Aqueduct Cost, Liberty Hall Fund Drive Featured
Postmaster General Fawcett reports international letters per head with England, Scotland, United States, Ireland, France, Italy. New York’s aqueduct project now valued at 14.46 million dollars, likely near 30 million upon completion, delivering 350 million gallons daily. Georgia locals raise funds to purchase Alexander H. Stephens’ Liberty Hall for a monument and a high school on the property, priced at 10,000 dollars before November 1, and library valued at 18,000 dollars.
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New York
Georgia
Liberty Hall
Alexander H. Stephens
Invincible murderer Carey shows pious facade
The document portrays Carey as a churchgoing man who claimed virtue through Catholic faith. He received communion on May 7 1882, but allegedly led murderers to Phoenix Park the night before, signaling the slaughter with a handkerchief and abstaining from direct action. The portrayal labels him a hypocritical, inhuman monster.
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Carey
Phoenix Park
Queen Victoria Denies Peerage Over Wealth Concerns
Rumors say Queen Victoria refused to confer a peerage when the honoree could not afford the title. The Tecks anger Queen by selling household goods to pay creditors. Auction view permits priced at 24 cents for access to Kensington Palace, with catalog items including busts of the Queen and Prince Consort and five kitchen chairs plus a beer stallion.
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Victrorra
Duke of Teck
Kensington Palace
Northern Pacific growth and a humorous lost purse tale
A New York house notes the Northern Pacific system spans 1.5 million people and 8,000 miles of track, while New York State holds 5.6 million people with 6,000 miles of railroad, questioning regional sustainability. A Boston summer boarder loses a purse. two years later a hen and then a barnyard oddity reveal gold and greenbacks, illustrating Eastern imagination’s limits.
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New York
Northern Pacific
Boston
Cunard Plans Faster Atlantic Passage Bridge
Beven day passages across the Atlantic will be surpassed as steamship speeds increase. Following tests by Guion White Star and Anchor lines showing a weekly crossing is feasible, Cunard Company resolves to take a major step to bridge the Atlantic with even faster service.
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Atlantic
Guion
White Star
Anchor
Cunnard Company
Clyde Shipyard to Build Two Faster Atlantic Steamers
Their two latest vessels the Servia and the Aurania built by John Thompson and Co Glasgow failed to meet expectations. John Burns on behalf of the company has contracted John Elder and Co on the Clyde to build two steamers of power and speed exceeding any previous Atlantic service craft. The ships will be 8 000 tons burden and 13 000 horsepower, costing over 3 000 000 dollars. They are designed to run nineteen knots and cross the Atlantic in under six days.
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John Thompson & Co
Glasgow
John Burns
John Elder & Co
Clyde
Doctor questions women's truthfulness in health claims
Dr. William A Hamaono argues women cannot tell the truth about health and life when insured. He cites breakfast deception and suggests insurers distrust female statements. Makers of policy deny this, noting two large firms still insure women and find men just as inaccurate.
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William A. Hamaono
Dr. Haymond
Benjamin's perilous post as Persia's first minister
The envoy Mr. 8. G. W. Benjamin enjoys grand reception in Persia with gifts and a magnificent banquet, but bills for the expenses and the gifted horse exceed his first year's salary, forcing him to navigate court favors or risk debt as the Shah's generosity drains resources.
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G. W. Benjamin
Persia
Benjamin
Protecting Fruit from Insects This Spring
An Eastern horticulturist lists control methods for pests attacking fruit trees. Oils diluted with water or milk mixtures are advised against insect exposure, with Paris green and Londor purple used sparingly. Moth attractants, trunk bands, and tarred felt collars help deter borers and curculio, while lime dusts aid cherry and pear slugs. Jarring treats plum curculio, and hand-picking targets gooseberry worms. Burning infected branches and pruning control currant borers and raspberry girdlers. Some remarks note swimming ability and lake buoyancy in Wyoming.
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Paris
Puget Sound
Chicago Times
Tut French Adapt American Railroad Idea to Dinner Cars
Tut French adopts an American railroad concept introducing a system of dinner cars on its line, reflecting a shift toward enhanced onboard dining options and passenger comfort.
