Venice of poets and Venice in one article
A survey of water bodies near California’s Los Angeles and San Diego notes a seven mile long lake with boating routes and urban growth. The piece blends European city contrasts with science updates and a feature on Niagara Falls recession rates by Prof Woodward, citing historical erosion figures and contour length.
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Taxe
Los Angeles
San Diego
Cal
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Buffalo
R. S. Woodward
Washington
Niagara Falls
Hoe
Horseshoe Falls
Vienna’s four story law shapes elegant streets
The article notes Vienna restricts buildings to four stories by law and counts floors from the top of the first story, yielding a visual five-story appearance. Builders’ meticulous work yields tall, ornamented blocks and notably elegant avenues. In Washington, few jewels guard the Treasury vaults, including a Revolutionary sword, precious stones, and a rose bottle with value claimed from 100 dollars to 100 thousand dollars.
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Vienna
Treasury
Washington
Treasure hunt ends with arrest after war era theft tale
Dr Geonce J Adams of Massachusetts recounted a Civil War era plot in Louisiana where three soldiers stole 30000 in gold and silver, buried it near a magnolia grove, and planned to return after the war. After injury and paralysis, Adams searched New Orleans sites for the buried wealth but failed. partners later had him arrested during renewed digging efforts.
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Geonce J. Adams
Massachusetts
Louisiana
Magnolia
New Orleans
Greenville
Adams
Fremont Memoir Workshop at the British Legation House
The Washington Star describes General Fremont and family at a commodious residence overlooking Nine teenth Street and Dupont Circle. The memoir is dictated on the second floor with Miss Fremont typing, Mrs Fremont noting, and the family working daily from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Fremont is 74 but appears younger with white hair and clear brown eyes.
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Washington Star
Gen. Fremont
Fremonts
Legation
Nineteenth Street
Dupont Circle
Fremont
Navy
Montana
Squire Hobbs Filosofy Parody in Rural Chicago Voice
Parody scatters dialect lines as a farmer and ex congressman figure learn mischief and labor pricing. A pompous parodied figure watches a sidewalk beauty and the scene shifts to fishing bootstraps and backyard showmanship, all captured in comical rural Chicago vernacular.
Great Things to Be Seen in America
An extended meditation in a 19th century American paper argues travelers should explore the United States before Europe. It catalogs places from Quebec to New Orleans to San Antonio and Arizona deserts, praising American landscapes, ruins, and historic sites as rivals to Old World wonders. It also contrasts modern American progress with foreign locales and notes regional beauty from the Hudson to Yellowstone and the Sierras.
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America
Europe
Gibraltar
Quebec
St. Augustine
Mediterranean
Savannah
Rue Royale
Rue Bourbon
New Orleans
Texas
San Antonio
Spain
Rio Grande
Chihuahua
Sonora
Mexico
Old Spain
Arizona
Africa
Sahel
White Mountains
Aleghanies
St. Elias
Shasta and
Whitney
Sopris
Snow Mass Peak
Sierras
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite
Danube
Rhine
Nile
Hudson
Mississippi
Columbia
Chicago
Western World
The Dude and the Lost Race of Dudes in Society
In examining the fate of the “dude” as a social type the piece argues he did not die out or go crazy but altered with fashion. Society adapted by meeting him halfway while he masked his creaking traits with garb and kept to the background as a quiet, asocial figure until new trends shift.
Second-Hand School Books Trade Expands Across the Nation
A veteran dealer explains a growing market for discarded school books. Through a nationwide exchange and agents, trustees, and booksellers trade away obsolete texts for replacements, with half-price being typical. Demand rises in farming districts and the South as education expands.
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United States
South
New York Mail and
Lepress
How a House of Commons Vote Unfolds in Lobbies
The article describes MPs rising for a division, passing through right and left lobbies to vote. A rostrum man on each side marks names from A to H and I to J while tellers count. Unpopular amendments create crowded lobbies and ventilation concerns in the historic chamber. London. Correspondence Providence Journal.
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House of Commons
London
Providence Journal
How Many Apples Did Adam and Eve Eat
A humorous, highly numerical piece riffs on biblical counts of Eve and Adam eating apples. It parodies giant antediluvian theories and absurd arithmetic, concluding with an exaggerated final total of 81,896,054 apples before a stray note on grass in Canada aiding malaria and fish.
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Adam
Eve
George Washington
Canada
Insatiable Grave and the Alkali Sink Hazard
A vivid account from San Francisco Ingleside describes a dangerous alkali sink in the plains. A rider confronts a deadly trap as a grave like mud swallows horse and rider, with grass masking the hazard and ropes and ponies failing to save them. The narrative warns of the sink hole’s tenacious paste and eerie suction.
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San Francisco Ingleside
A Baltimore Recipe for Cooking Husbands
ATid Bits piece describes a satirical guide from a Baltimore woman on “cooking husbands” by management not literal cooking. It warns against mistreatment and suggests careful, humorous preparation, implying that well treated husbands become digestible and long-lasting, with playful metaphor and period tone.
Miss Spillers Said To Be Accomplished
A humorous exchange shows a mother and daughter debating Miss Spillers. The daughter notes French and music, but criticizes her plain handwriting, while the mother dismisses the gripe as trivial in a witty arc from the Darhansaw Traveler.
Why God Let the Devil Enter Eden
A New Orleans States item recounts a Magazine Street girl's question about why Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden. She asks why God did not drive out the devil rather than have them leave first, amid a parent’s explanation of the serpent’s temptation.
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Adam
Eve
Garden of Eden
Adam and Eve
New Orleans States
Outrunning a Horse for $1000 in 1878 Hog Race
In 1878 a gambler recounts betting $1000 that a hungry farm hog could beat a mare in a 300 yard race. Training with corn as lure, the hog rushed from start to finish, slipping under the horse’s legs and winning the wager as the crowd watched.
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Omaha Bae
Chicago
Iowa
Jocosely
Maude
Where His Wonderful Memory Failed
In Galveston Col. Verger quizzes an acquaintance famed for dates. The man lists famous birth years and events, claiming perfect recall. The talk ends with the colonel asking for a date two years hence for a $5 debt, exposing the friend's faulty memory.
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Col. Verger
Galveston
Alexander the Great
Arthur
England
St. Bartholomew
Paris
Vandyke and
Velasquez
Cromwell
Charles I
John Milton
Corneille
Rembrandt
Texas Siftings
A Lesser Evil
An affable stranger greets Dakota farmer Snoozenberry and praises his farm while probing for buying lightning rods. The farmer, wary, asks if the man is a lightning rod agent, then jokes about his political office prospects before inviting him inside. The exchange ends with humor and relief.
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Terri'ble
Estelline Bell
Glaciers of the Alps Count Revealed
The Alps host 1155 glaciers per Prof Heim with 144 in France, 78 in Switzerland, 471 in France, and 462 in Austria. Total area lies between 500 and 1000 square miles. The Aletsch Glacier in Austria is the longest at over nine miles, while 249 glaciers exceed four miles in length.
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Alps
Heim
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
Aletsch
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Joseph Whitridge
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J. A. B. Ward
Ward
Squire Hobbs
Sam Jones
Kannon-Bawls
Ordah
Rekwishs
Kane
Pittsburgh Sunday Traveler
Dude
Baltimore
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