World News Miscellany and War Remnants
Newspaper blurb mix reports on European labor, naked population estimates, wealth figures in Fort Worth, eraser use with India rubber, Vatican library holdings, wooden shoes gaining fashion, diamond output, Nellie Bly’s publishing deal, potato disease cures with creosote, French Alpine climbers planning American expeditions, a stubborn alimony suit in Arkansas, a log dwelling in Georgia, and a Civil War battlefield survivor’s shaving kit found on the field.
Queen Kalakaua and the pension marriage trend
The article notes Kalakaua's limited authority while Queen Kapiolani is praised for leadership. It highlights pension-related marriages between old soldiers and younger women, describing pensions as a business asset and widows deriving lifetime benefits. It also reports emigration from Kovno to Brazil with offers of land, labor, and liberal salaries, and questions if Jewish laws drive such exodus.
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Appomattox
Hampton
Kovno
Brazil
Moscow
King of the Sandwich Islands risks in borrowing riches
Bina Kanakaua amasses wealth by borrowing from others while Kalakaua struggles to borrow and pay bills. The text hints at a precarious financial path as the king ages and faces a growing inability to settle debts.
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Bina Kanakaua
Sandwich Islands
Kalakaua
German Mail Service Inspires American Rural Delivery
A correspondent praises Germanys daily rural mail, noting twice daily German and English papers, 24 cent cost for ten pounds of cherries and writing material, and urges Uncle Sam to extend package post to country districts for better reading and prices news for farmers.
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Hanover
Berlin
Uncle Sam
America
Germany
Jacmers
Hoor
Mount Vernon Visit Marred by Coney Island Tactics
A traveler recalls Mount Vernon being overrun with new attractions including a restaurant and a photo gimmick. A photographer allegedly coerced crowds into posing for photos and charging a quarter each, while the observer refused to pay.
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Mount Vernon
Washington
Coney Island
Washington Mansion
Newcomb’s annual scientific salon noted by Detroit Uribase
A Detroit woman attending Professor Simon Newcomb’s reception at his Washington home praised the evening as delightful. The professor, famed for his abstract studies, replied without hesitation that such reunions occur only once a year, drawing a wry contrast between intellect and social gatherings.
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Detroit Uribwae
Two Former Newspaper Writers Win Local Respect in Colorado
The tale recalls Billy de Vere once a shabby stranger in H City who rose to Deputy Marshal by confronting Higgins and Riley. It also recounts a conductor’s remorse after denying a dying boy passage and a boy of Vergennes who ran a covert diplomatic fund through Hortales & Co. for the American cause, plus a temperance anecdote and a witty note on reform.
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Colorado
Tribune
Astor House Rotunda
Tom’ de Vere
Billy’ de Vere
H. City
Billy’ de Vere ix
de Veres
Billy
Jim’ Riley
H—— City
Adam
Louvre
British Museum
New York
de Vere’s
Vlohn Higgins
John
John Higgins
Henry R . Marshal
Il County
de Vere
Higgins
H City
Roosevelt
Riley
Tenderfoot
New York Tribune
Buffalo
Continental Congress
Silas Deane
Louis XVI
Arthur Lee
London
Lee
Beaumarchis
England
Louis
America
Deane
Paris
Roderique Hortales & Co
Mary Johnson
Hortales & Co
Cape Francois
Vergennes
Vergeunes
Vergeunes’ Son
Messrs. Hortales & Co
Lam
Dialogue Fragments Capture Matrimonial Pressure Exchange
A young man tells his father that life without his daughter would be a dreary task and wish for completion. The father responds by consenting to the marriage and predicts the suitor will feel the same or stronger once committed.
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Washington Post
Remarkable fortune tale ends in tragedy at Tours
A Tours case features a sorceress Ge rard who convinced coachman Jahan to uncover gold in his stable through midnight rites. After paying 1.4 000, he ended his life in despair when no treasure appeared. Gerard received eight months for fortune telling, with broader notes on village sorcerers and clairvoyants profiting from superstition.
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Tours
France
Romorantin
Cologne
Philtres
Gerard
Jahan
Odd, Curious Items From Across the Nation and Abroad
A collage of brief notes on quirky events and discoveries. Japanese bamboo trials in Florida, a four pound five ounce shoes path for a Georgia man, a long-cleared Astoria post office find from 1887, a Florida hollow stump hum, a Harlem bride’s gas bill gift, and white robins with pink eyes in Pennsylvania. Also a Kansas City obituary trio, a Buenos Aires dispatch from London Vines, a Waterville jailhouse corpse night, extravagant London fashion costs, dog ownership disputes in Chicago, a Chicago Masonic temple plan, a pint-sized orator in Rochester, a Russian horse trek to St Petersburg, and a Paris stenography inventor.
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Florida
Astoria
Bradford County
Caleb Swayne
West Goshen
Penn
Kansas City
Johy Jane Permelia
Ann Sarah Elizabeth Douglass Carr Gentry Ballard
London Vines
Buenos Ayres
San Francisco
America
Waterville
London
Arvier
Chicago
Masonic Temple
Rochester
Ind
Irwin J. Stenger
Ikkursk
St. Petersburg
Orel
M. Cassaires
Germany
Elias Howe
Iingland
Thomas Saint
Howe
Viborg
Kennebunk
Horatio Littlefield
Eastport
Defoe and the Rogers voyage that inspired Robinson Crusoe
The 1719 Robinson Crusoe drew its idea from Capt. Woodes Rogers 1711 journal of a Pacific voyage aboard the Duke and Duchess. Rogers, his crew, and the rescue of Alexander Selkirk on Juan Fernandez inspired Defoe while privateering off the Pacific coast.
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de Foe
Woodes Rogers
Alexander Selkirk
Juan Fernandez
Duke
Rogers
Pacific
Selkirk
Guayaquil
The Meanest Man Revealed in Minnesota Paper
A Minnesota paper declares a man the meanest in the world after locating him. The convict brother, living nearby, visits rarely and demanded his share of good-time money to cover travel and prison time costs, underscoring the harsh family tale.
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Minnesota
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Europe
Juper
J. P. Sciru
Fort Worth
Kentucky
Texas
India
Magellan
Vatican
Rome
Tue
San Francisco Examiner
Great “Trust
Nellie Bly
United States Supreme Court
Onrosort
Scotland
Alpine Club
Canada
Science
Arkansas City
Kan
Supreme Court
Scriven County
Savanah
Fredericksburg
B. Treadwell
Brunswick
Tenth Georgia
Emery Rylander
Americus
Kapiolani
New York Sun
Tnagedy
Beacon Street
Boston Record
Grand Street
Bowles
Stiffany
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