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America
Agricultural notes on farming methods and crops
An Ohio road tax shift yields better roads at no extra cost. Tips protect tomato and cabbage stems from cutworms with paper wraps. Vermont dairy gains fifty pounds per cow over fourteen years, mostly profit. Evaporating sweet corn could become a viable industry, with careful timing to avoid overripe corn. Guidance on fruit tree spacing and soil warmth, and advice on Paris green use against potato beetles. Discussion of Kentucky livestock feeding improving stock quality, plus veterinary notes on cracked hoofs and hoof care. Dr Sturtevant reports milk fat and butter yield vary with cow diets, butter amounts fluctuating more than milk fat under different feeds.
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Ohio
Vermont
Chicago Journal
New Yorker
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Tur
United States Veterinary Journal
Sturtevant
New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Charming Housekeeping Tips and Preserving Advice
A housewife shares practical kitchen guidance including fruit jelly custard flavoring with egg whites, plum jelly style preserves with sugar and spices, and tips on using paper under jelly to prevent molding. It also covers tomato pickles with spices, a Yankee pudding pudding boiler method, orange fritters fried in fat with powdered sugar, and spruce beer recipe with spices and yeast for bottling.
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Orange County
Betsy Ross Designed the Five Pointed Flag Star
The United States owes a star with five points on its flag to Betsey Ross, an upholsterer. A Congressional committee tasked with flag design asked her to work, and she proposed the five point star as a better fit than the six point version.
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United States
Betsey Ross
Woman Leaves Family Inheritance To Friends Society
She was created flatmaker to the Government and her business passed to her children. Her daughter later relinquished it after joining the Society of Friends and opposing its use in war.
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Society of Friends
Boston
A New Jersey Clam Bake Recalled in Cornicall’s Tale
A vivid passage from Inter Ocean’s Cornicall describes a New Jersey clam bake as a towering feast of clams and vegetables cooked under straw, herbs, and smoke. The scene shifts to revelry and secrets until repletion gives way to a mare’s tale of memory and appetite.
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Rhode Island
Martha's Vineyard
Inter Ocean
Babies Feet Warn Against Tight Shoes and Nail Care
A magazine style note urges mothers to monitor foot growth in children and avoid tight shoes. It warns that ill fitting footwear causes pain, deformity and nail problems. Proper nail trimming and occasional shoe removal are advised to prevent ingrown nails.
What Kills the Babies An Eminent Physician Letter
An influential physician argues most infant deaths are premature and due to digestive disorders from overfeeding and improper diet. He cites teething myths, excessive cow milk, and starchy foods as causes, praises restrained feeding, and notes Dr. Dawson and Dr. Page support gentler nourishment to restore digestion and health.
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Dawson
Dr. Dawson
New York
Paris Medical School
C. E. Page
New York Times
A Lawyer's Novel and a Chicago Anecdote
Prof. Swing praises judicious novel reading in Chicago and recounts a lawyer who, after illness, writes a romance beginning with two lovers and a walk at dusk. The tale moves through chapters about love, a sunset walk, and a confession under a spreading oak, with romantic yet restrained development.
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Swing
Chicago
Corporation
Adelaide
Burglars Tools and Lock-Opening Implements Examined
A New York Tribune article explains burglars tools and methods for breaking into homes. It notes jimmies, dividers, skeleton keys, nippers and methods to bypass door locks and window fastenings. It lists accompanying gear such as dark lanterns masks pistols knives rope ladders and carpenter tools.
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Adams
Moore
New York Tribune
Women and Life Insurance Controversy in 19th Century
The Weekly Underwriter notes insurers distrust female applicants, though few companies deny women, and mortality tables show women live longer mainly outside ages 25 to 50. The piece criticizes attributing higher rates to women and argues motherhood mortality is overstated while healthy insured women can live long lives.
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Hammond
England
Germany
Boarding-House Anecdotes and Odd Claims Across Cities
A collection of humorous notes cites Philadelphia boarding houses housing living skeletons on display and a Mexican noblewoman with hair two and a half yards long. Amatus Lusitanus is recalled for a man with hairs on his tongue from a cheap boarding-house scene. A North Carolina church near Waynesville built from a single tree, with excess lumber used for a fence surrounding its yard.
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Philadelphia
Burlington Free Press
Philadelphia News
Amatus Lusitanus
Norristown Herald
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Scotland
Treland
France
Italy
Wyoming
Agricultural
TE Hon. C. M. Clay
Kentucky
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Women and Life Insurance
Waynesville
N. C
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