Whaleback vessel debate and women s rights
The piece mixes opinions on a range of topics from a prominent baseball player’s stage ambitions to women’s suffrage in New Zealand and the Whaleback ship concept. It notes New Zealand’s move toward female lawmakers, calls for restoring the word woman over Lady Managers, and weighs English skepticism toward American whaleback vessels while defending experimental maritime design. It also touches on social behavior, politics, and public notices with a lively, period-voice tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Managers
Board of
Chicago Exposition
New Zealand
Susan B. Anthony
Legislative Councils
Man
New York
Lardner
Atlantic
Grander Things at Brookside Farm
A weary reaper finishes harvest at Brookside as his son Jimmy returns with tales of grander things. The elder and mother face loss and longing while the father finds rest, and the barley sheaves wait unharvested yet above a quiet, final truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
Jimmy
Stoose
Willyam
Dane
Olive
Father
Willyvim
Will—vuin
Chimimy
Pather
Brookside
Jimmy Lad
Crow Messiah Visit Stirs Oklahoma Fearful Anti-Military Tone
The Cheyenne chief Orn Crow returns from Walker's Lake Nevada claiming visions of dancing fairies as Messiah's children and vows to bring the Indian Messiah to Oklahoma. The piece urges swift suppression to prevent a Wounded Knee scale repeat, ridiculing marching processions by uniformed groups as dangerous to civic liberties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orn Crow
Walker’s Lake
Nevada
Walker's Lake
Oklahoma
The Convalescent Poem of Love and Healing
A tender scene unfolds in a convalescent room where a husband plans a hopeful recovery garden for his wife. He envisions an arbor bench and blooming flowers as she regains strength, while a gentle cry from within signals life’s budding promise and the presence of the “prince of restorers.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Prince of Restorers
Griefland Portrait of a Son Tilling a Forty Acre Farm
A son tills a forty acre farm while family memory and longing for William and Jimmy haunt him. The narrative notes a grieving expression and the bread he eats growing bitter as grander things lose their meaning in sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Jimmy
A Colored Man Dies After Cable Car Fall in Kansas City
An old hunchbacked colored man gave up his seat for a woman on a crowded Kansas City cable car on Delaware Street. The car lurched, he fell from the open side, was found dazed, and died next morning. He was buried in one of the city’s best cemeteries with a red granite headstone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Missouri
Delaware Street
Strand
London
Griswold Street
Offeer
Sacred to the Memory of Jerkiemia in Warwick
Memorial line for Jerkiemia a colored Chesterfield dated 1800, cited in Free Press. This brief notice presents a small obituary or tribute item noting the deceased person with a location in Warwick and a dated reference, reflecting a historic obituary snippet.
Horrors of the Faming Report From St Petersburg
A dispatch from St Petersburg describes Russia’s famine caused by crop failure and government delay. It notes widespread distress, fires, cattle plague, and villages destroyed. Starving peasants eat improvised “hunger bread” from bark and pigweed as potatoes rot and taxes threaten four hundred months of支 livelihoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Russia
United States
Popel- Face
Fishes Hatched In Clouds Theory Traced In Rwriter Letter
In a Nature’s Reunion inspired note a writer argues that fish and frog offspring may form in the atmosphere. He cites Anwllican Angler references to showers of dishes and suggests birds swallowing eggs could carry them far and release them midair, with moist air aiding suspension and eventual deposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Old William Liksd It A Tale Of Mrs Napier And Emperor
A ten year old dinner at Bablesbury with Emperor William unfolds when Mrs Napier, terrified by thunder, clutches the imperial arm and hides her head. The Emperor, sensing embarrassment, whispers Do it again, my dear, easing the stiffness of the gathering.
Burst of Emery Wheel Kills Farmer in Minnesota
In Wabasha Minnesota a prominent farmer Geo B Albertson of Cook s Valley died instantly when a steam powered emery wheel burst while grinding sickle guards. A quadrant shaped piece six inch radius buried itself in his head and neck near the collar bone. The stone ran over eight thousand revolutions per minute. Two men needed to remove the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabasha
Minn
Geo. B. Albertson
Cook’s Valley
Discoverers of the Nile and its great lakes
The article honors explorers of Anglo-Saxon descent Speke Grant Baker and Stanley for revealing the Nile source and mapping Albert and Victoria Nyanza. It notes the lakes are vast as Lake Michigan and lie thousands of feet above sea level, feeding a Nile that travels about 4,000 miles to the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Old
Egypt
Cambyses
Darius
Alexander
Cesar
Omar
Napoleon
Nile
Speke
Grant
Sir Samuel Baker
Henry M. Stanley
Albert
Victoria
Nyanza
Lake
Michigan
Albert Nyanza
Mediterranean Sea
Oldest Rosebush in Hildesheim Linked to Charlemagne
The World’s oldest rosebush sits in Hildesheim, reportedly planted over a thousand years ago by Charlemagne to honor a visit from the Caliph Harun al Rashid’s ambassador. A cathedral and coffin vault were built around it, surviving a 1146 fire, with the plant now about 26 feet tall, covering wall space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildersheim
Hanover
Charlemagne
Haroun-al-Rashid
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
BoGeLkes
France
Champagne
Melhourme
Boston
Nina
Samsmall
Atlanta
Sam
Samuel W
Mytilene
Europe
Big London
Chauncey Depew
Palmer
World's Lair
San Francisco
Mandal, Crocker
Brookside Farm
Wormin
Providence
Willam
Keero
BY Nathan D.urner
Warwick
Free Press
Slinisters of the Interior
Gorn
Father Nile
Jagson
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