterdam
Wayback County
North River
The Stewart Fortune and the Estate's Real Value
Testimony from the head bookkeeper places A T Stewart’s chief partnership value near 12,000,000 at his death, while Judge Hilton later assessed about 8,170,000 revealing a possible 20,000,000 total wealth. Common belief cited 40,000,000 by Varigny, with estate debates stirring bitter contest over disposition.
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A.T. Stewart
Hilton
Stewart
Varigny
Carden City
Judge Hilton
Mr. Stewart
Astor
Vanderbilt
Jay Gould
Moses Taylor
New York
Union
Sten
Texas clergyman named penitentiary chaplain after political work
A Texas clergyman active in politics was named chaplain of the penitentiary. Before leaving to take office he preached a farewell sermon to a congregation that owed him salary and had not treated him well, using the text I go to prepare a place for you in order that where I am ye may be also.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Arkansaw Traveler
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Liabiez Kirkovski
Makoiy
Pall Mail Gazette
Kurkowski
Kosciusko
Napoleon
Bexgawin F. Survery
South Bend
Ind
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