Oil profits and political squabbles spark Pennsylvania echoes
The Register notes 53 000 wells drilled in Pennsylvania and nearby oil regions, costing 200 million dollars to sink and yielding 500 million dollars in sales, with producers' profits around 309 million. It quotes Robert G. Ingersoll on Sherman and a Wabash figure misnaming Voorhees, plus Dutch lineage pride.
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Pennsylvania
Standard Oil Company
Robert G. Incersott
John Sherman
Ohio
Sherman
Olio
Wabash
Dominion debt and a giant head in Coblenz city tale
The 1887 Dominion of Canada total gross debt stood at 270200373 dollars with 45173611 dollars in assets leaving net debt at 225025762 dollars. A note hints at union potentially shifting debt to the United States. A Coblenz bell tower features a giant head known as The Man in the Custom House whose mouth opens on the bell hours and echoes Longfellow on time.
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Dominion of Canada
Union
Sam
Kauthaus
Coblentz
Longfellow
Krupp Works and Royal Finances Across Receipts and Thrones
A 1881 report notes Krupp steel output for peaceful uses and totals of workers and dependents reaching 65,381. Victoria plans to argue royal endurance and power versus revolution. The barramundi links fish groups, breathing air or water, with salamander traits. Dr Parracwta studies crime versus law abiding gait, finding left-foot bias in criminals from forty cases.
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Krupp
Parracwta
Gaito criminal shows left-hand dominance in misdeeds
A New Haven report notes sinistrality among criminals, with left handedness linked to aggression. It spotlights Seebyastian Muller from Switzerland arriving in New Haven whose display of strength, left held cobble, shattered stone with a right handed strike, leaving no lasting hand injury.
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Marro
Seebastian Muller
New Haven
Conn
Switzerland
Muller
Transcontinental Turkish Railway Bid Sparks Rivalries
An imperial tradeh grants a British syndicate the right to build a grand trunk line from Scutari on the Bosphorus to Bagdad, linking Asia Minor’s central plateau with Constantinople. French, German, and American promoters had competed for the concession, while the French ambassador denounces the decision as a second Egyptian convention.
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Raway
Turkey
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Empire
Bagdad
Mesopotamia
Montebello
Russia
Scutari
Bosphorus
A Little Too Much Powder
A Washington Territory farmer killed a Holstein bull worth 509 dollars by firing a shotgun at close range after loading an extra powder charge and paper wad. The bull collapsed and died, described as dead as Julius Caesar, per the New York Sun account.
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Washington Territory
Julius Csar
New York Sun
Nice Old Uncles See Value In Childish Joys Revisited
A reflective piece on adults, including lawyers and a Scotlands reverend father, joining in children's frolics and toy play. It notes a modern shift toward cherishing child life with artful nurseries, decorative objects, and sentimental engravings that celebrate youth and cherished figures.
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Scotland
Prines
Echoes of Perpetual Memory and Untimely Death
A reflective piece contrasts costly tombs and inscriptions with the futility of preserving the body after death. It notes a wealthy woman cremated after a railroad accident, leaving an unmarked, common grave, while a man prepares a grave inscription detailing his life and philosophy. The text cites Fallon and ancient Egypt, warning that bodies eventually meet ignominious ruin.
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Fallon
Angel of Death
Shakespeare
God
Youwuth
Bear Milky's Mischief Spirals Across Kamchatka Seas
On a voyage near Kamchatka, Russian officers gifted Dr. Guillemard a pet bear named Misky later rehomed in England’s Zoological Gardens. Milky, adored yet troublesome, once gripped a lieutenant’s coat tails, then stood atop a red hot stove stealing cabbages while his feet burned, unfazed by pain.
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Misky
Guillemard
Kamschatka
England
Zoological Gardens
Milky
Bruin
Farmer’s open hand stalls grain and a halter tale
A Maine farmer learns a harsh lesson in restraint when a true tale from Lewiston Chronicle recounts how James Keegan, ready to pay 175 dollars for a horse from Prince Edward Island, ends up with a halter and the money back in his pocket. The piece ends with a moral: conquer thyself before becoming a slave to appetite.
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New Age
Kennebec
Thedge
James Keegan
Prince Edward Island
Keegan
Lewiston (Me
Observations of a Sociable Hole in Print
A whimsical piece from Tid-Bits narrates a talking hole living in social mischief and utility. The hole travels from Atlantic City to a ship's hull, a flower pot, bricks, a back tooth, and even a bank safe, showcasing its underestimated usefulness and comic misadventures while ending with a summer note at a ball ground fence.
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Atlantic City
Lance
Portieres and Domestic Machinery in a Busy Household
Bill Arp describes the chaos and humor of home life in Atlanta, detailing a quarrel over doors, a gift portiere from New York, and the humorous misperception of a dining room vista. He notes how visitors pass through the portiere at tea and how the view from the dining room window reveals an old kitchen.
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New York
Express
Bill Arp
Atlanta Constitution
Pures water not purified by freezing says popular science
A survey of recent investigations covers a range of scientific topics. Experiments show freezing does not purify water, an ink for glass uses ammonium fluoride and barium sulphate, and sound sight and touch reactions are measured. Additional notes discuss chemical decomposition under high pressure, sunlight versus heat on microbes, a theory of solution, forests and earthquakes, sugar from sorghum, eye adaptation to color, and color perception effects.
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M. Bloch
M. E. Duclaux
Liebig
W. W. Nicol
Royal Society
Edinburgh
M. Manvin
French Academy of Science
Globe
Harvey W. Winey
Agricultural Department
Washington
M. Chevreul
Bedard
Shoplifter Caught Over Lace in London Shop
A woman in London stole Valenciennes lace while browsing. She was identified but allowed to depart after a letter from the shopowner offered a second piece of the same pattern and asked if she accepted. The note’s signature was the proprietor. It was accepted and paid for.
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London Times
Japan
Count Ito
London
Dust Storm Shuts Tucson In Darkened Twilight
A tremendous dust storm swept Tucson Arizona from the south recently plunging the city into near total darkness for about thirty minutes. Gas and lamps were lit as every place closed and a reddish dust filled the air with a strange, Jerseylike hue as reported by the New York Sun.
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Tucson
A. T
Jersey
New York
Thackeray's Religion and Simple Mysticism
Excerpt from Unpublished letters of Thackeray in Scribner's Magazine explores daily faith in God's world and sought happiness. The writer rejects cloudward escape, valuing practical living, art, nature, and generous love as divine bounty. It celebrates affection for a dear correspondent, noting shared poetic taste and hopeful consolation.
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W. Bullar
Alfred
God
Father
Bullar
William
Little Magdalene
Thackeray
Scribner’s Magazine
Getting Rid of the Crowd
A justice of the peace in his hometown court faced a crowded scene as a youthful eloquent lawyer drew a large audience. The old magistrate called for fresh air, then ordered the orator to sit and speak briefly to thin the crowd. A man named Plato owns a cottage at Saratoga.
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Youll
Plato
Saratoga
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